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Genetic analyzes “carried out urgently by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN)” made it possible to confirm that it was indeed Lina’s body. “Medico-legal assessments will be ordered by the investigating magistrates in order to investigate the cause of death,” specifies the interim Strasbourg prosecutor, Alexandre Chevrier.
Huge research devices
The place where the body was found was not targeted at random by the gendarmes: it corresponded to a place of passage ofthe Ford Puma used by Samuel Gonin on September 24, 2023 the day after Lina’s disappearance. This is what investigators learned thanks to the decryption of partial geolocation data from the vehicle’s computer, whose GPS had been carefully deactivated.
The light gray Ford Puma stolen in Germany was on the portion of the RD350 linking Plaine and Saint-Blaise-la-Roche, where Lina was walking towards the station to join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. The car was subsequently locatedin Anould (Vosges) etin Saulx (Haute-Saône) then the next day in Corancy in Morvan (Nièvre), 400 kilometers from the teenager’s home.
These areas were the scene of intense searches from mid-summer, after the discovery of DNA traces corresponding to Lina’s genetic profile on the seat belt of the back seat and on two ropes which were in the trunk . These searches, in which dozens of gendarmes took part, had until now remained in vain, gradually diminishing the hope of one day finding the body of the teenager.
The main suspect killed himself
Because Lina’s alleged kidnapper, who everything now suggests is also her murderer, took her secret with him. The forty-year-old from Besançon, who had sunk into a form of violent wandering fueled by cocaine and crack, ended her life on July 10. Leaving for any explanation only a word as succinct as it is enigmatic: “I lost my honor, my dignity, my humanity. I have to leave, I can’t control myself. It’s going too fast. »
The autopsy and the various analyzes which will be carried out in the coming days will undoubtedly lift part of the veil on the circumstances in whichLina, bubbly teenager lost his life. In particular, they will make it possible to determine whether the victim was raped.
The lawyers of Lina’s relatives, Me Marylène Correia and Me Matthieu Airoldi, said in a joint statement that “the family does not wish to react. Their pain is immense. Before giving way to meditation, they remain awaiting the reports of the experts dispatched to the site of the discovery.
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