Police in Berlin have arrested the Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover, BBC News reported.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, aged 29, was picked up in a cybercafe in Berlin's Neukoelln district.

An Interpol notice says Mr Magnotta is suspected of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, in Montreal. Body parts were also posted to political parties in Canada.

He faces charges in Canada of murder and threatening Canadian politicians. Before his arrest, French police said Mr Magnotta had flown to Paris from Montreal.

Investigators say a video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Jun Lin's murder.

Montreal police announced Mr Magnotta was their suspect in the dismemberment case shortly after a headless torso was found near his flat.

Authorities believe the foot and hand sent through the post also belonged to Jun Lin.

The foot was sent to the HQ of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party in Ottawa on 29 May. The hand was found later that day in a parcel addressed to the office of the Liberal Party in Canada's capital.

Mr Magnotta left Montreal on an international flight on 26 May.

The crime scene inside his flat was reported to be among the worst city police had ever seen, including a bloody mattress and pools of blood on the floor and in the refrigerator.