Issei 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)

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