Canada parliament shooter made video before attack revealing motive

The man who killed a Canadian soldier and attacked the country’s parliament building last week made a video of himself before hand, evidence he was driven by ideological and political motives, police said on Sunday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement they were conducting a detailed analysis of the video made by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau and could not release it at this time. Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, stormed into the parliament building with a rifle last Wednesday after shooting and killing Corporal Nathan Cirillo at a nearby monument to Canada’s war dead, police said. Zehaf-Bibeau was killed in the building.

It is an old and uncommon gun. We suspect that he could have similarly hidden the gun on the property but our inquiries continue.

Statement by federal police

The RCMP also said Zehaf-Bibeau had worked in Alberta’s oil fields and used the money he made to finance his activities in the days leading up to the attack. He had been living in an Ottawa homeless shelter just before the shooting. The police were still investigating Zehaf-Bibeau’s interactions with numerous people in the days before the attack to find out whether these could have contributed to or facilitated his crime. Security in normally relaxed Canada has been tighter in the days since the shooting. Two days earlier another man described by police as radicalised drove over two soldiers in Quebec with a car, killing one. The attacker, 25-year-old Martin Rouleau, was shot and killed by police.