The author of the attack on Old Quebec is a mixture of video games and reality

Carl Girouard testified that he felt he had invested a role change the world for the better. That is why it was necessary to establish chaos in order to create a New World.

Wearing a white shirt and donut pants, the 26-year-old accused took to the witness stand surrounded by three peace officers.

Girouard faces two charges of first degree murder and five of attempted murder, after being attacked by random people on Oct. 31, 2020.

Criminal liability?

His lawyer Me Pierre Gagnon wants to show that he cannot be declared criminally responsible, due to his mental illnesses.

Testifying in his defense, Girouard said he started playing video games at age 15, preferring violent ones involving fights using bladed weapons.

She says she lost interest in school, as her virtual world became more important.

I mixed the world of video games with the real worldhe said. You have to live in a world like in video games.

According to the testimony of the accused, his idea of ​​creating a world better creation chaos crystallized at age 17 or 18.

Then he starts thinking about it all the time.

It was like a second world in my head, he describes, with another Carl Girouard focused on the mission..

Die while doing your mission

A mission where he will die, but will continue thanks to his alter ego.

Upon questioning this subject by his lawyer, Girouard could not determine who these people were, inhabited by the same desire to create the New World.

But to alert them, he chose to act on Halloween, a full moon night.

He considered doing his act of intelligence to attract attention to places other than Old Quebec, but chose this place after scouting there in 2018.

It looks like an older setting with statues like in my video games he explains.

Throughout his life, he preferred not to bond with people, he knew he would die for what he was doing. homework .

” I’m careful about talking about it. I cannot be arrested, because my mission is the most important. “

According to his claims, he cannot try to find alter egos: this is a top secret mission.

So it was necessary to create chaos to create a New World, send a message to my alter ego for them to continue the work. He added.

His testimony will continue Wednesday afternoon.

Her mother testifies

The defense began its case by testifying with the defendant’s mother.

Monique Dalphond, who raised four boys, described her son Carl as a lonely and separated child.

Her mother will say she noticed inappropriate behavior in her from kindergarten.

This was the case throughout his school career.

By the end of elementary school, he was treated with concerta, a drug he would stop on his own toward the end of high school 1, according to the mother.

Interest in samurai costumes

When he reached the age of majority, Girouard got a credit card.

His mother indicates that he had a very marked interest in bladed weapons and samurai costumes.

This is a collection, mother’s testimony. Though the matter worried him, he added that that was his only interest, in video games.

He has no social life, no friendssummary of the woman.

In 2016, he said he saw something worrying. Carl was talking to himself in his shower and laughing to himselfhe told the jury.

After her testimony, the mother remained in the courtroom to listen to her son’s testimony, occasionally fleeing with sobs.