Cannibal tragedy in France: chef boiled victim after failed robbery
In France, a pizzeria chef confessed to killing a man during a botched robbery, then dismembered the body and boiled the parts in a pot with vegetables to cover his tracks.
69-year-old Philippe Schneider and his partner, 45-year-old Nathalie Kaboubassi, are on trial for the murder of 60-year-old Georges Meichler, who disappeared in 2023, reported by The New York Post.
Schneider, a former butcher, told police that he and his partner killed Meichler during a failed break-in at the victim’s home deep in the forest near the French village of Brasc. He admitted to an investigating judge that they tied Meichler up, gagged him, and after searching his house, returned to find him dead from suffocation.
To cover up the incident, the pizza chef dismembered the victim’s body, burned the head, hands, and feet, and scattered body parts across the area and inside Meichler’s van, which they used to flee.
Schneider also claimed he attempted to cook some of Meichler’s remains in a pot with vegetables according to a religious ritual he had learned in Nepal — and to mask the smell.
A 25-year-old gravedigger, believed to be an accomplice, said Schneider ordered him to boil the meat “until it fell off the bone” and to tell anyone who asked that it was “dog food.”
Police found Schneider and Kaboubassi in Meichler’s stolen van a few days later. Schneider insisted the victim had lent them the vehicle, but police quickly discovered human remains and blood on the back seat.
The chef claimed he was addicted to alcohol and cannabis at the time of the killing, which drove him to attempt the robbery. His partner continues to deny any involvement in the murder.
“Philippe Schneider’s version is that he was living a life of alcohol and drugs at the time, and then came up with a completely insane idea to rob his neighbor. He gagged him. Things went wrong. He died… He made a serious mistake. After that, he kept sinking further into absurdity and horror, because the fact that he cut up the body will cost him dearly,” said the defendant’s lawyer, Luc Abratkiewicz.
Deputy Editor
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