The three police custody as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Lina, 15, in September in Bas-Rhin, “have been lifted”, AFP learned on Wednesday from a source close to the investigation . Three people were taken into custody on Tuesday, custody which “was lifted last night” because there was “no incriminating evidence”, this source indicated.
These police custody had given hope for an important development in a case which seemed to have been at a standstill for six months. They were to allow investigators to carry out “checks”, to “close leads”, a source close to the investigation explained on Tuesday, confirming information from Parisian. The three people were notably to be questioned on inconsistencies in their schedule on the day of Lina’s disappearance. Other witnesses were also summoned to be heard freely.
“Since the opening of the judicial investigation on October 1, 2023 into the counts of kidnapping and criminal confinement, the investigations have continued without stopping in order to search for young Lina,” the public prosecutor said in a press release on Tuesday. from Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi. These police custody “are part of this objective aimed at exploring all avenues useful for revealing the truth, and to consider the relevance of all the hypotheses put forward,” added Yolande Renzi.