German cop on trial for cutting up victim
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A German police officer went on trial yesterday accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists with the aim of making a grisly pornographic home video.
In a macabre case that has captured global attention, prosecutors say the 56-year-old defendant, Detlev Guenzel, killed the man at his home last November, then cut his body into small pieces and buried them in his garden.
“He killed and dismembered him to get sexual stimulation and then later to get sexual stimulation by watching the video he made,” chief prosecutor Andreas Feron told the regional court in the eastern city of Dresden.
He could face 15 years in prison if convicted on charges of murder and “disturbing the peace of the dead.”
The men came across each other in October 2013 on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies billed as “the #1 site for exotic meat” and boasting more than 3,000 registered members.
A click on a dialogue box allows participants to say if they would like to take their experiences beyond the realm of the imagination.
Investigators say, however, that there is no evidence that the suspect ate any part of the victim.
Guenzel has retracted a confession he made to police in which he said he killed 59-year-old Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz by cutting his throat.
His defense team argued that Stempniewicz, who had long expressed a death wish, hanged himself in Guenzel’s custom-designed “S&M studio” in the cellar of his home before Guenzel took a knife, then an electrical saw to his body.
Guenzel, a trim man with closely cropped grey hair, entered the courtroom wearing a white hoodie jacket and neat grey trousers and smirked slightly as media photographers took his picture.
He told presiding judge Birgit Wiegand he would not address the facts of the case.
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