Surveillance image shows who authorities believe is Luka Rocco Magnotta in France. (AP Photo/Interpol)
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the suspect in a gruesome murder and the focus of an international manhunt, has been arrested in Germany.
German police Chief-Supt. Stefan Riedlich told CBC News that authorities apprehended Magnotta in an Internet café around 2 p.m. local time."As far as I know he was arrested alone, and there was no struggle," Riedlich shares.
Kadir Anlayisli, an employee at the Internet café, had spotted Magnotta at one of the terminals before calling the police, according to the Toronto Star.
Anlayisli, 42, shared with a Turkish-language newspaper that he had recognized the man as the subject of a global manhunt.
Magnotta, he says, had requested help with signing on to the computer and was reportedly interested in stories about himself.
Police confronted the suspect a short while later, asking the man if he was indeed Luka Rocco Magnotta. The fugitive simply answered "yes."
Magnotta is currently being held at a prison in Berlin. He is expected to be brought in front of a judge as early as Tuesday.
The man dubbed the "Butcher of Montreal" was spotted in France on the weekend. Surveillance images caught who authorities believed was Magnotta at Roissy airport in Paris. He was then spotted in a hotel and a local café.
Magnotta is wanted in Canada on charges of first-degree murder and threatening Canadian politicians. He is suspected in the gruesome murder and dismemberment of 33-year-old Chinese student Lin Jun. The story gained national attention last week when part's of Lin's remains had been delivered to the federal Conservative and Liberal parties in Ottawa.
"Montreal police said Magnotta left the city on an international flight on May 26," according to a CBC report. "According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, Magnotta arrived in France at Paris's Roissy airport the same day."
Stay tuned for the latest updates.
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