According to a source close to the case, the searches are in a wide area, without any precise indication of location to know where to look. The 15-year-old girl disappeared in September 2023 in Alsace. A suspect committed suicide.
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Searches took place in the Vosges department on Tuesday July 30 to find the body of Lina, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared in Plain (Bas-Rhin) in September 2023, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case on Tuesday, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien. They ended at the end of the afternoon, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case. This source indicates that the searches will continue on Wednesday, without specifying the place or places where they will take place.
“At this stage, the significant resources deployed alongside gendarmerie investigators have (…) not yet enabled us to find any trace of Lina”the Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office said in a statement published earlier in the afternoon. The public prosecutor’s office also indicated that “the analyses carried out regarding the geolocation of the stolen vehicle (…) led investigators, still mobilized, to focus today on certain areas of the region”.
Around 80 gendarmes are involved in this operation, including those from the National Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute (IRCGN) and specialist dogs. They are involved alongside investigators in charge of the investigations and with gendarmes from the Grand Est region.
According to a source close to the case, a suspect was identified several weeks ago. The latter committed suicide after his car was seized by investigators who were supposed to analyze it. Contacted by France Bleu Alsace, Me Matthieu Airoldi, the lawyer for Lina’s mother, said he was waiting with “worry and serenity” the results of these searches carried out by the police.
