"The suspect and victim knew each other," Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters on Wednesday. "It isn't linked to organised crime."
He said police were closing in on a suspect and released a photograph of Luka Rocco Magnotta, who also uses the pseudonyms Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov. People across Canada have been asked to help locate him.
A man identified as Luka Rocco Magnotta appears on several internet sites, with photos that match those of the man in the police mug shots. The sites make references to Magnotta as the man shown in internet videos allegedly suffocating kittens and feeding one to a python.
Other websites describe Magnotta as a male model and a bisexual actor in adult films.
The packages with the foot and the hand, found on Tuesday in Ottawa, were mailed from Montreal. It was not clear why they were mailed.
Police discovered the severed foot after Jenni Bryne, a top political adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, opened a bloodstained box at Conservative party headquarters on Tuesday.
When Bryne opened the box, a foul odour overcame the office.
"It was such a horrible odour. I'm sure many of us will not forget it," Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said.
Police said the package was addressed to the Conservative Party of Canada and not to a specific person.
Second package
Police confirmed on Wednesday that they intercepted a second package containing a human hand at an Ottawa postal facility late on Tuesday. Police would not say where the package was addressed. Canada Post would not comment on the two discoveries.
Ottawa police said they were consulting with counterparts in Montreal after a janitor there discovered a severed male torso in a suitcase in a heap of garbage behind an apartment building on Tuesday.
Police in masks have been going through the apartment building and zeroed in on a unit from which a rotten stench was drifting out, a building resident said.
In Ottawa, political staffers were keeping a nervous eye on the mail.
"It's very upsetting," Opposition New Democrat member Yvon Godin said. "It could be just one crazy person that did it, but at the same time we have lots of people unhappy in our country, the way the country is going."
Opposition Liberal member Justin Trudeau called the packages horrific.
Source:http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/05/2012530223315368327.html
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