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Alexandre Bissonnette, who pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder in the January 29, 2017, Quebec City mosque shooting, is serving life imprisonment and cannot apply for parole until he has served 25 years. Bissonnette was 27 and studied political science and anthropology at Laval University. Former classmates and neighbours described him as a loner with anti-immigrant views and an interest in far-right material online. He told police he had suffered from anxiety since he was 16 and had been changed onto the antidepressant Paxil early in January 2017.

About 50 worshippers were attending evening prayers at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque and community centre used for daily prayers in the Sainte-Foy district, when Bissonnette entered at about 7:54 p.m. with a semi-automatic rifle and a pistol. He fired 48 shots in roughly 90 seconds to two minutes. Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42; Ibrahima Barry, 39; Khaled Belkacemi, 60; Aboubaker Thabti, 44; Abdelkrim Hassane, 41; and Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, were killed. Five others were seriously injured, though early reporting counted more wounded.

Bissonnette left the mosque, drove about 20 kilometres and called 911 from Highway 40 near the bridge to Ile d'Orleans. During the 50-minute, 28-second call, he said he had been at the mosque, wanted to surrender and would shoot himself in the head. The operator kept him talking while police closed the highway and found him in his father's parked SUV. A second weapon was recovered outside the mosque, and roughly 30 more rounds were found in the vehicle. Identification was never in issue because he surrendered by telephone within an hour of the shooting. He was charged on January 30, 2017.

Surete du Quebec investigator Steve Girard interrogated Bissonnette that day. Bissonnette said he went to the mosque to protect his family from terrorists, that he was not a monster or a terrorist, and that he hated Muslims. He said he was set off in part by the Canadian announcement on January 28, 2017, that more refugees would be admitted. He also spoke about attacks in Europe and the 2014 shooting outside Parliament in Ottawa, saying he was convinced his family was at risk. Asked whether he was ashamed, he said it was not bad at all what he did, but later said he did feel shame. He also said maybe 100 people would now be saved. The Crown filed the video as evidence at his sentencing hearing, and it was played in court on April 13, 2018.

Bissonnette entered his guilty pleas in Quebec Superior Court in late March 2018, and the sentencing hearing continued through the spring. On February 8, 2019, Justice Francois Huot sentenced him to life imprisonment with no eligibility to apply for parole for 40 years. The term comprised five concurrent 25-year periods and a further 15 years consecutive on the sixth count after Huot ruled that the Criminal Code provision on consecutive parole ineligibility was partly unconstitutional. He also imposed a lifetime firearms ban.

On November 26, 2020, the Quebec Court of Appeal struck down section 745.51 and ordered the six periods served concurrently, reducing parole ineligibility to 25 years. The Crown appealed. In R. v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23, released on May 27, 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously dismissed the appeal. It held that section 745.51 violates section 12 of the Charter and is of no force or effect because it authorises ineligibility periods longer than a human lifespan.

The video is a police interview-room recording that runs about five minutes. It shows the interview itself without narration or a presenter, but is only an excerpt, and its description does not identify which part of the interview it contains.