Investigators decided to place three people in police custody this Tuesday morning, six months after the disappearance of the young girl.
The lone man was taken into custody first
According to information from BFMTV , it was first the man alone who was placed in police custody. Investigators want to hear from this man for “a long time” according to the 24-hour news channel, which also provides details on the couple also placed in police custody a few moments later. The man and woman concerned were originally simply summoned to be interviewed, but they were also ultimately taken into custody because they claim to have read Lina at a time which does not correspond to the chronology established by investigators.
“I don’t have more information and I bitterly regret it”
Last week, Lina’s mother, Fanny Groll, and her lawyer, Matthieu Airoldi, gave a press conference, regretting not having access to the investigation file managed by two Strasbourg investigating judges. “I don’t have more information and I bitterly regret it. It confirms what I said during the press conference,” Me Airoldi told AFP on Tuesday about this new development. Last week, he deplored not even being informed by the prosecution “of the tracks which are closed”. The replay of this press conference can be read here ⬇️
REPLAY. Disappearance of Lina: “I won’t let go until Lina is here”, relive the press conference of the teenager’s mother
Around twenty investigators are working on Lina’s disappearance
Six months after Lina’s disappearance, around twenty gendarmes remain mobilized to find a trace of the 15-year-old teenager. Depending on their needs, they may have reinforcements from the IRCGN (Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie), the SCRC (Central Criminal Intelligence Service of the National Gendarmerie) or for digital investigations.
Long-term investigations
The last time the justice system communicated about Lina’s disappearance was on October 2. The Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office announced that the investigation was moving “towards long-term investigations”. “We remain strongly mobilized on the file,” assures the source close to the investigation.
Two witnesses say they saw Lina the day she disappeared
On the day of her disappearance, Lina, 15, was heading to the station in a neighboring village of Saint-Blaise-la-Roche to take the train and join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. She had to walk 3 km. But she never arrived at the station according to video surveillance images. Two witnesses claim to have seen Lina walking on the side of the road within an hour of arriving home. This September 23, 2023, Lina sent a text message to her boyfriend at 11:20 a.m. At 11:22 a.m. his phone stopped transmitting.
A well probed this morning
The gendarmes carried out searches in a well, this morning shortly before 9 a.m., at the Steige pass in the commune of Rantupt, indicate the Latest news from Alsace . A diver went down inside. He returned to the surface around 10:15 a.m. Without result apparently, indicates the Alsatian daily.
What we know about the new progress in the investigation today
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Under what circumstances had Lina disappeared?
It was on September 23, 2023 that Lina disappeared. She has just left her home in Plaine, in Bas-Rhin, to walk to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station. She has to walk 3 km to see her boyfriend who lives in Strasbourg. Worried about not seeing her arrive, it is he who comes to Lina’s mother who alerts the police. An elderly man said he saw Lina from his terrace in a dark-colored car driving in the opposite direction from the station. The teenager never arrived at the station according to video surveillance images.
Witnesses heard freely at the gendarmerie
In addition to the three people in police custody, witnesses were summoned to be heard freely at the gendarmerie.
A pond searched by the police on Monday
According to RTL , seven divers from the gendarmerie surveyed a fishing pond at Col de Steige, located seven minutes from the place of the young girl’s disappearance. And this as part of a training exercise even though this water point had not yet been inspected.
Three people in police custody
According to information from Parisian , it is a couple and a man, from Alsace. The latter are being heard this morning due to inconsistencies noted in their schedule.