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Luka Rocco Magnotta is accused of videotaping a gruesome murder before posting it to the Internet.
Updated at 10:40 pm ET: When German police confronted a fugitive Canadian porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student, he resisted until he admitted, "You got me."
Luka Magnotta, 29, was being held in Berlin, Germany's capital city, on Monday. He was spotted at an Internet cafe in the Neukölln district, according to officials in the German capital.
Magnotta had spent two hours reading coverage about himself at an Internet cafe when he was detained.
"We knew and always said that he used the web to glorify himself,” Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreniere told the Toronto Star.
Interpol issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for Magnotta, who faces first-degree murder charges over the videotaped death of Jun Lin, a 32-year-old Chinese student whose body parts were mailed to two political parties in Ottawa.
German police spokesman Stefan Redlich said seven uniformed police were sent to the Neukölln district after the suspect was recognized by a cafe employee. "They talked to the individual and said they wanted to see some identification. He tried to give them a false name, but the police insisted, so he said, 'You've got me,' and we arrested him," he said.
Kadir Anlayisli, the employee who recognized Magnotta, told a Turkish newspaper cited by the Toronto Star, “He was wearing sunglasses for a while, but I was sure that he was the wanted man."
Surveillance camera footage of the German Internet cafe obtained by The Associated Press showed Magnotta casually walking into the shop at noon local time, wearing jeans, a green hoodie sweater and sunglasses.
He briefly spoke to the Internet cafe's desk person, who directed him to his assigned computer with the number 25 where he would later be spotted reading the news about his case.
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Anlayisli told the Star he wasn't sure if it was Magnotta, adding that the man had an "ice cold gaze."
He worried about calling police initially, worried he had made an error. Even so he looked out for police officers who might be passing by. When he spotted a van of officers, "they looked at me like I was joking," he told the Star.
Ultimately, seven German police officers walked into the shop.
On the camera footage, three police officers accompany the handcuffed Magnotta a couple of minutes after they entered the venue. Magnotta calmly walks alongside them, again wearing sunglasses.
Redlich, the police spokesman, said Magnotta would be detained overnight and that a judge would decide the next steps on Tuesday.
Gore website
Montreal police say Magnotta and Jun were both in the video, which was posted on a Canadian website that specializes in gore.
Authorities say Magnotta filmed the Chinese student's murder and posted it online. The video shows a man with an ice pick stabbing another naked, bound male. He also dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it in what police called a horrifying video.
The warning signs apparently were already there. For nearly two years animal activists had been looking for a man who tortured and killed cats and posted videos of his cruelty online. Since Jun Lin's murder, Montreal police have released a photo from the video which they say is of Magnotta.
Magnotta was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2005, but the charges were dropped, the lawyer who represented him at the time said.
In a crime scene Montreal police say is the worst they have seen, his Montreal apartment included a bloody mattress and pools of blood on the floor and in the refrigerator. The police said a janitor found a torso with no head or limbs in a suitcase in an alley behind the building.
Toronto lawyer Peter Scully said he represented Magnotta in a fraud case in 2004 and a sexual assault case in 2005.
"I've had lots of creepy characters and Eric did not stand out as one of them," he said. Scully refers to his client by his previous name, Eric Newman.
But Nina Arsenault, a Toronto transsexual who said she had a relationship with Magnotta over a decade ago, described him as a drug user with a temper, who sometimes turned his anger on himself, hitting himself on the head, and other parts of his body.
While Magnotta described himself in an online video interview with a site called "Naked News" as a stripper and male escort, Lin was registered as an undergraduate in the engineering department and computer science at Concordia University in Montreal.
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Authorities believe that a decomposing foot mailed to the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party in Ottawa on Tuesday and a hand found inside a package at a postal depot are parts of the same person.
Meantime, Interpol hailed the arrest Monday as a showcasing of the value of international police cooperation.
