Kajetan Poznanski, the 27-year-old Polish librarian wanted in his country for the gruesome murder of his teacher, was extradited from Malta this morning under tight security.

Poznanski came to Malta earlier this month and had been staying in a Valletta hotel, reportedly as he prepared to flee for North Africa.

He was flown out this morning on a Polish military aircraft.

Poznanski is wanted for questioning over the beheading of his teacher of Italian with a Samurai sword. 

His alleged victim was a 30-year-old translator, a graduate of applied linguistics at the University of Warsaw, and a frequent visitor to Italy. She gave lessons in a rented flat in Warsaw’s Wola district.

Her disappearance was reported by her roommate and the grisly crime committed on February 3.

On that day, firefighters were called to control a blaze in an apartment at the Zoliborz district of Warsaw that was rented by Mr Poznanski. The firefighters found the charred headless body of the young woman in a bag. Her head was later found in a backpack in the apartment.

Preliminary findings indicated that the woman had been murdered in her apartment in Wola, where traces of blood were found and where Mr Poznanski may have been taking Italian lessons.

From there, her body was transported to Zoliborz, allegedly in a taxi.
 
Two days after the discovery of the corpse, the public prosecutor pressed charges against Mr Poznanski and a court ordered his provisional arrest for 14 days, leading to the issue of the European Arrest Warrant.
 
According to the international media, he had no previous criminal record while acquaintances described him as a private and intelligent person, with a passion for ancient poetry, growing more introvert after graduating.

He was also fond of the character of Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal killer of the famous film The Silence of the Lambs and he reportedly penned Feast of Hannibal Lecter, a poem in Latin about love and murder.