‘Psycho’ lover to appear in German court
6 Jun 2012 1:12 AM GMT
A porn actor dubbed the ‘Canadian Psycho’ for allegedly killing and chopping up his lover is due to appear before a Berlin judge on Tuesday after being captured while on the run in Germany.
‘The suspect will be presented on Tuesday to the judge who will confirm his detention,’ Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor, told AFP, adding it could take several days to arrange his extradition to Canada.
Police in Berlin picked up Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, at an Internet cafe on Monday after a global hunt for the man believed to have murdered his Chinese lover with an ice pick, dismembered his body and filmed the grisly killing. Magnotta offered little resistance, saying simply: ‘You got me,’ a police spokesman said.
On Wednesday's hearing will take place behind closed doors. German authorities have asked Canada to provide the necessary documents for Magnotta's extradition. ‘We are waiting for these documents and as soon as they have arrived, a judge will rule on an extradition,’ Steltner said.
‘We expect the extradition to be approved,’ he added saying that the procedure normally took several days. Canadian authorities have already said they are working on documents needed to secure Magnotta's extradition from Germany, after the manhunt for the porn actor that started in Montreal and shifted to Paris before ending in Berlin.
Magnotta, dubbed the ‘Butcher of Montreal’ and the ‘Canadian Psycho,’ has been wanted since last week when body parts - a hand and a foot - from Chinese student Lin Jun, were sent by mail to political party offices in Ottawa. Lin's torso was found in a suitcase left for garbage collection outside Magnotta's Montreal apartment. Interpol had issued a Red Notice wanted-persons alert for Magnotta, also known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, to its 190 member countries after a video purportedly showing the gruesome murder surfaced online.
In the video, which Canadian police have reportedly said shows the crime, a man repeatedly stabs another with an ice pick and dismembers him, as a song from the soundtrack of American Psycho plays in the background.
‘The suspect will be presented on Tuesday to the judge who will confirm his detention,’ Martin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor, told AFP, adding it could take several days to arrange his extradition to Canada.
Police in Berlin picked up Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, at an Internet cafe on Monday after a global hunt for the man believed to have murdered his Chinese lover with an ice pick, dismembered his body and filmed the grisly killing. Magnotta offered little resistance, saying simply: ‘You got me,’ a police spokesman said.
On Wednesday's hearing will take place behind closed doors. German authorities have asked Canada to provide the necessary documents for Magnotta's extradition. ‘We are waiting for these documents and as soon as they have arrived, a judge will rule on an extradition,’ Steltner said.
‘We expect the extradition to be approved,’ he added saying that the procedure normally took several days. Canadian authorities have already said they are working on documents needed to secure Magnotta's extradition from Germany, after the manhunt for the porn actor that started in Montreal and shifted to Paris before ending in Berlin.
Magnotta, dubbed the ‘Butcher of Montreal’ and the ‘Canadian Psycho,’ has been wanted since last week when body parts - a hand and a foot - from Chinese student Lin Jun, were sent by mail to political party offices in Ottawa. Lin's torso was found in a suitcase left for garbage collection outside Magnotta's Montreal apartment. Interpol had issued a Red Notice wanted-persons alert for Magnotta, also known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, to its 190 member countries after a video purportedly showing the gruesome murder surfaced online.
In the video, which Canadian police have reportedly said shows the crime, a man repeatedly stabs another with an ice pick and dismembers him, as a song from the soundtrack of American Psycho plays in the background.
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