Two Strasbourg investigating judges have been summoned to direct research into the case of the disappearance of Lina, the 15-year-old girl who has not been found for more than a week, announced the public prosecutors of Saverne and Strasbourg. in a press release, Sunday, October 1.
The Saverne public prosecutor’s office, until then competent, relinquished responsibility in favor of that of Strasbourg, which opened a judicial investigation “on counts of kidnapping or sequestration of more than seven days”, according to the public prosecutor of Saverne , Aline Clérot, and the public prosecutor of Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi. “The investigation carried out in the context of the worrying disappearance of […] Lina […] did not make it possible to find the young girl after more than seven days of in-depth investigations,” write the two magistrates.
The Strasbourg public prosecutor referred the “criminal acts” of kidnapping or sequestration to the “investigation center” on Sunday. The investigation is still entrusted to the gendarmes of the Strasbourg research section and the Bas-Rhin gendarmerie group.
Unsuccessful defeats
An uneventful teenager attending CAP for personal assistance, Lina disappeared on Saturday, September 23, late in the morning. She was walking to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, 3 kilometers from home, a journey she was used to making, to take the train and join her boyfriend in Strasbourg.
Two witnesses say they saw her walking along the departmental road around 11:15 a.m. A few minutes later, her cell phone stopped working. Since then, nothing more, despite the wanted notice launched the next day, and the intense searches and research carried out: citizen searches, bodies of water probed, hearings of witnesses and careful inspection of a house in the commune of Plaine (Bas -Rhine), during the weekend.