He requested the cancellation of potentially overwhelming evidence. The Court of Cassation rejected on Tuesday an appeal from Jean-Marc Reiser, indicted for the assassination of Strasbourg student Sophie Le Tan. The incomplete skeleton of the 20-year-old young woman was found in a forest in the Vosges mountains, in the Bas-Rhin, in October 2019, more than a year after her disappearance.
The Court of Cassation argued that there was too long a delay between the notification of disputed expert reports and the motion for a declaration of invalidity presented by the defense of this 59-year-old man. Reiser had been arrested a few days after the disappearance of the student, who had responded to a real estate ad posted by the fifties.
Reiser continues to call himself innocent
In October 2019, the Colmar Court of Appeal had already rejected this request made by lawyers for Reiser, who continues to claim his innocence.
Counsel for the suspect, already convicted of rape, had requested that the documents relating to the seizure at the home of their client of several objects - some covered with traces of the young woman's blood -, be removed from the investigation file, considering that this seizure was akin to "disguised searches" carried out without the presence of the suspect.
"Now the procedural questions are definitively settled and there is no longer any obstacle to there being a trial," welcomed Patrice Spinosi, lawyer for the Le Tan family before the Court of Cassation.
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