Kathmandu:
Charles Sobhraj’s speedy deportation to France is good for Nepal and also the infamous French serial killer, a former senior Nepal police officer who was instrumental in his high-profile arrest in 2003, said on Saturday.
Sobhraj was deported to France by the Nepal government on Friday, hours after the 78-year-old serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese parents was freed from a Nepali prison where he served most of his sentence in connection with the murders of backpackers across Asia Was. 1970s.
Sobhraj was released from the Central Jail in Kathmandu on Friday morning and taken in a heavily guarded police convoy to the Immigration Department. He was released two days after the Supreme Court ordered and was sent back to his home country.
Former Inspector General of Police (DIG) Ganesh KC, who arrested Sobhraj from a casino in Kathmandu in 2003, said, “Sobhraj’s quick deportation to France by the Nepalese government was good for Nepal and for Sobhraj himself. He will be happy to reach France so soon.
He also wished them all the best for their future.
“My best wishes are with him. He should spend his family and social life in a happy way. I also wish that he accepts his past involvement in criminal activities and leads a spiritual life.”
Sobhraj’s lawyer Gopal Sivakoti Chintan said the French assassin did not discuss his future plans with his lawyers before his deportation.
“We don’t know about his future plans. He didn’t discuss it with us… It was amazing to see him flaunting the media like he’s the biggest celebrity.”
Sobhraj briefly spoke to French news agency AFP on board a Qatar Airways flight.
He said he is feeling “very good”.
Sobhraj took a Qatar Airways flight QR 647 to Doha and then left for Paris.
“I feel great. I have to sue a lot of people including the state of Nepal,” he said.
Responding to Sobhraj’s comment of prosecuting people, Ganesh said that his comments showed that Sobhraj “did not accept his past wrongdoings and was falsely pretending that injustice had been done to him.” Born in French-administered Saigon, Vietnam, to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother who later married a French man, Sobhraj was first jailed in Paris in 1963 for theft. He was accused of crimes in countries such as France, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Thailand and Malaysia.
Dubbed “The Bikini Killer” for his tendency to target young women, especially young Western backpackers, and “The Serpent” for his skill at deception and theft, Sobhraj has been serving a life sentence in a Kathmandu prison since 2003 for his murder. was serving his sentence. American girlfriend Connie Jo Bronzich, 29, in Nepal in 1975.
In 2014, he was convicted of the murder of 26-year-old Canadian backpacker Laurent Carrière and given a second life sentence.
Sobhraj’s life sentence, arrested on September 19, 2003, would have ended on September 18 next year. Sobhraj, who committed multiple murders across Asia in the 1970s, was involved in more than 20 murders, and had served a 21-year prison sentence in India for poisoning a French tourist and killing an Israeli citizen.
Life imprisonment in Nepal means 20 years in prison.
Sobhraj was spotted in a casino in Kathmandu in August 2003 and arrested. After the trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. He was linked to several murders of backpackers.
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