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Last Updated:May 20, 2025, 11:38 IST
Philippe Schneider and Nathalie Caboubassy are on trial in France for murdering Georges Meichler. Schneider allegedly dismembered and cooked parts of Meichler's body.
Psychological experts described Schneider as a manipulative man with a history of control, trauma, and deviant behaviour. (Photo: X)
In a chilling tale that has stunned France, a former butcher-turned-pizza chef has allegedly killed a man, dismembered his body, and cooked parts of it in a pot of vegetables.
Philippe Schneider, 69, is on trial alongside his partner Nathalie Caboubassy, 45, for the murder of Georges Meichler, who was living alone in the remote village of Brasc in southern France.
57-year-old Meichler had been living alone in a stone house in the woods without water or electricity. When neighbours stopped seeing him and his daughter received a suspicious text claiming he was off to Brittany with a friend, alarm bells rang. “It wasn’t like him to text," she told investigators.
Police launched a missing persons investigation and soon traced Meichler’s van—driven by Schneider and Caboubassy—near a council building in Camarès, 24 miles away. A gruesome discovery followed: blood and bags containing human remains were found inside the van, The Sun reported.
When questioned, Schneider revealed told probe officials: “What I’m going to tell you is horrific." He then confessed to tying and gagging Meichler during a robbery gone wrong, resulting in the victim’s death by suffocation.
Schneider told authorities he dismembered the body with a butcher’s knife, burned the head, hands, and feet, and scattered other remains across the region. He even admitted to cooking parts of the body with vegetables allegedly as part of a Nepalese religious ritual and to mask the odour.
Police launched a missing persons investigation and soon traced Meichler’s van—driven by Schneider and Caboubassy—near a council building in Camarès, 24 miles away. A gruesome discovery followed: blood and bags containing human remains were found inside the van.
A 25-year-old gravedigger, also on trial for complicity, testified that Schneider instructed him to cook the meat until it “fell off the bone," telling him to claim it was “food for the dog" if questioned.
Defense lawyer Luc Abratkiewicz said Schneider “acknowledges full responsibility," blaming his actions on alcohol, cannabis addiction, and a warped plan to steal “a few thousand euros."
Psychological experts described Schneider as a manipulative man with a history of control, trauma, and deviant behaviour.
Caboubassy denied any involvement, insisting she played no part in the crime. Both she and the gravedigger face charges of complicity. A verdict in the gruesome case is expected on May 22.
Location :Paris, France
First Published:News world Chef Kills Man, Cooks Parts Of Dismembered Body With Vegetables In Grisly Cover-Up
