Interview with a Cannibal

Issei Sagawa murdered an innocent woman and spent three days eating her flesh. Due to loopholes in the law, Issei is a free man to this day.

On the afternoon of June 13, 1981, a Japanese man named Issei Sagawa walked to the Bois de Boulogne, a park on the outskirts of Paris, carrying two suitcases. The contents of those suitcases, to the lament of a nearby jogger, was the dismembered body of a fellow student -- a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt, whom Sagawa had shot three days prior and had spent the days since eating various parts of her body.

He was soon arrested. According to reports, Issei uttered, "I killed her to eat her flesh," when they raided his home, whereupon they found bits of Renne still in his fridge.

Sagawa was declared insane and unfit for trial and was institutionalized in Paris. His incarceration was to be short, however, as the French public soon grew weary of their hard-earned francs going to support this evil woman-eater, and Issei was promptly deported. Herein followed a bizarre and seemingly too convenient set of legal loopholes and psychiatric reports that led doctors in Japan declaring him "sane, but evil."

On August 12, 1986, Sagawa checked himself out of Tokyo's Matsuzawa Psychiatric hospital, and has been a free man ever since.

Originally aired in 2011 on http://VICE.com

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[kidrock36987]

Atleast he could say that he ate some pussy. No? Too soon? My bad...

[leo leonardo]

japan is so damn stupid. yeah let's help this maniac to view women as human beings and not sex objects/dinner by paying a porn star to fuck him. then tell her he's a cannibal.

it's like no matter how shitty japan's men are, they will shit on females (literally, porn wise lol) more to make themselves look better.

the japanese are tolerant, which theoretically is a good thing. but it also means they tolerate a lot of bs and behaviour that should not be tolerated or accepted anywhere.

[xlamcx]

If only the world knew...did anybody else see the sick crime scene photos of what he did to this pure, young, youthful woman...HE DESTROYED HER LIFE. He had the nerve to dismember her and cut off her tits, nose, and he gut her like a fucking pig. IS THIS WHAT WE DO WITH CRIMINALS JAPAN? LET THEM FREE AND TURN THEM INTO TV SUPERSTAR?

The logic is so fucking baffling, im astounded this man still walks the earth. Just looking at him makes me wanna chop off his Wee and serve it up with some sriracha

[xlamcx]

Proof he killed more than her in the begging ! he said "IF I HAD KNOWS THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR KILLING A PERSON, MANY OF THEM WOULD STILL BE ALIVE" Hence the word "them" not HER ONE SINGLE FUCKING PERSON HOW MANY PEOPLE DID YOU EAT AND HOW MANY MILLS DID YOU MAKE OFF THAT SHIT YA FUCKIN JAP

[xlamcx]

Hell yeah thats fucked up. we should start a nuclear war

[Zahi Kanaan]

he hates blood, yet he shot a women and ate her flesh? his logic is flawless.

[aniabania4]

Holy shit, he then hired a prostitute, has sex with her 3 times, and then tells her about killing and eating a woman. This guy is so fucked up!!! How is is allowed to be out there in the streets???

[aniabania4]

I feel terrible for this poor girl's family...This dick gets out of jail and makes money off their pain, and they are confronted with videos/anime and shit of her death...what a fucked up situation...even to this day, they have to bear witness to this shit....those books should not be legal, even he knows that!

[1smartperson5656]

You can't treat mentally ill you have to kill then

[aniabania4]

why would you stereotype all Japanese people because of what he did? Also, he was released back in the 70's I think and I don't know if he would have received the same treatment now. What he did was disguisting and he should have received treatment and a harsher sentence, but it's unfair to label all Japanese people because of this dickhead!

[Aca Sj]

THIS GUY IS STRAIGHT FROM HELL

[1smartperson5656]

Someone needs to kill this fucker before he does it again