QUÉBEC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with the households of six males who had been killed at a Quebec Metropolis mosque, days earlier than the anniversary of the 2017 assault. Eight years in the past, on Jan.
QUÉBEC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with the households of six males who had been killed at a Quebec Metropolis mosque, days earlier than the anniversary of the 2017 assault.
Eight years in the past, on Jan. 29, 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette killed six males on the Centre culturel islamique du Québec and this 12 months the centre has deliberate a number of occasions to mark the tragedy.
Trudeau met within the basement of the mosque on Saturday night with males, girls and youngsters whose family members had been victims of the slayings, pausing to talk with every of them individually and at instances could possibly be seen inserting his hand over his coronary heart.
He advised one person who he hoped to satisfy with them once more at a time when he wasn’t travelling with a big group.
Earlier on Saturday afternoon Quebec Metropolis’s Muslim group, authorities officers and others gathered on the Quebec Metropolis Armoury to commemorate the victims.
Mohamed Labidi, president of the Centre culturel islamique du Québec, stated it was necessary to recollect those that had been killed and injured in addition to the ignorance that led to their killings.
“It’s a duty to remember those who lost their lives in an unjust and intolerable way,” he stated in an interview Saturday, including that the killings had been the results of ignorance.
Within the aftermath of the taking pictures over 50 Muslims left the province of Quebec for Ontario however the degree of stress locally has since decreased significantly, Labidi stated.
Quebec Metropolis Mayor Bruno Marchand took to the stage in the course of the occasion on the armoury, and spoke about overcoming hardship, loss and division by way of group motion and optimism for the long run.
“If we don’t feed hope I don’t think we honour what we’ve lost,” he stated.
Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Particular Consultant on Combatting Islamophobia, was additionally amongst these in attendance on the armoury occasion.
“Canadian Muslims had been warning officials for years that the growing hate and islamophobia in our country posed a real danger to our safety and well-being,” she stated. “Jan. 29 represented our worst nightmares come true.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 25, 2025.
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