Bolanle Akanji
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Police in Dresden claim to have arrested a 55-year-old police officer, Detlef G. on suspicion of murder after the body of another man with body parts missing was found in the Erz mountains in eastern Germany.
Investigators believe that the two men met via an internet site for cannibalism fetishists. The suspect denies the cannibalism allegations and says he killed the man at his request.
According to the police, victim was killed and dismembered and his body parts were buried on a piece of land belonging to the killer.
Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll told a news conference that the victim "had fantasised about being murdered and eaten since his youth".
The two men met at a major railway station on 4 November and shortly after their meeting, the 59-year-old businessman was killed with a knife.
After the victim was reported missing by his business partner, investigators found evidence of communication which led them to Detlef G. He has given a partial confession and he led the police to the body.
According to the Police chief the case shows "how people with the most gruesome fantasies can get together on the internet and live out their perversions in an ever starker form".
Ninety-nine per cent of those involved satisfied their desires by just exchanging information, he added.
Investigators believe that the two men met via an internet site for cannibalism fetishists. The suspect denies the cannibalism allegations and says he killed the man at his request.
According to the police, victim was killed and dismembered and his body parts were buried on a piece of land belonging to the killer.
Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll told a news conference that the victim "had fantasised about being murdered and eaten since his youth".
The two men met at a major railway station on 4 November and shortly after their meeting, the 59-year-old businessman was killed with a knife.
After the victim was reported missing by his business partner, investigators found evidence of communication which led them to Detlef G. He has given a partial confession and he led the police to the body.
According to the Police chief the case shows "how people with the most gruesome fantasies can get together on the internet and live out their perversions in an ever starker form".
Ninety-nine per cent of those involved satisfied their desires by just exchanging information, he added.