Sophie Le Tan case.

In front of the Strasbourg TGI, October 4, 2019. -

G. Varela / 20 Minutes

  • Justice has again rejected requests from Jean-Marc Reiser, the main suspect in the murder of Sophie Le Tan.

  • His two requests?

    A request for "second opinion concerning the boundary-relay report" as well as another request for "additional expertise concerning the additional autopsy report", said Pierre Giuriato.

  • The sixty-year-old continues to proclaim his innocence.

It's still no.

The justice rejected two new requests from Jean-Marc Reiser, the alleged murderer of Strasbourg student Sophie Le Tan in 2018. The main suspect in the case asked in particular for additional expertise on an autopsy.

But the investigating chamber of the Colmar Court of Appeal therefore told him no, on October 8, "with two judgments".

For a request for a "second opinion concerning the boundary-relay report", as well as for another request for "additional expertise concerning the additional autopsy report", said Maître Pierre Giuriato.

Our file on the Le Tan affair

These two requests were made after the fifth hearing of Mr. Reiser, 60, by the examining magistrate Eliette Roux, on September 4.

The latter had notably informed him of the conclusions of the autopsy report confirming that the saw discovered at his place with Sophie Le Tan's blood on the handle was compatible with the traces of cutouts found on the young woman's skeleton.

The 60-year-old, who continues to proclaim his innocence and denounces a "scaffolding of assumptions", had also criticized the expert who analyzed the boundary of his phone near the area where he is suspected of having gone to get rid of the body of the young woman.

Rejected release requests

In June, the Court of Cassation had already dismissed an appeal by Mr. Reiser asking for the annulment of several pieces of evidence potentially damning for him.

He had also made several requests for release, all of which were rejected.

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).

Mr. Reiser was arrested in September 2018, a few days after the victim's disappearance.

She had responded to a real estate ad posted online by the suspect, in which significant traces of the 20-year-old's blood had also been found.

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