The interim public prosecutor of Strasbourg Alexandre Chevrier indicated this Wednesday, October 16, 2024 that the body of the young person was found.
She disappeared in September 2023. More than a year later, the body of young Lina was found in Nevers, a town located in Nièvre, said interim Strasbourg public prosecutor Alexandre Chevrier in a press release. .
In a stream
The body was discovered “in a wooded and isolated area of the Nevers region”, “immersed in a watercourse located below an embankment”indicated Mr. Chevrier.
He specified that genetic analyzes carried out urgently by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) “made it possible to confirm that it is Lina’s body”.
Note that the vehicle of the main suspect, namely Samuel G., was geolocated in the area where the body was found, the day after the young girl’s disappearance.
The end of a mystery
At the end of September 2023, Lina mysteriously disappeared while on her way to the station to join her boyfriend Tao in Strasbourg, Alsace. If the investigation struggled to progress for many months, the case took a completely different turn when justice suspected a man of having kidnapped Lina.
Video surveillance images in a Doubs gas station show suspect number 1, Samuel G., with the stolen car in which Lina’s DNA was found, report our colleagues from The Republican East. Samuel G., 43, the main suspect in Lina’s disappearance was arrested in early January 2024 in Sigean, Aude, at the wheel of the car in which the young girl’s DNA was discovered, we learned Free Midday from consistent sources.
The car, a Ford Puma stolen in Germany, was kept for many months at the Narbonne pound, before the gendarmes from the Strasbourg research section discovered in June that this vehicle, which appeared on a list of a ten cars having been seen in the La Plaine sector (Bas-Rhin) on the day of the kidnapping, were kept there. But the main suspect in this case killed himself shortly before the summer.
