the life sentence again required on appeal against Jean-Marc Reiser

“My intimate conviction, supported by the elements of the file, is that there was indeed homicidal intent and premeditation.” The Advocate General requested Wednesday, June 28 before the Assize Court of Haut-Rhin the maximum sentence against Jean-Marc Reiser, accused of having murdered in 2018 the young student Sophie Le Tan, whose dismembered body had been found in forest in 2019. Jean-Marc Reiser, 62, was sentenced to life imprisonment with 22 years of security at first instance in July 2022.

For two and a half hours, the magistrate demolished the thesis of beatings having caused death without intention to give it, supported by the defense, to demonstrate in a rigorous manner “criminal intent” of the accused. “This file reminds me of the title of a fable by Jean de la Fontaine, The wolf and the lamb“exposed Jean-Luc Jaeg. “The lamb is Sophie Le Tan”he continues, describing a “deserving girl”.

“As for the wolf, it’s Jean-Marc Reiser”he imagines, before detailing the heavy criminal record of the accused“recidivist criminal with an appetite for narcotics”, and to recall his previous conviction by an Assize Court, in 2003, for rape and sexual assault. The magistrate pointed out the “dangerousness” of the accused and the “risk of recurrence” for the man who has been facing his sixth assize court for 10 days in Colmar. During his interrogation, Jean-Marc Reiser acknowledged fatal blows to Sophie Le Tan, but rejected any desire to kill her.