Why is issei sagawa not in jail

But because I'd desired to consume human flesh for so long, I'd managed to convince myself that it would necessarily be delicious. I wish they would stop reporting on this guy every couple of years. It just glorifies his violence, and may encourage others to do similar things. Frankly it's a worry that this guy is not locked up. I'm not saying it to be mean or that he should have served more time - is it really safe for others if he is free?

Well, he got away with murder and cannibalism. And while he may be in fragile health, he gets to have a forum every few years to wax nostalgically about it as if it were some summer romance during a Paris vacation. And stupid me, I read it. Other than the shocking nature of his crime, the biggest shock for me in this was how on his return to Japan he was paraded in the public eye by the media - a kind of "twisted celebration".

He gave tv interviews and discussed his crime as a matter of course, wrote books and articles as far as I know never saw the inside of a cell. How could such a person of evil intent insane or otherwise be allowed to flaunt himself in society? Clearly this guy from the rape case had a history of violence against women.

He should have been given a rope necktie and be done with it. Totally agree. It is important to realize that after escaping a long sentence in a French prison, Sagawa's "frail mental state" didn't stop him from milking his infamy for all it is worth. He used to be a regular guest on various daytime programs. A right nasty piece of work. What, he lives in an apartment in Kawasaki? Why didn't the Japanese authorities lock him away forever? I wonder how the family of Renee Hartevelt feel, seeing this guy not only getting off scot free for murdering their loved one but being treated like a rock star for having done so.

This is all very disturbing. He is clearly a psychopath - no emotion or concern whatsoever, he speaks like he is totally disassociated from himself. Makes me wonder how many more just like him are wandering around untreated and unconcerned. In , investigative journalists from Australia's program 60 minutes actually tracked this guy down in Roppongi and interviewed him, partially in English.

Apparently, he used to spend time there in the late s and s. Hope the French who released him to Japan are proud of themselves, if they're aware at all of his celebrity status since. JT: Sagawa had propositioned Rene, who refused, saying she was committed to someone else.

That's not necessarily contradictory. Maybe it was three steps: invite to record, proposition, shooting. Its a shame the French let him go and its a bigger shame that the media treat him as a celebrity. He is the lowliest of the low among humans and should be locked up forever. If he is mentally ill lock him up in the psychiatric ward, he should not be out there enjoying life, something his victim is not capable of doing.

Sagawa's family was quite wealthy and it was reported that his father arranged to pay more than 1-oku yen close to half a million dollars at the time to the French attorney, who used it to pull strings and get Sagawa freed.

Upon his return to Japan, he became the world's first and only "celebrity cannibal. And why is this sicko given a platform to "reminisce" about the murder? That this guy is given a public platform instead of rotting jail is truly a shame on Japan.

I wonder did that guy who eluded the J-police for killing that British woman a few years back know of this guy and his case, and if that had any impacts on what he did. Just from my reading of this case and the one I mentioned, it seems that if a Japanese male kills white women it is somehow seen as a celebrity crime and the media is fixated.

If they kill and stuff a Filipina woman in a suitcase as was the case recently, it is reported, but not as much a celebrity case.

But if a foreigner kills a Japanese woman either in Japan or on vaction, there is national outrage and Japanese citizens are warned to be on guard against foreigners. I wonder if the Japanese public would be so keen on things if the situation was reversed and a foreign woman had eaten a Japanese guy I thought he was a complete psychopath, but reading the statement above, it appears that his case is more complex than I thought.

The reasons why he has the desire and what made him actually act along with it should be examined immediately in order to prevent other similar incidents from happening. Isny having a person who has eaten another wistfully reminiscing about how he should have just eaten the victims pubic hair or drank her urine not beyond the pale of reporting!!

Turbotsat ,before making some stupid French bashing , you should check the background of this story 1- This insane guy is the son of Sagawa Publishing and the Japanese governement at this time put a lot of pressure on the French government to release him. For humanitarian reasons ,the deal was that he would be interned in a psychiatric hospital upon his arrival in Japan. If I remember well, he just spent a couple of months and was considered as cured and released.

You can imagine that we , in France were not happy about the breach Why is this man alive or allowed to walk freely and possibly procreate? Listen to him, he hasn't changed.

His existence serves no purpose and retelling his chilling tale so casually is completely disrespectful to the memory of Renee Hartevelt. But anyone who knows his history would find little humor in the ramblings of this onetime would-be scholar.

Sagawa was a year-old student when arrested for attempted rape after he crawled into the second-story window of a German woman he admired in Tokyo. His wealthy father settled the matter by paying the woman a large amount of cash. Sagawa returned to his studies but never passed the entrance examination for a prestigious Japanese university. He chose, instead, to go to Paris to study language and literature. There, after spending almost four years studying and writing articles for Japanese intellectual magazines, he met Renee Hartevelt, a year-old Dutch student.

He began paying her to visit his small apartment to teach him German and to tape-record German poems. He fatally shot Hartevelt, then cut up her body, refrigerated parts and planned to dump the rest in a park. He was arrested and jailed in France before his transfer to a mental institution, where he was pronounced brain-damaged and unfit to stand trial. During his jail and hospital time, he embarked on his life as a minor Japanese celebrity.

As the remains began to smell, Sagawa decided to dispose of Hartevelt. He put her dismembered corpse into two suitcases and brought them to a large park outside Paris.

After his arrest, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital and kept there until , when the French shipped him back to Japan. Incredibly, he was not tried in his homeland. Though well-educated, Sagawa was largely unemployable after the killing in Paris. We saw no expressions of remorse. By the time the filmmakers caught up with Sagawa in , he was suffering from diabetes and had suffered two heart attacks.

One day, Sagawa encountered another tall, blonde woman. She was a year-old Dutch student named Renee who was studying for a Ph. Eventually, Sagawa decided he must devise a way to get close to her.

He gave Renee a healthy amount of wages. Over time Renee and Sagawa developed a friendship, one where Sagawa would take Renee to art exhibits and invite her over for dinner a preamble to what would come. According to Sagawa, Renee liked being with him because of his obvious intelligence and ability to discuss a wide array of artistic topics. One fateful night, Sagawa decided it was time to take matters into his own hands and carry out his full plan.

Sagawa gave Renee a German poem to read under the false pretense that he wanted to record her fluent reading. He then took out a. Sagawa fainted after having shot Renee and when he came to he actually considered calling an ambulance.

After a moment of consideration though, Sagawa told himself that he would be insane to give up a chance to live out his lifelong fantasy. So at the age of 32, Issei Sagawa had his first taste of human flesh. The first thing Sagawa did was undress, Renee. He was pleased with the fact that she could no longer refuse him. Sagawa felt that she belonged to him now and that he would do everything in his power to fully possess her.

The first piece of human meat Sagawa tasted was the nipple of her left breast and the tip of her nose. These pieces he cut off with a knife, but he wanted to know what it felt like to bite into her with his teeth. Biting into another human was something he had fantasized about since first grade when he had fixated on the thigh of a male classmate of his.

In the end, he chose her right buttock, but found it too difficult to pierce the flesh with teeth. Sagawa resorted to continuing to use a butcher knife to cut into her and marveled at the corn-like color and consistency of human fat.

Sagawa noted that it took him a long time to actually reach muscle when cutting into her buttock, but when he finally did, he tore off a chunk with his fingers and savored the taste. In the morning he ate more. Sagawa particularly relished the white flesh of her arm that he had been so fixated on before, but knew it was time to get rid of the body. Sagawa chopped off her lips as well as some other choice morsels to enjoy later and began cutting the corpse into pieces with a hatchet.

His plan was to dispose of her in a lake.