Concern, citizen raids, water point surveys, house searches, testimonies, rape complaints… Since September 23 and the disappearance of 15-year-old Lina in Bas-Rhin, there has been no shortage of twists and turns. Without the investigation, at least officially, making significant progress. The teenager remains untraceable and the mystery remains: how, today, is it possible to disappear completely into nature without leaving a trace?
In any case, the tracking dogs lost her on the path taken by the young girl between her home and the Saint-Blaise-La Roche station that Saturday. Or roughly the same place where her phone had stopped transmitting and where a neighbor had claimed to have encountered her…
What happened next ? Investigators are currently digging into the trail of a sexual predator, according to reports. Latest News from Alsace (DNA). According to the regional daily, they sent a message in mid-January to the parents of young girls at the Frison-Roche college in La Broque, an establishment that Lina attended until June 2023. With the desire to know if their child “had already discussed or met a man of around 20 years old in a playground in September 2023” who would have “arrived and then left in a gray Clio”.
This is not the first time that this specific model of vehicle has been mentioned. At the beginning of October, a septuagenarian living in Champenay, the same hamlet as the victim, indicated on M6 that he had seen the teenager passing by sitting in the back of a vehicle. “She was dressed in light. She said hello as she passed,” he said at the time, which led to the search of several cars and even a nearby house. Without results.
Complaint closed without further action then reopened
Lina’s close entourage has also been closely scrutinized for four months. Her boyfriend, Tao, who was waiting for her at the Strasbourg station on September 23, saw her phone, lost then found, examined by the gendarmes. The teenager’s mother was also subject to suspicion, with a YouTuber accusing her in particular of having had relations with the same Tao. To which she responded with a complaint for defamation. And this weekend again, new elements appeared: DNA revealed that Lina had filed a complaint for rape in 2022 against two young adults. When she was 14 years old… The case was initially dismissed but the Saverne public prosecutor’s office indicated on Monday that a “new legal study of the procedure has been carried out”.
New developments that the young girl’s mother learned each time through the press. “For the moment, the investigating judges are not communicating, it is a complete blackout, regrets to 20 minutes his lawyer, Me Matthieu Airoldi. I hope that we will have access to the entire investigation file. All this silence distresses my client who doesn’t know what’s going on. Communicating would perhaps avoid the crappy journalistic work of some…”
The advice will be received on February 1 by the investigating judges in Strasbourg. By then, some twists and turns may still have taken place, more than four months after Lina’s disappearance.