Six months have passed since Lina’s disappearance on Saturday September 23, 2023. But there is no question for the teenager’s mother, nor for the investigators, of giving up. After conducting dozens of hearings, carrying out searches, analyzing hundreds of telephone lines and surveillance cameras, the gendarmes from the Strasbourg research section continue their investigations on the ground. According to the information from RTL, new excavations were thus carried out on the morning of Monday March 25, 2024. While they had to practice training during the week, the divers from Alsace and Moselle took this opportunity to “closing an additional door in the investigation” around the disappearance of Lina, as our colleagues specify. They therefore chose to probe a body of water located approximately six kilometers from Saint-Blaise-la-Roche stationnear which the 15-year-old girl was last seen.
Seven divers and a surface drone mobilized to probe this body of water in search of Lina
Seven divers therefore probed a fishing pond at the Steige Pass, which had not previously been the subject of research. The visibility being very limited, only 30 cm, the specialists decided to leave nothing to chance and decided to also rely on the technological means at their disposal. A surface drone was therefore used to provide a sonar image of the bottom of the pond, to confirm or not the presence of a body at depth. Eventually, no human remains were detected in this small mountain lake, and the divers therefore finished their search at midday.
This is not the first water point probed during this investigation for “kidnapping and sequestration”. From the first days following Lina’s disappearance, the police had inspected the two Breux pondslocated near the cycle path supposedly taken by the teenager on her journey between her home in Plaine and the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, where she had to take a train to join her boyfriend in Strasbourg. And if the witnesses present to fish that day attest to not having seen Lina, it was indeed near this cycle path, around 900 meters from the station, that the tracking dogs lost track of her. This is also where his phone stopped pinging, suggesting a brutal act.