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The Cannibal That Walked Free

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FusionCutter
Profile Joined October 2004
Canada974 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-10 10:10:16
May 10 2010 09:59 GMT
#1
Warning, the following contains disturbing material.

This documentary examines the remarkable case of Issei Sagawa, who walked free from prison despite having killed and eaten a young woman in the early 1980s. The film interviews Sagawa alongside police officers, journalists and psychiatrists to piece together the shocking story of his crime and his subsequent rise to become a minor celebrity in Japan.

In June 1981, police in Paris were alerted to the discovery of two suitcases containing human remains left by a small Asian man in the Bois de Boulogne park. A manhunt soon traced the perpetrator of this heinous crime Japanese exchange student Issei Sagawa. Police were shocked when the young man calmly confessed to killing his Dutch classmate Renée Hartevelt and eating her flesh. However, despite overwhelming evidence, Sagawa was declared insane and never stood trial. Within 34 months of the murder, he was returned to Japan a free man.

Today, 58-year-old Sagawa lives alone under an assumed name in a council flat outside Tokyo. He recounts his deeds in his own words, explaining how his obsessions with cannibalism began in childhood. Sagawa says that preoccupations about his frail physique led him to idolise the beauty of western women. Im very small and ugly, so I admire the beautiful existence, he says. This fascination with western women first came to the fore when he attacked a German woman in her apartment in Tokyo. Sagawa was arrested, only for his wealthy father to save him by paying his victim not to press charges.

Despite being labelled extremely dangerous, Sagawa was allowed to move to France on an exchange programme in 1977. Now surrounded by tempting western women, Sagawa at last found his target when he met Renée Hartevelt. Sagawa was deeply in love with Renée, and his love was so mad that he thought the most he could love her was to eat her, says journalist Jean-Pierre Van Geirt. In 1981, Sagawa invited Hartevelt to his apartment, shot her from behind and cannibalised her.

After his arrest, Sagawa underwent a year of psychiatric evaluation. The original report, unearthed by this documentary, records that he was over-sensitive, emotionally cold and selfsatisfied when he talked about the murder. Sagawa was deemed insane and unfit to stand trial. However, once again, Sagawas father intervened to help his son. He hired a top lawyer to convince the authorities that Sagawas confinement was a burden to the French tax payer and that he should be deported to Japan. The motion succeeded on the sole condition that he never return to France.

Upon his arrival in Japan, Sagawa was a free man but to avoid public outcry, his father placed his son in a psychiatric facility. Scarcely 18 months later, Sagawa checked himself out and has remained free ever since. Honestly, we were shocked to see him released so quickly, says Olivier Coll, the lead detective in his case. It was a miscarriage of justice, adds Patrick Duvall, author of a book about the cannibal.

Sagawa now claims to feel remorse for his crime but critics say he has exploited it to become famous. Since the mid-1980s, Sagawa has written 20 books about his deeds and appeared in countless television programmes, newspaper columns, stage shows and even porn videos.

Most shocking of all, Sagawa is free to roam unsupervised, despite admitting that he still has cannibalistic urges. My childhood desire is just the same when I see all the beautiful girls legs, he says. I want to eat, so Im not cured at all. Over time, his obsession with western women has been replaced by a lust for Japanese females. In light of these revelations, Sagawa agrees to be filmed attending his first psychiatric exam in ten years, resulting in some highly disturbing findings.















WHAT on EARTH. A free man?? I can't believe I'd never heard of this guy until now. I mean.. it's so shocking I don't even know what to think of this guy.. a free man? His family's wealth must have had something to do with this result.

Any thoughts on this? I find it amazing that this is how he makes a living now.. talking about his crime and appearing on interviews. Simply astounding.


