Issei Sagawa

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Issei Sagawa ( Japanese 佐川 一 政 , Sagawa Issei ; born April 26, 1949 in Kobe ) is a Japanese cannibalist woman murderer. He was only a few years after his act in psychiatric accommodation and published several non-fiction books and novels.

Life

Sagawa, who claims to have been obsessed with the idea of ​​eating a woman - if possible European - on June 11, 1981, killed the 25-year-old Dutch woman Renée Hartevelt, who like him studied comparative literature at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) . He shot her from behind with a small bore rifle when she was sitting at his desk reading a German poem at his request for a sound recording. Then he ate parts of her corpse, partly raw, partly prepared, and, thereby sexually aroused, molested the mutilated corpse. After he was observed by witnesses two days after the unsuccessful attempt to remove the majority of the body of his victim in two suitcases in a lake in the Bois de Boulogne , he was investigated and arrested two more days. The police found seven kilograms of human tissue in his apartment in the refrigerator, as well as the victim's papers, the murder weapon, the sound recording of the murder and an undeveloped film with photos of what happened after the killing.

After three psychiatric reports denied Sagawa's culpability at the time of the offense and at the same time regarded his ongoing dangerousness as a given, the investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguière determined Sagawa's culpability in 1983 and ordered his psychiatric placement . A little later, Sagawa was deported to Japan, among other things at the instigation of his lawyer because of the better therapeutic options in his own culture. Japanese psychiatrists then found that Sagawa was not suffering from psychosis, only a personality disorder, that he was guilty at the time of the crime and that the opposite French assessment had come about through active deception of the reviewers by Sagawa. Because the legal requirement for placement was no longer applicable, he had to be released from it, although his dangerousness was still regarded as given. A new charge was no longer legally possible. On August 13, 1985, Sagawa was released after 15 months in Tokyo's Matsuzawa Psychiatric Hospital. As a result of the deed, he achieved national fame in his native Japan, including a. through his unrepentant and triumphant appearance after his release.

In 1983 Sagawa described his experiences in the book In the Fog . In 1997 he wrote the book Shonen A about the 14-year-old serial killer Seito Sakakibara . To this day he writes regularly for a Japanese magazine and has published several successful novels. Sagawa also appeared in the erotic film Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme (also Shisenjō no Aria , English The Bedroom ).

music

The act had inspired two well-known British bands. The Stranglers dedicated the title song La Folie from the 1981 album of the same name to her . The Rolling Stones followed in 1983 with the song Too Much Blood from the album Undercover . The incident is also the subject of the Issei Sagawa EP by the Dutch Gnaw Their Tongues . The German group Ost + Front also dedicates itself to the incident on their album "Olympia" in the song "Harte Welt".

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SURNAME Sagawa, Issei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 佐川 一 政 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese murderer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe