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QUEBEC – Alexandre Bissonnette still hasn’t said why he chose a mosque for his murderous rampage.

In an unexpected turn of events, the former university student on Wednesday admitted he’s the cold-blooded killer who walked into a Quebec City mosque Jan. 29, 2017 and shot and killed six Muslim men as they finished evening prayers.

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After being declared guilty on six first-degree murder charges and six attempted murder charges, Bissonnette, 28, spoke to a hushed Quebec City courtroom packed with dozens of Muslim community members.

Among them were all six widows and Aymen Derbali, left paralyzed and in a wheelchair after risking his life to save others during the shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec.

In a three-minute statement, Bissonnette, his wrists and ankles shackled, said that he is neither a terrorist nor Islamophobic. He said that he had been “haunted by fear, negative thoughts and a sort of horrible despair.” And that he had experienced “suicidal thoughts and had an obsession with death.”