Man accused of torture, Kim wall, murder and dismemberment have always dreamed that his mini-submarine D. U. I., MC uc3 Nautilus, will attract everyone’s attention. Today, the ship covered with green tarpaulin, in an unattractive Industrial landscape station nordhavn, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, really reached international fame—not as a feat of engineering, but as a crime scene. Peter Madsen devious, self-mythologizing, and often bizarre testimony at the trial for the murder of a Swedish journalist, it became clear that, for the person who built it, Nautilus always much more than a submarine. Within ten years, the boat functioned primarily as an advertising Platform, sex, noise, underwater hideouts, potential round world record holder and—according to the prosecution—the set. But Madsen, first of all, the “Nautilus” was a work of art.
Madsen vessel was the world’s largest private built submarine, its launch, in the port of Copenhagen, in may 2008, held a festive event with local and international media, showing up to watch Madsen associates in art collective half machine to perform a “ballet” on the deck of a watercraft. The Danish news magazine Ingeniøren Madsen is quoted as saying that “Nautilus” is a “political message about personal freedom”, and the port of the blog quoted the man, then known as “Peter the submarine,” said: “I create things, to tell stories.” Madsen is often said that in the 1981 German film “the boat” has provided him with aesthetic inspiration for “Nautilus”, and that its name comes from the submarine in “twenty thousand leagues by Jules Verne under the sea”. From the beginning of history Madsen was derived, and not original.
The year of the launch of Nautilus 2008 was a busy one for Madsen, which was embedded in the Danish art fringe living inside the cramped Nautilus. A week after its launch, it came with the rocket-Builder and architect Kristian von Bengtson to form a team of Amateur rocket makers, Copenhagen Suborbitals, with a double mission launch Madsen into space in crowdfunding, open source missile and opening space travel to the public. But sublime creative collaboration and Madsen and von Bengtson their friendship broke up in February 2014, when Madsen is accused by his colleague of the priorities of my family for their rocket. Tired of accusations Madsen, von Bengtson left the project. But he was not the only member of the group uncomfortable with the style of Madsen. By this summer, the remaining Suborbitals—who saw Madsen how to argue and uncoöperative—effectively learned man is now called “the rocket Madsen.” Insulted and angry, Madsen said, creating your own clothes, space lab rocket Madsen, and declaring “war” on his former companions.
D. mini-submarine, Y. I. Peter Madsen, MK uc3 Nautilus, attracted the attention not as a feat of engineering, but as a crime scene.
Photo Jens Dresling / Polfoto via Zuma press
He was in a long, angry wave, these consequences, in March 2017, Kim wall, who was pitching the story in the Danish magazine “space race”, made her first contact with Madsen. In the decade that Madsen spent promoting their engineering projects, the walls acquire a prestigious education at the Sorbonne, the London school of Economics and Columbia University, and establish himself as an international journalist. Appeals to outsiders and what she called “the undercurrents of rebellion,” wall said from across the world for publications such as time, the Atlantic, and the Guardian. She writes about feminism in China, oppressed Pardhi tribe in India, nuclear waste in the Marshall Islands, and, most recently, in Harper, metro Internet culture in Cuba, where “in the midst of the cold war, “recording the Beatles” (illegal, imperialist propaganda) was forwarded to the inner side of the cover sleeve of the regime, approved a Rumba band, and American radio hit of the transistors, hidden in flower pots.”
At the time that the walls decided to write about the Madsen-Suborbital collision, not only she lived in Copenhagen, but she and Madsen were neighbors: she recently moved with her family in Denmark funky Refshaleøen district, once a prosperous Industrial area around Denmark’s largest shipyard, “Burmeister and vine” and now a few creative joint office—including the rocket Madsen space lab.
Since the opening of the trial, on March 8, the evidence showed that the wall was just one of a string of young women, Amateur engineer was invited to walk in the Nautilus in the spring and summer of 2017. Some of these women were among the thirty-six witnesses that appeared in the city court of Copenhagen so far. (The wife Madsen, who initially supported him, but divorced him in the beginning of this year, was released from testifying for health reasons.) Within ten days of trial, spread across four weeks, the judges heard sober, strange, shocking and unbelievable revelation from rocket Enthusiast, a submarine expert, physician, medical examiner, and members of Copenhagen’s sexual underground—including a witness from the Black society, B. D. S. M., Madsen kicked for being “too passive”. Together, their testimonies assembled a portrait of a person without borders: visionary, genius, inventor, geek is determined to break world records for space and underwater travel, and the man sexually obsessed with snuff movies involving torture and killing of women.
In the afternoon of August 10, Madsen wrote Kim wall, answering queries in an interview she did back in March. Surprised, but glad that her “space race” story may develop in the end, she visited him in his space laboratory where they drank a Cup of tea. She left, planning to go on a submarine with him later in the evening. Then, according to the prosecution, Peter Madsen hid the saw, sharpened screwdrivers, belts, pipes, and a video camera in the hold of the Nautilus, and somewhere after 7 PM was welcomed on wall Board. She said goodbye to her boyfriend and friends who gathered to celebrate the imminent movement of the pair to China, and the boat slid beneath the calm surface of the Baltic.
