Teacher goes on trial in German cannibalism case

The defendant sits in a courtroom in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021 holding a cardboard in front of his face. A German man who is suspected of having killed another man and eaten pieces of his body has gone on trial in Berlin. After the killing, which took place last September, the suspect allegedly chopped up the man’s body in his apartment on the northern outskirts of Berlin and then spread parts of it in different neighborhoods of the city, dpa reported from the trial’s beginning at a Berlin state court Tuesday. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

A German man suspected of killing another man for sexual gratification and eating pieces of the victim’s body has gone on trial in Berlin.

The 41-year-old teacher is accused of meeting a 43-year-old mechanic on an online dating site a few hours before the killing, German news agency dpa reported.