Quebec Mosque Shooter Father Says Sentence Recommended for Son ‘Political’
Raymond spoke to reporters for the first time after his son’s sentencing hearing came to an end on Thursday.
He read a statement as Bissonnette’s mother, Manon Marchand, stood next to him holding back tears.
He criticized prosecutors for “demonizing” his son and discounting the bullying he had suffered in school.
“Alexandre is not a monster,” he insisted.
Bissonnette called the prosecutor’s recommended sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 150 years a “death sentence in disguise.”
The Crown, he added, is “seeking a political, not a judicial sentence.”
The maximum sentence Bissonnette’s son could face would be the harshest since Canada abolished the death penalty. The case has been adjourned until the sentence is handed down on Oct. 29.
Source: The Montreal Gazette
