

"He was very intelligent and I didn't see any sign that he was disturbed." "He told me he had had the desire since he was a child to be slaughtered and eaten," Meiwes said. Pada 2003 Indonesia pernah digemparkan dengan kasus kanibalisme yang. This macabre drama is a reenactment of the true story of Armin Meiwes, who was convicted of killing and eating his voluntary victim, Bernd-Jrgen Brandes.

Perilaku manusia memakan manusia bukanlah hal yang normal dan sangat menyalahi aturan tapi pada kenyataannya kasus ini sudah sering terjadi. Kanibalisme adalah sesuatu yang mengerikan, membayangkannya saja sudah membuat kita mual. The defense is expected to argue that the victim, a 43-year-old computer technician identified only as Bernd Juergen B., from Berlin, agreed to the macabre event. Kisah Armin Meiwes, Si Kanibal dari Jerman. The story was splashed all over the tabloids last year when it broke, and the 42-year-old defendant has spoken to the press, reportedly saying "sorry." "With every piece of flesh I ate I remembered him," Meiwes told the judge. Meiwes then cut up the victim, storing his body in a freezer and eating it over the following months. MEIWES/BRANDES is a daring and raw piece of musical theatre based on the events, court transcripts, and personal correspondence of the infamous. He filmed the entire incident and confessed as well, but said it was not murder. He cut off part of the victim's body before the pair ate it together. Armin Meiwes was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for eating a man (Bernd Juergen Brandes) he met on the Internet. Meiwes admitted to killing the victim and said there was "hundreds, thousands" of people who wanted to eat humans or be eaten. Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal whose case of extreme sado-masochism made worldwide headlines, has had his sentence increased from 8 1/2 years to life imprisonment. The case is the first of its kind in the country.ĭressed in a dark suit, Meiwes - from Rotenburg-an-der-fuld, in central Germany - appeared relaxed as he sat next to his lawyer at the Kassel state court.
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The tape begins with the mutilation of Brandes, and ends with him lying down in what Meiwes called his "slaughter room".BERLIN, Germany (CNN) - A German computer technician accused of killing, dismembering and eating the flesh of a man who agreed to the deal over the Internet has gone on trial for murder.Īrmin Meiwes, whose trial started on Wednesday, is charged with murder as no crime of cannibalism exists in Germany. The packed press and public galleries of court D103 in Kassel, central Germany, were emptied yesterday while 12 people, including the trial judge, three jury members and lawyers, viewed a disturbing video tape showing, with time lapses, the last 10 hours of Brandes's life beginning on March 9th, 2001. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006. "That is taboo, and that is why I have to justify myself to God and the whole world." Meiwes was deemed fit to stand trial and convicted of manslaughter in 2004 but was re-tried for murder a year later. "I regarded the killing as an act of support, as euthanasia, aiding suicide," said Mr Meiwes in testimony on the second day of his trial yesterday. Meiwes claimed many people responded to the advertisement but backed out shortly after - one person who didn’t back out though, was Bernd Brandes. Mr Meiwes was arrested exactly a year ago, but denies the charge of "murder for sexual gratification" and insists Brandes wanted to be killed and eaten. In March 2001, Armin Meiwes (right), posted an advertisement to the online blog, The Cannibal Cafe, with the intention of finding a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and consumed.

Mr Meiwes boasted of the killing in an Internet chat room, after which an Austrian student informed the police. The e-mail was sent months after he had killed Bernd Brandes (43), an electronics engineer from Berlin, and stored 20 kilos of his flesh in a freezer. "I hope I will soon find another victim, the flesh is almost all gone," he wrote in an e-mail to a friend read out in court yesterday. GERMANY: Mr Armin Meiwes, the defendant in a case involving cannibalism, has told his trial that he would have killed and eaten other victims had police not arrested him last year.
