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Montreal Police via EPA
A handout image released on Tuesday by the Montreal Police shows Luka Rocco Magnotta after his arrest in Berlin, Germany on Monday. Magnotta was arrested in connection with a murder in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which involved the discovery of part of a body in Montreal but other parts of the body mailed to political party offices in Ottawa, Canada.
Updated at 7:50 p.m. ET: BERLIN - Luka Magnotta, the stripper and porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man in Canada, was served with an international arrest warrant by a judge in Germany on Tuesday after a global manhunt led to his arrest in Berlin.
Meanwhile, separate packages containing a human hand and foot were mailed to two schools in Vancouver, B.C., Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Warren Lemcke said at a news conference on Tuesday. Lemcke could not say whether the packages were connected to those believed to have been sent by Magnotta to the headquarters of the federal Liberal and Conservative parties.
The Toronto Star reported that one of Lin’s hands, a foot and his head remain missing.
Earlier Tuesday, Canadian police said video footage from the killing seems to show the suspect eating the body.
The fugitive was confronted by seven German police officers in an Internet café where he had been spotted reading news coverage about himself.
Interpol began a hunt on Thursday for Magnotta, who faces first-degree murder charges over the grisly videotaped death of Jun Lin, a 32-year-old Chinese student whose body parts were mailed to the political parties in Ottawa.
Police told NBC News the 29-year-old was apprehended early afternoon on Monday in the city’s Neu-Koelln district after officers on patrol were flagged down by an employee of the café, Kadir Anlayisli.
He 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."
After an international manhunt, authorities apprehended Canadian porn actor Luka Magnotta, who is alleged to have murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized a man thought to be his boyfriend. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.
Police said Magnotta was being held at "police custody facility" at Tempelhofer Damm in central Berlin.
He was brought before judge behind closed doors at a district court in Berlin on Tuesday, where he was presented with the arrest warrant, officials told NBC News. Officials said Magnotta will not fight extradition.
Canada, like Europe, has no death penalty, making extradition more likely.
Quebec bureau of prosecutions spokesman Rene Verret told The Associated Press Magnotta could be returned to Canada with two weeks unless he contested extradition moves.
Surveillance footage shows three police officers accompany the handcuffed Magnotta a couple of minutes after police entered the cafe.
Gore website
Montreal police say Magnotta filmed the Chinese student's murder and posted it on a website specializing in gore. 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.
Luka Magnotta, seen in this file handout picture from Montreal police
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.
Video: 'Cannibal killer' is target of manhunt
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.
Reuters, The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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Another arrogant sociopath that thinks he is soooo smart he can get away with murder. Glad he was caught so soon. He never made it to 'America's Most Wanted'.
unless he entered the united states he wouldn't have been on the most wanted list as he is canadian...
Dawn you quickly realized that Charles missed the main points in the story by injecting his own version of "facts"......duhhhh......or maybe he is applying for a job on FOX and is just in training
Or he implied that he would have come to the United States and killed here, either way FOX is stupid and irrelevant right now, lets get back to this sick @!$%#.
Looks like an "X file" case to me.
MSNBC needs to Really start verifying their sources.
Porn Actor, my Azz!!! He's an unsuccessful twink escort that made a few internet clips. Most of the info that they're "reporting" is being fed to them by the sociopath himself. Tried to link himself to Karla Homolka, then denied it. He's been discovered attempting to edit the Wikipedia article. The "Mounties" need to start doing their job, instead of letting him "escape" to another country and be Interpol's problem.
you don't know...maybe the other guy had it coming.........
Well at least one Canadian get his freak on.................no sorry turns out he is just a freak.
And this would surprise who? You can tell by looking at him he's a tinker and a sicko to begin with. twisted pervert.
Sure glad this didn't happen in Mexico ... all the idiots would be ranting and raving ........
nice tank top. did you borrow that from your little sister's closet???
what a geeky looking freak.
Clever might be abit too much to assign to this person. But, which drugs was he taking or how messed up is he, that he doesn't relaize that he is a dead man.
Fairly sick guy
OK...you've got the guy....for pete's sake, don't let him go. He's a habitual butcher that needs to be extradited to a country that DOES have the death penalty. There are people that just need to die...and this is one of them. I can't even believe the gore of a taped death of someone being dismembered. What a sick, deranged mind with no regard to life....for his entertainment by the sound of it. He shouldn't even have the right to make decisions for himself, but I'm sure Canada and Germany, like most countries, feel a "mental health break" should be tried first. oh, please, come on.....put him out of our misery and leave the rest of us alone. If you don;t have the stomach to do what is necessary to get rid of him....send him to Saudi Arabia where the tolerance is Zero for that offense. Take him to chop chop square, off with his head, and yippee, he's dead AND dismembered. Eye for an eye.........
