Canadian mosque shooter turns Trump fanatic

quebec - The 27-year-old student Alexandre Bissonnette, the only suspect in the attack on a mosque in the Canadian Quebec, spoke on social media frequently its support for Donald Trump. Bissonnette is a French Canadian who extreme right-wing ideas would cease after.

On Facebook, he hurled dozens of comments, the world in which he found to be a fan of the extreme right and nationalist ideas of the French leader Marine Le Pen and his American colleague Trump.

'He posted regularly extreme reactions on refugees and feminism,' François Deschamps leaves of a local human rights organization know to Canadian media. 'It was not so much hatred, but he had a very conservative, intolerant attitude. '

Although the Facebook page of Bissonnette has since been removed, also makes a search in the archives of Facebook clear that the shooter Trump and Le Pen took active.

The police now mounts on the action of a 'lone wolf.' Initially, the police went out of two suspects: Bissonnette and a Canadian of Moroccan origin. Because there 'Allah is great' would be called during the attack, was initially thought to an attack by Muslim extremists.

The police announced that the Moroccan Canadian is no longer a suspect and is considered a witness. The identity of the remaining suspect is and what his motive might have been, the police will not say.

In the attack on the night of Sunday to Monday were slain six visitors from the mosque. There were seventeen wounded, of whom five are in critical condition. The shooting took place during the evening prayer.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached Monday during a speech in parliament a Muslim heartened 'You know that we appreciate you. You have enriched our country immeasurably. This is your home. The heinous crime of tonight was a terrorist act directed against Canada and all Canadians. We'll mourn with you. We will defend you. We will love you. And we will stand behind you. '

After the speech Trudeau held parliament a minute's silence to commemorate the victims of the attack. The prime minister later moved to Quebec to visit the scene of the attack. Everywhere in Canada are held on the night of Monday to Tuesday vigils.

Trudeau had last weekend just profiled as the 'Canadian Merkel. Shortly after US president Donald Trump with his moslimban 'came twittered Canadian Prime Minister that everyone who is on the run for terror and war, is welcome in Canada, regardless of their faith. 'Diversity is our strength,' he concluded in his tweet, which he accompanied by the hashtag #WelcomeToCanada.

The statements of Trudeau reminiscent of the 'Wir das purchase' of Chancellor Angela Merkel, with which they greeted the unprecedented flow of refugees to their country in 2015.