BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin teacher was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the killing of another man that the court said was carried out as part of “cannibalism fantasies.”
The 42-year-old, who has been identified only as Stefan R. in keeping with German privacy rules, also was convicted of disturbing the peace of the dead after a trial that opened in August.
The Berlin state court found that the defendant killed a 43-year-old mechanic in September 2020 “to live out his cannibalism fantasies,” news agency dpa reported.
“What you did was inhuman,“ Presiding Judge Matthias Schertz said.
The men met on a dating portal and agreed to meet for sex at the teacher’s apartment in the German capital, according to investigators.
The court found that the defendant killed his acquaintance there, cut up his body and then spread parts of it in different neighborhoods of the city. It said that the victim had not expected “an attack on his life.”
The defendant had increasingly “developed slaughter and cannibalism ideas” and had been in online cannibalism forums, judge Schertz said. Investigators later found a bone saw and special knives at his apartment. (more...)
German teacher convicted of ‘cannibalism fantasy’ killing
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