On June 27, 2022, the trial began before the Assizes of Bas-Rhin of Jean-Marc Reiser (61), alleged assassin of Sophie Le Tan. He persisted: he never wished for the death of the 20-year-old student, repeated, with a detached air, the one who took more than two years to confess to having killed the young woman and thrown her dismembered corpse into the forest. . Assassination with a carefully prepared trap? Or, as Jean-Marc Reiser maintains, murder in the heat of anger after refused advances? In The Parisian however, the Machiavellianism of this sexual predator explodes.
Before September 7, 2018, both Sophie Le Tan’s 20th birthday and the date of her violent death, Jean-Marc Reiser had put in place a whole technique to spot his “prey”: “For weeks, as a bait, in the summer of 2018, he left a rental ad for an apartment for students on Leboncoin. A fictional home. The photos that illustrate it are those of his mother’s apartment. The announcement, posted from an Internet cafe, refers to several phone numbers acquired under false identities.”
When people arrive for the visits, the man is posted in his accommodation and scrutinizes them through binoculars. He checks that they are not accompanied and sufficiently to his liking. It will also reveal an unhealthy fascination for young women of Asian origin, like Sophie Le Tan. A young woman he had already met at university, where he himself had “resumed studies in master’s degree in archeology of the ancient worlds, mention byzantine civilization“.
The jurors, four men and two women, have until July 5 to try to understand what happened on September 7, 2018 in Schiltigheim, a municipality bordering Strasbourg. The investigators quickly went back to Jean-Marc Reiser, already convicted of rape in 2003 and acquitted for lack of evidence in another disappearance case in 2001. Significant traces of carefully erased blood were then discovered at his home and DNA of the victim on a saw in his basement. After more than two years of denial and fluctuating versions, he finally confessed in January 2021, more than a year after the discovery of the incomplete skeleton of the student in the forest in October 2019. He faces life imprisonment.