At the request of Canadian authorities, Interpol issued a so-called Red Notice for Magnotta on Thursday, and he was detained four days later in Berlin.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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There was a Police Detective TV series in the late 1970's titled "Baretta" with the main actor being Robert Blake. The theme song "Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow" by David Grusin and M. Ames was memorable for the lyrics;
Don't go to bed with no price on your head; No, no don't do it. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time; Yea, don't do it.
Apparently, those that don't learn from History are born to repeat it. Of course there is also the case of the Night Stalker, and Jeffrey Dahmer. They were bright and criminally resourceful but, got caught anyway. What, was this bi-sexual guy thinking, that he could keep his name and just move to an extradition treaty country like Germany and not get caught because he's so special? What a stupid dufus. In spanish, we call a person like that, PENDEJO (the JO sounds like HO).
Porn star? I thought he looked familiar.... Wasn't he in Men in Back and Romancing the Bone?
Yep... he was also in The hind side, King Dong, 3 men and a hard-on, Blow and homo alone.
...and Schindler's Fist...LOL!
Saving Ryan's privates, Emission impossible...
Lest ye all forget the classic : Foreskin Gump.
He was also in that classic, "Broke That Rectum", or was is Broke Back Mountain, or Bone Back in Him.
Shaft?
And I thought U.S. politics were divisive.
Terms like 'porn actor' and porn star' are dumb.
That's not acting.
And how come everybody is a "star", and nobody is ever an extra?
So if you take off your clothes on camera and do the wild thing, you're suddenly an 'actor' and a 'star'?
Really?
I guess it would be too hard to earn your way into the spotlight while still wearing at least some clothes like the Kardashians.
Oh right, she did porn too.
Ok, I give up.
What a sick freak. Please lock him away and toss the key. How terrifying... he's 29, who knows what evil he's done in those 29 yrs.. this may just be the tip of the iceberg...
Sick person and should get the death penalty for sure. Why is he still alive?
Absolutely WYCHDOCTORGEORGE!!
Human depravity seems to have bottomed out to an unprecedented level of decay. The nature of crimes being committed against our fellow man is simply grotesque. People have taken total leave of their sanity. All sense of brotherly, neighborly and familial love is being abandoned. There is something happening out there. Somehow lately the world seems different. Personal responsibility is in short order.
If the Canadian authorities wouldn't have killed the bear that ate the paroled murderer, we could have paired them up for a great TV reality show. Every week the bear is in a different country hunting down the bisexual psychopathic porn star in an attempt to devour him. Think Amazing Race crossed with The Fugitive with a hint of When Animals Attack!.
Please tell me you work for a network, and we can expect shows like this soon! :)
Where I came from in case like this the father or a brother of the murderer would take the honor to put a bullet on his head if allowed. Please don't get me wrong...
Let's see the video
No, let's you see the video screwball.
As is possible that people born in this world like this man only for evil..
Borne that way. This creep wont mind prison its just another play field for him. but he will make the rest of the prison population a little uneasy. this type of thing is happening more often as time goes by can you imagine why? it seems no one is safe anywhere. the floodgates have been opened and the $#!+$ only going to get deeper. think this is as bad as it gets? I fear things are just warming up.
I'll bet this animal wont even go to prison they will put him in a hospital to study him and spend millions extra on him a total waste of money.
Feed him to the alligators at the zoo ... cheap and useful disposal.
I agree with Rich-954803. This man just needs to die. Plain and simple. Only instead of a bullet, he needs the same treatment his victim got, only after he's chopped up, he can just burn in a pit, and then go straight to hell.
Give it another 10 years ..population doubles and those 1% ers ( the sickos) there are even more of them !!Boy will we have some great news stories then !! Can't wait film at 11 !!
He's just being persecuted for being gay and Canadian.
Miles you are an @!$%#.
I don't know about the gay part. I would hate to be raped by him in jail, ouch.
good now kill the B_astard.
