Deadly attack on Quebec City mosque

An unidentified man told Radio Canada, a Canadian Broadcasting Company French-speaking outlet, that the two alleged gunmen were masked. Many Muslims do not eat pork, and local police were investigating the incident.

Authorities said the suspect has no prior police record and that investigators are working to establish a motive. Police arrested two suspects but did not provide further information due to the probe being in its initial stage.

The second man, who was initially reported as a second suspect, was now considered a witness, provincial police said on Monday. Police started getting emergency calls from the mosque at about 7:50 p.m. Sunday. One should be careful about trying to infer too much from a hodgepodge of Facebook “likes” and, this early, even anecdotal claims about his political views. Nothing indicates that the assailants had any outside help, and the threat is “under control”, Plante also said.

The attackers are reportedly students at Université Laval, a school in Quebec, according to Fox News. The mosque is near the school.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a statement condemning the attack and saying that Muslim-Canadians are “an important part of our national fabric”. The murder of innocent people due to their faith is an assault on values which we hold dear, including freedom of religion and religious expression, the equal rights and protection of minorities, and particularly the sanctity of human life.

He also said he fully agreed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s characterization of the attack as an act of terror. White House Press Secretary said Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Trudeau before offering this bit of nonsense.

“Last night this community experienced something that no community should ever have to know: unspeakable cruelty and violence perpetrated on those who came together in friendship and in faith”, Mr Trudeau said.

“You are at home”, Philippe Couillard, the premier of Quebec, said in a direct address to Muslims living in the city.

“Quebec Muslims are frightened right now”, said Haroun Bouazzi, president of Montreal-based human rights group AMAL-Quebec. You are welcome here.

“We are all Quebeckers”.

Goodale said that those involved in the facilities the government’s Security Infrastructure Program aims to help have become increasingly aware of the incidents and that, in light of this attack, they may wish to reconsider whether they want additional support to amp up security.