Before the trial of the Sophie Le Tan case, in June in Strasbourg, the man who is accused of the murder of the student was tried in another case.
Jean-Marc Reiser was prosecuted for witness subordination.
He was sentenced to six months in prison for sending a letter to his ex-girlfriend.
She described a Jean-Marc Reiser with "a double personality [...] a violent one, and a calmer, more calm one.
He is very cultured, very intelligent, very resourceful in life.
A first appointment with the law.
Jean-Marc Reiser, suspected of murder in the Sophie Le Tan case which will be tried at the end of June, was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison.
He was convicted of witness tampering after sending a letter to his former girlfriend.
Where he invited him to "specify or modify" his previous testimonies.
He was also ordered to pay a symbolic euro in compensation to the civil party.
The prosecution had requested one year's imprisonment and a ban on contacting his former partner against the defendant, imprisoned since 2018.
Jean-Marc Reiser, 62, writes regularly to the one who had shared his life for eight years even if she never answers him, explains this woman in her sixties at the bar.
However, this particular missive, received last summer, “made him wince”.
"It was not a normal letter, it scared me," she explains about this letter written in very tight handwriting and containing several underlined passages.
According to the prosecution, Jean-Marc Reiser would have entrusted it during a visit to his mother, who would then have posted it or brought it to his former companion.
What the defendant denied.
“There is a split personality in him”
“It scared me: does he send people to my house to put envelopes in my mailbox?
I was afraid that, after his incarceration, he would send someone to take revenge on me”, continues his ex-companion, who admits: “In a way, I am still under his influence.
“Particularly talkative, she describes the blows, the anger, the arguments and the influence under which she lived during their relationship, even if they did not live together.
“There is a double personality in him, a violent one, and a calmer, calmer one.
He is very cultured, very intelligent, very resourceful in life, ”she says again.
And in this letter, “if he is not aggressive in his writing, he is aggressive otherwise,” she believes.
"When will he realize the way he behaves with women?"
“, she wonders again.
Jean-Marc Reiser, taken from his cell for the occasion, khaki sweatshirt and hard look, easily admits having written the letter but assures that it was in no way a threat.
"Everything I say in this letter is in the file, I didn't invent anything and I put it before its contradictions," he said, very sure of himself.
“For me there is no pressure, no blackmail.
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“She is absolutely not under my control”
Perfectly aware of the smallest details of the case, Mr. Reiser tries to take his ex-companion to task but he is called to order several times by judge Valentine Seyfritz.
"I feel like I'm in the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard", the two Hollywood stars currently before the judges in the United States, he replies with confidence.
"She is absolutely not under my control, she has irrational fears, she is afraid of everything and nothing", he continues, noting that this case occurs "two months before the trial (of assizes), as by coincidence ".
"Women are so weird and complicated, I've never understood them," he admits again.
"Let's be clear, this witness tampering procedure will not really have much influence" on the criminal trial, agreed after the hearing Me Emmanuel Spano, who defended Jean-Marc Reiser on Tuesday.
The lawyer noted that his client was already considering appealing his conviction.
Jean-Marc Reiser already has a busy judicial past: sentenced for rape to fifteen years in prison in 2003, he will be tried at the end of June for the assassination in 2018 of Sophie Le Tan, a 20-year-old student from Strasbourg whom he confessed to having killed, after months of denials.
He faces life imprisonment.
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