“What I’m going to tell you is horrific,” Schneider warned investigators.
A French pizza chef confessed to killing a reclusive man in a botched burglary before dismembering and cooking his body in a pot of vegetables, a court heard Monday.
Philippe Schneider, 69, and his partner Nathalie Caboubassy, 45, are on trial over the 2023 killing of 60-year-old Georges Meichler in Brasc, southern France.
Schneider, a former butcher, admitted to investigators that he and Caboubassy tied up and gagged Meichler during a robbery. Upon returning, they found him dead from apparent suffocation.
“What I’m going to tell you is horrific,” Schneider reportedly told police, before describing how he burned Meichler’s head, hands, and feet, scattered remains across the area, and tried cooking parts of the body as part of a ritual learned in Nepal.
Another alleged accomplice, a 25-year-old gravedigger, testified that Schneider instructed him to “cook the meat until it falls off the bone” and claim it was “food for the dog.”
Meichler’s remains were later found in his home and van, which the accused pair had stolen.
“Philippe Schneider acknowledges his full responsibility,” his lawyer said. Caboubassy denies involvement.
Schneider faces charges of kidnapping leading to death, corpse concealment, and desecration.
A verdict is expected May 22.