A man on trial for charges of attempted murder and serious assault is now suspected of cannibalism after a police officer's testimony in court. A 20-year-old man is on trial in Hanau, Hesse, accused of attacking a then 18-year-old friend in the victim's apartment last October with two knives. Prosecutors say he stabbed the victim in the neck with both weapons, bit off both his ears, cut off both eyelids, and stabbed him in the eyes a with pen. Another police officer had also testified at the start of the trial that upon seeing the crime scene, he had “thought of cannibalism and ritual behaviour”. They had met and become friends at a youth home in Bad Soden-Salmünster, but both later moved to Schlüchtern.

Source: The Local May 18, 2017 09:45 UTC