The man he killed was Chinese. Let China have him.
good idea biker chick but alas i doubt he was a Chinese citizen.
The victim was a citizen of China and was a foreign student studying in Montreal.
The gore website is feeding other psychopaths. Law enforcement would shut down a child porn site; why hasn't anything been done to shut down the gore site?
now theres a smart question. kudos sue.
Because there's no crime, and if we can block videos with gore, we can block anything else we think might feed a psychopath. Why stop there, we can get rid of anything having to do with weapons or fighting too. Now look where we are, anything can be censored. We cannot censor one without censoring all, and the bad outweighs the good there. Sorry kid.
and a great answer....kudos to you as well thomas
I disagree, Thomas. We can censor one without censoring all, unless we are complete fools. Why do we have the ability to reason if we don't use it?
the problem with that line of thought AP is who chooses? you? me? some nitwit politician?
Thomas, that is not entirely true. On a lot of those gore websites, there IS a crime in some of the videos (the ones that are real). Firstly, the ones featuring animals are clearly crimes. Whether it be bestiality or torture, that is animal cruelty. Which is a crime. In others, real bodies are used. Or murders are being committed on film. Unfortunately, depending on the video, they are impossible to trace back to the original source. I agree that those websites depicting real people or animals should 100% absolutely be removed from the internet. I am a huge horror movie fan and I have no problem with gore...WHEN IT'S FAKE. But those websites often have hundreds or thousands of videos depicting real human or animal suffering, or mutilation or necrophilia of a deceased body. To me, it is unacceptable and is certainly feeding the psychopaths. When they know there is an audience for that sick sh*t (much like Luka realized), they are even more compelled to do the crimes and commit them to film. It is a sick world.
First, it was mentioned in an earlier article that the police have tried and are trying to pull the video off the Internet, but the Internet is darn near infinite and it just pops up again someplace else once it's pulled from another site.
I saw the video, and the only impression it left me with was how can someone be sick enough to do that? If anything, I think the video shows just how twisted this animal is, and it's the reason this type of evidence gets shown to juries. Seeing the video is not going to "feed" something that's not already there. If there is a reason to pull the video off the Internet, I'd say do it for the sake of the victim's family and to preserve the jury pool. But to look away from it is to hide from the reality of the perversion that exists in this world. To censor it is for the government to decide our reality for us.
If everyone in Canada saw the video, they might just reconsider the death penalty.
All he needs is a nice used mid-sized passenger car tire, a little gasoline, and a match, all readily available.
and post it on a webste as well?
I would want he put away for killing kittens, cats or any animal, alone.
If they shut down the gore website what will I masturbate to?
the adult goat website...? hey it works in some places..... just don't eat pork while doing it.........:)
Ewwww, that is bad!!! I hope (I think) that you are just being sarcastic! LOL
To the thousands of videos and tapes that are done each day for the criminally insane but alive and walking the streets and living in every community and social scene in America and the world over.
glad they got this thing offa the streets before anyone else was murdered.
that anyone knows of as of now.
The worst of it is, in a couple months someone new will come along and this freak will be a distant memory. In fact, I am old enough to remember when if someone high on bath salts chewed a guys face off he was considered crazy.
How did they not know where he was going when he left on a international flite out of Canada? I get on a plane and they can find me or at least where Im goin in a hour!! Dont make sense to me.
He got on the plane before body parts were discovered, thus, before he was wanted.
No death penalty in Canada in this case sucks, as we just let the idiot psycho who beheaded someone on a Greyhound out for supervised visits. Great. Read about that nut job here:
just remove spaces here to copy hyperlink h
Ohhh Canada....We really do need the death penalty for some extraordinary like this [and I'm as far left as you can be]. I see two challenges: 1) defining the difference between a murder and a truly heinous murder and 2) making sure that insanity can't be used as a defense in cases like this.
There is enough evidence to leave no doubt about this man. If only our legal systems weren't so hogtied by tomfoolery dredged up by whippersnappers since time immemorial, we could actually give this man a decent farewell. Death is far less than he deserves, but at least he'd be dead instead of sitting smug after doing this...abomination.
wow...this is one seriously broken unit.
