BERLIN —A Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada’s top political parties was reading about himself on the Internet when he was arrested Monday at a cafe in Berlin.
Canadian investigators say 29-year-old Luka Magnotta’s obsessions led him to post Internet videos of him killing kittens and then a man.
An international manhunt set off by a case of Internet gruesomeness that horrified the world ended quietly in the blue-collar Neukoelln district of the German capital, where a cafe employee recognized Magnotta from a newspaper photo and flagged down a police car.
Confronted by seven officers, “he tried at first giving fake names, but in the end, he just said: ‘You got me,’ ” said police spokesman Guido Busch. “He didn’t resist.”
Magnotta is wanted on suspicion of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year-old man he dated, and mailing his body parts to two political parties.
They say Magnotta filmed the murder of the student from Wuhan, China, and posted it online. The video shows a man with an ice pick stabbing a naked, bound male. From there, the video grows more horrifying.
For nearly two years, animal activists had been looking for a man who tortured and killed cats and posted videos of it. Since Jun Lin’s murder, Montreal police have released a photo from videos which they say is of Magnotta.
In Germany, police spokeswoman Kerstin Ziesmer said Magnotta is being questioned and will be brought before a judge behind closed doors.
