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In a case that captured headlines in Germany and abroad for months, Meiwes told investigators Brandes had begged to be killed and eaten to satisfy an ultimate kick both of them sought. Its detailed verdict was not yet available. The federal tribunal threw out the ruling of a lower court banning the thriller from being shown here. Its title is a variation of Rotenburg, the small west German town where Meiwes lived when he met his volunteer, Bernd Juergen Brandes, who contacted him responding to an online advertisement looking for a slaughter victim.
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Rohtenburg, as the movie was called, was released in the United States in 2006 and advertised as Inspired By the True Story That Shocked A Nation. According to court officials who saw the video (which has not been made. He had tried to block the American movie. Armin Meiwes (English: /rmn mavs/ born 1 December 1961) is a German. The Federal Court of Justice ruled against Armin Meiwes, serving a life term for killing, mutilating and eating the flesh of a lover in his rambling farmhouse in March 2001. KARLSRUHE A US film inspired by the case of a German cannibal who killed and ate a willing victim he met on the Internet can be released in Germany, a court said Tuesday. One newspaper said a woman almost fainted during the film, which shows Meiwes talking to the severed head while he disembowels the body, hung from a hook.Įmotionless and calm, Meiwes recalled how he began the killing by cutting off the victim's penis at the victim's request, how they fried it in a pan and tried but failed to eat it.A picture taken on shows self-confessed German cannibal Armin Meiwes waiting for the beginning of a session of his re-trial in Frankfurt, Germany. Media and observers were kept outside while the tape was shown to the court. Meiwes' video of the killing, in March 2001, persuaded even prosecutors to concede the death was voluntary. One read: "There's absolutely no way back for me, only forwards, through your teeth."
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Meiwes told the court how he met the man via the Internet and arranged a meeting.ĭuring the trial Meiwes' lawyer, Harald Ermel, cited e-mails in which the victim insisted on being killed and eaten. "Society needs to be protected from people like that."Īmong the evidence examined by the court was hours of video footage taken of the events of March 10, 2001.Īs well as gripping the country with the power of its graphic detail, the case has also turned an uncomfortable spotlight on a hitherto unacknowledged world of cannibalism and extreme fetishism. "It's too lenient, he should have got life," local resident Bernd Exner told Reuters. Many Germans were shocked by the sentence - as well as the evidence. In December 2002, Armin Meiwes was arrested. A student saw his ad and contacted the authorities. Industrial-tinged and true crime-inspired electronic duo SKYND, who just performed to huge festival crowds at Download, Rock am Ring, and Rock im Park, have shared the video for the new single Armin Meiwes.
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He later stated (via The Guardian), 'With every bite, my memory of him grew stronger.' When his supply ran low, Meiwes went online to find his next victim. TRUE CRIME DUO SKYND RELEASE ARMIN MEIWES VIDEO WATCH. They wanted him to be convicted of "killing of request," a form of illegal euthanasia carrying a sentence of six months to five years. For the next 10 months, Meiwes cooked and ate Brandes' remains.
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Legal experts said the case could ultimately go to the country's Supreme Court because it had no precedent.ĭefense lawyers said that because the victim volunteered to be killed and eaten the crime deserved to be classified as a mercy killing. Prosecutors wanted a life term, calling the man a "human butcher" who acted to "satisfy a sexual impulse." They said Meiwes should have known his victim was disturbed and said they would appeal, Reuters reported. Meiwes admitted killing and carving up Bernd Juergen Brandes but insisted it was all consensual. The court in Kassel ruled Friday that Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer expert who met his victim on the Internet, had no "base motives" in the crime - sparing him a murder conviction. KASSEL, Germany - German prosecutors say they will appeal against the manslaughter conviction for a self-confessed cannibal who killed and ate a man who had asked to die.