During an interrogation before the examining magistrate, the main suspect of the murder of the young woman, Jean-Marc Reiser, who denounces a "scaffolding of assumptions", asked for a second opinion on a DNA found in his cellar, which he was refused, according to his lawyer.
Jean-Marc Reiser, indicted for the murder of Strasbourg student Sophie Le Tan in 2018, will request a second opinion on a part of the file incriminating him, we learned on Saturday from one of his lawyers who called on his client the day before to "change" his line of defense.
"Contradictions on which he cannot explain himself"
The examining magistrate, who questioned Jean-Marc Reiser for the fifth time on Friday, presented him with an additional autopsy making a possible link between the saw found in his cellar, on which Sophie's DNA was identified, with the section marks found on the student's skeleton, said Me Pierre Giuriato.
Jean-Marc Reiser, who continues to proclaim his innocence and denounces a "scaffolding of assumptions", asked the judge for a second opinion on this element, which he was refused, said the lawyer.
Jean-Marc Reiser "will seize the investigative chamber of the Colmar Court of Appeal" to obtain this second opinion in order to determine whether a formal link can be made, or not, between the section marks and this saw , said Me Giuriato.
At the end of this hearing, Me Giuriato had hoped that Jean-Marc Reiser "evolves" in his line of defense.
"There are contradictions on which he cannot be explained and it is in his interest to explain himself," said the lawyer, suggesting that he and Me Francis Metzger, with whom he defends the fifty-year-old , could throw in the towel if he didn't change position.
"It is possible that we will not go to the assizes with him"
"It is possible (not to continue with him) if the explanations of Mr. Reiser should not change, it is possible that we do not go to the assizes with him" in the event of a trial, again indicated the advice.
Jean-Marc Reiser had already unsuccessfully sought justice to demand the cancellation of several pieces of evidence potentially overwhelming for him.
He also made several requests for release, all of which were rejected.
Jean-Marc Reiser, 59, was arrested in September 2018, a few days after the disappearance of the 20-year-old student who had responded to a real estate ad he had posted online.
He was indicted for murder, kidnapping and forcible confinement.
More than a year after her disappearance, the incomplete skeleton of Sophie Le Tan was discovered at the end of October 2019 in a Vosges forest, in Rosheim (Bas-Rhin), where the suspect went regularly.