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Here is some of what we have learned about Bissonnette and his motivation.

Different faces

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Many faces of Bissonnette have emerged.Nine days before the shooting, he seemed to be a happy-go-lucky millennial, boasting about his carbonara pasta sauce on his blog.He was just another customer buying a drink at a Couche-Tard dépanneur at 7:37 p.m. on Jan. 29, 2017. Seventeen minutes later, he walked up to a mosque 500 metres away and started his carnage. Security camera footage showed him to be a cold-blooded killer, in some cases executing men with point-blank gunshots to the head. Fourteen minutes after the rampage was over, he cried repeatedly in a call to 911, alternately suicidal and afraid police would kill him. He also wondered aloud whether he had just killed anybody. During a three-hour police interrogation the next morning, Bissonnette appeared delusional, suggesting he had targeted the mosque because he was worried refugees would come to Quebec and kill his family. He said he had been anxious and depressed for more than a decade; he had recently been taking a new antidepressant medication because a previous one wasn’t working. Eight months after the attack, Bissonnette seemed like a different person when he told a social worker that what he had previously told two doctors was not true. In fact, he said, he did not hear voices, and he did remember what happened in the attack. Bissonnette told the social worker he “wanted glory” andregretted “not having killed more people.”Over the past two weeks, in the prisoner’s dock, the 28-year-old — dressed in baggy clothes, his hair dishevelled — looked like a meek, pale, sullen teenager. He rarely showed emotion.