A reconstruction is organized this Tuesday in the former apartment of Jean-Marc Reiser in Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin), nearly a month after his confession in the Sophie Le Tan affair, a young Strasbourg student killed in 2018, AFP learned from lawyers.
The alleged murderer was taken from his cell at the Strasbourg remand center to attend.
"The investigating magistrate would like to verify whether Mr. Reiser's statements are compatible with the findings that the forensic pathologist and the morpho-analyst may make," said Me Francis Metzger, Jean-Marc Reiser's lawyer, confirming information from the Latest News from Alsace.
It is in this studio, located on the sixth floor, that Sophie Le Tan was killed on September 7, 2018, recalls the regional daily.
"We are anxious for the trial to take place so that the family can begin their work of mourning", declared, for his part, Gérard Welzer, the lawyer for the Le Tan family.
But this reconstitution "will not change anything", he said, in the face of all the evidence already collected during the investigation.
The premeditation in question
After having denied any involvement for months, Jean-Marc Reiser, 60, indicted for kidnapping, kidnapping and murder, confessed on January 19, during a hearing before the investigating judge, his "exclusive involvement In the disappearance of the student.
He had described a "business of seduction" which "went badly", according to the words of his lawyer, Me Pierre Giuriato.
While the young woman of 20 years had "rejected" his advances, he had "entered a phase of frustration, anger, rage", which had "materialized by violent blows".
For the lawyer, the confessions of his client are part of "willful violence resulting in death without intention of giving it", facts less severely punished criminally than murder, which involves premeditation.
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Jean-Marc Reiser was arrested in September 2018, a few days after the disappearance of Sophie Le Tan, on her twentieth birthday.
The young woman had not given any sign of life after going to Schiltigheim, north of Strasbourg, to visit an apartment for which he had posted an ad online.
He quickly became the sole suspect in this case.
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The incomplete skeleton of the young woman was discovered at the end of October 2019, in a Vosges forest where Jean-Marc Reiser regularly visited.
Despite the sexagenarian's denials, several pieces of evidence seemed to establish his involvement, in particular the presence of Sophie Le Tan's blood in her apartment as well as on the handle of a saw belonging to her.
Her phone was also blocked shortly after September 7, in the area where the student's bones were found.
