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Prisoner probably ate parts of cellmate
Reuters Life! ^ | January 8, 2007 | Reuters

Posted on 01/09/2007 5:34:20 PM PST by mcg2000

PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters Life!) - A French prisoner who killed his cellmate "very probably" ate some of the victim's body parts, a prosecutor in the northern town of Rouen said on Friday.

The victim's body was discovered in a prison cell on Wednesday, with a large wound to the chest. The alleged killer, who shared the cell, told investigators he had removed and eaten his victim's heart.

Investigators initially discounted the possibility of cannibalism after the victim's heart was "found intact in its usual place and in its membrane which was also intact," Rouen state prosecutor Joseph Schmit said in a statement.

However an autopsy revealed that pieces of muscle from the victim's rib area and part of his lung were missing.

"The absence of these anatomic elements, which have not been found on the scene of the crime, render the confessions of cannibalism by the presumed perpetrator of the crime very probable," Schmit said.

The case comes less than a year after a court in Germany sentenced Armin Meiwes, the cannibal who killed and ate a willing victim, to life in prison.

The alleged Rouen killer and another cellmate who admitted he had not been asleep at the time of the crime, were in temporary custody and would be placed under formal investigation for premeditated murder, Schmit said.

© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserve


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: badprisonfood; cannabalism; cannibalism; paris; prison

1 posted on 01/09/2007 5:34:21 PM PST by mcg2000
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To: mcg2000

vampirism? just drive a wooden stake through the perp, to be sure.


2 posted on 01/09/2007 5:36:29 PM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob

No fava beans?


3 posted on 01/09/2007 5:48:45 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: mcg2000

was he French? probably tasted like chicken.


4 posted on 01/09/2007 5:49:15 PM PST by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: mcg2000

And the French laugh at our cuisine!!!!!


5 posted on 01/09/2007 5:50:46 PM PST by Paddlefish ("Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!")
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To: mcg2000

Well its easy to get confused what with the mess and all ....besides sometimes you feel like a heart and sometimes you dont


6 posted on 01/09/2007 5:51:36 PM PST by woofie
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To: Paddlefish

Oh, and in case you're wondering, Paddlefish isn't that good (unless you're Sofia Milos of CSI:Miami, or Jen Walcott, or Shay Laren, but I digress).


7 posted on 01/09/2007 5:54:32 PM PST by Paddlefish ("Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!")
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To: mcg2000

The prisoner was later determined to have spent his professional life as an IRS agent.


8 posted on 01/09/2007 5:56:33 PM PST by Mad Dawg (horate hoti ex ergon dikaioutai anthropos kai ouk ek pisteos monon; Jas 2:24)
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To: mcg2000

Lung?

You gotta be pretty hungry to eat lung.

Oh. Sorry. Or French. Those French eat some funky stuff.


9 posted on 01/09/2007 7:24:10 PM PST by mad puppy ( 2007 is going to be great)
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To: mad puppy

You want fries with that?


10 posted on 01/10/2007 4:19:49 AM PST by Mad Dawg (horate hoti ex ergon dikaioutai anthropos kai ouk ek pisteos monon; Jas 2:24)
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To: Mad Dawg

This morning I glanced at some health thing one of my kids brought home from school. It contained the now required anti-smoking blurb which include two pictures, one of normal healthy lungs and another of the lungs of what had to have been a long term smoker.

I don't care how hungry I get, I'm not eating the lungs of some one that smoked. They look nasty.


11 posted on 01/10/2007 6:30:18 AM PST by mad puppy ( 2007 is going to be great)
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To: mad puppy
Um checkcing your handle, I'm wondering if we're related.

Yeah, a million yeafrs ago I was a hosptial chaplain and we had a health show and there was a chunk o' smoker's lung. It would at least need a very strong marinade.

12 posted on 01/10/2007 6:39:45 AM PST by Mad Dawg (horate hoti ex ergon dikaioutai anthropos kai ouk ek pisteos monon; Jas 2:24)
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To: mcg2000

Can't tell the difference between a heart and a lung.


13 posted on 01/10/2007 6:45:11 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Mad Dawg
"Um checkcing your handle, I'm wondering if we're related."

My father spent his working career at the same place... the kind of place were he wasn't allowed to discuss the sorts of things he was up to (DoD). After he retired I was looking for looking for a job change and his old place was hiring. I found out what he was doing all those years and quite a bit about his reputation. They referred to him as "Mad Dog" and I needed no explanation as to why. Once they knew I was his kid, well, the name sort of stuck. That was years ago...about the time I signed up to be a Freeper.

I've tried to not be quite so hot-headed, but my kids will tell you I've not fallen far from the tree. My oldest boy occasional refers to me "Mr. Road Rage". Guess I still have some work to do on that.
14 posted on 01/10/2007 7:12:32 AM PST by mad puppy ( 2007 is going to be great)
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To: mcg2000

Parts is parts.


15 posted on 01/10/2007 7:14:16 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: mad puppy
My oldest boy occasional refers to me "Mr. Road Rage". Guess I still have some work to do on that.

LOL! That's GREAT!

I got my name because when I was a sheep farmer one of the ewes came down with rabies that day after we'd drenched the whole flock -- ONE of the three of us had had our hands in her mouth, so all three of us got the shot series, and I go the nickname -- which might have had to do with my sacrificial offer to skip the shots and just go around biting specific people until I died.

16 posted on 01/10/2007 11:05:45 AM PST by Mad Dawg (How many angels can swim the the head of a beer? -- Roger Ramjet, 1967)
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