Bikini Killer Charles Sobhraj Back in France

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj arrived in France on Saturday. He is alleged to have committed murders of young women in the 1970s across Asia. After 20 years of imprisonment, he was released from prison in Nepal on Friday.
Nepal’s top court on Wednesday ordered his release on health grounds.

On Friday he boarded on a flight from Kathmandu airport to take him to Paris via Doha. He is reported to have claimed before a journalist during the flight to Doha that he was “innocent”.

The life of this serial killer also known as “Bikini Killer” has been filmed in the series “The Serpent”, co-produced by Netflix and the BBC.

“I feel great… I have a lot to do. I have to sue a lot of people. Including the state of Nepal,” Sobhraj told AFP on Friday onboard the plane.

After his arrival in Paris, he was taken away by border police for extra “identity checks”.

Sobhraj was born in Saigon to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother. He was a master cheat and charmer of women. Posing as a gem trader, he used to befriend his female victims. He was then drugging, robbing, and murdering them.

He was nicknamed the “bikini killer” as he is linked to more than 20 murders and most bodies of his victims were found in bikinis.

He was arrested in India in 1976 and ultimately spent 21 years in an Indian jail. In 1986 he managed to escape by drugging prison guards. But he was again nabbed in Goa. He was released from an Indian prison in 1997.

After living for some days in Paris, he had gone to Nepal in 2003, where he was arrested on charges of murdering two North American women. A court in Nepal had punished him with life sentence.