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A video described by police as “frickin’ horrible” that appeared on a Canadian-operated website and purportedly shows Luka Rocco Magnotta brutally killing and sexually assaulting a Chinese student has been re-posted online despite police efforts to remove it.

The 29-year-old Canadian is wanted in connection with the murder that saw a torso left in a suitcase and a hand and foot mailed to the Ottawa offices of the Liberal and Conservative parties. Police now believe Magnotta fled to Paris on May 26, one or two days after the murder, but could have returned to Canada under a fake identity.

Police are probing the gruesome video — believed to have been taken by Magnotta — and unsuccessfully attempted to have it removed from the Internet.

Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière said the video was taken down from one site Wednesday but “some very deranged people” have made copies and posted it elsewhere. “That scares me a bit about human beings,” he said. “I don’t understand how people could be interested in watching that. This is so frickin’ horrible. It’s not an actor. It’s someone getting killed and mutilated.”