Jean-Marc Reiser, indicted for assassination, kidnapping and forcible confinement for the murder of Sophie Le Tan in September 2018, is suspected in another disappearance, that in 1987 of Françoise Hohmann, then 23 years old.
In the latter case, he was acquitted for the benefit of the doubt in 2001. But the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office just announced on Monday that it had asked for the "reopening" of the investigations in this case.
"Two examining magistrates are seized against X of the chief of arbitrary criminal confinement" and "of a second judicial information" for "concealment of corpse", indicated of the Republic of Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi, evoking "new charges" . The body of Françoise Hohmann has never been found.
Jean-Marc Reiser, 59, is indicted for the murder of Sophie Le Tan, who disappeared on September 7, 2018 when she was going to visit an apartment in Schiltigheim near Strasbourg. The suspect denies having killed the girl whose body was found on October 23 in the Grendelbruch forest.
In 2001, he was convicted of two rapes in 1995 and 1996. He was released from prison in 2012.
