‘Canadian Psycho’: Porn Star Mail Murderer Arrested in Germany
THE alleged porn-star-turned-killer dubbed the “Canadian Psycho” has been arrested in Berlin.
Berlin police said yesterday they had arrested the internationally wanted murder suspect, a former gay porn star accused of chopping up his lover and filming the attack.
Luka Rocco Magnotta offered little resistance, saying simply: “You got me,” a police spokesman said.
“I can confirm that the person arrested was the wanted Magnotta,” the spokesman said, adding that authorities picked up the 29-year-old in an Internet cafe in Neukoelln, a working-class district of Berlin.
“At 1:30 pm, a witness stopped a police car in the Karl Marx Strasse and said that he had recognised a criminal in an Internet cafe. … Officers then went directly to the cafe,” the spokesman said.
They had little difficulty overpowering and arresting the suspect, he said. “It went very quickly.”
Mr Magnotta will remain in custody until he can be extradited to Canada, he added.
A witness who did not wish to be named said: “The police came. They arrested him and he was very relaxed. An hour later, everything was over.”
Another witness told the online version of Spiegel magazine that Mr Magnotta was reading stories about himself in the cafe.
He was wearing sunglasses and a black hooded sweatshirt, this witness said.
His “French accent” first aroused suspicions among the employees of the cafe, who then recognised him from media pictures.
He was not carrying identification but confirmed his identity to authorities, a police spokesman told Spiegel.