Issei Sagawa is a descendant of a Japanese businessman who loved France, its history and culture, and therefore felt the need for deep study. It was for this purpose that he arrived at the Sorbonne. However, in a hospitable country, he did such a thing that shocked not only the French, but the whole world.
Meeting young people
This happened in 1981. A small Japanese student, Issei Sagawa, met a student from the Netherlands named Rene Hartevelt. The interests of both coincided in many ways, so they quickly found a common language and began to sympathize with each other. They were attracted to poetry, they read poetry, while recording them on a tape recorder. Ideal relations continued with Issei Sagawa and Rene Hartevelt for exactly one month.
The assassination of Rene Hartevelt
On June 11, 1981, during such a literary meeting, young people, as usual, began to recite verses. As the French police would later find out , Rene read them. A sharp and loud bang occurred at this time, after which there was a gloomy and ominous silence. She became eternal for a young Dutch student.
The shocking details of the next steps.
However, the country was not struck by the murder itself, since, like in any other state, such incidents are not uncommon. What happened next caused a shock to the public. A few years after the murder, Issei Sagawa spoke about his monstrous act.
He cut the girl’s body, blood ran from there. Her meat looked like beef. Izuver first tried to bite off the buttocks, after it did not work out - from the hip. But this also failed. Then he took a knife and cut off the flesh of Rene. The meat melted in my mouth like fresh tuna. The ogre then thought that at last he tasted the white woman. For him at that moment there was nothing better in the world.
After eating, Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal, cut off several pieces from the girl’s body, packed them in plastic bags, put them in the freezer to come later and again to taste the humans. After all, no matter how terrifying it may look, the maniac in a calm state and excellent mood went to the cinema with his friends.
Concealment of crime
Although it might seem from the outside that Issei Sagawa is mentally abnormal, he was aware of the consequences of his act. It was for this reason that he returned to the scene of the crime and decided to hide his tracks. He packed the remains of Rene Hartevelt in suitcases, called a taxi, which drove into the Bois de Boulogne. There the cannibal began to look for a place where it was possible to hide the remains. Having decided to drown the evidence in the pond, Issei Sagawa already wanted to throw suitcases with terrible contents at him, but at that time he heard and saw two young people heading in his direction. This frightened the psychopath, he threw both suitcases into the bushes, and he fled in panic.
This behavior, of course, surprised a couple. Going up to the bushes to see what was there, they were amazed - a human hand was sticking out of a suitcase.
Arrest
The capture of the criminal did not last long. The taxi driver, who remembered his passenger well, told the police everything about him, and she found out his whereabouts. After some time, he was interrogated at the police station, where he confessed everything, as there was plenty of evidence. From the death penalty of a superstitious man, only the fact that the new president of France announced a moratorium on this type of punishment was saved just before this crime.
After carrying out long investigative actions and trials, Issei Sagawa still did not begin to punish, recognizing him mentally insane.
Literary activity of the criminal
In July 1983, the Japanese cannibal was transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital located in a suburb of the French capital. In that institution, the criminal began to write a book about the crime he committed. It was called "In the Fog." Issei Sagawa, whose books were sold in more than four hundred thousand copies, later wrote another work - “The Letter of Sagawa”. The latter was recognized in Japan and won one of the most prestigious literary awards.
Exemption
Issei Sagawa had rather wealthy relatives who began to make every effort to return him to their native lands. A fairly powerful campaign was launched, as a result of which the maniac was still transported to Japan. There he was also admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
Apparently, the treatment yielded results, although most likely this was achieved by the aforementioned relatives, because on September 14, 1985 Issei Sagawa, whose memoirs became widely popular in his native country, was released and recognized as a healthy person. Parents were placed over him.
Life after liberation
Oddly enough, but after the Sagawa was released, he was closely engaged in such activities that were in full view of the whole society. The attitude of the Japanese public towards cannibal looks even stranger. They literally made a star out of it. So, in 1992 he was invited to a television channel popular in this country, where he worked as a host for several weeks. After that, he began filming pornographic films in which he took a direct part. The plot of these films was inextricably linked with the theme of cannibalism. Sagawa played them all the same maniac who wants to eat women. He called one of his films “I Want to Be Eaten”.
Doubts that he got rid of the disease, after such films only intensify. And after the cannibal's statements that he sometimes wants to eat his girlfriends, you are firmly convinced of this.
An even more unimaginable fact is that the strange story of Sagawa Issei does not end there. So, some time ago he had a chosen one, on whom the maniac decided to marry. She is only nineteen years old, she read all the books of her lover and decided that he was her hero. When a psychopath is asked if he wants to try a piece of flesh of his beloved, he laughs off.
“She's too young, and doctors forbade me from eating meat because of diabetes,” says Issei Sagawa.
At the same time, the parents of Rene Hartevelt are rightly outraged by what is happening and by all means seek the return of Sagawa to France. They believe that if a maniac was recognized as healthy, then he can now be judged. But the cannibal defenders are also on the defensive, taking all measures to prevent a return to France. They made sure that Sagawa was placed in a hospital where nervous patients are being treated. And to this day, this criminal is working there on his work. And it became known that in the near future he will publish the book "Dictionary of Cannibalism."