A 41-year-old teacher was accused of killing another man and eating fragments of the victim’s body. GermanyCapital.
According to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the prosecutor said that the man under trial met his victim, a 43-year-old mechanic, on an online dating site a few hours before his death in September. They said there was no sign that the victim agreed to be killed.
For privacy reasons, the names of the two have not been published.
According to the DPA report, the suspect allegedly chopped up the man’s body in his Berlin apartment and then scattered parts of the body in different neighborhoods of the city.
The police spent several weeks searching for the missing mechanic, then found some bones in a forest in northern Berlin, and found a suspect with the help of search dogs.
The trial in the Berlin State Court is expected to last until mid-October, which is not the first case in the Berlin State Court. Germany.
In 2006, a German court ruled that Armin Meiwes murdered and disrupted law and order because he killed and ate a man he knew online. Meiwes is serving a life sentence.
A German police officer was convicted of murder in 2015 Kill a person he met on an online chat forum devoted to cannibalismThe prosecutor said that the victim had fantasized about being eaten, but there is no evidence that the suspect did so.
