In front of the Bas-Rhin Assize Court, the civil parties described, Wednesday, June 29, the anxiety experienced during the disappearance of the young woman and the emptiness that the assassination of the one who was left Become, at 20, the pillar of his family.
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At the trial of Jean-Marc Reiser, continued for the assassination of Sophie Le Tan in September 2018, the day of her 20 years, it was the turn of the civil parties to address the Assize Court of Bas-Rhin, Wednesday June 29. Parents, brother and sisters, cousins and friends portrayed a young girl “benevolent”, “radiant”, decided to succeed. They described the anxiety of the disappearance, then that of the months of research, until the discovery of his body in an Alsatian forest more than a year later.
Beyond the extreme pain of the victim’s loved ones, the courtroom takes the measure of the gaping lack of the absence of Sophie the Tan in this family of Vietnamese origin which resides in Cernay, in The Haut-Rhin, not far from Mulhouse. Through the testimonies is the portrait of a student who has become a pillar for his own.
The father arrived in the late 1980s to flee the communist regime. His wife joined him in the early 1990s. A boy was born, Philippe, then Sophie, in 1998. The father is a worker and for the TAN family, the academic success and the future prospects of Sophie, who is in the third year eco -management license in 2018 are pride.
“It is she who made me advance”
According to the victim’s little sister, Sylvie, 17 at the time of disappearance, “he was someone prudent, who was paying attention to her frequentations”. The day before his appointment with Jean-Marc Reiser, to visit an apartment he claims to rent in Schiltigheim, the two sisters watch TV on Sophie’s bed. The latter has some doubts about the visit she must make the next day, her interlocutor not being very precise on the address.
“My sister was looking for accommodation, because she did not want to be a charge, and also to get closer to her work.” In order to finance her eco -management studies at the University of Strasbourg, the young woman occupies a post night receptionist in a hotel in the Alsatian capital. She asked a room well to the Crous, but her file was rejected.
The girl is then “the key to the family”, according to her older brother, for all that is approaches and papers. The young man, 25, is shy when he addresses the court. He holds his hands so as not to tremble, the flow is hesitant: “It is she who made me move forward, I who am a little less comfortable in public, who did not know what I wanted to do . She knew how to advise me and direct me. “
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