Magnotta all smiles following Berlin arrest BERLIN - Luka Magnotta was all smiles and sporting sunglasses on the police-car ride to jail Monday after his arrest in the body-parts murder of ex-lover Jun Lin.
A police official told QMI Agency that Magnotta was silent except for one request - that police refrain from tipping off photographers who would be pining for a perp shot.
QMI Agency has also learned that it was a police instructor and five recruits who entered the cafe to nab the world's most wanted man.
The instructor, who only gave his name as Lilge, described the first few minutes after the high-profile manhunt ended inside the cafe in south-end Berlin on Monday afternoon.
The Canadian murder suspect was loaded into a police cruiser with tinted windows, but not before he put his sunglasses back on.
Montreal police handout of Luka Rocco Magnotta taken by German police in Berlin after his arrest on June 4, 2012. (Montreal Police Service handout)
Officers said Magnotta smiled all the way to the holding cell at a police station in central Berlin.
"I do not know if he was smiling because he was happy that everything was over," Lilge said. "He didn't say a word all the way to the station."
Lilge said he had been walking down the street with his five students when a cafe owner approached him and said there was an important suspect inside his establishment.
"We had been walking through the streets for three or four hours," the officer said. "The students said it was a boring day. They didn't know they would have the case of their lives."
Lilge said Magnotta initially seemed nervous when they surrounded him at an Internet terminal.
"When I asked him for his name, he said his name was Kurt Trammel," Lilge said. "I asked him to show me his papers and he said didn't have anything. He began to tremble and his voice became nervous.
"He said he had come to Berlin to see a friend."
After a few minutes, Magnotta gave the officer his birth name, Eric Clinton Newman, before finally telling police that he was indeed Luka Rocco Magnotta.
One of the trainees, Sophie, said she was shocked to have taken part in the arrest of the world's most wanted man.
"We didn't believe that something like this could have happened in Berlin, especially during our training," the proud 22-year-old intern said.
Magnotta is sitting in a jail cell awaiting extradition to Canada on charges of first-degree murder.
Pictured are five of the seven officers who arrested Luka Rocco Magnotta in Berlin. (Raphael Gendron-Martin/QMI Agency) Show me the money for Magnotta interviews, says Berlin cafe owner
Kadir Anlayisli poses next to the terminal where he identified murder suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta in an internet cafe in Berlin, June 4, 2012) BERLIN - Internet cafe owner Kadir Anlayisli was hailed as a hero for pointing out Luka Magnotta to police, and now he figures it's time to cash in while he has the chance.
Anlayisli refused to grant an interview to QMI Agency unless he was paid in cash, and he says he's trying to sell his story to the highest bidder.
"It's normal to pay for inside information," he told a QMI journalist outside the cafe where the 29-year-old suspected body-parts killer was arrested on Monday following an international manhunt.
"This guy (Magnotta), this is a big fish. This is normal (that I ask for money). This is my store. Those who do not pay will not have an interview. "
Anlayisli claimed that other journalists had already given him between $225 and $275 for the "real story" about the arrest.
"The more you pay, the longer I'll talk to you. How much do you want to pay? I can make you a receipt," he said.
Anlayisli tried to prove his claim by pulling a few Euros out of his pockets.
When asked how much he had earned for peddling his story, he replied "a lot. This is normal. Everyone pays."
Anlayisli refused to say exactly how much he had made off of Magnotta's coattails.
For anyone who isn't satisfied with a mere interview with Berlin's "hero," Anlayisli says he's prepared to sell the surveillance video footage that showed the arrest.
Never mind that the video has already been uploaded by world media and broadcast wall-to-wall for two straight days.
"The (entire) video lasts 90 minutes," he told QMI. "There is a news agency that bought it from me for $9,000."
When asked who doled out the cash, Anlayisli replied "I don't have the right to say."
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