2023-10-01 16:20:25
Gendarmes are carrying out searches in the village of Diespach (Bas-Rhin) to try to find Lina, the 15-year-old teenager who has been missing for more than a week, Sunday October 1, 2023. FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP
Two Strasbourg investigating judges have been summoned to direct research into the case of the disappearance of Lina, the 15-year-old girl who has not been found for more than a week, announced the public prosecutors of Saverne and Strasbourg. in a press release, Sunday October 1.
The Saverne public prosecutor’s office, until then competent, relinquished responsibility in favor of that of Strasbourg, which opened a judicial investigation “counts of kidnapping or sequestration of more than seven days”according to the public prosecutor of Saverne, Aline Clérot, and the public prosecutor of Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi. “The investigation carried out into the worrying disappearance of […] Lina […] did not make it possible to find the young girl after more than seven days of in-depth investigations”write the two magistrates.
The Strasbourg public prosecutor seized on Sunday “criminal acts” kidnapping or sequestration “the center of investigation by introductory indictment”. The investigation is still entrusted to the gendarmes of the Strasbourg research section and the Bas-Rhin gendarmerie group.
Unsuccessful defeats
A teenager with no history attending CAP personal assistance, Lina disappeared on Saturday September 23, late in the morning. She was walking to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, 3 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 main road around 11:15 a.m. A few minutes later, her cell phone stopped working. Since then, nothing more, despite the wanted notice launched the next day, and the intense searches and searches carried out: citizen searches, bodies of water probed, hearings of witnesses and careful inspection of a house in the commune of Plaine (Bas -Rhine), during the weekend.
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