The butcher Charles "The Snake" returns to France sick
The "snake" was surrounded by Nepalese police before being deported to his country.
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French serial killer Charles Sobrage (78 years old), nicknamed "The Snake", returned yesterday to France after he was deported by the Nepalese authorities, where he spent nearly 20 years in prison, for killing two North American tourists.
The man suspected of committing about 20 murders in the seventies of the last century in Asia, whose story was inspired by a series on the “Netflix” platform, arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, where he was immediately received by the police, according to a journalist from the “Agence France Presse” agency. She was on the same flight with him.
After “identity checks,” Charles Sobrague left the scene without fuss, according to a source at the airport, breaking his promise to make statements to the journalists who were waiting for him.
On the plane, the 70-year-old confirmed to an AFP reporter that he was "innocent" of the crimes attributed to him.
He said, "I am innocent of all these cases, and all the accusations were based on forged documents," adding, "I have many things to do."
I have to sue many people, including the state of Nepal.”
He pointed out that "the judge issued his ruling without questioning any witness, not even allowing the accused to present his arguments," pointing out that the Nepal courts "and all the judges were biased."
His French lawyer, Isabelle Coutin-Pere, told reporters, "It took him 19 years to regain his freedom, and I am very happy and deeply shocked."
She added, "He was unjustly convicted in a fabricated file with documents falsified by the Nepalese police.. It is a scandal. He is portrayed as a serial killer, which is completely wrong."
The Supreme Court of Nepal, which issued (Wednesday) an order to release Subraj, indicated that the convict needed an open-heart surgery, explaining that the decision to release him was taken pursuant to a Nepali law that allows the release of bedridden prisoners if they have served three-quarters of their sentence.
It ordered the deportation of Sobraj, who has been imprisoned in Nepal since 2003, "within 15 days" to France.
And Subraj, who lived an unstable childhood and was imprisoned several times in France for minor crimes, began traveling to different countries in the early seventies of the last century until he settled in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
Sobhraj befriended his victims before drugging, robbing and killing them.
His first crime dates back to 1975, when the body of an American youth was found on a beach in Pattaya.
The name of Charles Sobrague is linked to about 20 murders.
His victims were strangled, beaten, and burned, and he often used male passports to travel to his next destinations.
Sobraj was called the "snake" for his ability to impersonate several personalities to evade the judiciary.
And “BBC” and “Netflix” produced a work adapted from his life, entitled “The Serpent” (The Snake).
He was arrested in India in 1976 following the murder of a French tourist in a New Delhi hotel and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
He returned to Paris after his release in 1997, before reappearing in Nepal, where he was arrested in the capital, Kathmandu, in 2003.
• "Netflix" presented a work adapted from his life, entitled "The Serpent".
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