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Armin Meiwes (* 1 December 1961) is a German offender. It became due to the killing of humans (Bernd Armando of fire) and admits of the later supply of parts of the corpse than "Kannibale of red castle".
Meiwes committed itself as a soldier on time and obviously locked his service with rank technical sergeant after twelve years without considerable problems, since he could be active for the Raiffeisen bank in the connection still.
Since it tried 1999 by Internet to take up contact to humans who show kannibalistische inclinations. In the spring 2000 someone announced itself to Matteo under the name ""and indicated, from Meiwes torments itself, to kill and eat to let want. Armin Meiwes furnished in its old property house one "to battle area "with bed, chains for Sexspiele and a heating emitter to crickets of meat. The walls and the window were sound proof isolated. Matteo did not announce itself any longer, instead Meiwes and a hotel cook met named They played a killing to the end with in the role of the victim. This did not want to be able to be killed however seriously.
After Meiwes in the Internet looked for "young men ", the contact between Meiwes and that came off at that time engineering graduate Bernd Armando of fire, which was employed to in leading position with the Siemens AG in Berlin last, in February 2001. To 9. Meiwes and that met March 2001 about four years older of fire. Meiwes indicated in one legal proceedings, fire to separating the outside part its Penis, to following, common foods of the same by both, to the killing of fire following on it and to complete foods by Meiwes would have consented. Meiwes let doubts about this expiration arise never, which became procedures cinematic documented. On the trace Meiwes came the police by the reference of a student from Innsbruck, who became attentive to an again sloping contact announcement.
Before court the defense argued the fact that the willingness of the victim does not justify a condemnation Meiwes because of murder and pleaded for killing for demands.
Armin Meiwes was condemned on 2004 because of homicide fire to 8 1/2 years detention. The court found Meiwes for criminally liable and classified its victim as incapable of making a will. To that extent it was imprisonment for debt to follow its demanddemand demands. Public prosecutor's office and defense inserted both revision against the judgement, the request of the public prosecutor's office were allowed, while the writ of error of the defense was rejected. The imitations feared among experts were not so far obviously missing, up to now became known parallel cases.
On 22 April up and the case with the following reason to the regional court Frankfurt/Main referred 2005 main headers the Federal High Court the judgement for renegotiation: "The condemnation only because of homicide and not because of murder holds for legal examination did not stand ". The main negotiation before the 21. Criminal court of the court of assizes began on 12 January 2006, to 9. May 2006 was condemned Meiwes to life imprisonment because of murder and disturbance of the dead peace (those the Verzehren of a dead one in the opinion the court represents).
Meiwes is arrested in the penal institution in Kassel Wehlheiden and works there in the prison library. It made again headlines, when it expressed the desire to let its history film as documentation. A company from Hamburg acquired the rights in addition.
Armin Meiwes suffered already since its childhood under inferiority complexes. Psychiatrists, who examined Meiwes, assumed, it wanted to accept and with this "merge the identity of its victim ".
Fire expressed several times (also already already opposite prostitutes in Berlin), it wants to be mutilated and fed, it preserved the desire, completely too "apparent disappear ". It requested Meiwes to also grind and destroy its bones. Fire it wished that the memory of it was extinguished.
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