Magnotta spotted in Paris

The suspect in the dismembering case that’s shocking people worldwide may have been spotted in a Paris district over the weekend.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, twenty-nine years old, is at the center of a global manhunt for the murder and dismemberment of Jun Lin, an international exchange student at Concordia.

Brigitte Kuster, mayor of the district, told CBC News that Magnotta has been spotted by many people at a hotel and on the terrace of a local café.

Lin was killed sometime between the evening of May 24 and early May 25, because a video that apparently captures some of the act was posted on an online gore site on May 25.

His foot and hand were sent by mail to the federal Liberal and Conservative parties in Ottawa.

His torso was found in a suitcase in a trash pile behind the suspect’s apartment.

Magnotta, a man from Montreal nicknamed “the Butcher of Montreal”, apparently left the city on May 26^th and arrived in Paris on the same day.

Interpol is actively searching for the man and issued a notice about him to a hundred and ninety countries last Thursday.

Evidence was gathered in the French café and hotel where Magnotta has reportedly been spotted.

Pictures posted on Interpol’s wanted-person site on Sunday show a man with dark hair and a black Mickey Mouse shirt believed to be Magnotta passing through security at an airport. 

Police are looking into the alleged sightings but have no additional details.