Posted on 02/06/2023 5:16:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Charles Sobhraj, dubbed ‘The Serpent’ in the hit BBC TV drama of the same name, speaks out weeks after he was released from jail in Nepal because of his age and declining health
After multiple life sentences and serving decades in prison, one of the world’s most notorious serial killers today insisted he "didn't murder anyone" and said he had the "whole world" against him.
Charles Sobhraj, the 78-year-old Frenchman dubbed ‘The Serpent’ in the hit BBC TV drama of the same name, was on Sunday speaking for the first time since being released from prison in Nepal.
In a media offensive in Paris, he denied being responsible for a string of killings of mainly western tourists in countries including Thailand and India during the 1970s.
"I've used quite a few stolen passports, but I've never killed anyone, and I'll prove it," he told Le Monde.
"Right now, I'm running around everywhere trying to get my papers redone."
Complaining he did not yet have a card entitling him to free health care, Sobhraj said: "You have to prove that you’ve lived in France for three months in a row and, until then, I don't even have a social security number."
Returning to his crimes in a chilling interview with TF1, Sobhraj described the way he targeted people across South Asia while working as a jewellery salesman.
"I sold rubies, sapphires, emeralds – that was pretty much it," he said "I contacted someone. It was always tourists or businessmen.
"And always, if it went well, towards the evening we went for a drink together.
"I put a drug in his glass, a good dose, so he slept by the time he reached his room.
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Not specifically a serial killer but this is a good anecdote about El Chapo, responsible for many deaths.
He wanted to spend his millions rather than live like a pauper in the mountains: “There is a saying in the Mexican drug trade that it is better to live one good year than 10 bad ones,” according to Keefe.
Still, while he risked being seen in public to eat at elegant restaurants, he took the same extensive security precautions every time.
“The choreography was always the same,” Keefe writes. “Diners would be startled by a team of gunmen, who would politely but firmly demand their telephones, promising that they would be returned at the end of the evening. Chapo and his entourage would come in and feast on shrimp and steak, then thank the other diners for their forbearance, return the telephones, pick up the tab for everyone, and head off into the night.”
This is a perfect example of why I have no patience for those who argue that we should do away with the death penalty and replace it with life in prison.
Some people deserve to forfeit their lives, for the common good of mankind.
Some people deserve to forfeit their lives, for the common good of mankind.
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