The French serial killer released from a life sentence in Nepal for health reasons returned to Paris yesterday promising to sue his captors.
Charles Sobhraj, 78, whose killing was portrayed in the BBC series The Serpent, said: “I feel very good … I have a lot to do. I have to sue a lot of people, including the state from Nepal”.
He spoke to the AFP news agency on the plane after his deportation from Nepal, where he had served 19 years of a life sentence.
Despite being convicted of the murders of two tourists in Nepal, and being suspected of at least six other murders, he disputed being a serial killer and claimed to have been the victim of a