The media tries to be sensititve or at least they pretend to be. Nobody really knows how to comment on the new facts considering a network of cannibals practicing initiation rites with some sort of satanic background. The TV-show "ZDF-Reporter" broadcasted a report on wednesday which consisted of the most horrifying stories ever broadcasted. Journalist Rainer Fromm has researched the story for two years and if it we wouldn't have had a case of cannibalism in December 2002 already, nobody might have taken it serious at all. But now we're talking about 800 cannibals in Germany if we wanna believe the "Insiders"....

Not all Satanists are cannibals. There are lot of people, including loads of rockstars like The Beatles, who have studied the works of Aleister Crowley. Lots of teenagers who are into certain role-playing-games, consider themselves satanists. Ozzy Osbourne, who has recently been welcomed by George W.Bush himself, used to be a satanic media-boogeyman. But we're not talking about a rock-circus-performer or attention-seekers like Anton LaVey, the author of "The Satanic Bible".

When the cops arrested former sergeant-major Armin M. in December, the case was considered an isolated incident. Armin M. had been looking for young men who wished to be slaughtered and eaten on the internet. He found software-engineer Bernd Jürgen Brandes. Armin M. was disappointed that Brandes had lied to him since the engineer from Berlin wasn't a young man anymore. He cut off Brandes' penis nonetheless, cooked it and the two men ate it together. Afterwards the victim was chopped up and deposited in the deep freeze. Armin M., who was a big fan of barbecues, documented the whole process on video. He ate the remaining body parts later on. An anonymous citizen stumbled across the ads that M. had posted on the web and informed the police. The cops were not taken the hint too serious, but they still felt a need to research the story and visit the potential cannibal. Armin M. was a sissy with a dictatorial mother. After his mother had died, he had been living alone in a big house in Rotenburg where he had built a torture-chamber in the basement. A week later, Germany's biggest tabloid "Bild" revealed that M. had stated in prison that there would be " a network of around 800 cannibals in Germany". There were two pictures on the media. One of them shows M. drinking wine and smoking a cigarette with friends. Someone must have gotten a lot of money for that one. The other shows him after he was arrested in a police-car. The trial is expected to begin in February. Since there is no law against eating someone who offers himself voluntarily, it's gonna be a difficult case for the German judiciary.

Armin M. is a sick man and Bernd Jürgen Brandes must have had a serious mental problem. His wish to be eaten alive has nothing to do with bizarre body-modifications nor satanism. Both men were into a bizarre sex-ritual which is beyond everything else I've ever heard of, but they didn't seem to worship the devil. They were perverts, but Brandes wanted to be eaten and seeemed to have turned him on to have his penis cut off.

On tuesday, the 14th of January, the day before the big story broke, I sat in my kitchen with a friend. We talked about Satanism for a different reason. i get to that later. My friend told me that she wanted to do an interview-movie with an old friend of her who had been a victim of cannibal-rituals too carried out in the area of Magdeburg in the former GDR. She had some first hand insider-knowledge, but she was too scared to talk to the cops. I couldn't really believe the whole thing, but I agreed to assist her on doing the film.

The day after I had a hangover since we had been drinking quite alot of wine that night. When I went out to get some breakfast, I saw the headlines of "Bild" announcing that there were more cases and that ZDF-Reporter would broadcast a film about cannibals eating children the same night.

Rainer Fromm has been researching bizarre murder-rituals for years and all victims he has interviewed approached him on their own after hearing about his work. His main-witness is a 34 years old woman called Steffi who stated that babies have been killed, sliced up and eaten by a German Satanist group from the Trier-area near the border with Luxembourg. The group has also been raping women as part of an initiation rite. Some of the cannibal acts are said to go back 15 years. The woman said that she had been in touch with these groups for the first time when she was three years old which was even 31 years ago. Her parents have been part of this cannibal-scene and they made her take part in all rituals until she moved out of her parents' house at the age of 20. She got raped, she was forced to eat human flesh and she had seen some of the most gruesome acts of violence ever heard of in Germany after the Third Reich. The group told her that she had to take part in the rituals or she would get killed right away. Most of the kids the cannibals ate were very young or they had been aborted. Girls were raped to impregnate them and the babies were eaten right away.

The woman called Steffi led the journalist to a deserted industrial area in Liege, Belgium where most of these rituals took place. This is the same area where Marc Dutroux has been active. Dutroux has probably killed dozens of children. He has been the leader of a ring of child-molesters with high-ranking contacts. The case has been slowed down over and over.

Fromm has also interviewed a nine years old girl who described how she had seen other kids getting eaten alive. The face of the girl was unrecognizable, but the girl described so many details that all experts are sure that she was telling the truth. Everyone who has heard this girl crying and talking about what she had gone through, had nightmares that night.

A copy of the documentary and pictures the kid has painted can be found on the homepage of zdf-reporter

The day after the story broke, Rainer Fromm had to answer lots of questions. The media was fascinated, but it still seemed hard to believe. Fromm presented them material like four different "cookbooks" with detailed descriptions of how to slaughter and cook children. All books have regular ISBN-numbers and the adresses of the publishers. You can order them through any regular bookstore.

So, there really seems to be a network of satanic cannibals out there. Not only in Trier, but also in other regions of Germany and probably all around the world.

But why didn't anyone notice that so many children had been raped for years and years? Well, look at the Dutroux-case, it's actually even more disgusting and it raises way more questions without the satanic element. Why didn't anyone look into the case of high-ranking people raping children in and around Bruxelles, the capitol of Europe? Who was in charge of dismissing anyone who came up with a proof that Dutroux was only working for the people paying him?