FreshNoThyme
Profile Joined March 2008
United States356 Posts
May 10 2010 10:05 GMT
#2
Not that something like this is necessarily "common knowledge", but I imagine most people here have heard about him. He's rather famous, as your post said, especially in Japan.
WindOw
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Sweden407 Posts
May 10 2010 10:06 GMT
#3
Insane... So much for the justice system eh. This guy shoulda been incarcerated until he died.
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Amnesia
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3818 Posts
May 10 2010 10:07 GMT
#4
Omg I read somehting about this awhile ago. This is really fucked up.
Saturnize
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States2473 Posts
May 10 2010 10:07 GMT
#5
Kind of interesting... Not that its a good thing.
"Time to put the mustard on the hotdog. -_-"
Kim_Hyun_Han
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
706 Posts
May 10 2010 10:16 GMT
#6
this man deserves only 1 kind of death

be consumed by lions

KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42552 Posts
May 10 2010 10:19 GMT
#7
We did this on tl not too long ago.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42552 Posts
May 10 2010 10:20 GMT
#8
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104170
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
SoL[9]
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Portugal1370 Posts
May 10 2010 10:26 GMT
#9
On May 10 2010 19 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              10 2010 19      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:16 Kim_Hyun_Han wrote:
this man deserves only 1 kind of death

be consumed by lions



Lions? Lions eat to survive there is nature, but this guy dont have a nature.


Now i see if you have money, a fucking good lawyer you can go away with anything...
I Can Fly...
Kim_Hyun_Han
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
706 Posts
May 10 2010 10:28 GMT
#10
On May 10 2010 19:26 SoL[9] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2010 19 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              10 2010 19      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:16 Kim_Hyun_Han wrote:
this man deserves only 1 kind of death

be consumed by lions



Lions? Lions eat to survive there is nature, but this guy dont have a nature.


Now i see if you have money, a fucking good lawyer you can go away with anything...



he will serve nature this way

being lion food

u know lions are in threat of extinction
Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
May 10 2010 10:30 GMT
#11
+ Show Spoiler +
[QUOTE]On May 10 2010 19:28 Kim_Hyun_Han wrote:
[QUOTE]On May 10 2010 19:26 SoL[9] wrote:
[QUOTE]On May 10 2010 19 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              10 2010 19      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:16 Kim_Hyun_Han wrote:
this man deserves only 1 kind of death

be consumed by lions

[/QUOTE]

Lions? Lions eat to survive there is nature, but this guy dont have a nature.


Now i see if you have money, a fucking good lawyer you can go away with anything...
[/QUOTE]


he will serve nature this way

being lion food

u know lions are in threat of extinction[/QUOTE
]what if he eat the lions? poor lions... i think he should just be shot.
for there to be pro there has to be noob.
Tdelamay
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada548 Posts
May 10 2010 10:35 GMT
#12
It's odd. This story reminded me of the book/movie Perfume; where the main character attempts to make the best perfume from the scent of the most beautiful woman.
This road isn't leading anywhere...
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
May 10 2010 10:43 GMT
#13
so I was watching this and I made this little pic just now
[image loading]
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Ghardo
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Germany1685 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-10 10:50:28
May 10 2010 10:49 GMT
#14
Sagawa the 'celebrity' poses for a magazine photographer.
[image loading]

rofl, what an asshole.
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
May 10 2010 11:09 GMT
#15
This guy is a ghoul from WC3.
Licmyobelisk
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Philippines3682 Posts
May 10 2010 11:11 GMT
#16
there were post in the past regarding this asshole
I don't think I've ever wished my opponent good luck prior to a game. When I play, I play to win. I hope every opponent I ever have is cursed with fucking terrible luck. I hope they're stuck playing underneath a stepladder with a black cat in attendance a
Licmyobelisk
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Philippines3682 Posts
May 10 2010 11:15 GMT
#17
On May 10 2010 19:43 CharlieMurphy wrote:
so I was watching this and I made this little pic just now
[image loading]



there's a big suite case or he has this terrorist mask?
I don't think I've ever wished my opponent good luck prior to a game. When I play, I play to win. I hope every opponent I ever have is cursed with fucking terrible luck. I hope they're stuck playing underneath a stepladder with a black cat in attendance a
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
May 10 2010 11:17 GMT
#18
On May 10 2010 19:43 CharlieMurphy wrote:
so I was watching this and I made this little pic just now
[image loading]


what am i spposed to see? o _o
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valaki
Profile Joined June 2009
Hungary2476 Posts
May 10 2010 11:17 GMT
#19
A lot of mass murderers "walked free" so no surprise here.
ggaemo fan
FusionCutter
Profile Joined October 2004
Canada974 Posts
May 10 2010 11:20 GMT
#20
Sorry for the repost y'all. I did a search on Cannibalism and didn't find it.. shoulda searched for his name. Close thread if necessary.
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