For a man who allegedly committed one of the most gruesome crimes in Canadian history -- a crime police say he recorded and uploaded to the Internet for all to see -- Luka Rocco Magnotta had little to say when confronted by German police.
"Okay, you got me," were the words Magnotta said to authorities in Berlin when a half-hearted attempt to give the officers a fake name failed, police said.
A seemingly understated reaction for an accused killer who has already been tried in the court of public opinion and dubbed "The Dismemberer," "Cannibal Killer" and similar nicknames by the press -- the most colorful (and tongue-twisting) moniker being perhaps "Psycho Cannibal Gay Porn Killer," given to him by the tabloid The National Enquirer.
Magnotta faces charges of first-degree murder, committing an indignity on a dead body, publishing obscene material, mailing "obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous" material and criminally harassing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and several unnamed members of Parliament, said Canadian police.
Police in Montreal believe the 29-year-old low-budget-porn actor murdered, dismembered and then sexually assaulted 33-year-old Lin Jun on or about May 25. Jun, a Concordia University student, was reported missing on May 24. The murder and ensuing acts were allegedly captured on video and uploaded to a website, police said.
Authorities in Canada had issued a countrywide arrest warrant for Magnotta, and he was added to Interpol's list of wanted persons. LUKA MAGNOTTA PHOTOS: (Article Continues Bel
The international manhunt for Magnotta came to an end Monday, when the owner of an Internet cafe in Berlin spotted him seated in front of a computer. The cafe owner, who asked not to be identified, told The Associated Press he spotted Magnotta reading news reports about himself. An employee then went outside and flagged down a passing police car.
Magnotta was taken into custody without incident.
"Nothing happened, it all went very quietly," the cafe owner told the AP.
Magnotta is expected to appear before a judge for a closed-door hearing later Tuesday. If he does not contest his extradition, he could be back in Canada by the end of the week, according to Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson's office.
If convicted of the crimes he faces, Magnotta will likely be sentenced to a term of life in prison. Canada banned the death penalty in 1976. But some, including Toronto City Councilor Giorgio Mammoliti, believe it is time to reconsider the ban.
"As Canadians and Torontonians, we should feel safe in our cities," Mammoliti said in a press release. "We need to send a message to those who would commit these heinous crimes and make capital punishment a true consequence for the most horrendous acts of violence committed by murderers, pedophiles and sociopaths."
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Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
I tell you it is a crazy freaky world we live in walhi.. I wouldn't be surprised if a few years from now eating humans becomes ok so long as the dead consent to it, as they consent for the bodies being displayed and plastinated in the 'body world' what a creepy creepy world we live in.
And that's why Islam isn't compatible.. If you're averse to perversion of all its facets then you dislike their 'freedom' and can't be accommodated.
I am disgusted by homos but cannibalistic homos.. well we're in a whole other ballpark here aren't we..
ugh
Re: Cannibals on the rise (not the first case of its kind)
Urghhhh these days you don't know if the person serving you in the shop, sitting next to you on the bus and even your normal-looking next door neighbour is psychotic freak. I wiill be so glad when the world ends.
Re: Cannibals on the rise (not the first case of its kind)
recently there was shooting at Toronto's Eaton mall as well. Nothing is safe.
Help me to escape from this existence
I yearn for an answer... can you help me?
I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams
In somnolent illusion... I'm paralyzed
One doesn't know which way they'll go.. I just watched a movie called frozen where two of the stranded people sadly ended up dinner for wolves.. it still haunts me but I just can't imagine being dinner to another human being..
Am I the only one flipping out? It is just weird and awful..
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
Re: Cannibals on the rise (not the first case of its kind)
Sometimes peoples faces look like a cheese burger and when that hunger strikes you can't help but eat the cheese burger in front of you, and its for free!
Should it be an alternative lifestyle? ,to eat faces , What if you can't help it?
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