Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, killed by police on Wednesday in the Canadian parliament after cutting down a soldier, was a madman who wanted to be killed, his mother wrote in a lengthy statement to the public.
In her letter to Postmedia News, published in Sunday’s edition of the National Post, Susan Bibeau said her estranged son had wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia to study Islam and the Koran, not Syria to join militant fighters as stated by police.
But when his passport application was repeatedly denied, Zehaf-Bibeau felt trapped, ‘unable to stay in the life he was in, unable to move on to the next one he wanted to go to,’ his mother wrote. ‘He was mad and felt trapped so the only way out was death.’
In her letter to Postmedia News, published in Sunday’s edition of the National Post, Susan Bibeau said her estranged son had wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia to study Islam and the Koran, not Syria to join militant fighters as stated by police.
But when his passport application was repeatedly denied, Zehaf-Bibeau felt trapped, ‘unable to stay in the life he was in, unable to move on to the next one he wanted to go to,’ his mother wrote. ‘He was mad and felt trapped so the only way out was death.’