Gore Site Owner Charged for Magnotta Vid

CuriousCanadian · #1 ● 07-17-2013, 04:28 PM

Here's the story from Canada:

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/g...-magnotta-case

slapchoppa · #2 ● 07-17-2013, 06:29 PM

The owner of an Edmonton-based website that hosted a video allegedly showing Luka Magnotta stabbing and dismembering Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese national, has been charged with one count of corrupting morals under the Criminal Code.

Edmonton police said Mark Marek, 38, owner of the Best Gore site, was charged Tuesday night after a "complex" investigation lasting more than a year.

"It is alleged that Marek posted the video online in Edmonton, knowing the video that was sent to him by Luka Magnotta was depicting a real murder," said Staff Sgt. Bill Clark in a news release.

Edmonton homicide detectives began investigating the website and video in June 2012, following the slaying of Lin in Montreal.

Clark told a subsequent news conference that police didn't have the evidence to charge Marek until February 2013. However, he said Marek left for Hong Kong the day after police contacted him that month.

"We lost him again but at that time we notified [the Canada Border Services Agency]," Clark said. Marek was arrested after landing at the Vancouver airport on July 10.

However, police didn't have evidence to charge and detain Marek, so he was allowed to continue to Edmonton. Police there were in contact with him when he returned to the city.

He was brought in for an interview on Monday and has been remanded into custody. More charges may be laid pending further investigation.

Magnotta, 29, is suspected of killing Lin, a Chinese university student in Montreal, filming and broadcasting the alleged act, and mailing body parts to Canadian political parties.

Marek said the video came to him from a contributor on May 25, 2012, and was posted the same day. Marek said at the time he and most of the site's members felt the video was real.

In a letter posted on his website Tuesday, Marek said he had spoken with police and was to meet with them Wednesday. He described himself as a target of oppression who will likely be framed by police.

"It didn't sound like the detective was looking to have me sent to jail yet, but I can't be sure of anything," he wrote.

Marek has defended his website's role in the case, saying it provides a public service by educating the public about the dangerous side of human nature.

Under the Criminal Code, anyone who "makes, prints, publishes, distributes, circulates, or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation any obscene written matter, picture, model, phonograph record or other thing whatever" is guilty of corrupting morals.

Clark said that the charge is rarely laid.

"I've never heard of that charge before. Talking to the Crown, they hadn't heard of that charge, I believe this may be the first time that it's ever been laid in Edmonton."

shin · #3 ● 07-17-2013, 07:28 PM

total horseshit for that to happen to him...also...do we have that vid?

GODREKR · #4 ● 07-17-2013, 07:36 PM

This is so fucking wrong, though the guy seems to suffer from an overactive and paranoid imagination.

Brometheus · #5 ● 07-17-2013, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by shin ↗

total horseshit for that to happen to him...also...do we have that vid?

yes.

**kellyhound** · #6 ● 07-18-2013, 08:08 AM

they're maybe out to close that site but the site was checked before by canadian and U.S law officials and there were no breaking of laws. he actually pulled the vid after 5 days r so when he heard a criminal investigation was going on into luca and the vid.
maybe they want to clear up his role in connection to the poster who came up with the vid. future will tell.