'I became cannibal after working at morgue – nothing beats sensation of eating humans'

A self-confessed cannibalsays he got a taste for human flesh after he started working at a morgue as he revealed what it was like to eat it for the first time.

Convictedmurderer Nico Claux, who has been dubbed 'the Vampire of Paris,' developed a fascination with death from a young age after his grandfather's untimely death when he was just 10 years old.

Claux said he started having fantasies about eating human flesh aged 12 after reading about famous cannibal Issei Sagawa, who killed a Dutch woman in Paris in 1981 before eating various parts of her body.

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This led to seeking out work in a morgue to taste human flesh for the first time, which started him down a path that would include murder, cannibalism, drinking blood and black magic.

Speaking to the Anything Goes with James English podcast, he admitted he was attracted to working in the morgue by the dead bodies, which is where he began to satisfy his craving for human meat.

He said: "I started having fantasies about biting, tearing flesh apart with my teeth, psychopathic fantasies. It was a fetish.

"My first job was as a morgue worker. I worked in a morgue in Paris. In France at the time there was no formal education to become a morgue worker. You were a hospital orderly and they would say 'are you interested in that job' and you would get it.

"When I first started to work in the morgue, I saw how easy it was when I was left alone for the autopsies to get strips of flesh from the bodies and eat them.

"First it was raw, and then I'd cut little strips, brought them home and cooked them several ways."

The paltry offerings he could get away with taking at the morgue were not enough for the cannibal though.

He went on to murder Thierry Bissonnier is Paris, a man he met on the Internet, with the intention of eating parts of his corpse. He ended up getting disturbed before he could through with his plan to its full extent.

Claux was arrested after he tried to forge one of his victims' bank cheques to buy a VCR and was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was eventually released after serving seven years and four months of his sentence.

The cannibal killer says everything always asks him about the taste of flesh, but while he compares it to the meat of one animal in particular, he says it's not about the taste.

Claux said: "People always ask me about the taste. And it wasn't about the taste. I can say that it tastes like horse meat because at the time I was eating horse tartare.

"But for me it was more about the rush, the sensation. Something like I had never experienced before. It was keeping me constantly on a high, aroused."

Speaking about the murder, he added: "The goal was not just murder for the sake of murder. It was to get the meat. Because I had already been eating small strips of meat in the morgue and I had developed this craving.

"I wanted to kill to harvest the meat to get the meat home."