Charles Sauvage, the French serial killer who committed a series of murders throughout Asia in the 1970s, and was the subject of a Netflix series ("The Serpent"), is expected to be released from prison in Nepal today (Thursday).
The country's Supreme Court ruled that the 78-year-old Soubarj, who has been imprisoned in Nepal since 2003 for two murders 40 years ago, will be released due to health reasons.
Prison officials told the AFP news agency that after receiving the necessary documents, they would hand Soubarge over to immigration authorities.
According to the judgment of the court, he will be deported to Nepal within 15 days.
Sobarj underwent open heart surgery in 2017 and his release was determined in accordance with the law that allows early release for humanitarian reasons of prisoners who are confined to their beds and have already served 75% of their sentence.
Subarj, who is of Vietnamese-Indian descent, began traveling the world in the early 1970s and arrived in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
He posed as a dealer in precious stones, befriended his victims, most of them young backpackers from Western countries,
"He hated backpackers, he saw them as poor and young drug addicts," Canadian journalist Julie Clark told AFP in 2021.
"He sees himself as a criminal hero."
Drugged, robbed and murdered.
Charles Sauvage (Photo: GettyImages)
Sauvage was initially nicknamed the "Bikini Killer" after the body of a young American woman in a bikini swimsuit was found on a beach in 1975.
In the end, he ties to more than twenty murders.
The nickname "The Snake" was given to Sauvage due to his ability to switch identities to evade the authorities.
In 1976, Subanj was arrested in India and imprisoned there for 21 years.
In 1986, he escaped and was imprisoned again, this time in Goa.
He was released in 1997 and moved to Paris earning his money by giving interviews.
In 2003 he decided to return to Nepal.
He was spotted walking around Kathmandu and arrested at a casino.
The court sentenced him to life imprisonment a year later for the murder of American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975.
A decade later he was also found guilty of the murder of Bronzich's Canadian partner.
"He was civilized and polite," said Nadine Geiers, a French woman who lived in the Bangkok apartment building where Sauvage lived.
"He was a fraud, a seducer, a tourist robber and an evil murderer."
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