Two months since the body of young Lina, 15 years old at the time of her disappearance, was found although her disappearance dated September 23, 2023. This week the Strasbourg public prosecutor will speak at a conference of press while the conclusions of the forensic analyzes have been released.
If the body of young Lina was finally discovered more than a year after her disappearance, many questions remain unanswered. As a reminder, on September 23, 2023, Lina, 15 years old at the time of the events, mysteriously disappeared while she was walking to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station from her home in La Plaine which is approximately 3 km distance. After months of active research, investigations, and very large resources mobilized, it was in the summer of 2024 that investigators finally found traces of a certain Samuel Gonin who would become the main suspect in this affair.
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In fact, all leads focused on this vehicle which was on the scene at the time of its disappearance. A Ford Puma which was finally found by the police and in which the girl’s belongings, as well as ropes with her DNA, had been discovered. By following the trail of this vehicle which turned out to be stolen, investigators got their hands on its driver, a 43-year-old man, Samuel Gonin. But unfortunately, the man was never able to answer the investigators’ questions since he killed himself on July 10 in Besançon.
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Forensic analyzes launched after discovery of Lina’s body
It was thanks to the analysis of the car’s GPS that investigators finally discovered the body of the young girl on October 17, almost three months later the suicide of Samuel Gonin. It was in a river in Sermoise-sur-Loire in Nièvre, more than 400 km from the place of her disappearance, that Lina’s body was discovered. “immersed in a watercourse located below an embankment» in a wooded and totally isolated area. If the main suspect took with him the answers to a large number of questions by committing suicide, it is ultimately forensic analyzes that should attempt to answer them.
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Indeed, if genetic analyzes had been launched shortly after the discovery of the body to confirm the identity of the young teenager by the Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute (IRCGN), an autopsy and medico-legal expertise were also carried out. requested to determine the causes of Lina’s death, but also to find out if she was the victim of sexual assault before her death.
A press conference planned for this Friday
After months of endless waiting, especially for Lina’s family and loved ones, the conclusions of the forensic examinations of the teenager’s body will finally be made public this Friday, December 20, 2024 during a press conference scheduled for 11 a.m. It was the Strasbourg public prosecutor, Alexandre Chevrier, who announced the information this Tuesday, December 17, revealing that he was going to return the “conclusions of the medico-legal expertise ordered for the purpose of investigating the causes of his death» as part of the «extension of investigations».
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