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 Tokyos Matsuzawa Psychiatric hospital, and has been a free man ever since. Watch our documentary The Japanese Love Industry here: ift.tt/1fAlYmD Originally aired in 2011 on VICE Watch more VICE documentaries here: bit.ly/VICE-Documentaries Subscribe to VICE: bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: ift.tt/Pka3a2 Videos, daily editorial and more: vice Like VICE on Facebook: fb/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: twitter/vice Read our tumblr: ift.tt/Pka1iq ift.tt/11XeDqH
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