After killing and raping the friend he invited to his house, he ate his lifeless body! Sagawa, the cannibal the world was talking about, is dead

Japanese killer Issei Sagawa, nicknamed “Kobe Cannibal”, died in 1981 in Paris, France, after killing a Dutch woman named Renee Hartevelt and eating her body. The long-time carer of 73-year-old Sagawa, who became a cultural icon for his murder, announced that his brother died of pneumonia on November 24 at a hospital in Tokyo.

Born into a wealthy family in Kobe, Japan in 1949, Sagawa went to France at the age of 28 to study for a doctorate in literature. On the evening of June 11, 1981, he met his classmate Renee Hartevelt from the Sorbonne under an excuse. school he is translating a poem for his assignment. After inviting him to dinner, he shot him dead with a rifle. It turned out that Sagawa, who raped the victim’s corpse, then ate some parts of the body.

Describing himself as weak, ugly and small, Sagawa claimed that Hartevelt wanted to absorb life energy with food. A crime due to lack of ability in France Sagawa, who could not be prosecuted, was later brought to Japan and hospitalized.

in France who concluded that Sagawa, who could not be tried in his country because the case materials were closed, was healthy doctorsrevealed that Sagawa’s only motivation for committing the murder was his sexual disorder.

Although Sagawa’s return to normal life after his release from the hospital on August 12, 1986 caused much debate, Sagawa’s murder became the subject of books and films and became a popular cultural icon. Between 1986 and 1997, Sagawa was a frequent guest speaker and commentator on programs, wrote books and wrote commentaries for magazines.

Sagawa, who lost popularity over the years due to backlash and was hospitalized in 2013 with a brain disease that permanently damaged his nervous system, has been caring for his brother ever since.

(UAV)

Translation“24 HOURS”