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4Law 12/1/06 Cannibal Retrial


Donnerstag 12. Januar 2006



"Kannibale von Rotenburg" erneut vor Gericht - Mordprozess gegen "Kannibalen von Rotenburg"

Frankfurt/Main - Der so genannte Kannibale von Rotenburg muss sich erneut vor Gericht verantworten: Vor dem Landgericht Frankfurt am Main beginnt heute der Revisionsprozess gegen Armin Meiwes. Der heute 44-Jährige war im Januar 2004 vom Landgericht Kassel wegen Totschlags zu achteinhalb Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. DerBundesgerichtshof (BGH) in Karlsruhe hob das Urteil im April vergangenen Jahres auf. Nach Ansicht des BGH verkannte das Landgericht mehrere Mordmerkmale.Meiwes hatte einem 43-jährigen Berliner vor laufender Videokamera den Penis abgeschnitten, ihn erstochen und zerstückelt. Später aß er das Fleisch teilweise.

Audio :Der Kannibalen - Prozess - 12.1.06

Armin Meiwes, who was convicted of killing and eating another man, waits for the beginning of his retrial at a regional court in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006. Armin Meiwes was sentenced by a court in the city of Kassel to 8 1/2 years for manslaughter in the 2001 death of Bernd Juergen Brandes, 43. Prosecutors appealing that sentence said he should be given a life sentence for murder. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Frankfurt - The German man who killed and ate a willing victim faces the prospect of a stiffer sentence at a retrial starting on Thursday for a crime that continues to horrify and enthral. The Frankfurt court must examine Meiwes's motives and ask if they were sufficient to constitute murder. The higher court said the original court had ignored the fact that Meiwes had filmed the slaying for sexual gratification. But there are some questions the trial, scheduled to last until March, will never answer in this bizarre case of sexual fetishism, such as what sort of person would want to be eaten. Prosecutors argued that Meiwes should have been found guilty of murder as he had killed to satisfy perverted desires. Defence counsel Harald Ermel has argued that Meiwes's sole motive was to meet the wishes of his victim and that his crime was only "killing on request", a form of illegal euthanasia that carries a maximum five-year sentence. Ermel declined to comment on the case before Thursday's trial, although he said on Monday he would seek to block the planned March screening of "Rotenburg", a film based on Meiwes's life and named after his home town in central Germany. At his home there, in a "slaughter room" fitted out with butcher's bench, meat hook and cage, Meiwes severed Brandt's penis and they both tried to eat it.Later he killed Brandt, by then unconscious from blood loss, cut his body up and froze it, eating some 20 kg (44 lb) of it over the following months.Armin Meiwes, 44, was convicted of manslaughter and given an 8-1/2-year jail term in January 2004 for cutting up a man he met via the Internet three years before. However, Germany's Supreme Court ruled last April that the verdict was too lenient and Meiwes should face a second trial with a renewed murder charge. Retrial chambers do not have to follow a higher court's decision, but are normally steered by their arguments. However, as prosecutors point out, this case is anything but normal.

The Judge in German Cannibal Retrial on Murder Charge - Starts Today



Der Frankfurter Richter Klaus Drescher leitet den Revisionsprozess gegen den Kannibalen von Rotenburg

The California New Film on the Case



After his initial trial brought worldwide attention, Meiwes rejected cash offers from film and book agents and instead assigned the global rights to his story to Hamburg, Germany-based publisher Stampfwerk for no charge on condition it gives an accurate account. He is writing his memoirs, which Stampfwerk plans to publish this fall. Meanwhile, Ermel has taken legal action in U.S. and German courts to prevent the release of a movie by the California-based company Atlantic Streamline, saying it is based so closely on the case that it may prejudice the retrial. "Butterfly, a Grimm Love Story," stars Thomas Kretschmann, who played the ship's captain in "King Kong," and Keri Russell.

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