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Dublin: 10 °C Wednesday 19 June, 2013

‘Canadian psycho’ suspect appears in person in court

Luka Rocco Magnotta allegedly killed and dismembered Chinese student Lin Jun. He was extradited from Germany after an international man hunt.

Luka Rocco Magnotta is taken by police from a Canadian military plane to a waiting van in Quebec on Monday
Luka Rocco Magnotta is taken by police from a Canadian military plane to a waiting van in Quebec on Monday
Image: AP Photo/Montreal Police

A SUSPECT ACCUSED in the notorious slaying and dismembering of a Chinese student in Montreal has appeared in person at a downtown courtroom in the city.

Luka Rocco Magnotta was present at the Montreal court for the first time since his high-profile extradition on Monday from Germany, where he was arrested after an international manhunt.

On Tuesday, Magnotta pleaded not guilty to killing Chinese student Lin Jun, in an appearance via a video link from a detention centre where he had been held.

Authorities had said they did not want the suspect to appear in person at the courthouse for safety reasons.

Earlier this month packages containing a human foot and hand were sent to two schools in Vancouver, which were suspected to be the missing body parts of Lin Jun, whose hand and foot had been mailed a week earlier to Canada’s top political parties.

- © AFP, 2012

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  • What’s a Pyscho? The Journal is getting a bit like Ireland’s Own for spelling errors!

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  • Canadian Psycho?. Sensationalist journalism! . Come on Journal, you’re better than that. Just to be clear, the term is psychopath, and the vast majority of these people go unnoticed within the general population. Very few psychopaths are noticeably violent. Even fewer, go on psychotic rampages that result in these types of utter carnage. Most of them lead quite ordinary lives that go under the radar of practically everybody around them. Still, they are real and constitute the greatest threat to humanity that could ever be envisioned. The current scientific description of them is, that they are an intra species predator. That is, a species within a species, designed to predate upon the original species. As we speak, they are going unnoticed within all facets of working life. Whether that means they exist within politics, the financial markets, religious organisations, does not really matter. What does matter, is the fact that this pandemic has not been flagged as such. Why has the general public not been informed that a minority of human beings are psychopathic?. The hallmarks of this condition being a total lack of empathy, an inability to feel or show remorse, a lack of compassion, a sense of entitlement, a glib and superficial persona. Essentially, they will go to wherever the easy money, easy respect and easy status is. People talk about the elephant in the room, as an analogy regarding what issues are being discussed, compared with those that really should be discussed. To me, the mammoth in the room, is the non discussion of our scientifically proven knowledge of the existence of psychopaths within our midst, and yet, all we hear is silence.

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    • Well said. You might find this interview with Thomas Sheridan, author of the book ‘Puzzling People’, of interest…nhttp://alchemyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2012-06-12T07_11_34-07_00

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  • Emer. Since this article is copyrighted to AFP, how do you figure as the author? Just curious as to how it all works in Journal-ism? Tx

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    • Hi Patrice, thanks for the question, I’m not the author of the piece, I just put it together for the site. You have reminded me to remove myself as the author, which is done manually. I had forgotten. So thank you :)

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