The death of Strasbourg student Sophie le Tan, who disappeared in 2018, has finally been acknowledged by the main suspect in this case, Jean-Marc Reiser.
The truth revealed. "Jean-Marc Reiser has acknowledged his involvement in the death of Sophie Le Tan", rreveals a press release from the Strasbourg prosecutor's office on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, relayed by FranceInfo. The Strasbourg student had not given any sign of life when she had to visit an accommodation in Schiltigheim, in the suburbs of Strasbourg, on September 7, 2018. And it was at the end of October 2019 that the incomplete skeleton of the young woman had was discovered in a Vosges forest, in Rosheim (Bas-Rhin). Very quickly the investigators took an interest in the author of the real estate ad: Jean-Marc Reiser. The latter had, first of all, claimed never to have seen Sophie Le Tan, then he had declared that the student had injured her hand before she left. Yet traces of blood from the young woman had been found at his home, as well as traces of his DNA on the handle of a saw. The man was indicted for murder, kidnapping and forcible confinement on September 17, 2018. In the past, Jean-Marc Reiser had been involved in the disappearance of a young woman, around the 1980s, but he had been acquitted "for the benefit of the doubt". A few years later, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape of a German hitchhiker in the Landes in 1995. And for the rapes committed on his mistress in 1996.
Confessions and the work of investigators hailed
"Jean-Marc Reiser was forced to admit the indisputable", said at the microphone of franceinfo Gérard Welzer, lawyer for the family of Sophie Le Tan. "We must salute the enormous work of the police, the magistrates of Strasbourg, the magistrates of Colmar, and Reiser had little choice (…) It’s because the justice system worked well, it’s because the volunteers worked that Mr. Reiser, now cornered, was forced to admit the indisputable, " added the lawyer. Jean-Marc Reiser in his confession "also admitted to having dismembered the body of the victim in order to facilitate its transport and then concealing it in the forest. (…) Judicial information is continuing in view of these new elements ", announces the floor.