A Berlin trainer was convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in jail on Friday for the killing of one other man that the court docket stated was carried out as a part of “cannibalism fantasies.”
The 42-year-old, who has been recognized solely as Stefan R in line with German privateness guidelines, additionally was convicted of disturbing the peace of the lifeless after a trial that opened in August.
The Berlin state court docket discovered that the defendant killed a 43-year-old mechanic in September 2020 “to live out his cannibalism fantasies,” information company dpa reported.
“What you did was inhuman,” Presiding Judge Matthias Schertz stated.
The males met on a relationship portal and agreed to satisfy for intercourse on the trainer’s condo within the German capital, based on investigators.
The court docket discovered that the defendant killed his acquaintance there, reduce up his physique after which unfold elements of it in several neighborhoods of town. It stated that the sufferer had not anticipated “an attack on his life.”
The defendant had more and more “developed slaughter and cannibalism ideas” and had been in on-line cannibalism boards, decide Schertz stated. Investigators later discovered a bone noticed and particular knives at his condo.
Prosecutors stated that he reduce off the sufferer’s genitals with the intention of consuming them, and judges agreed, dpa reported. It couldn’t be established whether or not he truly carried out that intention.
Police spent weeks in search of the lacking mechanic earlier than walkers discovered bones in a Berlin forest.
The court docket discovered that the defendant bears “particularly grave” duty, which means that he gained’t be entitled to the automated parole after 15 years that’s customary in Germany.
He disputed the costs, saying that he had discovered his acquaintance lifeless on a sofa after he spent the night time and hadn’t referred to as police or an ambulance “because it would have come out that I am homosexual.” The protection had sought his acquittal.
The case isn’t the primary in Germany involving alleged cannibalism, or fantasies involving it.
In 2006, a German court docket convicted Armin Meiwes of homicide and disturbing the peace of the lifeless for killing and consuming a person he had met on-line. Meiwes is at present serving a life sentence.
A German police officer was convicted of homicide in 2015 for killing a person he met in an web chat discussion board dedicated to cannibalism. Prosecutors stated the sufferer had fantasized about being eaten, however there was no proof the suspect truly did so.
