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Cannibal case shocks Germany
ROTENBURG-AN-DER-FULD, Germany -- German police are watching home videos made by a man who apparently killed and ate a man after advertising for a willing victim on the Internet. Prosecutors say the 41-year-old suspect, who has confessed to the crime, is not being treated as insane. The accused cut off part of the victim's body by mutual agreement because they wanted to eat it together, police said in a statement. The suspect then killed the man -- a 42-year-old from Berlin -- with deep cuts to the neck and chopped the body into pieces that he froze and later ate, prosecutors said. Prosecutors have named neither the victim nor suspect. Both men were computer technicians, German newspapers said. Police believe the killing happened in March last year. Police arrested the man, who lives in Rotenburg-an-der-Fulda, near Kassel, in the German state of Hesse, after he posted an Internet ad seeking another male volunteer to satisfy his appetites. Kassel prosecutor Hans-Manfred Jung told Reuters news agency the man was in custody and was regarded as capable of standing trial. "The deed appears to stem from cannibalistic and homosexual tendencies shared by both men," police said in a statement. Officers were searching the suspect's home -- an 18th century manor house -- on Friday, and said they had found frozen human flesh and bones as well as video recordings of the crime.
Neighbours said they found the story difficult to comprehend. One said: "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, to drink a glass of beer with him, just like you and me." CNN's Stephanie Halasz said the case, which had shocked the country, was dominating the tabloid press. Some newspapers had talked to psychologists in an attempt to try to understand the crime, she said. Bild newspaper described the crime as the most bizarre crime of modern German criminal history. "A man was led to the butcher's block, and eaten," it said. It is Germany's second headline-grabbing murder case this year after a young couple was jailed in January for killing a friend and stabbing him 66 times in a Satanic ritual. (Full story) Reuters contributed to this report.
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A man was led to the butcher's block, and eaten
