Turns out the Canadian shooter seemed to have been a soldier in Afghanistan who saw his childhood friend get blown up by an IED.
Childhood friend Alexandre Bissonnette stood outside the church clutching a Canadian flag and a photo of Courcy in his army uniform.
"He was a quiet guy with strong values, a great Canadian," he said.
"I have so many memories of him, good ones that we keep for days like today."
I'm reading up on the history of both people. I think you'll find Alexandre Bissonnette was
completely bullshitting about being childhood friends with the dead soldier. And Bissonnette was not a soldier, the
photo was of Courcy in his uniform. It's not stated that Bissonnette was serving in Afghanistan either, you need to be more careful reading between the lines there.
Do we have anyone else's say-so that he was childhood friends with the soldier? Let's read up about where they grew up:
According to his Facebook page, Bissonnette is from Cap-Rouge, Quebec, about 15 minutes from the mosque. He recently moved to an apartment in Quebec City near the mosque, a neighbor told the CBC. But he was seen often at his parent’s home, she said.
Bissonnette has a twin brother, a high school classmate told Le Journal de Quebec.
“Apart from his twin brother, I did not see him with other people,” said Mikael Labrecque Berger, in French. He said Bissonnette was an “unpopular nerd,” and was not always taken seriously by classmates.
“He replied to insults, but never with physical violence,” Labrecque Berger said, adding that he and his twin brother didn’t integrate with other students. They were usually only seen together, he said.
He grew up in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, where a park now bears his name. Except for the time he threw snowballs at cars, and got stopped by police, he gave his mother little trouble. He loved war games and never outgrew a fascination with guns.
Looking good was a priority. He was tall, preferred a shaved head to his naturally wavy locks, and hit the gym regularly. At his high school prom, he borrowed a look from his action hero, James Bond — he was the only student wearing a white tuxedo jacket. “He was so proud,” his mother says.
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He was a soldier in the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment — the historic Vandoos — based in Valcartier, Quebec. He cut a dashing figure in uniform: women at local bars, he’d boast to his mother, regularly bought him drinks.
Yeah, there's no fucking way Nerdy McLoserface and Nerdy McBrotherface from Quebec City were childhood friends with this rugged farmboy from near Montreal who was
proud of what he wore to school prom.
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