A Canadian man suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student, then posting a video of the crime online, was arrested in an internet cafe in Berlin yesterday after an international hunt.
Interpol had issued a “red notice”, the highest type of warning, for Luka Rocco Magnotta (29), who faces first degree murder charges for killing the student. He is later believed to have mailed his victim’s body parts to political parties in the Canadian capital, Ottawa.
“A 29-year-old man wanted by Interpol was arrested early this afternoon in an internet cafe in the Neukölln district,” a Berlin police spokesman said.
The owner of the cafe, Kadir Anlayisli, said: “I wasn’t sure if it was him but then I looked at some pictures and thought, ‘that is definitely him’. He spoke French, said ‘monsieur’ and wanted to use the internet and I said ‘hello’.”
Mr Magnotta is believed to have entered France on May 26th and French police had been investigating thousands of reported sightings.
They alerted German police yesterday morning that he was headed for Berlin on a Eurolines coach, a French police source said. – (Reuters)