A 29-year-old Canadian porn actor accused of videotaping a killing and mailing the victim’s body parts to the country’s top political parties has been arrested in Germany, officials in both countries said.JUERGEN BAETZ and DAVID RISING
BERLIN – A 29-year-old Canadian porn actor accused of videotaping a killing and mailing the victim’s body parts to the country’s top political parties has been arrested in Germany, officials in both countries said.
Luka Rocco Magnotta was apprehended Monday in an Internet cafe in Berlin after a person recognized him and alerted police, Berlin police spokeswoman Kerstin Ziesmer said.
The owner of the cafe, in Berlin’s working-class Neukoelln district, told The Associated Press that Magnotta had come in to read news reports about himself when one of his employees recognized him.
“A colleague recognized him from his photo, because he’d just read the newspaper,” said the owner, who spoke on condition that he not be identified by name.