three people taken into custody

Three people were taken into custody on the morning of Tuesday March 26, in the investigation into the disappearance of young Lina, franceinfo learned from a source close to the investigation. It concerns a couple and a man, arrested at their home. These are checks linked to timetable inconsistencies. This operation is described as “door closing” in the investigation, according to this source, who is cautious about their involvement at this stage.

Witnesses, including the former village mayor, saw Lina walking on a small road towards the station between 11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The teenager’s phone went off the air at 11:22 a.m. and has not been found. She had just sent a short video to her boyfriend, while walking on the road where she then vanished. The Col de Steige pond (5 kilometers from the site of the disappearance) was dredged on Monday by six to seven gendarmes, France Bleu Alsace learned from the mayor of the town of Ranrupt, where the pond is located. Neighbors, met by a journalist from France Bleu Alsace, testify that the gendarmes were there again on Tuesday to search a well.

An investigation is opened for kidnapping and sequestration of more than seven days. In this case, no suspect had yet been taken into custody. Lina, 15, disappeared on the way between the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station and her village of Plaine (Bas-Rhin), on September 23. At the end of the morning, Lina had to take a train to join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. Not seeing her arrive, he alerted the girl’s mother. Despite extensive searches over the following days, no trace of the young girl was found.