Mohamed Belkhadir: «Pour eux, quelqu'un qui fuit,...

Mohamed Belkhadir: «Pour eux, quelqu'un qui fuit, c'est un suspect» | Vincent Larouche | Attentat à Québec

Mohamed Belkhadir, the engineering student arrested by mistake in the wake of the terrorist attack at the mosque in Sainte-Foy, was helping the victims when he was wrongly mistaken for a suspect.

Freshly returned home, the young man of 29 years was interviewed in La Presse to indicate it does not want all the police of Quebec, who was “very nice” with him.

“I went in to try to give first aid to my friend on the ground, and I saw someone with a weapon. I did not know that he was a policeman, I thought he was coming back to shoot. So I fled outside, on the parking side, “he said.

“I understand, I respect that they caught me. They saw me flee, they thought I was suspicious, that’s normal. For them, someone who flees is a suspect, "he insists.

The student of Moroccan origin had attended the prayer on Sunday evening, then went out to clear the stairs of the mosque. Soon after, he heard several shots, for 15 to 20 seconds, he said.

He entered, called 9-1-1, gave the address to the emergency services, and then used his coat to warm a wounded man on the ground. It was then that he panicked when a policeman came in with his fist.

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