In the little information that filters from the investigation concerning the disappearance of Lina, 15 years old, who disappeared four months ago to the day in Bas-Rhin, the Saverne public prosecutor’s office announced that it had carried out an “new legal study” of the complaint filed by the teenager in June 2022. A complaint for rape filed a year before her disappearance, which has so far not given rise to prosecution.
A year and a half before her disappearance in Saint-Blaise-la-Roche, on September 23, Lina had accused two young adults of having raped her. Lina, then aged 13, filed a complaint in June 2022 for acts described as “gang rape”. “This complaint gave rise to an investigation following which an initial legal analysis was carried out. This did not make it possible to sufficiently characterize the facts,” indicates the Saverne prosecutor, Aline Clérot.
Lina’s mother “stunned”
According to the daily Latest News from Alsace, two adult men admitted to sexual relations, while affirming that they were consensual relations. However, “as soon as the investigation into Lina’s worrying disappearance was opened, this information was immediately communicated and used by the investigators”, continues the magistrate. Furthermore, “a new legal study of the procedure has been carried out” and “will result in a decision in the coming weeks”, adds the prosecutor. As a reminder, the disappearance is the subject of an investigation, opened by the Saverne public prosecutor’s office and now led by an investigating judge from Strasbourg.
An announcement which leaves the young girl’s mother bitter, who says, reports her lawyer Maître Matthieu Airoldi, “stunned to learn of this change of heart from the prosecution and is surprised that it was necessary to wait for Lina to be the subject of a kidnapping so that the initial decision to dismiss it can be reviewed.” “She bitterly regrets that all this information was communicated to her through the press, and not by the Saverne public prosecutor’s office directly, especially since she had a certain number of contacts with the gendarmes, to whom she spoke this complaint, without being kept informed,” he added. “This leaves her wondering about the quality of the work and the attention paid to a complaint from a 13-year-old girl, an age at which consent cannot be demonstrated. »