That Madsen may or may not have said the wall over his Cup of tea, but that may turn out to have value that the other project recently received a shot. He had intended the launch of its new rocket—characteristically dubbed the alpha as a sign of their “victory” over Suborbitals. But a sudden cash flow problem proposed by Madsen—to the surprise of the project collaborators is to abort the takeoff, which was scheduled for August 26. As a result of his decision, Madsen was depressed to some witnesses; for others, a manic. On the final day of the Nautilus journey, one trial, a witness watched as he walked purposefully through the crowd of festival visitors with a saw sticking out of his backpack. Australian Director Emma Sullivan, who interviewed Madsen on documentary earlier in the day, wall, who starred with him in a submarine for a few days before—Madsen described as having a “strange energy”. During the interview, Madsen suggested that he may be a “psychopath”is a diagnosis which will later be backed by a psychiatric evaluation that added the “narcissistic tendencies” and “highly deviant” sexuality (but not insanity) to the mix. According to testimony, Madsen had to search the Internet for terms like “beheading”, “girl” and “agony” the night before the atrocity was the search that lead him to a video of throat-slitting. He was, allegedly, not the first murder as entertainment, which Madsen watched. Police found searches for beheading, hanging, impalement and femme Fatales on its hard drives, along with an archive of torture, snuff and video performance. With its alpha project is frustrated, maybe Madsen was captured on a new “project”: a snuff film starring Kim wall, with a submarine as a film set, and he as a Director? We will never know the answer, but it sounds like the prosecution methodically builds against him.
Before Madsen took the stand, he sat silent next to his attorney Betina Hald Engmark; he was dressed in dark blankets, with tousled hair, and his eyes hide glasses. He appeared at times boring, and sometimes closely involved, as a Prosecutor, Jakob Buch-Jepsen, laid out the Central evidence for the allegations against him. But when Madsen came to testify he seemed excited and energetic, clearly aware of the hundreds of journalists from all over the world after the proceedings in court. Madsen, appearing by turns naive and carefree, admitted to having previously lied to investigators, but adhered to its third, most recent version of events: Kim wall, suffocated after inhaling fumes from the inoperative engine when Madsen was closed on the deck. Madsen lies are a form of “protection”, – he explained,—not for himself but for the parents walls. He wanted to spare them from the “terrible tale” about what had actually happened.
It was at this point that his testimony became more and more surreal. Several times, judge Anette Burkø interrupted his repetitive and chaotic through technical details to insist that he was “distracted by all the nonsense.” Continuing his version of the evening events in more than fictionalizing regime, Madsen spoke of himself as first and third person, often switching between the present and the past tense: “Kim is having the time of her life” and “Peter talks a lot, he gladly shared their dreams with Kim” and “she”, referring to the wall, and “Nautilus”. When he talked about her “laying there quietly without a sound” it is unclear whether he was referring to the corpse of the wall on the floor of the submarine, or Nautilus, trapped on the seabed. Later, in a dreadful resurrection art collective half a car declared a “man-machine fusion” aesthetic, he joined them again on his knees next to the lifeless wall, he “slapped her cheeks to try and reboot it.”
Terminator 2 was one of the many films Madsen noted in his testimony, and during his court appearance it was hard not to assume that the creation of “Peter submarine” and “rocket Madsen”—whether it’s a midget Sub, in which he can explore the depths of the sea, or tiny womb-like a rocket capsule that will catapult him into space—a reflection of their Creator’s conscious or unconscious desire to be like “the Terminator” is a cyborg or “half machine”.
During the next hearing, Madsen shaky to understand the difference between life and art has arisen again: explaining how he dismembered the body wall, he apologized for his account “sounds like a bad movie”, and when confronted with the fact that a snuff video on your computer and inspired him to mutilate the body of a journalist, Madsen said that, on the contrary, watching women suffer brought his “empathy” was a catharsis. He argued that, therefore, snuff films are no different from Hollywood blockbusters like “Kill bill Quentin Tarantino” or David Fincher’s “Se7en”. He seemed clearly unable or unwilling to recognize the difference between the actual decapitation of women and their fictional representations.
The Danes use the word grænseoverskridende to describe a wrong or perverted trespassing. If Madsen used his invention to “tell stories”, they were stories that showed him as a lone, pioneer hero, who beat the earth’s boundaries and introduces extreme sphere, distant from humanity—at the expense of others. According to the case the prosecution develops on Madsen, its final “story” is tragic to witness the relentless pursuit of “personal freedom”, he stated that “Nautilus” is presented. We’ll never know what happened that night when his submarine was the place where Kim wall and all the subsequent stories extrovert, the life-a curious journalist was killed. And other stories will thrive as a result of its loss. Family and wall friends set up a Fund in her name, Kim wall Memorial Fund to support young women in journalism. “It will be a way for everyone to focus on the future, not all end that night on a submarine,” her mother, Ingrid wall, said to the court. “Her legacy will live on”. Meanwhile, the prosecution demanded a life sentence for Madsen and destruction of the “Nautilus” after the trial, which marks the end of what Madsen called it “art”.
Sourse: newyorker.com
