On March 9, the two met at Armin Meiwes home, in the small town of Rotenburg. Brandes began his evening by swallowing twenty sleeping pills, and half a bottle of schnapps. He then laid down in Meiwes bathtub, while Meiwes set up a video camera to showcase the event. Dec 08, 2003 Posted on 12/8/2003, 4:40:22 PM by saquin. (A sickened court sees on film the last agonies of an apparently willing victim) GERMANY’S cannibal trial took on the air of a grim seance yesterday as the judges drew the courtroom blinds and watched a chilling home video of Armin Meiwes, the self-confessed man-eater, mutilating and killing his. Early the next morning, Armin stabbed Bernd in the neck, killing him. He chopped up Bernd’s body and stored it in the freezer. He buried the skull. Between March and December, Armin ate approximately 44 pounds of Bernd. In December, someone called the police and directed them to the ad that Armin had posted. A home video made by Meiwes, 42, detailed the sickening events that followed on March 10, 2001. The cannibal chopped at the organ, but failed to sever it. Writhing in pain, Brandes, 43, demanded.
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Cannibal's video reveals mutilation and slaughter (Warning:Graphic text)The Times (UK) ^ | 12/09/03 | Roger Boyes
Posted on 12/08/2003 4:40:22 PM PST by saquin
(A sickened court sees on film the last agonies of an apparently willing victim)
GERMANY’S cannibal trial took on the air of a grim seance yesterday as the judges drew the courtroom blinds and watched a chilling home video of Armin Meiwes, the self-confessed man-eater, mutilating and killing his victim in preparation for a macabre feast.
“It wasn’t murder; it was a mercy killing,” an increasingly flustered Herr Meiwes told the court before the showing of the film. “I didn’t want to kill anybody or cause pain.”
Nonetheless, it took Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, the slaughtered computer software specialist, ten hours to die from the moment that his penis was severed with a butcher’s knife. The key episodes in this grisly crime were filmed by Herr Meiwes and 19 minutes of it were viewed in the court in Kassel yesterday: a grotesque spectacle that left the lawyers present speechless and green at the gills. A lay judge looked particularly unsteady as she left the darkened courtroom.
Journalists and the general public were barred from watching the film, but a court source gave a detailed account.
The cannibal and his victim are seen first in the kitchen; the conservation is mumbled, but is audible enough to confirm Herr Meiwes’s version of the bloody night in March 2001.
The film rolls: Herr Brandes urges Herr Meiwes to slice off the organ. The knife is too blunt. The camera is switched off until Herr Meiwes returns with a sharper instrument; the victim seems to be saying: “Get rid of it.”
Native instruments komplete 12 ultimate full crack mac download. For the defence, the scene is important, bolstering the argument of Herr Meiwes that Herr Brandes was a willing victim. Herr Meiwes emphasised yesterday that he had no interest — nor sexual pleasure — in killing his victim; he merely wanted to eat him.
“This was not a sexual thing — you have sex with a partner in bed, not with a piece of meat,” Herr Meiwes said.
On film, the camera shows him cooking the amputated organ; the victim, clutching his bandaged wound, seems to be watching passively.
The second sequence of the film was, if anything, more stomach-churning. After the amputation, Herr Brandes lies in a warm bath to drain himself of blood. Some hours pass, Herr Meiwes switches off the camera and reads a Star Trek adventure. Ithoughtsx 4 10 download free. By the time that the film resumes, Herr Meiwes is dressed in blue pyjamas. Underneath a butcher’s apron he wears the kind of heavy-duty rubber boots used in slaughterhouses. The room shown on camera is a chamber in the attic that once served as a place to smoke meat and sausages. Hooks hang from the ceiling. Herr Brandes is seen on the main table.
On one wall there is a cross of St Andrew and in the corner a wooden cage, both used by Herr Meiwes in earlier sado-masochistic games. A knife and a coiled rope are on a picnic table. The filmed movements are almost wordless, spectral.
In earlier testimony last week Herr Meiwes said that he was at first sure that his victim had already died or was very close to death after he had carried him upstairs and dumped him on the attic table.
The film shows him feeling the man’s pulse. Atom text editor for linux. “If you look at the video closely,” said a police superintendent testifying in court yesterday, “you can see Herr Brandes move his head. He is clearly still alive.” The victim can even be seen muttering some words that, according to the court transcript, are: “Put me out of my misery.”
