A police worker has been arrested on suspicion of murder for allegedly chopping up a man he met on a cannibal website.
The official, who worked for Saxony’s State Office of Criminal Investigation, allegedly killed a 59-year-old man from Hannover, according to police and state prosecutors in Dresden.
A judge issued the arrest warrant for the man, named as Detlev G., the Bild newspaper reported.
Body parts were found on Wednesday at a property in the state of Saxony in eastern Germany and the 55-year-old was arrested shortly after, a spokesman for the state prosecutor told news agency DPA.
The victim was reported missing at the start of November.
According to Bild, he met Detlev G. on a cannibal website Investigators are now attempting to determine whether any of his body parts were eaten.