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Friday, February 05, 2010 - 5:59 PM
In 1981, Japanese student Issei Sagawa was arrested in France for
indulging his fantasies of cannibalism. One day he propositioned a
Dutch friend only to have his advances rejected. Sagawa shot and killed
her and then sexually assaulted her corpse. Sagawa then carved away
pieces of his victim's body, including her breasts and buttocks and
consumed them. Martingale quotes Sagawa in her book, where he exclaimed
that, "nothing was so delicious!" Sagawa was determined to be mentally
incompetent to stand trial in a French court. He was held in a mental
institution for a little over a year before being returned to Japan,
where he has been released for a number of years and enjoys a kind of
celebrity status.
Also in France, Nicolas Claux was convicted of the 1994 murder of
34-year-old Thierry Bissonier. However, murder was not his only vice.
Claux, who at one time worked at a children's hospital morgue in Paris,
admitted to stealing flesh from the dead children and taking it home to
eat. In a Crime Library article on Claux written by Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, Claux
claimed to have eaten the human flesh for its taste, stating that he
preferred to eat it raw. He likened the taste of humans to steak
tartare. Claux is also believed to be a Satanist, which could be
another motivation behind his cannibalistic practices.
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