Herr Meiwes is seen taking the knife from the picnic table and clumsily stabbing his victim’s throat. “I don’t remember Bernd’s words. I have a complete blackout about that moment,” the accused said.
The film is unclear, but it seems to support Herr Meiwes’s contention that he kissed his victim and said a prayer for him before stabbing him.
Fortunately, perhaps, for the queasy lawyers, the next segment of film has not yet been shown. This depicts Herr Meiwes decapitating the corpse. According to his own testimony, he talked to the head while cutting up the body.
Police testified yesterday that, in a search of the house, they had found little cocktail flags — the kind used to stick in cheese samples in supermarket promotions — marked with the names of body parts. These had been used in role-playing games with other men, who merely wanted to be threatened with cannibalism rather than undergo the real thing. These games acted as rehearsals for Herr Meiwes’s dissection of Herr Brandes.
A detective said yesterday that she had discovered a double bottom in the deep freeze and chunks of carefully marked meat that turned out to be body parts. When the policewoman opened the freezer, Herr Meiwes — who until then had been a courteous host — left the house and sought out a lawyer.
A central pillar of Herr Meiwes’s defence is that he is a one-off cannibal. He was searching for a substitute brother who he wanted inside him; this, he said, was so effective that he even found himself speaking better English after eating parts of Herr Brandes’s body, reflecting the superior language skills of his victim. There was, in short, no need to carry on eating people; one was enough.
Yet testimony in court yesterday showed that Herr Meiwes was still on the hunt for new victims after Herr Brandes’s death shortly before Easter 2001. By December 2002, the time of the police raid, Herr Meiwes had eaten almost all of the 20kg (44lb) of his deep-frozen victim.
An expert on cannibalism, the writer Jacques Buval, is sure that the single-victim defence is untenable. “Cannibalism is a serial crime,” he told The Times, “If they let him free, he’ll do it again.”
If Herr Meiwes, a 42-year-old former soldier, succeeds in persuading the court that he was just the instrument of Herr Brandes’s death wish, he faces a maximum of five years in jail. Marcus Kohler, the prosecutor, is likely to demand a life sentence.
Herr Kohler is trying to establish that Herr Meiwes is guilty of murder driven by sexual urges. His questions yesterday centred on whether Herr Meiwes derived sexual pleasure from watching the video, as the prosecution alleges, but which Herr Meiwes denies.
Herr Meiwes described his need to eat human flesh yesterday as a temporary, frenzied compulsion: “It was like a roundabout that span and span, quicker and quicker, so you couldn’t get off.”
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Yikes. That's one jury I think I'd have to beg off of. I've read other articles about this story, but the description of the video is just.. damn. What a pair of freaks, both the cannibaliser and cannabalisee.
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Gives a whole new level of unwanted meaning to the time-worn schoolyard taunt: 'Oh, yeah? Well..eat me!' :)
2posted on 12/08/2003 4:47:49 PM PSTby KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle('The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison.' -- Peggy Noonan)
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“It wasn’t murder; it was a mercy killing,” an increasingly flustered Herr Meiwes told the court before the showing of the film. “I didn’t want to kill anybody or cause pain.”
Oh, he's flustered? Good almighty God. This is insane, and I hope everyone who had to watch that video receives counseling.
3posted on 12/08/2003 4:54:23 PM PSTby TheSpottedOwl(I'd rather have dead rats in my walls, than Hillary for President.,)
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I love how the Euros are always whining about us vulgar Americans. They'll probably blame this wiener-fest on 'Baywatch'.
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Wondered if the video would confirm what this monster told the authorities. Guess it does. This is not human. This is just pure evil.
5posted on 12/08/2003 5:01:51 PM PSTby ladyinred(The Left have blood on their hands!)
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Just take him outside and shoot him.
Oops. I forgot, he's in Europe. No capital punishment allowed. Oh well, I hope he doesn't do it again when they release him in a couple of years.
6posted on 12/08/2003 5:03:23 PM PSTby Bubba_Leroy
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Good thing the guy he ate wasn't Chinese.
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Tastes like chicken, anyways.
8posted on 12/08/2003 5:15:54 PM PSTby ThreeYearLurker
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Why oh why did I read this? I knew better. Yuck.
Makes you wonder when you are out in public, how close are you to sick people like this?
