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A German cannibal who found a voluntary victim.

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (7 children)

The fascinating thing about this case was that cannibalism in itself it not a crime in German law. So it came down to proving it was manslaughter and not assisted dying.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, I can't think of many legal ways to aquire human flesh in the first place. And I've thought about that a lot

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