Alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta awaits extradition in Berlin
Murder- dismemberment suspect not expected to fight extradition from Germany
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BERLIN — Luka Rocco Magnotta could be back in Canada within a few weeks after indicating to a German judge Tuesday that he will not fight his extradition on five charges, including murder, in the decapitation and dismemberment of a boyfriend who had reportedly spurned him.
“I have no precise information about the direction this case will take and can say nothing definitely, but in my opinion his extradition will probably not be a long experience,” Martin Steltner, chief spokesman for the state prosecutor’s office, said.
Meanwhile, police in Montreal disclosed Tuesday that Magnotta, accused of killing a Chinese national studying in Montreal, may have eaten parts of his victim before sending other parts in the mail to political parties. Montreal police investigators said the right hand, right leg and the head of Jun Lin, 33, are still missing.
Lin’s torso was discovered in a suitcase outside a Montreal apartment building last week, sparking an international manhunt for Magnotta that Montreal police Commander Ian Lafreniere called the biggest in the Montreal force’s history, involving Interpol and the help of 30 investigators from France’s national fugitive search unit, once it was confirmed Magnotta flew to Paris from Montreal.
Magnotta was arrested Monday in an Internet café in Berlin, after apparently taking a bus from Paris.
At a news conference on Tuesday, police said the accusation of cannibalism is based on a video, purportedly for the murder and dismemberment of Lin, that appeared online.
An 18- hour search of the trash behind Magnotta’s apartment that turned up body parts, bloodied clothing and papers bearing Magnotta’s name helped identify the suspect, as did videos from outside the apartment building and the post office from which a foot was mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa, and another body part that was addressed, but not delivered, to the federal Liberal party. DNA evidence released Tuesday confirmed all those body parts found came from Lin.