'Kobe Cannibal' whose only regret was not 'eating victim alive' is a free man

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cannibal who murdered and then devoured a woman in France in 1981 is currently a free man and has said he wants to taste human flesh again before he dies.

On June 11 1981, the shocking crimes of Issei Sagawa - nicknamed the Kobe Cannibal - came to light.The then-32 year old had invited his classmate at the famed Sorbonne University in Paris to his Parisian apartment for dinner.That classmate was Renee Hartevelt, who was only 25 at the time.Shortly after arriving at Sagawa's place, she was shot in the neck with a rifle - while sitting reading some poetry - by the Japanese man who proceeded to pass out upon realising what he had done.When he came to, however, he went on to commit unspeakable acts which still shock the world today.He began to have sex with her corpse, during which he attempted to start eating the poor woman's flesh.But morbidly realising his teeth weren't sharp enough, he went out to buy a butchers knife, and began dismembering her and eating the flesh.His cannibalistic actions were not, however, spur of the moment.According to reports, he said: “It’s simply a fetish.“For example, if a normal man fancied a girl, he’d naturally feel a desire to see her as often as possible, to be close to her, to smell her and kiss her, right?“To me, eating is just an extension of that.“Frankly, I can’t fathom why everyone doesn’t feel this urge to eat, to consume, other people.” “Almost every night I would bring a prostitute home and then try to shoot them from behind.“It became less about wanting to eat them, but more an obsession with the idea that I simply had to carry out this ‘ritual’ of killing a girl no matter what.”Crime scene photos of the dismemberment meal show 12 paper plates filled with human body meat.Rather.