Jean-Marc Reiser, convicted of the murder of Sophie Le Tan, will learn the sentence he will face on Monday, July 4, while at his trial in Strasbourg he struggled to convince himself that he did not plan anything before killing and mutilating the student. The hearing before the Bas-Rhine court will resume at 9 am. Motions by the civil parties will begin at noon, before the demands of the attorney general, and motions by the defense at noon.
On Tuesday, 61-year-old Jean-Marc Reiser will make his final appearance before sentencing. Tried as a repeat offender, he faces life in prison with 22 years of security.
Although Sophie Le Tan disappeared on September 7, 2018, her 20th birthday, it took more than two years for her to be arrested to confess to killing the student. According to him, he drank a lot the previous day, met him at the bottom stop, remembering that he had agreed to show his apartment then. He goes up with her, takes her hand, wants to kiss her cheek. He pushes her, hurts her, and she sinks “state of rageuncontrollable. His fists and legs are unleashed on the young woman, she falls heavily and becomes unresponsive.
A plea for forgiveness whose sincerity is disputed by Le Tan’s family
Then “I stripped her to dismemberwith a saw, he explained on Friday. First the legs, then the head, so that it fits in the suitcases at home. The skeleton of Sophie Le Tan was found only partially, completely by accident, in October 2019 in the Vosges forest.The fact of killing a young girl who could have been my daughter, dismembering her body has haunted me since that day and will haunt me for the rest of my life.Jean-Marc Reiser said during his interrogation on Friday.
Regret, followed by a plea for forgiveness, the sincerity of which will be disputed by Sophie Le Tan’s very experienced family.
Beyond the actual cause of death, which the autopsy was unable to determine, at the heart of the trial is the question of whether this killing was premeditated.
Jean-Marc Reiser claims to have “lost the pedalswhen the young woman pushed him, but he did not.”never wanted what happened“. However, he is being tried for murder and for having planned his act, which the prosecution says shows his fake real estate ads for students and his many phone lines under false identities.
“What did he do before killing him? Only he knows. He did not choose Sophie by chance, she was his victim. He had prepared Sophie’s arrival, chosen her because she was a young student of Asian descent“, argued Friday Me Gerard Welzer, one of the Le Tan family’s two lawyers.
In the first minutes of the trial last Monday, the mother and her sister of the failed student were only able to enter the courtroom long enough to testify their pain.
Hohmann’s case
In support of the premeditation thesis, attorneys for the civil parties tried several times during the trial to raise the ghost of Françoise Hohmann, the young and beautiful sales representative who disappeared in 1987 after ringing Jean-Marc Reiser’s doorbell. . In this case, he was acquitted due to lack of evidence in 2001. Françoise Hohmann’s mother attends the trial every day. “He has been explaining for over a year now that he does not want Sophie Le Tan dead“Insisted one of his attorneys, I Francis Welzer, making sure the accused shed tears on Friday.”expressed sincere feelings“.
Monday’s hearing will begin with a report from a psychiatric expert to provide jurors with clues to the functioning of a man who has lost his former influence. “We control, control, detachment, coolness“, the psychologist has already warned. “I don’t think I’m perverted in the sadistic sense– Jean-Marc Reiser defended himself on Friday.
Source: Le Figaro
