a criminal investigation opened for “kidnapping or sequestration”, two investigating judges seized

The teenager has been missing for more than a week between two towns in Bas-Rhin, when she was supposed to take a train.

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Gendarmes take part in a hunt to find young Lina, on September 28, 2023 in Saint-Blaise-la-Roche (Bas-Rhin).  (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP)

The investigation into the disappearance of Lina, between two municipalities in Bas-Rhin, continues and is changing in nature. Sunday October 1, the public prosecutors of Saverne (Bas-Rhin) and Strasbourg announced the opening of a judicial investigation into the counts of “kidnapping or sequestration of more than seven days”, more than a week later the disappearance of the teenager. Two investigating judges were jointly seized of the procedure for “criminal acts”.

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On the morning of September 23, the high school student left alone and on foot from her home in Plaine (Bas-Rhin) towards the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche SNCF station. She had to take a TER there to join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. Police raids were carried out, with the support of volunteers, along departmental road 350 which connects the two localities, without success.

The police combed several places in the potential area of ​​​​Lina’s disappearance, such as a house located in Diespach (Bas-Rhin), four kilometers from the teenager’s home. According to a source close to the investigation at France Télévisions, the searches in this house yielded nothing conclusive. The gendarmes also do not have any evidence against the owner and there is no police custody planned for the moment, this source detailed Sunday afternoon.


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