Man, who killed a student and mailed his body parts to government office, arrested in Berlin !

Berlin police arrested a 29-year-old man who “most likely” is Luka Rocco Magnotta, a Canadian accused of killing a Montreal student and mailing his body parts to political party offices.

“All points in the direction that this is actually the man,” Martin Steltner, a spokesman for prosecutors in the German capital said today in an interview. “Once we have ascertained that, we will release more information.”

The arrest comes five days after Canada’s police sent out a nationwide warrant for Magnotta, who is also known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, after severed body parts were mailed to Canada’s governing Conservative Party headquarters. Interpol had since listed him as a wanted person.

A foot was found at the Conservative Party’s office a few blocks from Parliament on May 29; a hand was found by the postal service in Ottawa, and a torso was found near an apartment building in Montreal, according to Montreal police department spokesman Ian Lafreniere.

The victim of the killing was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student studying in Montreal, the CBC reported June 1, citing Montreal police. Montreal police believe Magnotta killed Lin and videotaped a sequence of repeated stabbing and dismemberment before mailing the body parts, CBC reported.

German authorities are still checking “last questions” about his identity and will release more details tomorrow, Steltner said. Canadian Press reported that police stopped Magnotta after someone recognized him outside an Internet cafĂ© in Berlin.
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