BERLIN(Reuters) -ACanadian man suspected ofmurdering and dismembering a Chinese student, then posting a video of the crime online, was arrested in an intemet cafe in Berlin on Monday after an international manhunt.
Interpol had issued a"red notice", the highest type of warning, for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 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 intemet cafe in the Neukoelln district," a Berlin police spokesman said.
The owner of the cafe, Kadir Anlayisli, told Reuters Television: "I wasn't sure if it was him but then looked at some pictures and thought, that is definitely him. He spoke French, said"monsieur and wanted to use the internet and said hello
Magnotta is believed to have entered France on May 26, and French police had been investigating thousands of reported sightings.
They alerted German police this morning that he was headed for Berlin on a Eurolines coach, French police source said"He should have known that there are identity checks when you travel by coach, the source said
The 29-year-old has left a bizarre internet trail as an alleged kitten-killer and bisexual porn star.
In a crime scene Montreal police say is the worst they have scen, his apartment included a bloody mattress and pools of blood on the floor and in the refrigerator. The police said a janitor found a torso with no head or limbs in a suitcase in an alley behind the building
Authorities that a decomposing foot mailed to the headquarters ofthe governing depot believe Tuesday and a hand found inside a package at a postal Conservative Ottawa are parts of the same person.
Anlayisli, the cafe owner, said he had read about Magnotta and recognised his face, He then stepped out of the cafe, stopped a ing police van and told them, "I have someone here you might be looking for"
I have a good memory for faces," he said, pointing out to reporters the narrow internet booth ith high imitation-wood divides in the cafe's dark interior where Magnotta sat.