Lina, 15, has not been found since leaving her mother’s home in Plaine (Bas-Rhin), on September 23, 2023. The only child of separated parents, she had to walk 3 kilometers to the Saint-Blaise station. la-Roche that morning, to join her boyfriend Tao, 19, by train in Strasbourg. Accompanied by Fanny, the teenager’s mother, the young man from Marseille gave an interview to TF1broadcast Tuesday October 3, 2023, during which he returned to Lina’s disappearance, in particular this moment when he understood that something serious had happened. “I called his mother before the train arrived in Strasbourg to tell her there was something strange [car sa petite amie ne répondait plus après un dernier message vidéo]. I still waited on the station platform for the train to arrive but she never got off. I went around the station several times, calling his mother, then took the road by car.” he explained, specifying that he tried to contact her but her calls went directly to voicemail.
Lina’s mother defends Tao’s innocence
According to the story of Paris MatchTao was to join Lina on the evening of September 23, 2023. The two lovers have known each other since 2019 but have started dating each other romantically since August 2023. But ultimately, the young man contacted his girlfriend’s mother in the morning to ask to wake her up so that she could meet him earlier than expected in Strasbourg. Their original plan would have been to eat out and go shopping, but Lina vanished on the way to the station. Companion of Duty, the young technician is excluded from the investigation, the video surveillance images having established his presence in the station at the time of the events. Lina’s mothera single nurse, defended his innocence in several interviews, the person concerned having denounced accusations against him. For the moment, it seems that the teenager, enrolled in CAP in personal care, got into a car, “By fair means or foul”, said Patricia Simoni, the mayor of Plaine, to the Point.