2023-09-30 14:05:36
Seven days after her disappearance, Lina remains nowhere to be found. A sector scrutinized, bodies of water surveyed, vehicles inspected, hearings, and yet still nothing. A week after her disappearance in Bas-Rhin, still no sign of Lina, 15 years old.
This Saturday morning, on the basis of “information”, the gendarmes carried out “technical and scientific police actions on the shoulder” of departmental road 350, near the place of Lina’s disappearance, indicated in a press release the public prosecutor of Saverne, Aline Clérot.
“Bones were discovered” but they were “formally” identified by a pathologist from the Strasbourg forensic institute “as animal in nature,” she added.
Overview along the departmental road
A high school student with no history, educated in CAP “personal assistance”, domiciled in the commune of Plaine, about sixty km southwest of Strasbourg, where she lives with her mother, Lina disappeared on Saturday September 23 at the end of morning.
She was walking to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, a few kilometers from her home, a journey she was used to making, to take the train and join her boyfriend in Strasbourg.
Two witnesses say they saw her walking along the departmental road around 11:15 a.m. A few minutes later, his cell phone stopped ringing.
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Since then, nothing more, despite the wanted notice launched the next day and the intense searches and investigations deployed since: citizen searches, bodies of water probed by gendarmerie divers, witness hearings have taken place all week, in vain.
“Major operation”
This Friday, a “large-scale coordinated operation” in “several points of the potential disappearance zone” made it possible to carry out “technical and scientific police actions on several vehicles targeted by the investigation”, indicated in a previous press release. Aline Clerot.
“These investigative acts will continue in the coming hours,” added the magistrate, without specifying whether these searches had led to the discovery of clues.
The gendarmerie “is particularly mobilized to find the young girl”, assured Saturday on X (ex-Twitter) the spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, Camille Chaize.
Between six and ten vehicles, according to information from Le Parisien and the Latest News of Alsace (DNA), were searched on Friday. Searches aimed in particular at “owners of dark-colored Renault Clios”, according to the Alsatian newspaper.
Houses, a supermarket and the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche recycling center were also inspected, according to DNA.
A young girl auditioned
Relayed on Saturday by Le Parisien, the testimony of a 15-year-old girl and her father, also living in Plaine, could support the scenario, currently unconfirmed, of a vehicle in which Lina could have, voluntarily or not , to go up.
The two witnesses thus evoke the presence on the Monday evening before the disappearance of a man driving a “gray car”: according to the father, he would have honked the horn at his daughter who immediately called him “in panic”.
The following Thursday, “around 6 a.m.”, the same car would have stopped near the teenager and the driver would have “started to get out of the vehicle”, pushing her to flee, they further indicated to Le Parisien. According to the father, his daughter was interviewed by the gendarmes.
Rumors targeting her boyfriend
In addition to a great outpouring of solidarity – the citizen raids brought together several hundred people – Lina’s disappearance also sparked rumors on social networks targeting in particular Tao, her 19-year-old boyfriend, compared by some to Jonathann Daval, convicted in 2020 to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife Alexia after publicly mourning her disappearance.
Fanny, Lina’s mother, defended the young man this week on TF1 : “It’s no longer possible, I can’t let this happen. Tao is suffering,” she said, visibly very distressed.
“We don’t want all the nastiness,” she said again on Saturday to DNA. “I have hope, I’m not giving up!” », added this nurse, separated from the father of her daughter.
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