BERLIN (AP) — A German police officer went on trial Friday accused of strangling and chopping up a man he met in an Internet chat forum devoted to cannibalism.

Detlev G., whose last name hasn’t been released, is charged with the murder and defilement of a corpse after allegedly killing a 59-year-old businessman from Hannover last November. Prosecutors say the Polish-born victim had fantasized about being eaten, but there was no evidence the suspect actually did so.