I am speechlessā¦ life always comes back to meet usā¦ DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THIS MURDERER ?I,Ā
who donāt know Japanese, have never forgotten this name Issei Sagawa
Ā Ā A CASE THAT I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER ā¦Ā
In the 80ās I used to buy the French photography magazine PHOTO, and that month, the magazine in the middle had a āclosed notebook with a report about this murderer, but the pages came glued, you had to tear them to see the content, because of the violence of the images it was violent, they said it was some cop or investigator who photographed and to make money ā¦. As the case began to arouse a lot of interest, magazines, collectors, and curious people started to get to know about it and came up with good proposals for those who wanted to sell the magazine and gave some good money. Ā I always wanted to keep it, I didnāt want to sell it, but unfortunately, when I was away for a short period of time, relatives of mine sold it. I was very angry until todayā¦ Memories of youth"Japanese cannibalā Issei Sagawa dies at 73 of pneumonia.
The writer became known for murdering and partially eating a Dutch girlfriend he was living with in Paris in 1981.Sagawa died on November 24 in a Tokyo hospital, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported this Friday.While studying Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne University in the French capital, Sagawa shot RenĆ©e Jartevelt, a 25-year-old Dutch student, to death.he cut her friend up and her body was all wrapped in plastic bags and stored in the fridgeā¦Ā
Ā Issei Sagawa shot and killed a woman in his apartment. He ate different parts of her body over a day period because he thought it would let him āabsorb her beauty.ā He also had sex with her corpse. Later on, Sagawa tried to dispose of the leftovers in a lake in France, where he lived.The Japanese man then raped the corpse, cut it into pieces, which he packed and kept inside a refrigerator.Sagawa defrosted and ate parts of the body for a few days, until he was arrested by the French police while trying to dispose of two suitcases with Jarteveltās remains in the lake of a Parisian park.
The son of an influential Japanese family, he was considered not guilty of criminal responsibility after an evaluation by French psychiatrists, and was repatriated to Japan in 1984.After a year in a Japanese psychiatric institution, Sagawa was released in 1985, which at the time triggered a wave of protest in France and the Netherlands.Later, Sagawa became a literary celebrity and his memoir āKiri no nakaā (āAmong the Fogā, 1984) is considered a best seller in Japan.Another writer, Juro Kara, won the prestigious Akutagawa Literary Prize in 1982 for āSagawa-kun kara no tegamiā (āLetters from Sagawaā), based on the crime.In 2019, the case returned to the spotlight with the Japanese premiere of the documentary āCaniba,ā which competed at the Venice film festival in 2017.
The film, which begins by stressing āno intention to justify the crime,ā gathers confessions and footage of the criminal, bedridden in an apartment, in a clear state of mental disturbance and assisted by his brother, Jun. On 11 June 1981, Sagawa, then 32, invited his Sorbonne classmate RenĆ©e Hartevelt, a Dutch woman, to dinner at his apartment at 10 Rue Erlanger, under the pretext of translating poetry for a school assignment. Sagawa planned to kill and eat her, having selected her for her health and beauty - characteristics he felt he lacked. Sagawa considered himself weak, ugly, and small (he was 144.8 cm (4 ft 9 in) tall) and claims he wanted to absorb her energy. She was 25 years old and 178 cm (5 ft 10 in).
Ā After Hartevelt arrived, she began reading poetry at a desk with her back to Sagawa when he shot her in the neck with a rifle. Sagawa said he fainted after the shock of shooting her, but awoke with the realization that he had to carry out his plan. Sagawa had sex with her corpse but he could not bite into her skin because his teeth were not sharp enough, so he left the apartment and purchased a butcher knife. Sagawa consumed various parts of Harteveltās body, eating most of her breasts and face either raw or cooked, while saving other parts in his refrigerator. Sagawa also took photographs of Harteveltās body at each eating stage.
Ā Sagawa then attempted to dump the remains of Hartveltās corpse in a lake in the Bois de Boulogne, carrying her dismembered body parts in two suitcases, but was caught in the act and arrested by French police four days later.Sagawaās wealthy father provided a lawyer for his defense, and after being held for two years awaiting trial, Sagawa was found legally insane and unfit to stand trial by the French judge, Jean-Louis BruguiĆØre, who ordered him held indefinitely in a mental institution. After a visit by the author Inuhiko Yomota, Sagawaās account of his kill was published in Japan under the title In the Fog. Sagawaās subsequent publicity and macabre celebrity likely contributed to the French authoritiesā decision to deport him to Japan, where he was immediately committed to Matsuzawa Hospital in Tokyo.Ā
His examining psychologists all declared him sane and found sexual perversion was his sole motivation for murder. As the charges against Sagawa in France had been dropped, the French court documents were sealed and were not released to Japanese authorities; consequently Sagawa could not legally be detained in Japan. Sagawa checked himself out of the hospital on 12 August 1986, and has subsequently remained free since that day. Sagawaās continued freedom has been widely criticized.Ā
Ā In 2013, Sagawa was hospitalized from a cerebral infarction, which permanently damaged his nervous system. He now lives alone and needs daily assistance, which is provided by his younger brother or from caregivers.
