Luka Magnotta is suspected of killing Jun Lin, who was studying computer science at Concordia University, and sending his feet and hands to Canada's top political parties and two schools. The head is still missing. Police said they would ask Magnotta where it is.
Investigators say Magnotta, 29, also posted a video online showing him having sex with the dismembered corpse. A second, unedited version of the video seen by police shows him eating parts of the body.
Marie-Elaine Ladouceur of Montreal police said Magnotta was expected to appear before a judge via videoconference from a detention center Tuesday afternoon. Rene Verret of Quebec's prosecutors' office said Magnotta's lawyer is still not known.
Ladouceur said Magnotta will be formally arraigned on charges that will include first-degree murder, defiling a corpse, threatening the prime minister and using the mail system for delivering "obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous" material.
A convoy of police vehicles with flashing lights rolled out to meet Magnotta at Mirabel airport just outside Montreal on Monday. Half a dozen men escorted him down the stairs of the military plane and into a minivan. Armed guards stood by. A handcuffed Magnotta said nothing.
Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere called the Canadian military flight an extraordinary measure but said there was no way they were going to bring him back on a commercial flight.
"This is not the end of the investigation. We're missing an important part of the investigation, which is the head of the body," Lafreniere said. He added that he was hoping Magnotta would reveal where the head is, for the sake of the victim's family.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Tuesday that China was monitoring developments and hoped that there would be justice to give "the victim a result that can have him rest in peace."
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