Massacre at the mosque of Quebec: the judge throws the information under seal

Kathleen Frenette

Friday, 13 October, 2017 16:59

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Friday, 13 October 2017 17:11

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Judge Alain Morand has lifted, Friday, some of the information remained up to now under seal in the record of the alleged shooter of the Great Mosque of Quebec, Alexandre Bissonnette.

It is the result of a media request to obtain the information that the magistrate has agreed to disclose some of the details contained in the reports by police officers.

There we learn that on the evening of January 29, 2017, the first patrol that visited on-site have seen a “standing man”, and then behind him, “two bodies on the ground”.

Arrested by the police, the man turned slightly the head. “He has a dark complexion”, noted the police before the man starts to run towards the east.

Immediately, the police went in pursuit and, after a few meters, the individual was arrested.

“The constable did not see a weapon on the man. The policeman ordered him to lie on the ground. It is running on. He puts his hands on his head and lie on the belly”, it is written in the reports.

Further, in the documents, police mention having found, near the two-body initial who were to the entrance of the Mosque, a black cloak with the inside of a portfolio.

Id match “to the suspect who was arrested on the premises”. However, it is also clarified that “the investigation determined that the man is not the one who made fire to the Mosque”.

In the documents made public, we learn also that many of the articles have been searched, including three Apple laptops, a laptop of brand Acer, four ipads, two ipods, an Apple TV, a cell, a lot of medium of memory, an external disk drive and a floppy disk.

Warning

In ten days, other information will be made available to the media. However, the judge was keen to recall that “the facts have not been presented in evidence to the Court and that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty”.

“The accused still enjoys the presumption of innocence; the procedures are still not at the stage where the accused has had the opportunity to file his plea of not guilty and contest the charges.”