The Saverne public prosecutor’s office has moved to Strasbourg to find the 15-year-old girl who has been missing for more than a week. The gendarmes were at work again this Sunday, October 1, in a house in Plaine (Bas-Rhin).
The criminal trail is clearly favored. Two investigating judges have been charged with “kidnapping or sequestration” in the case of the disappearance in Bas-Rhin of Lina, the 15-year-old teenager who has disappeared for more than a week. The Saverne public prosecutor’s office, until then competent, relinquished responsibility in favor of Strasbourg which opened a judicial investigation “on counts of kidnapping or sequestration of more than seven days”, according to the prosecutors of Saverne, Aline Clérot, and of Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi, who signed a joint press release. Two investigating judges from Strasbourg will now lead the investigations.
The search to find Lina focused this Sunday, October 1, on a house. The gendarmes were at work this morning in a house in Plaine (Bas-Rhin), the town where the missing teenager comes from. Several journalists are gathered not far from the accommodation, located in the hamlet of Diespach, and access to which is blocked by a gendarmerie car. Three soldiers are also on duty there. A car marked “dog team” left the scene around 8:30 a.m. Technicians from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) then arrived on site, around 9:30 a.m.
According to the regional daily The Latest News from Alsace (DNA), this house, already inspected on Friday, had again been combed through for several hours on Saturday afternoon, before the gendarmes placed seals there in the early evening. According to the newspaper, criminal investigation technicians came out on Saturday carrying several “black briefcases”. The two vehicles of the occupant of the premises had also been removed, according to DNA. The man who lives in this house has been living there for around five years, according to a resident who considers his behavior completely normal.
A teenager with no history attending CAP “personal assistance”, Lina disappeared more than a week ago, Saturday September 23, late in the morning. She was walking to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, three kilometers from home, a journey she was used to making, to take the train and join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. Two witnesses say they saw her walking along the departmental road around 11:15 a.m. A few minutes later, his cell phone stopped ringing.
Since then, nothing more, despite the wanted notice launched the next day and the intense searches and investigations carried out: citizen searches, bodies of water probed by gendarmerie divers, witness hearings took place all week, in vain . Friday, a “large-scale coordinated operation” in “several points of the potential disappearance zone” had notably made it possible to carry out “technical and scientific police actions on several vehicles targeted by the investigation”, indicated Aline Clérot, among which those of the occupant of the Diespach house.
2023-10-02 01:55:37
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