Pizza Chef Accused of Killing Man, Cooking Physique Elements with Greens: Experiences

A French pizza chef has been accused of killing a person earlier than chopping up his physique and cooking a few of it with greens in a bid to “masks the odor,” in response to experiences.

Former butcher Philippe Schneider, 69, allegedly confessed to killing Georges Meichler, 60, who lived as a recluse within the village of Brasc, France in February 2023, per The Telegraph.

On Monday, Could 19, Schneider appeared on the Rodez Assize Courtroom, the place he is being tried for killing, dismembering and cooking components of Meichler’s physique earlier than “scattering his stays on his land,” Le Parisien reported.

Schneider is accused of the killing alongside his companion Nathalie Caboubassy, 45, The Telegraph famous. The pair reportedly moved to the area in 2019; he ultimately opened a pizzeria referred to as Don Filiippo in Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance, the outlet acknowledged.

Schneider reportedly admitted to killing the sufferer, whereas Caboubassy denies involvement, in response to The Telegraph. A 3rd suspect, gravedigger Loup Benrakia, has additionally denied involvement, the outlet reported.

Per Le Figaro, Schneider wished to steal cash and hashish from Meichler’s remoted home within the woods. Nevertheless the try ended with the sufferer being “tied up, gagged and overwhelmed.”

Schneider claimed the sufferer suffocated. He stated that he took the physique again to his home and waited three days to “respect the transmigration of the soul,” per The Telegraph. He allegedly dismembered Meichler’s physique earlier than burning his organs. He later returned to the sufferer’s home the place he reportedly “cooked the opposite limbs in giant pots with greens to masks the odor,” the outlet reported.

Le Figaro added that Schneider had allegedly “minimize up the physique, cooked it after which incinerated it within the sufferer’s wooden range and backyard.”

The suspect reportedly instructed investigators that he’d scattered the sufferer’s ashes throughout the property after burning his head, palms and toes, The Telegraph acknowledged.

“I’ve no phrases to specific my guilt and my many regrets, however I perceive the anger and disgust I can evoke. I supply my honest apologies to the household. That is an act of insanity that ought to by no means have occurred. I plead responsible to all the fees in opposition to me,” Schneider stated, in response to Le Parisien.

Lawyer Luc Abratkiewicz stated, “Philippe Schneider acknowledges his full accountability and all of the info he’s accused of,” per The Telegraph.

“Philippe Schneider’s model is that on the time he lived a lifetime of alcohol, medication, after which this fully loopy concept of going to burgle his neighbour. He gags him. It goes badly, he dies… He made a severe mistake. Afterward, he continued to sink into absurdity and horror, as a result of the actual fact of getting minimize up this corpse goes to price them dearly,” the lawyer added, in response to the outlet.

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Yannick Mamodabasse, a lawyer representing Meichler’s members of the family, stated, “These are horrible occasions, and it is nonetheless very painful for the household. That is all I am going to say earlier than the listening to on this extraordinary case,” per Le Parisien.

Schneider has been charged with kidnapping resulting in loss of life, concealment of a corpse and endangering the integrity of the corpse, per The Telegraph; Caboubassy and Benrakia had been charged with complicity.

The trial is predicted to run till Thursday, Could 22, per Le Parisien.

The Rodez Assize Courtroom and Mamodabasse did not instantly reply when contacted by PEOPLE for remark.