MONTREAL (CNN) – A Montreal teacher has been suspended for showing his 10th grade students the killing and dismemberment video allegedly filmed by Canadian gay porn actor Luka Magnotta, the school board said last week.
The class viewing allegedly took place on the morning of June 4; the same day German authorities captured Magnotta in a Berlin Internet café. Jun Lin, a 33-year-old student at Montreal’s Concordia University, was killed in late May in one of the city’s grisliest crimes in years.
Police say they believe Magnotta killed and dismembered Lin and posted a 10-minute video of the slaying online. Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said the video shows Magnotta engaged in sexual acts involving body parts and included evidence of cannibalism.
One of the vice principals at Cavelier-De LaSalle High School in Montreal overheard two students speaking between classes shortly after the incident, school board representative Jean-Michel Nahas said. The vice principal spoke to several students and decided during lunch to immediately suspend the teacher and launch an investigation.
The teacher is suspended with pay pending completion of the board’s investigation.
