Solène Delinger 11:35 a.m., February 6, 2023, modified at 11:35 a.m., February 6, 2023

This is the first time he has spoken since his release from Nepalese prisons last December.

Charles Sobhraj alias Le Serpent, suspected of having killed twenty people in Asia in the 1970s, proclaimed his innocence on Sunday February 5 against Audrey Crespo-Mara in "Seven to Eight".

An interview deemed "nauseous" and "scandalous" by viewers...

Viewers have certainly still not recovered… Sunday, February 5, Audrey Crespo-Mara, as usual, interviewed a personality on the show

Sept à Huit.

But this time, his interlocutor was neither a popular singer nor a great actress but… a serial killer.

The journalist indeed found herself face to face with Charles Sobhraj, alias The Serpent.

“I am not a serial killer and I will prove it”

Suspected of having committed around twenty murders in Asia in the 1970s, the septuagenarian was sentenced in Nepal in 2004 to life imprisonment for the murders of American tourist Connie Joe Bronzich and his Canadian friend Laurent Carrière, in 1975. The serial killer was released by the Supreme Court of Nepal on December 21 because of his health problems, then he was repatriated to France.

Since then, he has continued to proclaim his innocence.

"I am not a murderer, I did not kill anyone (...) I am not a serial killer and I will prove it", he thus claimed in front of Audrey Crespo-Mara.

Charles Sobhraj admits having only manipulated tourists to steal money from them. 

"I made contact with someone, always tourists and businessmen. We spent the day together. It will go towards the evening, and there, we drink something together, I put a drug in his glass. Well dosed so that he falls asleep when he reaches his room. And that's where I take his things, "he said in

Seven to Eight. 

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We call him "The Serpent".

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After nearly half a century in prison, he speaks for the first time since his release.



Tonight at 7:30 p.m. @TF1@audrey_crespo.

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— Seven to Eight (@7a8) February 5, 2023

"We are in a society where we give the floor to killers, it's disgusting"

These statements by the Serpent outraged viewers, many of whom reacted on social networks.

"The new trend: highlighting crooks and bandits!", Could we read on Instagram Sunday, February 5;

"Why give a voice to a serial killer?", "What is the need for this initiative? Is it to give him a platform to be applauded? That he teaches in the big schools? That he recruits followers? Praising crime on a primetime show! Honestly, give it a Nobel while we're at it!"

;

"We are in a society where we give the floor to the killers, it's disgusting… All my thoughts go out to the families of the victims", was also indignant a viewer.

"What a shame !", "

A madman who we will make a hero.

Which class.

Thank you TF1 for this unhealthy and nauseating interview”, protested other internet users. 

The whole world discovered or rediscovered the existence of Charles Sobhraj in 2021, when Netflix released 

The Serpent

, a series retracing his murderous journey in Asia.

It was actor Tahar Rahim who had slipped into the skin of the serial killer.