More packages with body parts have been found at two Vancouver schools, in what could be the latest twist in the case of Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is suspected of murdering and dismembering his lover Jun Lin.
The packages contained a human hand and foot, Canadian police said.
Canadian police declined to confirm whether the incident was linked to suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, on Tuesday appeared in a Berlin court – a day after he was arrested at an internet cafe.
The Canadian authorities are now preparing papers to request his extradition, and Luka Rocco Magnotta has reportedly said he will not fight the move.
Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing Chinese student Jun Lin, 33, in Montreal, and posting severed body parts to political parties in Canada.
Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing Chinese student Jun Lin in Montreal, and posting severed body parts to political parties in Canada
Jun Lin’s relatives have now arrived in Montreal and are expected to meet police shortly.
On Tuesday, Canadian police said a package with what appeared to be a human hand was opened at Vancouver’s False Creek Elementary School.
Another parcel with what looked like a human foot was found at St George’s school for boys in the western Canadian city.
“There is no indication any student or staff has been targeted at any school,” Vancouver Deputy Police Chief Warren Lemcke told a news conference.
He added that “this must have been a very traumatic incident” for pupils and teaching staff at the schools.
Jun Lin’s hand and foot were discovered last week after they were mailed to Canada’s political parties.
Police say Jun Lin’s other hand, foot and head are still missing.
Police say Luka Rocco Magnotta flew from Montreal to Paris on 26 May, eventually travelling by coach from France to Germany.
Montreal Police Commander Ian Lafreniere said investigators were extremely relieved and pleased about the arrest.
“We said from the beginning that the web has been used to glorify himself and we believe the web brought him down,” he added.
“He was recognized because his photo was everywhere.”
Luka Rocco Magnotta was picked up in the cybercafe in Berlin’s Neukoelln district, where he had reportedly been reading articles about himself.
“A colleague recognized him from his photo because he’d just read the newspaper,” the cafe owner told the Associated Press news agency.
The employee, Kadir Anlayisli, ran outside and flagged down a passing police van.
Police said there had been no struggle when Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested on Monday.
Confronted by seven police officers, Luka Rocco Magnotta “tried at first giving fake names”, police spokesman Guido Busch said.
“But in the end he just said: <<You got me>>.”
The suspect had reportedly worked as a bisexual porn actor and model.
Jun Lin, who was from Wuhan in China, had been enrolled as an undergraduate to study engineering and computer science at Concordia University in Montreal.
Investigators say a video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Jun Lin’s murder.
Luka Rocco Magnotta faces charges in Canada of murder and threatening Canadian politicians.
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Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover, has told a judge he will not fight his extradition from Germany, prosecutors say.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, appeared in a Berlin court to have his arrest confirmed, a day after he was detained.
Canadian authorities are preparing papers to request his extradition.
Police detained him in an internet cafe in Berlin after an employee recognized his face from a newspaper.
Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing Chinese student Jun Lin, 33, in Montreal, and posting severed body parts to political parties in Canada.
“He said he would not fight the extradition,” Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, told AFP after the hearing on Tuesday.
The extradition process could take months, but Martin Steltner said it “will be easier and will be faster” now that Luka Rocco Magnotta has said he will not oppose it.
Luka Rocco Magnotta has told a judge he will not fight his extradition from Germany
Police say Luka Rocco Magnotta flew from Montreal to Paris on 26 May, eventually travelling by coach from France to Germany.
Montreal Police Commander Ian Lafreniere said investigators were extremely relieved and pleased about the arrest.
“We said from the beginning that the web has been used to glorify himself and we believe the web brought him down,” he added.
“He was recognized because his photo was everywhere.”
Luka Rocco Magnotta was picked up in the cybercafe in Berlin’s Neukoelln district, where he had reportedly been reading articles about himself.
“A colleague recognized him from his photo because he’d just read the newspaper,” the cafe owner told the Associated Press news agency.
The employee, Kadir Anlayisli, ran outside and flagged down a passing police van.
“He came in with glasses on, he took his glasses off and talked to me in French,” Kadir Anlayisli told AP.
“I looked at him and thought I knew him from somewhere, because I read newspapers every day. I was perplexed and thought I should look at him again, and when I watched him, he was checking the same web page that I had just checked.”
Kadir Anlayisli then stepped out of the cafe, on Berlin’s busy Karl Marx Strasse, and stopped the police van, telling the officers inside: “I have someone here you might be looking for.”
Police said there had been no struggle when Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested at 14:00 local time on Monday.
Confronted by seven police officers, Luka Rocco Magnotta “tried at first giving fake names”, police spokesman Guido Busch said.
“But in the end he just said: <<You got me>>.”
Kadir Anlayisli recalled: “At first they [the police] asked him for an ID.
“Then they searched him. Well, then they showed me the <<thumbs up>> to show me that it was the right one. I was relieved.”
The suspect had reportedly worked as a bisexual porn actor and model.
Jun Lin, who was from Wuhan in China, had been enrolled as an undergraduate to study engineering and computer science at Concordia University in Montreal.
Zoya De Frias Lakhany, 21, a fellow Concordia student in some of Jun Lin’s classes, said he had been an excellent student who was shy and humble. She said she had cried all weekend after hearing about his death.
“He was happy here, he would take pictures of the snow and post them,” she recalled, quoted by AP.
“He was sweet, never complained and smiled all the time.”
Investigators say a video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Jun Lin’s murder.
Luka Rocco Magnotta faces charges in Canada of murder and threatening Canadian politicians.
Authorities believe body parts sent through the post belonged to Jun Lin. A foot was received by the headquarters of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party in Ottawa on 29 May. A hand was found on 29 May in a parcel addressed to the office of the Liberal Party in Ottawa.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover, has been arrested Berlin, Germany.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was reportedly picked up in a cybercafe in Berlin’s Neukoelln district.
An Interpol notice says Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, in Montreal. Body parts were posted to political parties in Canada.
Earlier, French police said Luka Rocco Magnotta had flown to Paris from Montreal.
Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, in Montreal
A video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Jun Lin’s murder, investigators say.
The suspect had reportedly worked as a bisexual porn actor and model.
Luka Rocco Magnotta was spotted by someone travelling on a bus from France to Berlin, the German news website Spiegel reports.
According to Germany’s BZ website, the internet cafe owner in Berlin recognized Luka Rocco Magnotta and alerted police.
Earlier, police in Paris found items of his in a hotel room – pornographic magazines and airline sick bags, French media say.
The hotel is in Bagnolet, an eastern suburb of Paris near the peripherique ring road.
