Man held for German 'cannibal killing' (hold muh bratwurst alert)

BBC News ^ | December 12 2002

[knighthawk]

A man has confessed to murdering and eating another man who allegedly volunteered to be killed, in a case that has shocked Germany.

The 41-year-old - who was remanded in custody on Wednesday - videotaped the murder, prosecutors said.

The victim, also in his 40s, was chopped into pieces at the killer's home in the central German town of Rotenburg, near Kassel.

Prosecutors in Kassel said the accused and the victim were apparently homosexuals who shared cannibalistic tendencies.

The German daily Bild reports that the victim, from Berlin, had seen an advertisement on the internet which said: "Seeking young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter."

The victim, a computer engineer, then sold all his possessions including a car before disappearing, the paper reports.

The state prosecutor's office in Kassel said the man died from deep cuts to the neck. The killer then chopped up the body and kept the parts in his fridge.

Police believe the murder occurred in spring 2000.

They found deep-frozen human flesh, skeleton parts and video recordings at the scene.

Neighbour Joerg Paulusen, speaking to Reuters TV, said of the killer: "It was sort of clear to us that he had a different perspective on life than we did, but he was a normal person, to speak to him, drink a glass of beer with him - just like you and me."

The last alleged case of cannibalism in Germany was when a 33-year-old man on trial for robbery and murder in March 1995 claimed to have eaten his victim's innards, although his claim was never proven, the AFP news agency reports.

[knighthawk]

He placed the ad, and actualy 5 people (including one undercover police officer) wanted to be killed and eaten by this guy!

[knighthawk]

Europe-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Argus]

Gives new meaning to that old German dish, Kasseler ripchen.

[madprof98]

"It was sort of clear to us that he had a different perspective on life than we did, but he was a normal person, to speak to him, drink a glass of beer with him - just like you and me."

The same as us, yet somehow different: the wonders of diversity!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Were any of them capitulating Frenchmen?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I wonder if Beavis and Butthead would be stupid enough to go? Naw... not even they would. Europe, the land of sophistication.

[knighthawk]

I doubt it. French hate German cuisine and certainly don't want to be a part of German cooking!

[APBaer]

"hold muh bratwurst," gee that's a funny word for *it*.

[Fintan]

I figure two days before the video is available here...

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Too bad Blix didn't see the ad. He would want to investigate further. [Pink Panther music.]

[LeftyStomper]

Ich bin ein Hamburger!

[yooper]

The stuff that goes into sausage nowadays - yuck.

[knighthawk]

LOL!

[dasboot]

Consenting adults.....freedom of choice: so many troubling considerations; so much grey to ponder. /sarc

Death, spiritual and physical: logical conclusion to the slippery-slope of hedonism?

[yooper]

Sign seen in German Deli: "Today's Special - Poofwurst, $3.99/ pound"

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

How would an insurance company handle the cannibal/victim relationship? Should that be considered a marriage?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Like they say, there's someone out there for everyone. And people said that internet romance would never take off!

[Tacis]

I'm sorry, but it is not appropriate to post freaky stuff about fairies. If you can't talk positively about fairydom, you are not supposed to say anything at all.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Romans 1 has never been more needed to describe what is occurring here:

[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
[24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
[28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

[dasboot]

Yep...that's what I was thinking.