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		</div><p>The Canadian Prime Minister has attended the funeral of three of the six men killed in an attack at a Quebec City mosque.</p>
<p>Justin Trudeau spoke to the thousands of people packed into Quebec&#8217;s Maurice-Richard Arena in Arabic.<br />
There was applause after he said &#8220;as-Salaam-alaikum&#8221;, which means &#8220;peace be unto you&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Liberal Party leader stood before the caskets of Abdelkrim Hassane, Khaled Belkacemi and Aboubaker Thabti, which were draped in the flags of their homelands.</p>
<p>He said the massacre has left Canada in shock but also unified the country in solidarity with the Muslim community.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is with a heavy heart that we come together this afternoon to grieve the loss of these innocent lives,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But as a community and as a country, together we will rise from this darkness stronger and more unified than ever before. That is who we are.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Thabti, 44, was a pharmacist of Tunisian origin who had three children.</p>
<p>Mr Belkacemi, a 60-year-old father-of-two, was from Algeria and a professor at Universite Laval.<br />
Mr Hassane, a 41-year-old also from Algeria, was a father-of-three and worked in information technology for the Quebec provincial government.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau said they were devoted fathers who worked hard to ensure their families had a bright future &#8211; a dream, he said, that Canadians have known and shared for generations.</p>
<p>The men, along with three others, were killed when a gunman entered the mosque and opened fire during evening prayers. Nineteen more people were wounded.</p>
<p>University student Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, has been charged with murder and attempted murder. He was arrested on Sunday night following the attack.</p>
<p>Bissonnette was a fan of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and US president Donald Trump, and acquaintances said he took extreme nationalist, pro-Le Pen positions at Laval University and on social media.</p>
<p>Quebec mayor Denis Coderre, who was also among the dignitaries at the funeral, said the attack was a blow to everyone.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that we are all suffering&#8221; after the shooting, he said. &#8220;Not just the Muslim community, it&#8217;s not just the people of Quebec. Everyone is suffering from this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Philippe Couillard, premier of Quebec province, noted all six dead were fathers like him.<br />
He said: &#8220;They were sons and brothers and uncles, like me, like us. Friends, co-workers, like us. They were us.</p>
<p>&#8220;They were loved, appreciated, respected and they always will be. We won&#8217;t forget them.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;I want to tell Muslim Quebecers: You&#8217;re at home here. We are all Quebecers,&#8221; Mr Couillard said, to thunderous applause and cheers.</p>
<p>A funeral is expected in Quebec City on Friday for the three other victims: Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42; Ibrahima Barry, 39; and Azzedine Soufiane, 57.</p>
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