Life imprisonment for teachers in the cannibalism process

Created: 01/07/2022Updated: 01/07/2022, 5:17 PM

The defendant (l) is sitting in a courtroom in Berlin at the start of the trial in August 2021.

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When strollers find bones, it quickly becomes clear that they are human remains.

The dimension only gradually becomes clear.

Now the verdict has been passed in the cannibalism process.

Berlin - The Berlin district court has sentenced a 42-year-old to life imprisonment for murder.

The judges saw it as proven on Friday that the teacher killed a 43-year-old mechanic in September 2020 "to live out his cannibalism fantasies".

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The defendant had denied the act in the process.

The case made headlines nationwide.

The defendant and the fitter in the overhead line construction are said to have met only hours before the crime through a dating portal.

Spontaneously after the investigation there was a sex date in the teacher's apartment.

After that there was no trace of the teacher.

Weeks later, pieces of bone were found.

Later it becomes clear: These are the mortal remains of the fitter.

The investigators collect it bit by bit - up to the disturbing suspicion that it could be a case of cannibalism.

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