A decade later, he was also found guilty of killing Bronzich’s Canadian companion. “He looked harmless… It was sheer luck that I recognised him,” Nathan told AFP on Thursday.Ī court in Nepal handed Sobhraj a life sentence the following year for killing US tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. He was spotted in a casino playing baccarat by journalist Joseph Nathan, one of the founders of the Himalayan Times newspaper, and arrested.
Released in 1997, Sobhraj lived in Paris, giving paid interviews to journalists, but went back to Nepal in 2003. He was recaptured in the Indian coastal state of Goa. He was arrested in India in 1976 and ultimately spent 21 years in jail there, with a brief break in 1986 when he drugged prison guards and escaped. Nicknamed the “bikini killer”, Sobhraj was eventually linked to more than 20 murders. Suave and sophisticated, he was implicated in the murder of a young American woman, whose body was found on a beach wearing a bikini. – ‘Bikini killer’ –īorn in Saigon to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother who later married a Frenchman, Sobhraj embarked on an international life of crime and ended up in Thailand in 1975. The airport source said he was “not wanted” by the authorities in France and that once all the checks had been carried out, he would be able to leave the airport. On arrival at Paris, he was taken away by border police for extra “identity checks”, according to an airport source. He landed in the French capital on Saturday morning, an AFP reporter confirmed.
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Including the state of Nepal,” Sobhraj told AFP on Friday onboard the plane.Īsked if he thought he had been wrongly described as a serial killer, the 78-year-old said: “Yes, yes.” Posing as a gem trader, he would befriend his victims, many of them Western backpackers on the 1970s hippie trail, before drugging, robbing and murdering them.
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Sobhraj’s life was chronicled in the series “The Serpent”, co-produced by Netflix and the BBC. While on the flight to Doha, he insisted to an AFP journalist that he was “innocent”. On Friday, he was released and put on a flight at Kathmandu airport to take him to Paris via Doha. Nepal’s top court ruled on Wednesday that he should be freed on health grounds and deported to France within 15 days. French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, arrived in France on Saturday after almost 20 years in prison in Nepal.
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