Life imprisonment with 22 years security. Our colleagues at the Latest News from Alsace reported that Jean-Marc Reiser was the maximum sentence against the accused assassin to Sophie Le Tan.
"Unexpectedly, I will ask for your answer to the question whether he voluntarily murdered him. Laurent Guy, Advocate General, launched the inquiry to the Bas-Rhin Assize Court jurors. He demanded "an extremely severe sentence", life imprisonment with 22 years security, which is the most severe Jean-Marc Reiser had imposed.
Jean-Marc Reiser was on trial for one week for the murder Sophie Le Tan. Her incomplete skeleton was discovered in a forest more than a year after she disappeared. After visiting Jean-Marc Reiser's apartment at Schiltigheim in the north of Strasbourg, she disappeared on her 20th birthday.
After two and a quarter years of denials and many more, the evidence quickly pointed to the one who admitted in early 2021 that he had killed and dismembered Sophie Le Tan. This confession was maintained at Monday's start of his trial. He denies that he premeditated his act, and that he set up a trap for Sophie Le Tan, in particular by broadcasting a false rental advertisement to which she had replied.
A dark, dark, chilling shadow
"The arrival Sophie Le Tan in the apartment owes no to chance (...) It's indeed into a trap she fell", claimed Advocate General, evoking a "ray of sunshine broken by a black, dark, chilling shadow".
Jean-Marc Reiser was already convicted for two rapes and is now on trial for murder. At the end of the afternoon, the defense must plead. The verdict is expected to be delivered on Tuesday.
