Saïb Hachani

Saïb Hachani (1936 – 22 March 1966) was a French serial killer who operated in the Loire department in 1962 and 1963 and was executed by guillotine.

Biography Saïb Hachani presented himself as a smuggler for Algeria.

Murders On 16 November 1962, he killed Mohamed Hadji with an axe in order to steal 1,450 francs from him. He had promised to take him to Algiers. On 8 December, he killed Nedjaï Amhed with a meat cleaver before stealing his money. He then stabbed him in the chest with a red-hot poker before hiding him in a sack of coal. The body was found by a stray dog. On 13 February 1963, he murdered a rag-and-bone man, Messaoud Bouguerry, with a pickaxe handle before burning his body. The body was eventually found by a group of children. Following this crime, Hachani was arrested and confessed to the three murders. He was charged with murder and placed in pre-trial detention.