The highest Courthouse in the country has agreed to hear the case of Alexandre Bissonnette in the next months to revise the sentence of the killer of the mosque.

     On January 29, 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette, a 27 years old student from Sainte-Foy called the police to denounce himself and ask to surrender. The call was made 30 minutes after the disaster and he was arrested far from there. 

     Since that day, he appeared at Quebec City Courthouse on January 30, 2017,  where he was charged with 11 charges, either 6 for premeditated murder and 5 for attempted murder. 

     On May 27, the Courthouse changed its opinion on the trial of Bissonnette but no reason has been provided by the Supreme Court of Canada for this decision.

     In the situation of Mr. Bissonnette, the main point of the dispute is article 745.51 of the Criminal Code, which allows the judge to add 25 years for each first-degree murder before the acceptability of freedom on the word.

     “All we want is that this does not happen again. If we need to put a stronger handle on this law so that no public regroupement has to suffer the acts suffered by the CCIQ (Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec), this wants we want”, mentioned the co-founder and spokesperson of the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec, Boufedja Benabdallah.

     He wants the decision of the Court to serve as a deterrent to those who would attempt to commit these kinds of a terrible crimes. “These kinds of crime need to be judged the same way from one province to another, to prevent catastrophic situaitions”, said Mr. Benabdallah. He was referring to Justin Bourque, the main character of the gunfire in June 2014 in Moncton who got a life sentence without the possibility of freedom before 75 years.

     Normally when the Court takes a request to hear the decision is only given 6 months later.