“There is no other choice than to keep hope
,” explained Fanny, Lina’s mother, this Friday, February 2.
After being received by the two investigating judges in charge of the investigation, the mother of the 15-year-old teenager gave a press conference with her lawyer Me Matthieu Airoldi, more than four months after the disappearance of her daughter in Plain (Bas-Rhin).
“I would like to know, to understand.
I think all the time, it’s terrible every day not to know
,” continued the young girl’s mother, her face very marked.
Lina disappeared on Saturday September 23, 2023. That day, the teenager left her mother's home, located in Plaine, on foot around 11 a.m.
Direction: Saint-Blaise-la-Roche station, about 3 kilometers away, where she had to take a regional express train (TER) at 12:03 p.m.
The train was heading to Strasbourg, where her 19-year-old boyfriend, Tao, was waiting for her.
The young man was filmed on site by the station's video surveillance.
Dressed in a gray dress and a white down jacket, Lina had walked along the departmental road 350, a small tarmac road which crosses the forest.
Lina's phone stopped working at 11:22 a.m.
The teenager, who never boarded the TER, vanished between her mother's home and the start of a cycle path leading to a pond.
The Renault Clio track
In a recent email, the gendarmes asked all parents who have a daughter at Frison-Roche college in La Broque (Bas-Rhin).
“Can you ask her if, being accompanied by a friend, she has already discussed/met a man of around 20 years old in a playground in September 2023
,” the gendarmes wrote to them.
The playground in question would be located in the town of Saulxures, approximately 5 kilometers from Plaine.
In this same email, the soldiers specified:
“This man arrived and then left in a gray Renault Clio”
.
“This is an investigative act to close doors or open new ones,”
a source close to the matter
told Le
Figaro .
The Renault Clio track is not new.
A few days after Lina's disappearance, a 72-year-old man named Robert claimed to have seen the young girl on the day of her disappearance, around 11:30 a.m.
According to him, she was in a dark-colored car, potentially a Renault Clio.
She would have said
“hello in passing”
while he was on her doorstep in the hamlet of Champenay.
“She looked normal and didn't seem to be worried or anything
,” this witness explained to several media, specifying that the driver, a man with a
“slight goatee
,” took the car. direction of Strasbourg.
Since the start of the investigation, the gendarmes have already identified and searched Renault Clios.
Without success at the moment.
The last communication from the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office dates back to October 2, 2023. The public prosecutor's office then referred to
"long-term investigations"
while specifying that
"no avenue was ruled out or favored"
.