This is the same type of search as that carried out last week in the Vosges, after the discovery of the young girl’s DNA in a suspect’s car.
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The search was interrupted on Tuesday, August 6 in the town of Saulx (Haute-Saône) to find Lina, 15, who disappeared in September, France Bleu learned from the gendarmerie. Tuesday was the fifth day of searches, after four days last week in the Anould forest (Vosges). This time, the gendarmes, helped by dogs and radars to probe the ground, inspected the Saulx woods on the edge of the RN 57, between Vesoul and Luxeuil-les-Bains.
At least 90 gendarmes are mobilized with canine brigades, investigators from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) equipped with georadars to probe the ground, investigators from the Strasbourg research section, as well as local gendarmes. This is the same type of search as those carried out last week in the Vosges.
According to the mayor of the town, contacted by France Bleu Besançon, the searches took place in the Saulx woods, a forest “dense” located 2 km from the village.
The 15-year-old girl disappeared in Alsace in September 2023. The main suspect in the investigation opened after Lina’s disappearance, identified several weeks ago, committed suicide on July 10. The forty-year-old was due to be tried on July 22 for violent robberies committed in August 2023.
