While taking classes at the famed Sorbonne in 1981, Issei Sagawa, invited fellow student Renee Hartevelt to his apartment to discuss literature. Once the unsuspecting "dinner guest" arrived,Sagawa shot her in the back of the neck, had sex with her dead corpse, and ate portions of her body over the next two days.
"It had no smell or taste, and melted in my mouth like raw tuna,"
he wrote in In the Fog, his post-cannibal best-selling account of his dinner with Renee.
"Finally I was eating a beautiful white woman,
and thought nothing was so delicious!"
In custody Sagawa was found incompetent to stand trial and placed in the Paul Guiraud asylum in Paris. Through family connections he was transferred to a hospital in Tokyo. And within fifteen months of hospitalization his influential father secured his release.
By then, Sagawa life had become a national celebrity. He has writen four books and writes a weekly column for a japanese tabloid. He often appears on television , and recently stated: " The public has made me the godfather of cannibalism,
and I am happy about that.
I will always look at the world through the eyes of a cannibal."
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