![]() ![]() He is pictured being escorted to a Nepal court in May 2014 The family’s jet-setting lifestyle was largely financed by Sobhraj posing as a jewellery salesman and then drugging, robbing and murdering victims, many of them tourists.Ĭharles Sobhraj, a French serial killer who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s, was released from prison in Nepal on health grounds. ![]() His first wife was Chantal Compagnon, a young Parisienne, and the mother of his daughter Usha. Sobhraj moved to France as a teenager, where he fell into a life of petty crime, and was first imprisoned for burglary in Paris in 1963. The master criminal was born in Saigon, then part of French Indochina, in 1944, to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother who later married a French Army officer. Sobhraj was incarcerated in Nepal in 2003 after being convicted of murdering two American tourists. Nepal’s Supreme Court had ordered that Sobhraj, who was serving a life sentence – 20 years in Nepal - be released because he was suffering from a heart condition and had also almost completed his two decades inside. I am innocent in those cases, OK? So, I don't have to feel bad for that, or good. On the Qatar Airways flight, he also told a reporter: ‘I didn't do anything. Sobhraj touched down in the capital city's Charles de Gaulle airport at 7am on Saturday morning after being released from a prison in Nepal where he served 19 years for his murderous crimes all the judges, they were biased against Charles Sobhraj.' I have to sue many people, including the state of Nepal.' On the flight to France on Friday, Sobhraj proclaimed his innocence and said his conviction was based on fake documents. 'It's a scandal that he's been presented as a serial killer – the accusation is completely false.' 'He was unjustly sentenced on a file fabricated with documents falsified by the Nepalese police. ![]() Meeting him in Paris was barrister Ms Coutant-Peyre, the girlfriend of 'Carlos the Jackal' – the Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who is serving multiple life sentences in a high-security prison in eastern France.Ĭonfirming that she was at Charles de Gaulle to pick Sobhraj up and drive him to a secret address in the greater Paris area on Saturday, Ms Coutant-Peyre said: 'It's taken him more than 19 years to regain his freedom and I am very happy and also very outraged. Sobhraj touched down in the capital city's Charles de Gaulle airport at 7am on Saturday morning after being released from a prison in Nepal where he served 19 years for his crimes. She told news outlet France Info that Sobhraj also plans to sue the state of Nepal, according to The Telegraph. ![]()
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