Quebec police: there is only one suspect

quebec - Only one of the two detainees are held in the Canadian city of Quebec after a shooting at a mosque is considered suspicious. The other, Mohammed Belkhadir is a witness. This has provided the Canadian police Monday. There is no evidence that more offenders are involved, said police spokeswoman Christie Coulombe.

When the suspect is the case according to Le Journal du Québec for the 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a student from the French-speaking city. Sunday night he shot visitors of a mosque in Quebec. Thereby killing six and eight wounded.

The dead were all foreigners from Africa, four from the north of the continent and two from Black Africa.

The announcement follows a series of messages in which two named arrestees were identified as suspects. Both were not made known to the police and one of the two had later in the evening to call the police and wait for a bridge to agents.

According to police ' playing ideological, religious or political motives involved '' and the research focuses therefore on terrorism. however, not been informed about the possible motives of Bissonnette. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the shooting a terrorist attack on Muslims. He visited Quebec City on Monday.