In 2021, the BBC and Netflix produced a drama series based on the story of Sobhraj’s alleged killings.įrance's interior and justice ministries did not respond to Reuters questions about whether Sobhraj might face criminal charges in France. I have to sue a lot of people," AFP quoted Sobhraj as saying.Īssociates have previously described Sobhraj as a con artist, a seducer, a robber and a murderer. Sobhraj told French news agency AFP on the flight out of Nepal that he was not guilty of murdering Bronzich and Carriere.
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He was jailed in India for poisoning a group of French tourists in the capital, New Delhi, in 1976, before he could stand trial on the charges against him in Thailand. According to the Telegraph, this is factually. It’s an intimate ceremony, just Charles’ mother, and the parents of Compagnon, who look thoroughly disapproving. He was later found guilty of killing Bronzich's Canadian friend, Laurent Carriere, and had served 19 years out of a 20-year sentence.īut he was suspected of more murders, including in Thailand, where police say he killed six women in the 1970s, some of whom turned up dead on a beach near the resort of Pattaya. The series goes back to Paris 1969, when a 24-year-old Sobhraj, fresh from a stint in prison, is marrying young Frenchwoman Chantal Compagnon, renamed in the show as Juliette. His parents separated later which meant that he spent his childhood shuttling between them. Charles Sobhraj was born in Saigon to a Vietnamese mother and an Indian father.
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His full name is Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj. Sobhraj had been held in a high-security prison in Nepal since 2003, when he was arrested on charges of murdering American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. 12 Things You Didn’t Know About The Infamous Charles Sobhraj. Asked what his next steps would be, she said: "He will file a legal complaint against Nepal because the whole case against him was fabricated."
"He is well, he is a free man," Sobhraj's lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre told Reuters. and was escorted off the plane by police for identity checks. Nepal's Supreme Court ordered the release of Sobhraj, known as the "bikini killer" in Thailand, and 'The Serpent" for his evasion of police, on Wednesday citing his advanced age and health.Ī French national who was born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, Sobhraj, 78, landed at Paris' main international airport shortly after 7 a.m. PARIS (Reuters) -Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police believe killed more than 20 western backpackers on the "hippie trail" through Asia in the 1970s and 1980s, returned to France on Saturday after nearly two decades behind bars in Nepal. This content was published on Decem09:44 Decem09:44
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