The Issei Sagawathe so-called “Japanese Cannibals»On charges of killing and eating a Dutch student in 1981 in Paris, he died at the age of 73.
His crime caused terror all over the world. Sagawa died on November 24 He was diagnosed with pneumonia and his funeral was actually attended only by his relatives, according to a statement from the publisher of his brother’s biography, June, published in 2019. The statement added that no public ceremony was planned.
Issei Sagawa was a student in Paris at the Sorbonne when, on June 11, 1981, he invited a fellow Dutch student, Renee Hartfeldt. There he killed her by shooting her in the neck with a carbine and raping 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 presence of someone I love.”He said after his arrest.
Since the experts had diagnosed mental illness, he was not convicted and put in jail in France and then in Japanbefore regaining his freedom in August 1985.
He became a media star and entertained many reporters in his apartment in a suburb of Tokyo. He has appeared on Japanese television several times and has published bestsellers such as “cannibal” or theI’d like to eatwhile he had also drawn a manga (Japanese comic), in which his crime was narrated.
Japanese writer Guru Kara In 1982 he won the Akutagawa Literary Prize for his crime novel, The Letter of Sagawa.
Two anthropologists filmed a documentary about him in 2018 titled “Caniba”, Where Issei Sagawa claimed he was unable to “explain” his action. “It’s just my imagination. I can’t say anything more specific,” he said in the film. “People must think I’m crazy.”
He said it was “impossible to contain” his “obsession”, adding:I wanted to eat buttocks more than anything else in the world.”. The documentary’s authors, Verena Paravel and Lucien Castine-Taylor, said they had a range of “very conflicting feelings” during the months he spent with Issei Sagawa and his deformed brother, John.
“We were disgusted, dumbfounded, and wanted to understand…”Verena Paravel explained, adding that it is “a movie about sisterhood and love”.
Source: RES-MPE
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