The teenager disappeared on September 23 between two towns in Bas-Rhin, when she was supposed to take a train. Since then, several avenues have been studied, including that of kidnapping.
Investigations continue to find Lina’s trace. The 15-year-old teenager, enrolled in a vocational high school, has not given any sign of life since Saturday September 23 when she was supposed to take a train to Strasbourg from a station in Bas-Rhin, located three kilometers from her home. .
Seven days later, no lead is favored, but those close to him say “to keep hope”. Franceinfo takes stock of the investigation opened for “disturbing disappearance”which mobilizes numerous gendarmerie personnel.
The teenager is still considered missing
The gendarmerie continues to broadcast its call for witnesses, in which Lina is described as having blonde hair, cut to mid-length, and measuring 1m60 and weighing 49 kg, i.e. a build “mince.” “On the day of her disappearance, the teenager was dressed in a gray dress, a white down jacket and was wearing [chaussures] White Converse”details this call which refers, for any information, to the Schirmeck gendarmerie (03 88 97 04 71).
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However, the investigation into a disturbing disappearance could, in the coming days, shift to a criminal investigation for kidnapping and sequestration.
The various searches yielded nothing
Investigators know that 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 planned to take a TER 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.
“SThere was a bad encounter, difficulties… Whether it happened from the road or further away, we have to look for traces. Maybe we threw away the phone, [laissé] traces of blood, traces of struggle, clothes, shoes…”explains to franceinfo François Daoust, former director of the Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute. “We absolutely must eliminate all that from the equation to focus on other hypotheses than the proximity between the house and the station”he adds.
Despite these efforts, which mobilized 80 gendarmes for Thursday alone, no conclusive evidence was found in this wooded area bordering the Vosges massif. Dog teams were deployed, as well as a helicopter and drones, the gendarmerie said. “No marks on the road suggesting a road accident”, could not be brought to light, according to prosecutor Aline Clérot. Various water points were also probed, without results.
Several vehicles and homes were searched
Friday, the public prosecutor of Saverne (Bas-Rhin) announced the launch of a “large-scale coordinated operation”. The police have combed through “several points in the potential extinction zone”like an abandoned house, a supermarket or even the recycling center Saint-Blaise-la-Roche, located right next to the town’s train station.
According to the regional daily The Latest News from Alsace (DNA) and The Parisian, several vehicles were also searched on Friday. These operations aimed in particular “owners of dark-colored Renault Clio”, according to the Alsatian newspaper. They were triggered on the basis of two testimonies describing the suspicious behavior of a man behind the wheel of a vehicle of this type, seen a few days before Lina’s disappearance. For the moment, the samples collected have not been the subject of any declaration. The end of the beatings has not been announced either.
A report led to a false trail, which was quickly dismissed
Saturday morning, the searches focused “on the shoulder of the road located at a point on departmental road 350”, said prosecutor Aline Clérot, in a press release. On the basis of a “intelligence”, the gendarmes combed this area and discovered bones. These were finally “identified formally by a forensic doctor from the Strasbourg Medico-Legal Institute as of animal nature”.
The cross-checking of testimonies continues
In addition to the hypothesis of a traffic accident, investigators continue to explore the possibility of kidnapping. According to the public prosecutor, Lisa was seen walking “between 11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.” along the RD 350, as stated by two witnesses, including the former mayor of Plaine, Jean-Marc Chipon. “While passing on the road, I passed her. She was walking on the side of the road. Where was she going? I didn’t know. I didn’t know any more…”, he told BFMTV. A few minutes after this meeting, while he was making a return trip on the same road, Jean-Marc Chipon assured that the young girl was no longer there.
The vagueness persists despite other worrying elements, such as the fact that at 11:22 a.m. precisely, on the morning of September 23, Lina’s phone definitively stopped “limiting”, that is to say, communicating with the relays. local telephone lines. The reasons for such a cutoff are numerous (phone turned off, defective, destroyed or put in airplane mode), which does not exclude any possibility, from running away to kidnapping, including an accident.
Faced with persistent rumors on social networks that incriminate Tao, Lina’s 19-year-old boyfriend, the teenager’s mother spoke out. “This is no longer possible, I can’t let this happen. Tao suffersshe denounced on the microphone of TF1-LCI. We need to be positive and fight.” “We don’t want all the bad things”she repeated to DNA. “I have hope, I’m not giving up!”she insisted.