The court heard that Meiwes was arrested in December 2001 after an Austrian student read some e-mails in which the defendant stated he was looking for a new victim. Armin Meiwes smiles as he attend his retrial on Januat the District Court in Frankfurt, Germany. Far from sating his desires, it spurred him on to find new victims. Armin Meiwes Arrested For The Murder Of Bernd Juergen B In Germany On December 15, 2002-The Home Of Armin Meiwes Suspected Murderer Of Bernd Juergen. The killing marked the turning point for Meiwes, who had fantasised from the age of 12 about killing and eating another human being. A spokesman said the justices and other observers found it “hard going”. The video is four and a half hours long, but was condensed to 90 minutes for the court.
“That final look of recognition in his eyes could be interpreted by the judges as a signal that he did not want to die,” said one legal observer. Mr Brandes mumbles something inaudible as the knife is plunged into him. On the wall is the Cross of St Andrew in wood, various pulleys, ropes and meat hooks. The finale comes in “the butchery” – a cold and sinister room painted in black and red at the top of the house. The video is switched off as Meiwes helps him up the stairs to a first-floor bathroom where, in his own words, he is left for several hours to “bleed out” in the bath while Meiwes watches a Disney film. A half-hearted attempt to consume his own flesh after it is removed from the pan ends in failure as he declares: “It is too tough”. Mr Brandes remains seated upright, but his eyes are glazed over. Then, with his back to the camera, Meiwes is seen by the oven as he starts to cook the penis. Mr Brandes is then bandaged with towels by Meiwes, who attempts to staunch the blood-flow. This is another indication, according to the defence, that Meiwes was no murderer but a man fulfilling both his and his victim’s wishes. Armin Meiwes Arrested For The Murder Of Bernd Juergen B In Germany On December 15, 2002-The Home Of Armin Meiwes Suspected Murderer Of Bernd Juergen. Meiwes is seen cutting off his Mr Brandes’s penis after the victim’s request: “Slice the thing off now”. He seems unsteady on his feet at times, but there is no sign of coercion or restraint.
It opens in Meiwes’s kitchen and shows Mr Brandes undressing before the camera. Officials leaked details of the 90 minutes that were selected to be played before the court. The prosecution hopes it will convince the three judges trying the case that, befuddled by drink and a cocktail of sleeping tablets and cold medicine, Mr Brandes literally sleepwalked to his doom. Meiwes’s lawyer believes it will prove his client’s contention that nothing took place in his remote farmhouse home near the city of Kassel that Mr Brandes didn’t want to happen.
The video is exhibit A in the sensational trial and important to both defence and prosecution. Prosecutors said the victim had fantasized about being eaten, but there was no evidence the suspect actually did so.Ad: Vacation? City Trip? Weekend Break? Book Skip-the-line tickets
Meiwes is currently serving a life sentence.Ī German police officer was convicted of murder in 2015 for killing a man he met in an internet chat forum devoted to cannibalism. In 2006, a German court convicted Armin Meiwes of murder and disturbing the peace for killing and eating a man he had met online. The trial at a Berlin state court, which is expected to last until mid-October, is not the first of its kind in Germany. Police spent weeks looking for the missing mechanic before some bones were found in a forest in northern Berlin and a suspect was tracked down with the help of sniffer dogs. The suspect allegedly chopped up the man's body in his Berlin apartment and then spread parts of it in different neighborhoods of the city, dpa reported. Neither of the men's names was released, for privacy reasons. They said there was no indication the victim agreed to be killed. Prosecutors say the man on trial met his victim, a 43-year-old German mechanic, on an online dating site a few hours before the September slaying, German news agency dpa reported. BERLIN (AP) - A 41-year-old teacher who is accused of having killed another man and eaten pieces of the victim's body went on trial Tuesday in Germany's capital.