Évanouir: To lose consciousness, to faint or black out.
As seen in: « Mais à la vue de certaines images, Luka Rocco Magnotta, accusé du meurtre sordide d’un étudiant chinois, s’est évanoui en pleine salle d’audience mardi. »
(Translation: “As seen in certain images, Luka Rocco Magnotta, accused of the sordid murder of a Chinese student, fainted in the courtroom Tuesday.”)
http://www.metrofrance.com/info/canada-luka-magnotta-s-evanouit-en-pleine-audience/mmct!Z6daFgWWFNg/
Chevronné: Describes someone with age and experience in a particular domain. Literally means someone with lots of chevrons (as a mark of service) on their coat.
As seen in: « Le dossier Magnotta a été confié à deux procureurs chevronnés de Montréal: Hélène Di Salvo et Louis Bouthillier. »
(Translation: “The Magnotta file was given to two experienced Montreal prosecutors: Hélène Di Salvo and Louis Bouthillier.”)
Comparaître: To appear before a judge, a court or a person of authority.
As seen in: « Luka Rocco Magnotta, accusé d’avoir tué et démembré un étudiant chinois à Montréal fin mai, doit comparaître cet après-midi par vidéoconférence depuis l’endroit où il est détenu, afin d’être inculpé. »
(Translation: “Luka Rocco Magnotta, accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student in Montreal at the end of May, must appear before the court this afternoon by videoconference, from the location he’s being held, in order to be judged.”)
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2012/06/19/001-magnotta-comparution-mardi.shtml
Parquet: Literally a hardwood floor, it is also used to designate the office of the prosecution, or district attorney’s office.
As seen in: « Le dépeceur présumé, Luka Rocco Magnotta, ne s’opposera pas à son extradition vers le Canada, a indiqué mardi 5 juin un porte-parole du parquet berlinois, au lendemain de son arrestation dans la capitale allemande. »
(Translation: “Alleged body-chopper Luka Rocco Magnotta won’t appeal his extradition to Canada, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor indicated Tuesday June 5th, the day after his arrest in the German capital.”)
From: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/03/heading-for-another-summer-of-the-gun
Plenty of recent crimes to keep the Toronto Sun crowd in a tizzy, but let’s not let the facts get in the way of their racist rhetoric…
Anyone who’s paid any attention to the Magnotta case knows that he changed his name to sound gangster and he’s not really Italian. Even a quick perusal of his Wikipedia page will tell you that he, along with Bernardo, Homolka, Williams and Picton, is also homegrown. Carry on now…
Dépecer: To cut up, to chop an animal (or a person) into pieces.
As seen in: « Les policiers français n’ont “aucune certitude” sur la présence en France de Luka Rocco Magnotta, ce Canadien de 29 ans soupçonné d’avoir tué avec un pic à glace et dépecé un homme à Montréal avant de s’enfuir du pays, a indiqué aujourd’hui une source policière. »
(Translation: “French police have no certainty as to the presence in France of Luka Rocco Magnotta, the 29-year-old Canadian suspected to have killed with an ice pick and chopped up a man in Montreal before fleeing the country, a police source indicated today.”)
In the “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick” video by alleged Montreal dismemberer Luka Rocco Magnotta, our gay gorefiend abducts and beheads an Asian man before doing unspeakable things to his corpse. You might not wanna click that link before going to an amusement park, if you know what I mean. The soundtrack to this sordid scene is New Order’s 1987 hit “True Faith,” the same song that’s playing in the background when Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) tells a bartender “I wanna stab you to death, then play around with your blood” in the 2000 Lions Gate film American Psycho. I take it our wanted man has never read the book by Bret Easton Ellis, in which all the hottest clubs are blasting “New Sensation” by INXS and Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth.” I don’t recall New Order being in the book, although I might be mistaken…
In any case, the synthpop song has led La Presse columnist Patrick Lagacé to not only compare Magnotta to Bateman, but to go one step further when he states “Magnotta, c’est Bateman.” Lagacé points out that the two share a disregard for both human and animal suffering (Magnotta allegedly has a thing for cats, Bateman tortures pets in the book, but more famously holds a gun to a cat’s head in the film), along with a taste for the macabre. They’re both obsessed with their appearance (I’ll take his word for it on the former) and they’ve both filmed their exploits. He also points out that Bateman tried to reenact porn scenes with a pair of prostitutes, while Magnotta apparently did gay porn somewhere. For the record, he’s not listed on IMDB…
OK, fair enough, but there’s one big difference. Patrick Bateman’s not gay. There may be some people who think he was gay, or at least in the closet, but they also believe he didn’t kill anybody. I can’t say I subscribe to either of those theories. Bateman may have killed Paul Owen/Allen with an axe to the face, but he did not proceed to sodomize his headless corpse with a wine bottle like the star of “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick” did. I’d also say that Bateman’s image obsession wasn’t a gay thing, but rather a product of yuppie culture; he wanted to fit in with all the other guys in the office, wear the same suits, use the same brand of lotion, etc. From what photos I’ve seen of Magnotta, he definitely seems more effeminate. Let’s just say I can’t picture him in a Giorgio Armani suit with Oliver Peoples glasses.
Which doesn’t mean he wasn’t inspired by the movie, mind you. I’m reminded of one of the deleted scenes, in which Donald Kimball (portrayed expertly by Willem Dafoe, despite the fact that he’s supposed to be Bateman’s age in the book) runs into Bateman in a club–New Order isn’t playing in this one–and blurts out “They wanna confess… I mean, they wanna get caught!” Although slightly out of context in relation to the scene (which was about formal questioning versus informal conversations), it’s clear that by putting the video online and sending severed limbs to political parties, Magnotta wanted to be, if not caught, then at least recognized for what he allegedly did.
I do wonder, however, whether he follows Canadian politics all that closely. I mean, why send a hand to the Liberals, who are now the third party in the House of Commons? Wouldn’t that message be better directed to the Official Opposition? Unless there’s already a package headed their way, that is. The SPVM hasn’t stated that they’re aware of the whereabouts of the dead man’s penis…
Meanwhile, it’s assumed that the culprit is on a Glamorama-like whirlwind tour of Europe, possibly under a false identity. It won’t be long before the authorities seek out Easton Ellis for an informal conversation, methinks.
Montreal’s most notorious gay porn star may still be on the loose, but police in Sherbrooke have picked up another sinister customer who’s been sticking dirty needles inside garments at clothing stores dating back to January. “A 49-year-old man was picked up around noon Thursday at the courthouse in this town two hours east of Montreal,” according to QMI.
The unidentified suspect had terrorized the Eastern Townships by concealing up to 24 blood-filled syringes in clothes at various outlets including Zellers, Hart and Intersport, pricking eight people in the process. No information has been released as to when his preliminary hearing will take place. Let’s just hope that blood doesn’t belong to Luka Rocco Magnotta or any of his victims…
Well, it turns out there’s more to the Conservative foot-mail case than just a buncha one-liners. In a bizarre twist, The Gazette is now reporting that the suspect sought by police in the murder/dismemberment/limb-mailing affair is a gay porn star and male stripper. Luka Rocco Magnotta apparently has “multiple websites depicting him in various photo spreads” and there’s even an interview out there in which he “complains about ‘lies’ linking him romantically or even married to schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka.”
Magnotta is also said to be “a James Dean lover and had cosmetic surgery to look like his idol.” You can sorta see the resemblance in this police handout photo. Of course, this doesn’t explain why he might kill someone and mail their body parts to Ottawa, but he seems like somewhat of a strange fellow nevertheless.
