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Agence France-Presse

The man accused in a Quebec City mosque shooting that left six people dead made a brief second court appearance on Tuesday under heavy security.
The hearing to officially hand over evidence in the case to the defence and to set a date for a bail hearing lasted only two minutes.
The defence also asked for and was granted a publication ban on future proceedings.
Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, faces six counts of murder and five of attempted murder.
He appeared in the packed courtroom hunched over, wearing a red t-shirt with the words “volunteer” scribbled on the back.
Mohamed Labidi, vice-president of the targeted Quebec City mosque, called for an end to a continuing “cycle of violence,” after an arrest was made earlier in the overnight vandalisation of a Montreal mosque.
Labidi also expressed sadness for Bissonnette for having thrown his life away.
“It hurts, especially when I see someone so young,” Labidi said.
“There’s a mixture of emotions - pity for (the accused) and at the same time thoughts for our brothers who died for no reason,” he said.
Bissonette’s next court appearance is scheduled for March 30.


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This undated selfie portrait sourced on social network on January 31, 2017 shows Alexandre Bissonnette, a Canadian political science student known to have nationalist sympathies who was charged with six counts of murder over a shooting spree at a Quebec mosque -- one of the worst attacks ever to target Muslims in a western country. Some 50 people were in the mosque at the time of the attack. The dead are all dual Canadian nationals: one Moroccan, two Algerians, one Tunisian and two Guineans. Bissonnette, who is a student at Laval University, surrendered 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside the city after calling an emergency services hotline an hour after the attack to reveal his location. / AFP PHOTO / - / ----IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE----- / GETTYOUT

(170131) -- OTTAWA, Jan. 31, 2017 (Xinhua) -- People attend a vigil held in remembrance of the victims of a shooting in a Quebec mosque, in Ottawa, Canada, Jan. 30, 2017. (Xinhua/Kadri Mohamed) (lrz)

An undated selfie portrait shows Alexandre Bissonnette, a Canadian political science student known to have nationalist sympathies who was charged with six counts of murder over a shooting spree at a Quebec mosque. Photo: AFP

Right-wing nationalist charged with six counts of murder after terrorist attack on Quebec mosque

Suspected Quebec City mosque gunman Alexandre Bissonnette, in an image take from social media. Photo: Facebook

People attend a vigil for victims of a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City on Sunday, at the Grand Parade in Halifax on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Multiple people died in the attack which occurred during evening prayers. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Police stand guard on the roof of the Islamic Cultural Center in Quebec City, Canada prior to the arrival of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend a vigil on January 30, 2017. Gunmen stormed into a Quebec mosque during evening prayers January 29 and opened fire on dozens of worshippers, killing six and wounding eight in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned as a "terrorist attack." Canadian police sought Monday to piece together the motive for a shooting attack, one of the worst attacks ever to target Muslims in a western country. / AFP PHOTO / Alice Chiche

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receives a standing ovation after delivering a statement on a deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque, in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

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