Sophie Le Tan: this word that she would have pronounced in the room of the crime which would have twisted Jean-Marc Reiser

His testimony was eagerly awaited. Friday 1^er July, on the fifth day of his trial at the assizes for the murder of Sophie Le Tan, which occurred on September 7, 2018, Jean-Marc Reiser was called to the bar to give his version of the facts. After being confused in regret in front of the relatives of the victim, the alleged murderer recounted his meeting with the young woman, who had come to visit his apartment listed on the Leboncoin site. “I was still a little in the vapors of alcohol, I felt a good feeling between her and me…”he confided.

Although he did not expect to receive a visit from Sophie Le Tan, having forgotten that she had to come and visit the apartment, he explains that he showed her around. “We sat in the kitchen, we discussed his studies, mine. Then it happened what happened.” Reiser says he took the young woman’s hand and tried to “to kiss”. It was then that she would have recoiled and uttered a fateful word, the word that would have made the then fifty-year-old spin. “She called me a pig. It pissed me off. I lost control”admits Jean-Marc Reiser at the helm.

“It will haunt me for the rest of my life”

Very angry, the alleged murderer explains that he hit the young woman many times, until one blow “more violent than the others” don’t drop her “like a mass” against the toilet bowl. After having “hesitate to call the police“but believing that we do not”wouldn’t believe“, Jean-Marc Reiser says he dismembered the body and hid it in two suitcases before going to hide it in a forest in the Vosges the following Monday. “It’s haunted me since that day, it will haunt me for the rest of my life“¸ he adds.

The verdict of Jean-Marc Reiser’s trial is expected this Tuesday, July 5, 2022.