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Issei Sagawa also known as the Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981.
Sagawa murdered Hartevelt and then mutilated, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on her corpse over several days.
In 1983 he was deemed unfit for trial by French medical experts and was initially held in a psychiatric institution before being deported to Japan in 1984.
But on his arrival, he was ruled sane by Japanese authorities, who decided Sagawa’s only problem was a “character anomaly” and that he did not require hospitalization.
Japanese authorities were unable to get his case files from their French counterparts, who considered the case closed, leaving the murderer to walk free.
Sagawa made no secret of his crime and capitalized on his notoriety, including with a novel-like memoir titled “In the Fog” in which he reminisced about the murder in vivid detail.
Despite the heinous details of the murder, and his lack of remorse, Sagawa gained a level of celebrity and regularly gave interviews to domestic and international media in the years after his return.
Sagawa lived out his final years with his brother, reportedly in a wheelchair after a series of health problems including a stroke.
But he displayed no apparent sign of remorse or reform, telling Vice in a 2013 interview as he looked at posters of Japanese women: “I think they would taste delicious.”
Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24, 2022.
The Japanese should feel ashamed one of them didn't take one for the team and delete this dude from existence