He also escaped from three prisons in three different countries. If you haven't heard of his story, Sobhraj is a Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian descent who drugged, robbed, and murdered travelers going through Asia in the '70s. "That's when she cut my money off," complained Sobhraj, shaking his head. '", Dhondy said Compagnon's theory about Sobhraj is that he can't live without prison, the regime, the routine, and the status he enjoys there. He was by turns funny, enigmatic, absurd and engaging. A 5am Dream and a Killer Punch Line: How Super Cop Zende Hunted Down What was going on? We seemed to drive for ages, until I had no idea where we were. The pair ended up in Bangkok, where he posed as a gem dealer and befriended young travellers. According to Sobhraj, he aimed to double-cross both parties and enable the CIA to smash an international drug and arms deal between a terrorist organisation and a crime syndicate. The idea that the Americans would make such provisions for a serial killer seems far-fetched, to say the least, although it's fair to say that in the past they have done business with people who are even more disreputable than Sobhraj. Up until episode six, his lead romantic entanglement is with his girlfriend and accomplice, Marie-Andre Leclerc, brilliantly played by Jenna Coleman. But like so many women who were to follow, she had fallen under his spell. ", Dhondy repeated the details that Sobhraj had told me in Kathmandu, the difference being that he had learned of them before Sobhraj went to prison. The honeymoon ended in 1973 when Sobhraj was arrested for holding a flamenco dancer prisoner for three days in her New Delhi hotel room, while he and an accomplice tried to drill through her ceiling to a gem store below. He met her when he was 24 and fresh out of prison in Paris. "Everyone has good and bad sides. It was a psychological test, the first of several that afternoon. When I met him in Paris he boasted of his exploits in Tihar prison in New Delhi. Handicrafts? The book was published in 1979, after the Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian parentage had been on trial in India in 1977, when he thought the admission couldn't hurt him. Yet almost 30 years later Sobhraj returned to Nepal and was arrested, tried and sentenced to 20 years in jail. Sobhraj turns 70 in April, by which time he will already have served half his sentence, so in theory he will be free once more. Soon recognised by a journalist, Sobhraj found himself in the Himalayan Times. "I said, 'You're the serial killer.' What was the nature of your assignment for them? "He knows everything," he said. 2 days ago, by Victoria Edel . Travelling as Alain Gautier, he met Leclerc in Kashmir. Sometimes he would gamble away huge sums of money - he once lost $200,000 at the tables in Rouen. After court in New York orders seizure, Met says will transfer 15 antique Indian Express-ICIJ Investigation: Govt welcomes Met offer to return ant LSG vs RCB Live Score, IPL 2023: Rain stopped the play, RCB 93/4 with Faf du Plessis and Dinesh Karthik at the crease, Mumbai News Live Updates: MVA's third Vajramuth rally commences; only few days left for Shinde-Fadnavis govt, says Aaditya Thackeray, GSEB 12th Science, GUJCET Result 2023 Live Updates: Results to be declared by GSEB at 9 am on May 2, JEE Advanced registration, NEET UG 2023 Live: CUET application partially re-opened.
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