Disgusting animal! Where do these people come from? He needs the death penalty. We need to thin the herd, particularly of psychopaths! How can a website like the one described be allowed on the internet? So, we are trying to help breed these creeps? What is wrong with us? Or is this the ACLU at work? I totally believe in protecting our rights, but within the boundaries of normalcy. This is so, so sick! The only good part about it is that it helped catch the psychopath!
good question, lets see....im good....you seem ok...at least for now....but that guy over there,....well he LOOKS and acts different from us....................
To imply, or openly state that gore sights are creating "creeps" like this guy is absolutely ridiculous. If gore bothers you so much, stay away from it. It's that simple. But don't go around saying these websites are responsible for psycopaths, because that's not a proven fact. It may be your opinion, and that's fine. But you sound extremely ignorant. We don't have that many rights, and people like you are the reason why. Yes, gore is a terrible thing, but the reality of it is that it happens all the time, all over the world. It doesn't make it right, but it's a reality. Why keep trying to hide it by pretending it doesn't happen?
TL;DR if you don't like gore, stay away from it. It's not like it's hard to do.
This guy is a total wase of skin, what he did to his lover (perversion in itself) was just wrong. He will not meet the same fate that, the chinese guys met, he will die with some sort of dignity and there will be no video to watch. This narcisticall maniac was apparetnly reading about himself, before he was caught. Smh He is going back to Canada where they will treat him like a king, no death penalty nothing he will just live the rest of his days out in peace. He will not be punished by the inmates that are housed with him, he will probably find another like minded individual there. I hope that canada is not as weak as norway and pay people to play with the sick POS but who knows. The USA with all their imperferctions still knows how to handle someone of this magnitude, and for that I am proud to be a citizen of the great ol' USA. Sometimes I wish they wouldn't take so long and putting these parasites down, but nonetheless they put these sick cowards down. How sad is a society that let people like him exist, the true vileness of his gruesome act allows me to know that evil truly exist in the heart of man, and it can only be dealt with in one way. The story above is so tame, it hides the true nature of what this animal did just for the heck of it, I mean just for pure kicks, but when they failed to make him pay for what he did to the kittens, they gave him a pass to do it to a Human. The signs are there if they (killers) would kill a defenceless animal then that is a sure sign what they would do to a human if given a chance. This is how the video was describe on the Gore site look at how cruel, and nasty this monster is!
"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*cked 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*cked him with it. Putting the severed hand into use once more, the murderer laid on his bed pantless and masturbated with it.
1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick is without a doubt the sickest thing you will have ever seen in your entire life. It is a sad reminder that things far worse than any of us would ever imagine really take place in our neighborhoods. It is a sickening reflection of who we, as a human race have become. Turning our heads and pretending the video doesn’t exist would only make the perpetrator feel more secure and open to further exploitation.
Sick I tell the whole lot of them!
so you went to the website? i wonder how many more will after reading this...and why......
And you are ok to watch the whole thing and write down all the details?!
Well, susan-3881426, he was only telling the truth in just how sick and deranged that this guy was in the hopes of warding off other would-be psychopaths from committing the same foolish actions in their own lives and isn't that what we're supposed to do, you know, prevent things like this from happening again?
See susan? He didn't watch it and write down the details.
Thanks for the heads up Marvin. I guess I won't want to see a video of a man showing off for the camera by screwing a dead male body. What a sad attempt at getting your 15 mins
AllPeople..,
He is not an animal, animals don't do what he did. He's a POS that does not deserve to live. People should have caught on to him a long time ago, when he tortured those poor innocent kittens. But they let him go. Animals lives is not that important I guess. And look what he went and did. Proven fact that those A$$wholes start with torturing animals and move on to humans. When do we learn? Laws NEED to be harder on those POS's.
I agree with you justhefax-2437807 if we do not take animals life more seriously we will continue to be faced with these sick POS. I truly apologize to all animals whom I have offended by comparing them with this POS parasite!
Yes, I did go to the website, people need to wake up to going on of the underworld, maybe they will stop being so insensitive to true victims of crime. Realize that people who does this stuff have no place in our civilized society. I mean what makes someone want to kill a kitten, well it is someone that obviously wants to kill a human, do you see the link?
although i tend to agree with you, there is one exception i can think of, ever seen a house-cat and a mouse? the cat isn't hungry and from the mouse's point of view he sure as hell isn't "playing".................:)
sorry this thing didn't post ALL of my comment, i went on to say i sure as hell am not sticking up for this POS, and it sickens me that he got away with it as well it would seem with several other atrocities.
