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French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who committed a series of murders in the 1970s in Asia and was portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent,” is due to be released Thursday from a Nepalese prison.
Nepal’s highest court has ruled that Charles Sobhraj must be released early for health reasons. The French citizen has been imprisoned since 2003 for two murders,
The authorities stated that as soon as all the necessary court documents are available, Sobhraj will be handed over to the immigration authorities. For its part, the Nepalese court estimates a period of 15 days to deport him to France.
Sobhraj underwent open heart surgery in 2017 and his release is in line with the law that allows for the compassionate release of seriously ill prisoners who have served three-quarters of their sentence.
Travelers, its main victims
The Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin began to travel the world in the early 1970s and arrived in the Thai capital of Bangkok. In this city he pretended to be a jewelry dealer, he befriended the victims, many of them Western backpackers, then drugged, robbed and killed them. Nicknamed the “Bikini Killer,” he was linked to more than 20 homicides.
Suave and sophisticated, he would have committed his first murder with a young American whose body was found on a beach in 1975.
His other nickname, “The Serpent,” came from his ability to assume other identities to evade justice, and became the title of the hit Netflix series about his life.
with AFP
