France’s “Hannibal Lecter” said Wednesday a sexual urge drove him to kill his cellmate and “curiosity” about the taste of human flesh led him to cook and eat a lung he ripped out of the corpse. He said he flew into an “uncontrollable” rage... after his victim gave him a “dirty look” on January 2, 2007 after he ordered him to wash his hands after using the toilet in the tiny cell they shared with a third inmate in Rouen.
He said that after pummelling his victim, he took a pair of scissors and plunged it into his back, neck and chest a dozen times before holding a plastic bag over his head “for five minutes” to make sure he was dead. Then he decided to eat Baudry’s heart for his evening meal. “I take a razor blade and I open his chest. I plunge my hand in and I take out what I think is the heart but which in fact is a piece of lung, which I put into a Tupperware container,” he told a transfixed courtroom. “I did it out of curiosity to see what it was like to eat human flesh,” said Cocaign.
“What is terrible is that it (the lung) was good,” Cocaign told him, according to his testimony. “It has the taste of venison. It is tender. What I did I liked doing.” “No one was listening to me,” the detainee said. “I took action, and then they took me seriously.”
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PAGAN
17:49 Aug 24 2010
well, interesting...and all for a dirty look..what bothers me is that the staff had no idea that Cocaign was capable of this, nor heard what had to have been a noisy situation...
jaggedxtears
22:34 Aug 28 2010
Makes me want to taste some lung too....I know I have a padded room reserved for me somewhere!
Love this story!
philosopher
22:08 Sep 24 2010
Hmmm.... apparently the victim was still alive when Cocaign cut out the piece of lung.
*shudders*
DarkxSidexOfxThexMoon
15:58 May 09 2011
Anyone up for the new gastronomical dish in the French cuisine..? :P