JAPAN-CANNIBAL-SAGAWA

Former Japanese student, Issei Sagawa, 42, murderer of Dutch student Renée Hartevelt, smmiles and gestures white he meets with an AFP journalist on February 05, 1992, in his bachelor's apartment in Yokohama. Eleven years after making headlines for killing Dutch student Renée Hartevelt in Paris and then eating her, Iseei Sagawa is back to his native country, where he has become a bona fide media celebrity. ''I am no longer a cannibal, I want to live peacefully'' Segawa told AFP. French psychologists found him legally insane and unfit to stand trial and was extradited back to Japan. Found not guilty there by reason of insanity, he was declared mentally fit by Japanese psychiatrists in 1985. AFP PHOTO JUNJI KUROKAWA (Photo by JUNJI KUROKAWA / AFP) (Photo by JUNJI KUROKAWA/AFP via Getty Images)
Former Japanese student, Issei Sagawa, 42, murderer of Dutch student Renée Hartevelt, smmiles and gestures white he meets with an AFP journalist on February 05, 1992, in his bachelor's apartment in Yokohama. Eleven years after making headlines for killing Dutch student Renée Hartevelt in Paris and then eating her, Iseei Sagawa is back to his native country, where he has become a bona fide media celebrity. ''I am no longer a cannibal, I want to live peacefully'' Segawa told AFP. French psychologists found him legally insane and unfit to stand trial and was extradited back to Japan. Found not guilty there by reason of insanity, he was declared mentally fit by Japanese psychiatrists in 1985. AFP PHOTO JUNJI KUROKAWA (Photo by JUNJI KUROKAWA / AFP) (Photo by JUNJI KUROKAWA/AFP via Getty Images)
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