Disappearance of Lina: there are currently no new searches

There will be no search this weekend either in the Vosges or elsewhere, this source pointed out, according to which 45 hectares were combed in four days in the forest of Anould where the searchers will not return , without any surprise.

There is nothing planned for next week at this stage either, it was added, explaining that the investigation was continuing.

When asked on Friday, the Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office indicated that they did not want to communicate.

The last day of search in a forest in Anould (Vosges) to try to find the teenager was unsuccessful on Friday.

Lina had disappeared on Saturday September 23, 2023 at the end of the morning when she had left her home in Plaine (Bas-Rhin), at the foot of the Vosges massif, to go to the station of Saint-Blaise-la- Roche, about 3 kilometers away. She had to take the train to meet her boyfriend in Strasbourg.

Despite several searches over the following days, no trace of the teenager was found.

However, the investigation took a turn when the Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office was contacted on Friday 26 July. big break: found Lina’s DNA in a stolen car, which was searched by investigators because it was not far from the place where the teenager disappeared in September.

The main suspect in Lina’s disappearance, Samuel G., a 43-year-old depressed father and drug user, was investigated at the beginning of the year while driving​​​​ this car by customs officers in Sigean (Aude), before he was sentenced. on January 22nd to 15 months in prison suspended for refusing to exercise control, endangering others, driving a car while under the influence of drugs, receiving stolen goods and theft.

He has since committed suicide on July 10 at his home in Besançon.

The searches that began at the beginning of the week in Anould, about forty kilometers south of where Lina disappeared in Alsace, were based on the geolocation data of this vehicle, which shows which route and which way did he stop.

The investigators conducted their investigations where the the vehicle stalled for a while with no plausible explanationa source close to the investigation said Thursday.