Porn actor faces murder charge
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E-mail Xinhua, June 19, 2012
Canadian "psycho killer" Luka Rocco Magnotta, charged with first-degree murder in the killing and dismemberment of Chinese student Lin Jun, was returned to Montreal Monday night under heavy security.
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Luka Magnotta is led by police from a Canadian military plane to a waiting van in Mirabel, Quebec. Magnotta, a suspect in the killing and dismemberment of a Chinese student, returned to Canada on Monday from Germany, where he had been arrested earlier this month. He was expected to appear before a judge via video link from a detention center yesterday. |
Earlier in the day, the Canadian government issued a statement, which said Montreal police had taken custody of the 29-year-old Toronto native, who was flown from Berlin aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force transport plane.
Canadian officials said Magnotta was restrained during the flight, which arrived shortly before 7:00 p.m. local time (0000 GMT Tuesday) and was greeted by a convoy of emergency vehicles.
To minimize media and public attention, the military plane landed outside Montreal at Mirabel International Airport, which is used primarily by cargo airlines.
Shortly after 7:00 p.m., Magnotta emerged from the aircraft, handcuffed, and was escorted into an unmarked police vehicle that took him to an undisclosed detention center.
The porn actor is scheduled to appear in court in Montreal Tuesday where he will be formally arraigned on five charges, including first-degree murder, committing an indignity to a corpse, publishing obscene material, mailing obscene material and criminally harassing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of parliament.
Magnotta was arrested at a Berlin cybercafe on June 4 following a global manhunt and had been held in the German capital until his deportation Monday.
He made international headlines when the gory details of his alleged crimes emerged.
Magnotta was accused of murdering and dismembering Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese national enrolled in the faculty of engineering and computer science at Montreal's Concordia University, last month.
The victim's torso was found in a suitcase outside the Montreal apartment building in which Magnotta resided, and DNA tests have confirmed that hands and feet mailed separately to two of Canada's main political parties and two Vancouver schools all belong to Lin. His head has yet to be recovered.
Montreal police also reportedly have the longer version of a video, which they believe shows Magnotta stabbing Lin to death with an ice pick and cutting his body into pieces. An edited version, which allegedly depicts the same brutal acts, was posted on a Canadian website called BestGore.com, but is no longer available.
Last week, a Montreal teacher was fired after showing the video to his Grade 10 class.
Meanwhile, Lin's family, who traveled from China to Montreal earlier this month, wrote an open letter thanking Canadians for their support during their time of loss, which they said had left them at a "breaking point."
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