THE NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE QUÉBEC CITY MOSQUE ATTACK AND ACTION AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA — CFRC cfrc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cfrc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On Jan. 29, 2017, six Muslim men were shot dead in a Québec City mosque. An armed white nationalist terrorist went on a shooting rampage in the Islamic Cultural Centre in Sainte-Foy, Québec, just after evening prayers. It remains the worst mass murder in a house of worship in Canada’s history.
A halal grocery store owner, a professor at Université Laval, three civil servants and a pharmacy worker were slain by Alexandre Bissonnette. These men originally came from Morocco, Algeria and Guinea. The murder victims were: Ibrahima Barry, 39; Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42; Khaled Belkacemi, 60; Aboubaker Thabti, 44; Abdelkrim Hassane, 41; and Azzedine Soufiane; 57. Nineteen other worshippers were injured, including Aymen Derbali, who was paralyzed in an attempt to stop Bissonnette.