The "Japanese cannibal" died at the age of 73, killed a girl and ate her as a "supreme act of love"
It happened in Paris, while Issei Sagawa was studying at the Sorbonne: arrested in 1981, he was extradited to Japan, where he was released in 1985Issei Sagawa, known as the "Japanese cannibal", has died in Tokyo at the age of 73.
In 1981, he killed and ate a Dutch student in Paris after raping her. He was a student at the Sorbonne University: one evening he invited a fellow student, the Dutch Renée Hartevelt, to dinner in his apartment.
He first killed her with a rifle shot, then cut her body into pieces and ate several parts. He was arrested at his home a few days later, the victim's remains were found in the freezer.
He said that eating that woman "was a supreme gesture of love."
The authorities recognized his insanity, the man was locked up in a psychiatric hospital in France and in 1985 he was extradited to Japan, where he was released. He lived in an apartment on the outskirts of Tokyo.
(Unioneonline/L)