In February 2020, citing "new charges", the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office had reopened the file of the unexplained disappearance in 1987 of Françoise Hohmann with the opening of judicial information for "criminal arbitrary confinement" and for "concealment of a corpse".
The name of Jean-Marc Reiser, the murderer of student Sophie Le Tan, appeared in the case of the disappearance of the sales representative, but he was acquitted in 2001, for lack of evidence.
But "new research began" Monday, said, without further details on their nature, a source familiar with the matter, confirming information from RTL.
Another source familiar with the matter added that these searches, carried out by the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP), would last "as long as it takes".
According to the Latest News from Alsace (DNA), these excavations took place in the apartment on the ground floor occupied in 1987 by Jean-Marc Reiser, in the west of Strasbourg.
She had rung Reiser's doorbell
Then aged 23, Françoise Hohmann never gave a sign of life again after ringing the doorbell of Jean-Marc Reiser's apartment.
The latter was acquitted of intentional homicide in 2001 by the Assize Court of Bas-Rhin, with the benefit of the doubt.
The body of the young VRP has never been found.
The man, now 61, was sentenced to life in July for the murder of Sophie Le Tan, a 20-year-old student, whose body he dismembered, discovered more than a year after her disappearance in a Alsatian forest.
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