We as the intelligent species should nipp that sort of thing in the butt. But, alas a lot of this goes on and people witnessing just look the other way. If you can have websites that allow this, well, then I'm not that surprised. We, as a society need to pay more attention and not allow this! How can nobody (his friends, relatives, aquaintances) not have noticed anything wrong? Wondering about that.
Not to be trivial, but the expression I think you meant to use is "nip it in the bud"
Sorry, of course you're right Happy, being bilingual sometimes does that to me. But spellcheck would not have helped ;-)
Still in that instant the mouse isn't killed for fun, because the cat will come back at a later time and make a meal of the mouse. I do see your point, but this individual was not a mouse, and his life should have more meaning to it. Imagine did his parents have this planned for him. Albeit, his fringe lifestyle cost him his life, he should have been doing something more constructive with his time, then this he was studying to be a engineer for christ's sakes!
as an aerospace parts inspector and master machinist for the last 35+ years,....all i need is about one more engineer and i believe i too would be ready fir the rubber room..................:)
HOLY CRAP IA.SCOOTERTRAMP.......Hope you don't work in the same AeroSpace complex as me !!!!!!! What city ?
corn fed
contract worker semi retired but have been in many many differnt ones, CN, TN.TX,KS,AR,IL,IA,FL,CA,WA,SC, all come to mind right off.......
OMG he killed Al Gore!
on camera....but hey ay least it was powered by a windmill / solar powered generator..........:)
Something's afoot in Canadas' conservative party.
I'd fry him just b/c of the cats.
A better idea-execute him, dissect his brain and decode his DNA to see if there are any clues to how one degenerates into a monster like this. Might be useful for the rest of society. I'd be curious at least. Then again, there is the whole spiritual and psychological realm of possibilities........
Troy,
I'm with you on that
Sure hope Germany has a death sentence. Best for all around.
READ ..the article ..for the answer to that...................
Hang that sick, twisted sob by his balls and skin his a$$ alive. And be sure to wear surgical gloves to prevent contracting STD's.
might i ask...and you came up with this on your own or from a website? just wondering........
I was reading the article on this yesterday and a poster left a link to a site. I went to it and let me tell you this is one sick POS SOB. People like this animal does not need to be breathing the same air as the rest of us. It has probably already contaminated it and spread his sickness.
Luka Magnotta could be compared to both Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Rader (the BTK killer). They all started
out by killing innocent pets and then graduated to capital murder and, for Dahmer, cannibalism. What did the
parents or adult-care-givers of these people ever teach them about respect for life? In the great beyond, maybe these sadistic sociopaths will all meet each other in hell.
I'd like to take him into an old barn, tighten his weiny in a vice, give him a dull knife and set the barn on fire. That's just for starters. If he made it out alive, i'd really get down to serious business !
corn fed,
and just why destroy a perfectly good barn? not around these parts.........................:)
True Scooter. What AeroSpace Co. do you work for ? We might be in the same building ? Scary Huh ?
not unless your hiding in my house, fixing to head out again,i work for and am registeredwith several different firms in several different aspects from, helicopters to body's & wing structural components up to 757 airbus's, to DOD to turbines etc.etc.etc. as for the location, that's unknown for now, but i am bored sitting around watching the corn grow.
WDM. No, i'm not in ur house. Wish i was watching the corn grow myself instead of listening to air hoses and smelling jet fuel.
ick, i dont get outside the plant much myself.although just rolling around picking up FOD looks like my knida job, no responsibility and easy work, usually involves a cushman or other cart. beat the hell out of walking all over a big facility. so whats your capacity? i will "friend ya, no sense chattin on here, but i gotta get off and try to get some stuff done around here.
love your avatar BTW and agree, i am not a "party" person.
The lad is outside the norm so that makes him and his actions diverse.
The politically correct (PC) mob should be endorsing his actions and chanting the PC mantra of "diversity is our strength."
racism and sexism have nothing to do with this case. "Politically correct" is a phrase made up by people who want to continue to be racist and sexist and want to hide behind the excuse that you can say anything you want. But there are limits to everything. This guy is a scumbag and no one would be stupid enough to defend him by crying "oh my gosh guys. You're all being so politically incorrect right now". Think for yourself and don't buy into cheapshot, made up phrases.
I am delighted you are so well-indoctrinated.
Thank you for your comment.
Pretty is as pretty does. Neither applies to this guy.