French restaurateur admits chopping up and COOKING murder victim after cops make horror discovery

Body parts and charred remains were found scattered in various hiding places

• Published: 14:49, 19 May 2025
• Updated: 16:03, 19 May 2025

A FRENCH restaurant owner has admitted murdering a villager, chopping him up and cooking him with vegetables.

Pizza makers Philippe Schneider, 69, and Nathalie Caboubassy, 45, are on trial in Aveyron for the 2023 murder of Georges Meichler – a resident of their sleepy southern French village, Brasc.

The victim lived in the woods in the village of Brasc, southern FranceSchneider reportedly made the “horrific confession” to police after being tracked down following a missing persons report filed by the victim’s daughter.

He is said to have told officers the pair accidentally killed Meichler, 57, when their attempt to burgle his home went awry.

Desperate to cover up the murder, they tried to dispose of the body by cutting it up with a butcher’s knife and hiding body parts around the area.

Body parts were spread across the Causses and Rougier regions of south France, and other bits left in the victim’s van.Schneider also apparently admitted to cooking parts of the body in a pot with vegetables at his home as part of a religious ritual he encountered when travelling in Nepal.

Charred bones were found near Meichler’s house, and human remains not far from the alleged killers‘ apartment building.

A 25-year-old grave digger also on trial as an accomplice to the pair reportedly said Schneider told him to cook the meat until it “falls off the bones” and, if anyone asked, say it was “food for the dog”.

Meichler’s lived as a recluse – without water or electricity – in a small stone house in the middle of a forest.