The Lina affair began on Saturday September 23, 2023. On that day, a young teenager aged 15 left the family home during the morning, in order to walk to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station in Bas-Rhin. The young girl had planned to take a train to join her boyfriend who was waiting for her at the Strasbourg station. Unfortunately, Lina never arrived at her destination. Alerted, the authorities immediately opened an investigation into a worrying disappearance, before launching several search operations in the region. After many months without results, investigators managed to find DNA belonging to Lina in a car abandoned in the south of France. Unfortunately, they were unable to question the owner of the vehicle, who had committed suicide at his home a few days earlier.
Finally, after careful research into the route taken by the car during the days following Lina’s disappearance, investigators finally managed to find the body of the young girl. Indeed, the Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office announced in a press release that the body of the teenager was discovered in Sermoise-sur-Loire in Nièvre on Wednesday October 16, 2024, more than a year after her disappearance. The Strasbourg public prosecutor immediately announced that “medico-legal expertise will be ordered by the investigating magistrates in order to determine the cause of death“In short, an autopsy will soon be performed on Lina’s body.”For the investigation, it is something very important to find a body because that will provide other answers“, indicated in particular General François Daoust, former director of the Criminal Research Institute of the Gendarmerie (IRCGN), at the microphone of BFMTV.
Lina’s autopsy: the forensic doctor will have to determine whether or not the young woman was the victim of a sexual assault
“The difficulty is that, as the body has been taken out of the water, decomposition will accelerate. Depending on the degradation of the body, there are traces which will no longer be readable, visible or observable“, he also added on this subject. For his part, the forensic doctor Bernard Marc clarified on the news channel that the autopsy is “fundamental“in this search for truth.”We will have to explain the causes of death on a body which has been degraded by time.“, he also underlined. According to Bernard Marc, “the body can still speak“. Indeed, he explained that bone damage could “give an idea of the death“. Moreover, the trace of a foreign body can still be found on the victim’s remains. The forensic doctor in charge of Lina’s autopsy will have to verify whether or not the young victim suffered a sexual assault before her death.
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