Deutsche Welle. A German state prosecutor on Wednesday demanded a life sentence for self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes, saying he killed and ate a man.
State prosecutor Marcus Köhler said Meiwes should be convicted of murder for butchering a 43-year-old engineer from Berlin.
The seriousness of his crime should preclude a release after 15 years, as is usual for people handed life sentences in Germany, he told a court in the western city of Frankfurt.
Meiwes, 44, is being retried for killing Bernd Jürgen Brandes after a federal judge dismissed as too lenient a verdict of manslaughter and an eight-and-a-half-year sentence handed down in 2004.
Known as the cannibal of Rotenburg, Meiwes met his victim on an Internet website and filmed their macabre meeting in the central German town in March 2000. He later stabbed the bleeding, unconscious man in the throat.
Meiwes has insisted that Brandes was a willing victim who wanted to be eaten and that he died a "beautiful death".
Defense claims Meiwes "killed on demand"
Bernd Jürgen Brandes wanted to be eaten
His defense lawyer, Joachim Bremer, told the court that because Brandes had consented to the act, his client was not guilty of murder but of "killing on demand" which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.
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