Issei Sagawa, nicknamed the "Japanese cannibal" for killing and devouring a Dutch student in Paris in 1981, has died in Tokyo at the age of 73.
In 1981, when he was a student at the Sorbonne University, he invited a fellow Dutch student, Renée Hartevelt, to dinner at his apartment.
He killed her with a rifle shot, cut her body into pieces and ate several parts.
A few days later he was arrested in his house.
The remains of the victim were found in the freezer.
eating it was a supreme gesture of love," said Sagawa. Recognized as mentally ill, he was locked up in a psychiatric hospital in France and in 1985 was extradited to Japan where he was released. He lived in an apartment on the outskirts of Tokyo.
