According to a GQ article, they embarked on a crime spree across Europe, Asia, India, and Afghanistan, including robbery, fraud, and smuggling cars.
After his release, he married Chantal Compagnon. By the time Sobhraj was 24, he had already served eight months in a French prison for burglary. Sobhraj attended boarding school in France, where he began committing petty crimes at a young age. Sobhraj was born in Saigon, where his Vietnamese mother and Indian father raised him until they divorced, and his mother remarried a French army lieutenant. Related: The Ripper: Does Netflix's True Crime Series Glorify Serial Killers? Rahim plays Sobhraj as equal parts charming and terrifying: a master manipulator and con man who preys on the members of a subculture he disdains and shows no remorse for his actions, using racism and imperialism as justifications for his crimes. While looking into the disappearance of a young Dutch couple whose burned bodies are eventually discovered by the local authorities, Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) becomes obsessed with finding their killer. Sobhraj, Marie, and Sobhraj's cohort Ajay Chowdhury (Amesh Edireweera) steal passports and valuables and, in some instances, commit murder to cover their tracks. The Serpent stars Tahar Rahim as Sobhraj, who, while posing as a gemstone salesman, lures unsuspecting tourists to the apartment he shares with his French-Canadian girlfriend, Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) in Bangkok, Thailand.
His crimes have been the focus of multiple biographies, documentaries, and a Bollywood film. Sobhraj amassed a body count that authorities believe could be anywhere from 12 to 24 victims. The Serpent chronicles the crime spree of Charles Sobhraj, aka "Alain Gautier" in the 1970s, but how much of the story is true? The eight-episode BBC One series, currently streaming on Netflix, is a fictionalized account of true events surrounding Sobhraj, also known as "The Bikini Killer" (two of his female victims were found clad in bathing suits), and who the press nicknamed "The Serpent" because of his cunning nature.
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