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Murder probe focuses on cannibal site and garden

Police are continuing to scour the grounds of a guesthouse where a police detective allegedly killed a man he met on a cannibal website and buried his body parts.

Published: 5 December 2013 07:30 CET
Murder probe focuses on cannibal site and garden
Officers in the garden on Wednesday. Photo: DPA.

Photos released on Wednesday showed how officers had cleared an area around the house in Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau, Saxony, chopping down trees and digging trenches in the search.

Bild newspaper reported that body parts weighing 35 kg were found on Tuesday in the grounds.

Police detective Detlev G., who worked for worked for Saxony’s Office of Criminal Investigation, has admitted killing business consultant Wojciech S., but denied eating any of his body parts.

The men reportedly met on a cannibalism fetish site and the Polish-born consultant travelled from Hannover to Saxony where he was killed on November 4th.

The 55-year-old allegedly killed his victim in a basement by stabbing him in the neck. He then allegedly chopped up the body and buried the body parts in the garden of his home.

The victim is said to have expressed the wish to be killed and eaten, and the two men communicated extensively via email, online chat, and text messages, before they finally met. 

Police are now investigating to see whether he had contact with on the site.

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According to investigators, the men met in October on the same forum used by the infamous Rotenburg cannibal in 2001.

In 2001, German cannibal Armin Meiwes made international headlines for admitting to killing, mutilating and eating the flesh of a lover whom he had met on the internet via an advertisement looking for a "slaughter victim".

Meiwes was originally convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2004, but another court found him guilty of murder in a retrial and jailed him for life.

Detlev G. ran a guesthouse called Pension Gimmlitztal, which had rooms from €13 a night, and on Wednesday the Bild newspaper published photos of his kitchen and dining area.

Neighbours told Bild how Detlev and his husband invited them over for barbeques in the summer. 

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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