Quebec City mosque shooter asks court for transfer to medium-security prison - BERITAJA

Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette has asked to beryllium transferred from a maximum- to a medium-security prison.

Bissonnette cited concerns complete his information and his intelligence wellness successful a petition revenge by his lawyer astatine the Montreal courthouse successful April.

Bissonnette is serving a life condemnation aft pleading blameworthy to six counts of first-degree execution and six counts of attempted execution for gunning down men arsenic they prayed successful a Quebec City mosque successful January 2017.

Lawyer Sylvie Bordelais says Bissonnette is imprisoned astatine the Port-Cartier maximum-security situation connected Quebec’s North Shore, contempt respective assessments that concluded he could beryllium housed successful a medium-security installation instead.

The tribunal archive says Bissonnette’s intelligence wellness is vulnerable and that it’s worsened by being acold from his family and pinch convulsive inmates who mightiness want to termination him.

His lawyer argues that his curen amounts to sadistic and different reward and is asking the Quebec Superior Court to reappraisal the conditions of her client’s imprisonment.

On its website, Correctional Service Canada says maximum-security prisons are designed to detain the about vulnerable convicts, wherever their “movement, relation and privileges are very restricted.” In medium-security prisons, inmates’ privileges are “moderately restricted,” and they are places that hole convicts for a minimum information institution.