German teacher with cannibalism fantasies commits murder

A 42 year old Berlin teacher Stefan R was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the killing of another man that the court said was carried out as part of “cannibalism fantasies.” The Berlin state court found that the defendant killed a 43-year-old mechanic in September 2020 “to live out his cannibalism fantasies,” He was also convicted for disturbing the peace of the dead.
The men met on a dating portal and agreed to meet for sex at the teacher’s apartment in the German capital, according to investigators. The court found that the defendant killed his acquaintance there, cut up his body and then spread parts of it in different neighborhoods of the city.
Prosecutors said that he cut off the victim’s genitals with the intention of eating them. It couldn’t be established whether he actually carried out that intention. Police spent weeks looking for the missing mechanic before walkers found bones in a Berlin forest. The case isn’t the first in Germany involving alleged cannibalism, or fantasies involving it.