Gee Duh! Do you suppose his exposure to the seedy and liberal lifestyle immersed in pornography (no limits) and undoubtedly drugs (yes yes, let's be liberal and legalize drugs because their use is a victimless crime......right?) and no limits on seedy and disgusting behavior from a liberal society with no spirituality could possibly have had anything to do with this? And why do you suppose he sent his ghastly packages to the conservatives in the Canadian government which itself is so diluted by immigration that they have no national identity, no backbone to deal either with this sicko or Islamic terrorist sicko's, and are rather just adrift in their own LaLa land at this point?
I would be happy to pay for the bullet that removes this walking waste of sperm from our planet.
I'll go halfsies with you!
If Mitt Romney had a son, he'd look like this pillow biter.
hahahahahaha lol
I hope this was a joke; Mitt Romney has five son's.
This creep should be shot while attempting to escape.!
@God's Favorite1 you made me lol.
IF you folks haven't heard the real story, they did report on this earlier last week, this guy is a true monster. He killed his lover, and put a video on Gore. This story is truly a tamed version compared to what this sicko really did. This is a quote of a play by play of what this monster did to this so-called lover, perversion only leads to more perversion here is living proof!
"The 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick Video is filmed in a dimply lit room. A naked male is seen tied to a frame of bed while his captor stabs him in the abdomen with an ice pick. The victim is them seen with his throat slashed as his captor proceeds to slowly slice various parts of his body with a knife.
Later in the video, the victim is entirely decapitated and the captor uses his kitchen knife to cut into the muscles and dismember one limb after another. The murderer plays with severed limbs and even rubs his crotch area with them. It must have turned him on because the next thing he does is flip the dismembered, decapitated corpse on its front and f**k it in the a** from behind.
Using a knife and fork, the murderer then slices a piece of fatty flesh from victim’s a** and presumably eats it before bringing a hungry dog in to also feast on freshly killed man. The black and white pooch could not resist the smell of raw flesh and bit right into the stump.
Once pooch was done, the murderer stuck a bottle neck up dismembered man’s anus and repeatedly a**f**ked him with it. Putting the severed hand into use once more, the murderer laid on his bed pantless and masturbated with it.
Sick a**mother f**cker right there, this is not a black and white ( I could be a internet troll like these POS internet racists) issue, a gay or straight this is a issue of people with the total lack of respect for humanity of these scums hide behind their keyboards, some of them come out the closet, and direct their hates to animals, then they graduate to killing humans, the crazy thing is there our warning signs, but people are not conscience enough to recognize them. Listen if you allow yourself to look the other way, please do not scream or cry when it is on your front step. This is just the world we are living in, I hope the people whom are left that want to see the world, in a good light, can continue the good fight and eradicate these parasites of mankind.
I just can't forgive him for murdering those poor kittens. Off with his head.
Northern Ontario
and it was okay to do what he did to another human right?
Uhh yeah.... isn't that what they do in war?
Things will only get worse its society that is sick and getting sicker, and sick people are helping it to get even sicker every time they do what they think is the right thing to do, they are only enabling society to degrade a little more. it will get sicker and sicker till it destructs. this guy is a exception to the rest but he is still a product of a sick society, if society does not attempt to find a cure for what ills it it will destroy itself and that is our future we need to be more realist and less liberal, look around when things get out of balance they always fall apart. people like this creep are the signs of a sick society and its going on more then you know! this is all very real. and things will get worse as the world becomes more and more unstable. history shows this and we have been here before and the outcome is never good. is it preventable yes, will we allow it to be prevented no. you have to feed your soul the right diet, or you wont grow the right way. our mental diet and our spiritual diet is as f***** up as the chemical diet we eat. this guy is a example of Evil, and proof that it does exist, thus the saying the devil made him do it. welcome to hell. this guy feed his soul a diet of crap and he turned into crap.
Northern Ontario-
I hope you're kidding. :/
"isn't that what they do in war?"
In the wild animals tear each other a part while they're still alive and eat them.
Not only that, but the poor man who was murdered did not sign up for 'war'.
-So I'm going to do myself a favor and think you were joking...if not your crazed PETA ideals are showing.
Boy, those crazy liberals.