This June 27, 2022 began the trial of Jean-Marc Reiser, accused of the assassination of Sophie Le Tan which took place on September 7, 2018. The family of the victim, very tried, must face the one who confessed to the murder of the 20-year-old girl, but he denies premeditation. Among the witnesses is the mother of this alleged culprit. Aged 84, she was excused, so it was her hearings by the investigators that were read. They portray a son she has never seen violent, incapable of committing such acts and who even had lunch with his mother the day after the tragedy.
Jean Marc, “he is a good son“.”He didn’t kill. It’s not true. He is so nice. He would have told me if he had“, declared his mother in front of the authorities on September 21, 2018, reports The Parisian. “He had done nothing“, she proclaims concerning the heavy judicial past of her child. He was however sentenced in 2003 already to 15 years of criminal imprisonment for rape and sexual assault: “it’s because of something with a girl. (…) I do not really know. The cops never told me.“She will recognize on her lips that it was rape:”It’s possible.”
The day after the violent death of the student and after dismembering her body with a saw and hiding her remains in the forest, Jean-Marc Reiser went to eat at his mother’s in Niederbronn-les-Bains, as he has habit. “Potatoes with cottage cheese“, she will specify. Afterwards, they went to enjoy an ice cream at the pond. “Un Orangina” for her, “three pistachio-banana-strawberry balls” for him. “I would have noticed if he had done something wrong. He was nice, cheerful, as always“, she will add.
If his mother was obviously in denial at the time of the discovery of the facts, she may have changed her opinion, three and a half years after the facts. The sister of the alleged assassin, present at the bar, will report a complicated childhood with a father, forest ranger and alcoholic, and a brother who could be impulsive: “They were hitting each other with their bare hands. They were screaming. My father slapped him. They didn’t get along Jean-Marc and dad, because of the alcohol.” Of her mother, she will say that she does not “realize all this history“. She will have painful words to explain her position as a criminal’s sister: “If he did this, he’s a monster. I am ashamed. You choose your friends, not your family. (…) It’s hard to be Reiser’s sister.“