Indicted for the assassination of Strasbourg student Sophie Le Tan, Jean-Marc Reiser saw a new request for release rejected on Thursday by the investigative chamber of the Colmar court, we learned from from his lawyer. " The investigative chamber rejected Jean-Marc Reiser's request for release ," one of his counsel, Francis Metzger, told AFP.
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The 59-year-old man was arrested a few days after the disappearance of the 20-year-old student who had responded to a real estate ad posted by himself. He had already applied for release in February 2019. More than a year after his disappearance, the incomplete skeleton of Sophie Le Tan was discovered at the end of October in a Vosges forest, in Rosheim (Bas-Rhin), where the suspect, who continues to claim his innocence, visited regularly.
Significant traces of the young woman's blood were found with the suspect, as well as traces of her DNA on the handle of a saw. Jean-Marc Reiser had sent his new request for release directly to the investigative chamber. " It is a faculty that allows the procedure of the penal code, when an indictment has not been heard for four months by the investigating judge. It was a personal initiative which he did not tell me about beforehand, ”explained Mr. Metzger before the decision was rendered. The lawyer of the family of Sophie Le Tan, Me Gérard Welzer, had, him, evoked " provocations " on the part of Jean-Marc Reiser.
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