It has now been more than a month since the body of Lina Delsarte, the 15-year-old girl who disappeared in Plaine, in Bas-Rhin, was found on the outskirts of Sermoise-sur-Loire, in Nièvre, more than 440 kilometers from his home. Very damaged, partly submerged in a stream below an embankment, his remains lay in “In a corner that even hunters do not frequent”reveals RTL journalist Jean-Alphonse Richard, in a podcast dedicated to the affair.
“The Strasbourg research section never stopped working on the 260 vehicles spotted in the area on the day of the kidnapping”he continues. Because it is the key to the investigation. Once the gray Ford Puma stolen by Samuel Gonin in Germany was found by the gendarmes impounded in Narbonne, then Lina's DNA was identified on her personal belongings, but also, more worrying, ropes abandoned in the trunk, it was necessary to retrace the route of the main suspect.
But the police immediately noticed that Samuel Gonin had turned off his GPS. Which did not discourage them. Because another geolocation system has betrayed it: the multimedia with which today's vehicles are equipped. He uses a SIM card, which triggered each relay antenna throughout his journey, which made it possible, despite himself, to retrace his route. And his lack of logic begs the question: did the suspect stop to meet a possible accomplice? There is nothing to confirm this but the doubts are there (read below).
In the same podcast, Jean-Alphonse Richard specifies thatPartially mapping this route took weeksthat the crossing points were noted one by one. With one certainty: the stops have always taken place in countryside, forest areas.
A fateful stop in the Vosges?
Indeed, continues the RTL journalist, “Samuel Gonin almost only drove on national and departmental roads. An erratic journey on little-used roads.” The investigators are therefore convinced that “the driver of the gray Ford Puma took a thousand precautions to avoid being spotted.”
A radio correspondent tells us that the gendarmes' searches were focused on the places where Samuels Gonin's arrests were confirmed. The longer these stops were, the more extensive the searches were.
Hence the scale of those which were carried out “with determination” (on 45 hectares, with drones…) but without success in a forest in the Vosges, where the vehicle had stopped for 1h30. Was it during this time that Lina was killed? This other question remains unanswered for the moment because the autopsy was unable to determine it.
Were there three people in the car?
It was finally on October 16 that the gendarmes invaded Sermoise-sur-Loire without warning the authorities, the reason for their presence being kept secret. The sad discovery is then known but the mystery remains unsolved on other points.
On September 23, the day of the kidnapping, Samuel Gonin stole gasoline from a German gas station and, two hours later, is located in Plaine: is it a coincidence or did he know the location?
“He leaves Montbéliard on the day of the kidnapping, he takes the highway, he goes to Germany, he returns to France, to Plaine, he goes back down to Morvan where he spends the night, he goes back the next day to Nevers. It's inconsistent”, according to Dimitri Rahmelow, radio correspondent in the Bas-Rhin region.
It has been mentioned, since the discovery of the Ford Puma, that Lina was possibly sitting in the back of the car because of marks on the belt. Could there have been three in the vehicle? François Daoust, former director of the IRCGN (Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie) responds to RTL:
“We cannot exclude it, moreover the public prosecutor declares (that on the day of the kidnapping), editor's note) that on the video surveillance images we see 'only' Samuel Gonin at the wheel, alone. It will be necessary to determine whether there was external assistance.”
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