The Alsatian teenager has been missing since September 23, 2023, she was last seen in Saint-Blaise-la-Roche in Bas-Rhin.
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A year and a half after the complaint for gang rape filed by Lina, a 15-year-old girl who disappeared in Alsace on September 23, the Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office opened on Friday “a judicial investigation into the charge of rape committed on a minor aged 15 by an adult with an age difference of at least 5 years”indicates this Monday Yolande Renzi, public prosecutor of Strasbourg, in a press release.
A “information unrelated and distinct from that currently open on the counts of kidnapping and criminal confinement”specifies the prosecution in its press release.
Lina had filed a rape complaint
Lina, 15, disappeared on September 23, 2023 after leaving her home to go to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station (Bas-Rhin), about three kilometers away, a journey she had habit of doing. His disappearance is the subject of an open judicial investigation “against X” For “kidnapping and sequestration not followed by voluntary release of more than seven days”.
In June 2022, Lina filed a complaint “of the charge of gang rape committed in May 2022, giving rise to proceedings closed in spring 2023”, explains the prosecution. This procedure was “re-examined by the public prosecutor of Saverne, who relinquished it in favor of the Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office on January 30, 2024”continues the Strasbourg prosecutor in her press release.
Lina’s mother wants to become a civil party
In a press release this Monday, Me Matthieu Airoldi, lawyer for Lina’s mother, confirms having “received a letter from the Public Prosecutor of Saverne informing us of her decision to reconsider the initial orientation of [son] parquet to dismiss the teenager’s complaint without further action. “We are pleased that all light can finally be shed on this matter and that the damage and honor of Lina will be repaired”writes the lawyer.
“We are impatiently waiting to know the name of the investigating magistrate who will be seized of the case to confirm the constitution of a civil party” of Lina’s mother, explains the lawyer. Me Airoldi adds that his client wishes to be “heard quickly and have access at least to this file, to finally understand why the Saverne public prosecutor’s office had to wait such a delay to open this judicial information”. She was received, Thursday, February 1, by the judges responsible for investigating the disappearance of her daughter.