"The desire to slaughter a man and eat him up was the paramount motive for his action," Köhler said. The killer sought out his victim and the victim sought out his killer," he said.īut prosecutor Marcus Köhler said this week that Meiwes had been aware that his victim was suffering from a serious personality disorder and was unable to think rationally. "It is unique that we are leveling the severest charge of murder against someone and yet have to admit that the victim, whether disturbed or not, wanted it. Professor Arthur Kreuzer told Reuters news agency that the case was bound to make legal history. The video shows Meiwes slaughtering his victim in a scene straight out of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," complete with meat hooks, a cage and a butcher’s table. Meiwes’ video of the killing, which made for chilling viewing inside the courtroom, has convinced prosecutors that Bernd-Jürgen B.’s death was voluntary. "There’s absolutely no way back for me, only forwards, through your teeth," one read. During the trial Meiwes’ lawyer cited emails in which the victim insisted on being killed and eaten. The case had been complicated by the fact that the victim had explicitly expressed the wish to die. His victim, identified in the case only as Bernd-Jürgen B., volunteered to be killed after answering an Internet ad placed by 42-year-old Meiwes seeking "young men for real slaughter and consumption." The defense lawyer, Harald Ermel had argued on Thursday that his client, known as the "cannibal of Rotenburg", should get off lightly because his victim had been willing to die and be eaten.Įrmel had said that the cannibal could only be prosecuted on a charge of assisted suicide, which would carry a maximum prison term of five years.
State prosecutors, who had been pushing for a life sentence on a charge of murder motivated by sexual urges, failed to make their case. He will spend eight years and six months in prison. Armin Meiwes, accused of killing a 43-year-old computer specialist from Berlin, eating his genitalia, and then freezing the rest of his body to consume in later repasts, was convicted of manslaughter. The trial that has riveted Germany and the rest of the world for the past two months reached its culmination in a Kassel courtroom on Friday.
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