It’s been six days now since Lina, 15, hasn’t given any sign of life. Officially no leads have been ruled out, even if the nature of the research carried out over the last two days suggests the worst. The young girl, missing since Saturday morning when she had just left the family home located in the hamlet of Champenay (Bas-Rhin) where she lives with her mother, had gone to join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. Since then, there has been no trace, his phone stopped marking the day of his disappearance at 11:22 a.m. and since then, the quiet Vallée de la Brûche (Bas-Rhin) has been crisscrossed by investigators and journalists. 20 minutes takes stock of the investigation.
What do we know about his disappearance?
The teenager disappeared late Saturday morning after leaving her home to go on foot to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, less than three kilometers away. A trip she used to make. A disappearance, immediately classified as “worrying” in view of the profile of the young girl by the public prosecutor of Saverne, Aline Clérot. The magistrate had indicated, however, during a press conference on Tuesday that no leads had been ruled out, specifying however that no recent or old runaway had made it possible to support the hypothesis of a runaway and that it was not There had been no banking activity on his account since his disappearance. The magistrate especially specified that on Saturday, between 11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., two witnesses had seen Lina walking on the road towards the station where she was to take a train to Strasbourg to join her boyfriend. Not seeing her arrive, he alerted Lina’s mother, who notified the emergency services around 2:15 p.m. An important marker for the investigation, his phone, which was not found, stopped working at 11:22 a.m.
What is the girl’s profile?
According to the testimonies collected on site, the young girl is “someone cool, always smiling. She sets the mood,” says a young man, without believing in any way in the running away theory. “Without fuss and discreet”, “solar”, “comfortable in one’s skin”. Other testimonies point in this direction. She is “a very cute child, very calm, very sweet, very beautiful”. An only child, she has a boyfriend; Tao, 19, who was spending time at home. Lina entered CAP personal assistance this year in an establishment near Saint-Blaise-la-Roche, the station where she was supposed to have taken the train to reach Strasbourg. She was doing an internship in a convenience store in her town. His parents are separated, his mother is a nurse.
How was the research organized?
Very quickly, the research was launched. Examination of the video surveillance images in the trains of the train that Lina was to take as well as at the Strasbourg station showed that she had not boarded the train. During her journey on foot, no trace was found on the roadway or the shoulder that could suggest a road accident of which the teenager was the victim, explained the prosecutor. After several citizen raids, supervised by the Bas-Rhin gendarmerie, with the support of dog teams and a helicopter with a thermal camera, nothing has led to the discovery of any conclusive clues in this wooded and rugged area. located at the foot of the Vosges massif. Water points, two ponds, were also probed, without results.
Why so much slip-up on social networks?
Often present in front of the media, Lina’s mother and the young girl’s boyfriend, Tao, 19, were quickly the subject of numerous slanderous messages on social networks which, for some, went completely out of control. Such a digital rumor that forced Lina’s mother to support the young man and ask during a speech, reports BFMTV, “kindness” towards those who send “nasty on the networks or false rumors”. A request also relayed by the prosecutor this Friday who in a press release calls for “restraint and civility from everyone in the interest of the investigation. »
Where is the investigation this weekend?
Investigations are accelerating. This Friday, a “large-scale coordinated operation” is underway. This operation is taking place in “several points in the potential area of Lina’s disappearance”, in Bas-Rhin, and “concerns information useful to the investigation which must be verified”, specifies prosecutor Aline Clérot. This operation is being carried out by the Strasbourg research section and the Bas-Rhin gendarmerie group, said the prosecutor, without giving further details. “After a seven-day excavation phase, it is now time for investigators to verify all the elements they have collected, whether digitally or from testimonies, dig or close leads,” explained a close source. of the investigation into this coordinated operation.
A car was searched in Bellefosse, a town located seven kilometers from Saint-Blaise-la-Roche, where Lina disappeared. Technicians in white overalls, wearing masks and gloves, combed through a navy blue car before leaving the scene. “The inspection of the car in Bellefosse by criminal identification technicians from the Bas-Rhin gendarmerie group is part of these checks but there will be others,” added this source. Six, to be exact. the searches target a specific model of car following testimony which would have been partly corroborated by video surveillance images. And research and investigations on the territories of neighboring municipalities are increasing, as evidenced by The Latest News from Alsace. In Wildersbach, Rothau where recycling centers are searched, houses. Investigations were also carried out this Friday in Plaine, a town which includes the hamlet of Champenay where Lina’s family home is located… But for the moment, we do not know whether any elements could be found.