Accused of the assassination of Sophie Le Tan, 20, who fell into a trap while she was looking for an apartment, the 61 -year -old man who had admitted the death of the student after two years of Investigation, repeated at the trial not to have the intention of killing it.
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Criminal life imprisonment with a safety period of twenty-two years. Advocate General Laurent Guy asked the jurors of the Bas-Rhin Assize Court to give the facts that Jean-Marc Reiser, 61, was to respond, “the assassination qualification they deserve” and pronounce ” An extremely heavy sentence “. The accused, he stressed, “being in a recurrence situation”.
To describe the death of the young student – she was to celebrate her 20th anniversary on September 7, 2018 – attracted to Jean -Marc Reiser’s apartment through a false rental announcement, the Advocate General A evoked “a ray of sunshine net in terror and misunderstanding and in pain”.
Arrested very quickly after the student’s disappearance, confronted during the investigation with increasingly incriminating clues, Jean-Marc Reiser had always denied being involved in the case. The Alsatian already had a heavy legal past, worried and then acquitted in 2001 for the disappearance in 1987 of Françoise Hohmann, a commercial representative who sold vacuum cleaners, passed by his apartment in Strasbourg. He had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for two rapes in 2003. In October 2019, walkers had discovered parts of the corpse of Sophie Le Tan, reduced to the state of bones. Again, Jean-Marc Reiser had refuted to be mixed with this news item.
premeditation denied
It was finally just after the closing of the investigation, at the end of 2020, that he admitted to having killed the young woman: in a stroke of anger, “in a second state” when he wanted to make him a kisses and that the girl “was despised on her intentions”. He kicked her but did not intend to kill her, he always argued.
During his trial, he never varied this version. During his interrogation Friday 1 er July, he debited, both hands tightening the microphone, eyes closed as concentrated on this story repeated several times. “You are the only one to know what happened,” said the president.
Jean-Marc Reiser denied the premeditation again and again, and until the very intention of trapping the young woman. On death itself, he described an avalanche of punches, kicks following his rejection and insults: “I lost the pedals, I don’t know what took me again, again Today I don’t know what took me. “
Yet, throughout the audiences, the elements that the experts have chosen, little by little, its truth. According to the investigation, the ambush has been well prepared: false lines of telephone, and an accused of absent subscribers when the girl who has to visit the apartment comes accompanied. Cleaning the after-the-piece bathroom is extremely meticulous, and seems to have been reflected in your smallest detail. On the causes of death, the body which has not been found only partially degraded, more than a year later, the expertise could not be convincing.
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