Posted on 07/09/2004 12:53:05 PM PDT by ChuckShick
Jailed French cannibal kills inmate, eats brain
CHATEAUROUX, France, July 9 (AFP) - A French prisoner serving 30 years for murder and cannibalism was under psychiatric evaluation Friday after killing another detainee and trying to eat his brain, officials and a prison guards' union said.
The 36-year-old inmate, who was not named, had to be overpowered by eight people to stop him gorging on his victim, the head of the Federal Autonomous Pentitentiary Union, Frederic Grandcolas, told AFP.
The attack happened in the prison of Saint-Maur, central France, last Sunday.
The prisoner, jailed in 2000 for his horrific crimes three years earlier, burst out of his cell as dinner was being handed out and attacked guards and convicts serving the meal with an ashtray.
After smashing the skull of one of the convicts, he started eating the brain before being hauled away and taken to a psychiatric institution nearby.
During subsequent questioning by police, he said "he heard voices telling him he was going to be attacked during the meal, but he says he doesn't remember anything of what he did," according to a local state prosecutor, Stephanie Forax.
Grandcolas said he understood that the prisoner would not be put back in the general penitentiary population after the mental evaluation was over.
Several staff at the Saint-Maur jail had to receive counselling after the incident.
© AFP
Uncivilized..brains WITHOUT garlic, or a nice beaujolais..
He just wanted his snails and garlic with some farva beans and a nice chiante.
I thought crimes like this didn't happen in France.
French brain = tastes like chicken
FINALLY A Frenchman who won't easily surrender. Too bad he's a psycho.
Get rid of these vermin.
The other, OTHER white meat.
Ya think?
Jeffrey Dahmer's relative.
If he was eating French brains then he left hungry...
The best part about FR-the comedy! I remember once somebody posted an article about the sun causing global warming. It turned out to be one of the funniest threads I have ever been on. Of course, a thread about a French cannibal writes its own comedy..
That'll teach him. Man, those french sure know how to serve up hard justice.
two heads is better than one.
LOLOL!
Philistine. As all Thomas Harris fans know, you're supposed to saute brains before you eat them.
Hey, he was hungry. You're not being judgmental, are you? You might offend him.
And I thought that they were "cheese eating surrender monkeys" Oh well.
Yes, but what if he just apologizes?
Smashed the guy with an ashtray? Probably just didn't like 2nd hand smoke.
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