Posted on 12/09/2003 2:18:57 PM PST by quidnunc
Berlin – The detective who investigated Germany's infamous cannibal case told a court yesterday that he had stumbled upon a vast cannibal scene in Germany — involving several dentists and other professionals.
Giving evidence in the trial of Armin Meiwes, the 42-year-old computer expert who killed and ate another man, federal investigator Wilfried Fehl yesterday said the gruesome case was not an isolated one.
His officers had discovered a flourishing cannibal scene in Germany, he said, involving middle-class professionals, as well as manual workers. "We are talking about dentists, teachers, cooks, government officials and handymen," he told the court, during the second day of Mr Meiwes' trial for murder.
He added: "These are people who come from the middle reaches of society."
Mr Fehl said that despite their endeavours German detectives had not been yet able to track down any more cannibal victims, following the arrest of Mr Meiwes last December. Mr Meiwes's act was "a thing" that was "practically unimaginable" even for "experienced criminologists" like him, he admitted.
"It leads us to where thinking stops," he said. Earlier, the court heard how on March 10, 2001 the computer expert stabbed, fried and then digested Bernd Brandes, a 43-year-old Berlin engineer he met through the internet. Mr Brandes travelled by train to Mr Meiwes' rambling timbered farmhouse in the German town of Rotenburg after answering an advert requesting "people for slaughter".
Before the killing, he agreed to have his penis cut off — which both men tried to eat.
Yesterday a relaxed, smiling Mr Meiwes said that it was wrong to describe his crime as murder because his victim had agreed to be killed.
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Sounds a litle more "on the fringe" to me.
I just can't imagine reading that in the classified adds.
But notice he didn't say "clowns"--must be because they taste funny.
He was merely guilty of "mercy killing" or "assisted suicide", he said, adding: "I accept this is taboo. But I can justify what I did to God and the world."
Well I suppose it's nice that he believes in God. < /sarcasm >
These are the people the American press calls "centrists."
SO9
• It takes all sorts. But inviting someone to cut off my tackle as a prelude to killing and eating me and then sitting down to a last supper of my own testicles sautéed in butter is not my idea of a night out.Even Chris Bryant’s e-mails don’t go that far. Not quite, anyway.
The German cannibal case doesn’t make comfortable breakfast-table reading.
But I can’t help wondering what they talked about over dinner.
“Ah, Armin, das is gut. I hope you are finding me tasty.” “Ja, danke, mein freund. I’m having a ball.”
(Richard Littlejohn in The Sun, December 5, 2003)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,43-2003561588,00.html
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