“He is a Chinese citizen who studied at a university here in Montreal and
was here for a certain time,” he said. “Thanks to the Chinese
embassy, we have been able to reach the family with the sad news of what
happened.”
A spokesman for Concordia University said Lin was registered as an
undergraduate in the department of engineering and computer science.
The case began on Tuesday, when a package containing a severed foot was opened
at the ruling Conservative Party headquarters. A hand was discovered at a
postal facility, addressed to the Liberal party of Canada.
A torso was found in a suitcase on a garbage dump in Montreal, outside
Magnotta’s apartment building.
Montreal police have said they believe Magnotta, 29, fled for France based on
evidence they found at his apartment and a blog he once wrote about how to
disappear.
“What will hinder him the most is what he used to glorify himself, the
web, with all the photos we have of him,” Lafreniere said. But he
warned that Magnotta is “someone who can disguise himself, he can
change into a woman, wear a wig.”
France’s fugitive search unit has been ordered to hunt for Magnotta, the
French officials said.
Cmdr Lafreniere said Magnotta could be anywhere in Europe, and “there’s
even been talk he might have returned to Canada under another identity.”
Police suspect Magnotta filmed the murder. The video, posted online, shows a
man stabbing another man with an ice pick while the victim lies naked and
tied up. The first man later reveals he has slashed the other man’s throat.
He also dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it.
“We have quite convincing proof of the crime he committed,” Cmdr
Lafreniere said Friday, referring to the video that police have been trying
to get removed from the internet. He said veteran officers said it was most
the horrific scene they had ever seen on video.
“It’s not a movie, it’s not something that was made up, it’s a real human
getting decapitated in front of the camera,” he said.
Other body parts remain missing.
Police said Magnotta is also known by the names Eric Clinton Newman and
Vladimir Romanov, and they described him as white and 5ft 8 with blue eyes
and black hair. A police official said he was a porn actor.
Derek MacKinnon, a former resident of the building where Magnotta lived, said
he was the only person Magnotta would speak to in the building. MacKinnon
identified himself as an actor who played a serial killer in the 1980 horror
film “Terror Train.”
“I was a killer who killed 11 people in this film, so he was rather
interested in my career versus his,” MacKinnon said. “It was like
a quick conversation, not like anything big. And knowing that we were both
gay, I think that’s probably where he had the connection with me because he
was extremely cold, stand-offish, wouldn’t talk to anybody, but he would
stop for a sec to say something to me, and I think that he felt there was a
kindred spirit or something between the two of us.”
He said Magnotta “was always well groomed” until the last time
MacKinnon saw him, on May 25. He said Magnotta was having “a bad hair
day.”
Source: AP
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