# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sid-ahmed-rezala
# Generated: 2026-08-20T18:13:22.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sid-ahmed-rezala"
name: "Sid Ahmed Rezala"
slug: "sid-ahmed-rezala"
description: "Sid Ahmed Rezala was an Algerian-born French serial killer, dubbed \"The Killer of the Trains\". He was suspected of killing at least three women in 1999. Arrested in Portugal in early 2000, he confessed the murders to a reporter from the Figaro Magazine. Several weeks later, he killed himself before he could be extradited to France. He died of asphyxiation after he intentionally set fire to the mattress in his cell while his prison guards were watching football on TV."
tagline: "Spree killer dubbed \" night train killer\""
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1979-05-13"
deathDate: "2000-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.54
  momentum:             25
  historical:           4.991808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3483076"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Ahmed_Rezala"
    title: "Sid Ahmed Rezala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "سيد اهميد ريزالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Ahmed_Rezala"
    title: "Sid Ahmed Rezala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%93%9C_%EC%95%84%EB%A9%94%EB%93%9C_%EB%A0%88%EC%9E%98%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "시드 아메드 레잘라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Ahmed_Rezala"
    title: "Sid Ahmed Rezala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views