Berlin cops collar gay porn star LUKA ROCCO MAGNOTTA after an international manhunt for the psycho cannibal killer. After catching an overnight bus from Paris on Friday the so-called
“Canadian Psycho” Magnotta, 29, was seized in an Internet cafe on the Karl-Marx-Strasse in the sleazy Neukoelln district of the city, infamous for numerous gay bars and sordid sex haunts frequented by both tourists and locals alike.German police sources say the cafe was raided at midday.Magnotta was online via laptop when armed officers stormed the cage. As they brandished weapons, they threw him to the floor, quickly pinning him and then handcuffed the French-Canadian
fugitive. “You got me,” Magnotta admitted when police cuffed him. He had been reading stories about himself.Magnotta was finally arrested after a café employee worker recognized him and raced outside to flag down a passing police officer.“He tried at first giving fake names,” Berlin police spokesman Guido Busch said. “He didn’t resist.”Magnotta is wanted by Montreal law enforcement for the gruesome videotaped murder and dismemberment of a student, Jun Lin. After sexually defiling the corpse cops say Magnotta ate his flesh.
Magnotta, who is known under the aliases Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, worked as a gay porn actor and also as a male prostitute under the name 'Angel.' He underwent plastic surgery, frequently wore makeup and dyed his hair to change his appearance. Magnotta may have disguised himself as a woman, say police sources, in an attempt to escape the international manhunt that spanned two continents.Magnotta fled to France where mobile telephone calls allowed Interpol to track his movements.In addition to the murder charges, Magnotta faces charges of threatening Canada's prime minister after he allegedly mailed a severed foot to the Prime Minister’s political party HQ.
Police suspect Magnotta filmed the gruesome murder after a video was posted online showing a man sadistically stabbing another man to death with an ice pick. The victim was naked and trussed up. The killer in the video then dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it.Police Commander Ian Lafreniere said: “The film is just so graphic and disturbing. Imagine the worst horror movie you’ve ever seen and it’s worse than that and it’s real. The murderer just tears the victim apart like a doll.”
Who is Magnotta?
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the 29-year-old sought by Montreal police in connection with a suspected homicide linked to the mailing of body parts to political offices, is a self-described model and adult film actor with a sprawling online presence.
He is wanted on charges of first-degree murder and performing an indignity to a human body.
Police issued a Canada-wide warrant for Magnotta on May 30, but say he flew out of Trudeau airport in Montreal on May 26 to an undisclosed foreign destination. Police are not ruling out that he may have returned to Canada under an alias.
Originally from Toronto, Magnotta had been renting a $490-a-month furnished apartment in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal for four months. Police believe the body parts belong to a man killed in that apartment. They also believe the killing was recorded on video and posted to a website under the title 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pic.
Name change
Magnotta changed his name from Eric Clinton Kirk Newman on Aug. 12, 2006.He has also gone by the name Vladimir Romanov, among others. His multiple identities were confusing enough that even Montreal police originally identified him as "Rocco Luka," when naming him as a suspect in the death and dismemberment of a man after a torso was found in a suitcase near the apartment building where Magnotta lived. On Friday, police said the victim was Lin Jun, 33, a Chinese citizen studying at Concordia University.
Lin and Magnotta knew each other, police said.
Magnotta attended high school in Lindsay, Ont., and his mother and younger siblings now live nearby in Peterborough, according to the CBC's Ioanna Roumeliotis. They refused to talk to the media, but reports of a troubled family relationship are emerging.
Nina Arsenault, a transsexual who claims she was Magnotta's lover 10 years ago when she worked at a Toronto strip club and went by the name Angel, says he hated his family because they did not accept him.
She described her ex as being manipulative, a liar with a short fuse and often self-destructive.
The last time she saw him was five years ago when he tried out for a short-lived Canadian reality show called Cover Guy, seeking to be an underwear model.
While he didn't win, Magnotta told the judges: "A lotta people tell me I'm really devastatingly good looking."
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