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The shoes of the victims, removed as is custom before entering the prayer area of the mosque, are still on otherwise empty shelves. Shoes of worshippers who fled the scene as a gunman opened fire are strewn all over the floor.Two days after a deadly attack that left six people dead, the Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec opened its doors to media to show "all Canadians what happened.""We want to show these images to stop the contribution to the hate, to stop the contribution to the Islamophobia," said Mohamed Labidi, former president of the mosque.In a silent video posted online Tuesday night, mosque leaders took viewers on a tour of the empty building, where graphic evidence of the massacre still gives it the appearance of a fresh crime scene.The walls and carpets of what was once a place of sanctuary are stained with blood. Bullets pierced the walls."The gunman came in by this entry, this is the entrance of the mosque, started shooting two people on the outside at the entrance and then he came in," Ahmed El Refai, who lost his best friend Azzedine Soufiane in the shooting, told reporters on Wednesday morning, taking them through the scene. "He started shooting, if you look, that's the bathroom, he started shooting people here and then he entered that opening and started killing people."Read more on VICE News.