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Police believe the video depicts the actual killing, dismemberment and cannibalism of Mr. Lin, 33, a student from Wuhan, China who was studying computer science at Concordia University.

A police spokesman has described the content as so disgusting that seasoned detectives forced to watch it as part of their investigation were left shaken.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was arrested last week in Berlin and is facing murder charges in connection with the killing. He is awaiting extradition from Germany.

In a statement Wednesday, the Commission Scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the school board responsible for the school, said it and the school’s administration “condemn with a single voice the action of a teacher who showed his students a video with content as inappropriate as it is offensive.”

The teacher, described as being about 25-years-old, was suspended with salary as soon as the administration learned of the screening. The school immediately made a team of psychologists and counselors available to students traumatized by what they had seen.

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That same day, the board said, the teacher apologized to the school through an email. A decision on final disciplinary action will be made following Wednesday’s hearing with the labour-relations officials from the school board.

Students interviewed Wednesday by Radio-Canada said they felt badly for the teacher, because they had chosen by vote to watch the video. “We are all curious, and we all want to know what really happened,” one girl told the network. “But in the end I’m not sure it was really relevant. In the beginning we all wanted to know how it happened, but when I think about it, maybe it was not the right action to take.”