'I don't eat women'
2002-12-16 19:19
Kassel - German prosecutors say after five days of searching his home, they have no evidence tying self-confessed cannibal Armin M to other possible victims.
Despite the suspect claiming to police that there were 800 other
cannibals in Germany, Hesse state
prosecutor Hans-Manfred Jung said police had found no trace of any
other cannibalistic acts.
However, he said the search of the house would continue for a
while.
According to the mass-selling Bild tabloid, the 41-year-old had told investigators that he was not alone in his
fantasies.
Armin M also told police that he would never eat a
woman, Bild reported.
He had earlier admitted killing and eating a man he met over the Internet who
allegedly agreed to the slaying, all of it carried out in front of a running video camera.
"I can say that I would never eat a woman - they are too
important for the survival of mankind," Armin M is reported to have told police.
"Sperm from men can be frozen and used to give birth to childrene
after his death. But women are irreplaceable for the continuity of
mankind."
The man who died early last year was Bernd Juergen B, a
42-year-old Berlin computer technician who sold his car, wrote a
will and took a day off work to sort out a "personal" matter.
He made his way to Arnim M's home where they agreed to cut off
his penis. He was then stabbed to death, still allegedly with his
approval, and cut into pieces, some going in the freezer for later
consumption and some buried in the garden.
Police have been spending the last few days looking at some of
the 80 home videos found in Arnim M's house.
They only stumbled on the case when he put out a new set of
advertisements on the Internet looking for well-built men willing
to be killed and eaten.
Meanwhile, looking for possible motives in a case that has
shocked Germany, the daily Tagesspiegel reported on Monday that Armin
M's late mother had been a friend of a self-styled witch who had
claimed in a television documentary that she killed "whenever Satan
orders." - Sapa-AFP
- SAPA