New research began on Monday September 26 concerning the unexplained disappearance in Strasbourg in 1987 of a sales representative, Françoise Hohmann, a file in which Jean-Marc Reiser, assassin of student Sophie Le Tan, had been acquitted in 2001 of misconduct evidence, we learned from sources close to the case.
"
New research began today
," said a source familiar with the matter, without further details on their nature, confirming information from RTL.
Another source familiar with the matter added that these searches, carried out by the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP), would last "
as long as it takes
".
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According to the
Latest News from Alsace
(DNA), these excavations took place in the apartment on the ground floor occupied in 1987 by Jean-Marc Reiser in the west of Strasbourg.
In February 2020, citing "
new charges
", the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office had reopened the file on the disappearance of Françoise Hohmann with the opening of judicial information for "
criminal arbitrary confinement
" and for "
concealment of a corpse
".
Then aged 23, Françoise Hohmann never gave a sign of life again after ringing the doorbell of Jean-Marc Reiser's apartment.
The latter was acquitted of intentional homicide in 2001 by the Assize Court of Bas-Rhin, with the benefit of the doubt.
The body of the young VRP has never been found.
The man, now 61, was sentenced to life in July for the murder of Sophie Le Tan, a 20-year-old student, whose body he dismembered, discovered more than a year after her disappearance in a Alsatian forest.
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Contacted by AFP, the lawyer for the family of Françoise Hohmann, Me Marylène Correia, did not wish to speak on the subject.
One of Jean-Marc Reiser's lawyers, Me Pierre Giuriato, said he had no additional information.
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No questioning is planned at this stage
," he said.