His crime had caused horror throughout the world.
THE Issei Sagawa, the so-called “japanese cannibal” for murdering and eating a Dutch student in 1981 in Paris, he died at the age of 73.
His crime had caused horror throughout the world.
Sagawa died on Nov. 24 of pneumonia, and his funeral was already held with only his relatives present, according to a statement released by the publisher of an autobiography of his brother, Jun, published in 2019. No public ceremony is planned, it added. announcement.
Issei Sagawa was a student in Paris at the Sorbonne University when, on June 11, 1981, he invited a Dutch fellow student to his apartment for dinner. Rene Hartefeldt.
There he killed her by shooting her in the neck with a carbine and raped her, before dismembering her and eating various parts of her corpse over the course of three days.
“Eating this girl was an expression of love. I wanted to feel inside me the existence of a person I love”, he had said after his arrest.
Diagnosed with mental illness by experts, he was not convicted and was held in custody in France and then Japan before regaining his freedom in August 1985.
He became a media star and hosted numerous reporters at his apartment in a Tokyo suburb. He had appeared on Japanese television a few times and had published bestsellers such as “Cannibal” or “I would like to eat”while he had also sketched a manga (Japanese comic), in which his crime was narrated.
Japanese author Juro Kara won the Akutagawa Literary Prize in 1982 for his crime novel The Letter of Sagawa.
Two anthropologists made a documentary about him in 2018 called “Caniba”, in which Issei Sagawa claimed that he was unable to “explain” his act.
“It’s just my imagination. I can’t say anything more specific,” he stated in the film. “People must think I’m crazy.”
He said it was “impossible to contain” his “obsession”, adding: “I wanted to eat butt, more than anything else in the world”.
The documentary’s creators, Verena Paravel and Lucian Castain-Taylor, said they had a host of “extremely conflicting feelings” during the months they spent with Issei Sagawa and his self-mutilating brother Jun.
“We were disgusted, fascinated, we wanted to understand…”, explained Verena Paravel, adding that it is nevertheless a “film about brotherhood, about love”.
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