9posted on 12/08/2003 5:19:44 PM PSTby Lijahsbubbe(One person CAN change the world, but most of the time, you probably shouldn't)
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Comment #10 Removed by ModeratorAn expert on cannibalism, the writer Jacques Buval, is sure that the single-victim defence is untenable. “Cannibalism is a serial crime,” he told The Times, “If they let him free, he’ll do it again.”
That's just not true. I ate seven people in the 1980s, and I've hardly had even an arm or a leg since then.
11posted on 12/08/2003 5:23:40 PM PSTby xm177e2(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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What, 'Cannibal,' 'Mutilation' and 'Slaughter' weren't tip-offs?
12posted on 12/08/2003 5:24:18 PM PSTby xm177e2(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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If they put him on death row, would he fantasize about eating himself?
13posted on 12/08/2003 5:25:05 PM PSTby xm177e2(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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The cannibalism is completely beside the point. It's the murder that gets me. Almost sounds as if the victim were perfectly willing.
14posted on 12/08/2003 5:25:11 PM PSTby Agnes Heep
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Is there a 12 step program for that?
15posted on 12/08/2003 5:25:40 PM PSTby Lijahsbubbe(One person CAN change the world, but most of the time, you probably shouldn't)
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Another European for therepy.
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Well, I guess if the victim consented, there is nothing the authorities can do. After all, this was in the privacy of the guy's house. (sarcasm)
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I wasnt expecting a 'play by play' of the video and the whole 'cutting off the penis with blunt knife' deal
18posted on 12/08/2003 5:33:36 PM PSTby stuck_in_new_orleans
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Germans always killing other Germans in the most brutal way.. can't wait to see what the old Krauts do next.
19posted on 12/08/2003 5:34:37 PM PSTby Porterville(No communist or french)
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What, 'Cannibal,' 'Mutilation' and 'Slaughter' weren't tip-offs?
Just for the sake of clarity, it was more than just the tip off.
20posted on 12/08/2003 5:41:55 PM PSTby IncPen( If it's bad for the Clintons it's good for the rest of us)
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Armin Meiwes has become known as the real-life Hannibal Lecter after it was revealed that he had killed and eaten Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, who had volunteered himself as victim after answering a message on a cannibalism website.
According to Wikipedia, Meiwes posted an advertisement on the website, The Cannibal Cafe (a blog site for people with cannibal fetishes). Meiwes’ post stated that he was “looking for a well-built 18- to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed.” Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes, an engineer from Berlin, answered the advertisement in March 2001.
Many other people responded to the advertisement but backed out; Meiwes did not attempt to force them to do anything against their will. The two made a videotape when they met on 9 March 2001 in Meiwes’ home, in the small town of Rotenburg, showcasing Meiwes amputating Brandes’ penis and the two men attempting to eat it together, before Brandes’ ultimate demise.
Brandes had insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off. This did not work, and ultimately, Meiwes used a knife to remove Brandes’ appendage. Brandes apparently tried to eat some of his own penis raw but could not, because it was too tough and, as he put it, “chewy”.
Meiwes then fried the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, wine, and garlic; he then fried it with some of Brandes’ fat, but by then it was too burned to be consumed. He then chopped the penis up into chunks and fed it to his dog.
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According to court officials who saw the video (which has not been made public), Brandes may already have been too weakened from blood loss to eat any of his penis. Meiwes read a Star Trek book for three hours, while Brandes lay bleeding in the bath.
Meiwes gave him large quantities of alcohol and pain killers, 20 sleeping pills, and a bottle of schnapps, kissed him, and finally killed him in a room he had built in his house for this purpose, the Slaughter Room.After stabbing Brandes to death in the throat, he hung the body on a meat hook, tore chunks of flesh from it, and tried to grind the bones to use as flour.
The incident was recorded on the two-hour video tape. Meiwes ate the corpse over the next 10 months, storing body parts in his freezer under pizza boxes and consuming up to 20 kilograms (44 lb) of the flesh. According to prosecutors, Meiwes committed the act for sexual pleasure.
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Meiwes was arrested in December 2002, when a college student in Innsbruck phoned the police after seeing new advertisements for victims and details about the killing on the Internet. Investigators searched his home, and found body parts and the video tape of the killing.
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On 30 January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Meiwes has admitted cannibalizing Brandes and has expressed regret for his actions. He added he wanted to write a book of his life story with the aim of deterring anyone who wants to follow his footsteps. “They should go for treatment, so it doesn’t escalate like it did with me”, said Meiwes. While in prison, Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.
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