Luka Rocco Magnotta back in Canada (with video)

MONTREAL - After 10 days on the run in Europe and two weeks in solitary confinement in a Berlin jail, the man suspected of killing and dismembering 33-year-old Lin Jun returned to Montreal Monday evening aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force passenger and cargo jet sent by Ottawa to fly him home.

Luka Rocco Magnotta flew into Mirabel Airport at 7 p.m. escorted by six Montreal police officers. He emerged from the plane shackled and handcuffed wearing a green pullover, dark pants and white running shoes.

As two detectives quickly guided him down the gangway, onto the runway and into a waiting maroon van, he glanced furtively around him. Police armed with machine guns guarded his path.

One of them climbed into the passenger seat of the van and he was then driven to Montreal with his van sandwiched between two police cruisers and two motorcycles, sirens blaring. He was taken to an undisclosed detention centre.

Two investigators will be interrogating him to find out where he hid the head of his victim, the only part of Lin?s body that has still not been found.

Magnotta is scheduled to appear in court in Montreal Tuesday afternoon.

Bail for Magnotta, whose alleged crimes and subsequent flight to France and then Germany sparked an international manhunt and worldwide headlines, is highly unlikely, Quebec?s prosecutor?s office said.

?The law says that when a person is charged with murder, he cannot be released unless he asks a Superior Court judge, because the judge from the Quebec Court has no power to grant him bail,? said Ren? Verret, a spokesperson for Quebec?s Directeur des poursuites criminelles et p?nales. ?And of course you would understand we would object to that.?

Magnotta was removed from Berlin by a Canadian military transport plane Monday morning, Canada?s Minister of Justice and Attorney- General Rob Nicholson and Vic Toews, minster of public safety, confirmed in a joint statement.

?Our government?s co-operation with the international community has led to this individual being swiftly returned to face justice,? they wrote.

?It is important that Canadians can have confidence that those who are accused of serious crimes will face the full force of the law.

?The government of Canada thanks the government of Germany for their swift and decisive action in this matter. Canada values the co-operation of its international partners in the fight against crime.?

Magnotta is charged with killing Lin, a 33-year-old Concordia University student from China, on May 24 or 25. He is also charged with videotaping the murder scene in his apartment and posting it to the Internet, dismembering LIN?s hands and feet and mailing them to the headquarters of the Conservative and Liberal parties in Ottawa and to two Vancouver-area schools, before fleeing for Paris on May 26.

rbruemmer@montrealgazette.com

With files from Sue Montgomery.

? Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

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