The Cannibal Who Is a Free Man

[RoleModel'Est96]

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.

Interview


Do you guys think think Sagawa should've gotten the death penalty or do you think that due to his mental health, he should be given a chance to reform? I'm always intrigued in cases like this where crimes are commited due to the mental health of someone.
Do you think its fair to charge someone with a crime they've commited regardless of their mental condition or do you think they should be acquitted?
Can you look at the criminal as being a victim themselves?

But in this specfic case, what Sagawa did was absolutely sick, although, nearing the end of the interview I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel an ounce of sympathy for him. 'I'm 61 and still can't figure out what all this is about. I don't know who I am, nor the meaning of life...it would be much easier to die. I really wish they would give me the death sentence' The fact that he simply can't help himself creeps me out but I agree with what the pornstar says 'I think it's selfish to let his fantasies grow wild'

If they're is anyone who can say Relapse is almost biographical, it's this guy

[Just Silver]

i think once it reaches cannabalism they need to die to protect everyone else

[Blu]

I remember watching this some time ago. He's obviously depressed if he's having thoughts about death so he might eventually kill himself.

Or kill again…

[Kill You]

Yummy. Too bad for him that he didn't know there's better ways to hide body parts.

[RoleModel'Est96]

He really gives a completely different meaning to eating somebody out...

[Kill You]

Lol at us making cannibal jokes. Only Eminem fans.

[Eedee]

That video was fucked up but I'm afraid to say it made me hungry.

[Trimss]

I watched the whole video and it was something I don't regret. Guy is obviously fucked up, but it was a great way of wasting my time.

[SliK]

Deleted some posts that I considered spam. We're cracking down on Serious Debate, so please follow the new rules (there's a thread in here with them, and if you don't read it it's your own fault.)

Good.

This guy never killed again so I guess he got the appropriate sentence.

[RoleModel'Est96]

^^Yeah, the guy's more well spoken than me (well-disregarding the language, obvs) I don't think I'd be able to be interviewed with a camera watching me to save my life.

[Amaranthine]

Ew, ew, ew....that being said, if he had some kind of defined mental disorder, he should be declared insane and put in an institution for the rest of his life.

[the real slim shady]

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.

Do you guys think think Sagawa should've gotten the death penalty or do you think that due to his mental health, he should be given a chance to reform? I'm always intrigued in cases like this where crimes are commited due to the mental health of someone.
Do you think its fair to charge someone with a crime they've commited regardless of their mental condition or do you think they should be acquitted?
Can you look at the criminal as being a victim themselves?

But in this specfic case, what Sagawa did was absolutely sick, although, nearing the end of the interview I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel an ounce of sympathy for him. 'I'm 61 and still can't figure out what all this is about. I don't know who I am, nor the meaning of life...it would be much easier to die. I really wish they would give me the death sentence' The fact that he simply can't help himself creeps me out but I agree with what the pornstar says 'I think it's selfish to let his fantasies grow wild'

If they're is anyone who can say Relapse is almost biographical, it's this guy

it was all going so well.
In all honesty though this guy deserves to die, not gonna go into detail but what he did is just fucked.

[RoleModel'Est96]

^^I'm hanging my head in shame.
Just to please: there's* there is* pick and choose

, I have to do some dumb presentation on anything we wanted in class so I think I'm going to do it on this guy. I've got no talents to talk about so I'm resorting to do a speech on a horny cannibal

[SG.]

Eurgh. Just… eurgh.

[the real slim shady]

Eurgh. Just… eurgh.

First watched it while eating.. the plates of 'meat' came up on the screen.


My food went in the bin.

^^I'm hanging my head in shame.
Just to please: there's* there is* pick and choose

, I have to do some dumb presentation on anything we wanted in class so I think I'm going to do it on this guy. I've got no talents to talk about so I'm resorting to do a speech on a horny cannibal

I am judging you.

Do the presentation on music or something though i include eminem in my work when i can, its something i love to learn about so why not include it if you feel strongly about this though then yeah go ahead, what sort of stuff are you going to say? Or are you just outlining what he did?

And you certainly do have some talents you just need to recognise what they are

edit:

He really gives a completely different meaning to eating somebody out...

do the talk on sexual jokes? This forum will be more than willing to provide some