In rue Perle, in front of the building where the main suspect in the disappearance of Sophie Le Tan lived.

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G. Varela / 20 Minutes

Their last meeting dates back to December 6.

This time, it is at the request of the alleged murderer of Sophie Le Tan that Judge Eliette Roux, in charge of investigating this case, meets him.

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by his lawyer, master Francis Metzger.

"The judge will obviously show him the results of the autopsy which show that, unfortunately, Sophie was cut with a saw," said for his part one of the lawyers of the young woman's relatives, Master Rémi Stephan.

"Overwhelming charges"

According to him, “there is no confession to be expected from Reiser.

But in this case, there is no need for a confession ”as the charges against him are“ overwhelming ”, said the council.

According to him, this hearing will also undoubtedly serve to "synthesize" the charges in the perspective of a trial "which we hope to be close".

Our Sophie Le Tan case file

For the record, Jean-Marc Reiser, 59, was arrested in September 2018 a few days after the disappearance of the 20-year-old student who responded to a real estate ad posted online by the suspect.

More than a year after her disappearance, Sophie Le Tan's incomplete skeleton was discovered at the end of October 2019 in a Vosges forest, in Rosheim (Bas-Rhin), where the suspect, who continues to claim his innocence, went regularly.

Significant traces of the young woman's blood were found in the suspect, as well as traces of her DNA on the handle of a saw.

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