The main suspect in the disappearance of Sophie Le Tan, a student killed in September 2018, admitted to being the perpetrator on Tuesday morning.
According to a source, he said he did not want to kill the girl at first, before admitting to having dismembered her and having hidden the body.
Jean-Marc Reiser admitted Tuesday before the examining magistrate to be the author of the murder of the Strasbourg student Sophie Le Tan, in September 2018, AFP learned from the prosecution.
"During a hearing this morning before the investigating magistrate, Jean-Marc Reiser acknowledged his involvement in the death of Sophie Le Tan," said the prosecution.
According to a source familiar with the matter, he said he did not want to kill the young girl at first, before admitting to having dismembered her and having hidden the body.
Disappeared on her birthday
Sophie Le Tan had not given any sign of life since September 7, 2018, the day of her 20th birthday, when she was going to visit alone an apartment in Schiltigheim, a town bordering Strasbourg.
Jean-Marc Reiser, 59, who posted the real estate ad, was arrested a few days later.
Already convicted of rape and acquitted with the benefit of the doubt for the disappearance of a young woman in the 1980s, he was indicted for murder, kidnapping and forcible confinement.
Despite traces of Sophie Le Tan's blood found at his home, the suspect reaffirmed, during a hearing before the investigating judge on October 5, 2019, to be innocent.
He claims to have treated the young woman injured in the hand, before she left her home.