Jean-Marc Reiser, alleged murderer of student Sophie Le Tan in 2018, was sentenced on Tuesday May 3 to six months in prison for witness tampering after sending a letter to his former companion in which he invited her to “specify or modify» his previous testimonies. He was also ordered to pay a symbolic euro in compensation to the civil party.
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He was also ordered to pay a symbolic euro in compensation to the civil party. The prosecution had requested one year’s imprisonment and a ban on contacting his former partner against Jean-Marc Reiser, imprisoned since 2018 and who will be tried by the Bas-Rhin assizes at the end of June for the assassination of Sophie Le Tan. Jean-Marc Reiser, 62, writes regularly to the one who had shared his life for eight years even if she never answers him, explains this woman in her sixties at the bar. However, this particular missive, received last summer, “wince“.
“It was not a normal mail, it scared me“, she explains about this letter written in a very tight handwriting and containing several underlined passages. According to the prosecution, Jean-Marc Reiser would have entrusted it during a visit to his mother, who would then have posted it or brought it to his former companion. What the defendant denied.
“Double personality”
“This scared me: does he send people to my house to put envelopes in my mailbox? I was afraid that after his incarceration he would send me someone to take revenge on me“, continues his ex–companion, who confesses:Somehow I’m still in his grip“. This one, particularly talkative, describes the blows, the anger, the arguments and the influence under which she lived during their relationship, even if they did not live together. “There is a split personality in him, a violent one, and a calmer, calmer one. He is very cultured, very intelligent, very resourceful in life.she says again. And in this letter,if he is not aggressive in his writing, he is aggressive otherwise“, she believes. “When will he realize the way he behaves with women?“, she wonders again.
Jean-Marc Reiser, taken from his cell for the occasion, khaki sweatshirt and hard look, easily admits having written the letter but assures that it was in no way a threat. “Everything I say in this letter is in the file, I did not invent anything and I put it in front of its contradictions“, he said, very sure of himself. “For me there is no pressure, no blackmail.»
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
Perfectly aware of the smallest details of the case, Mr. Reiser tries to take his ex-companion to task but he is called to order several times by judge Valentine Seyfritz. “I feel like I’m in the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard“, the two Hollywood stars currently before the judges in the United States, he answers with confidence. “She is absolutely not under my control, she has irrational fears, she is afraid of everything and nothing“, he continues, noting that this case arises “two months before the trial (of assizes), as if by chance“. “Women are so weird and complicated, I never understood them“, he admits again.
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“Let’s be clear, this witness tampering procedure is not really going to have much influence.on the criminal trial, agreed after the hearing Me Emmanuel Spano, who defended Jean-Marc Reiser on Tuesday. The lawyer noted that his client was already considering appealing his conviction. Jean-Marc Reiser already has a busy judicial past: sentenced for rape to 15 years in prison in 2003, he will be tried at the end of June for the assassination in 2018 of Sophie Le Tan, a 20-year-old student from Strasbourg whom he confessed to having killed, after months of denials. He faces life imprisonment.
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