The Strasbourg public prosecutor's office opened a judicial investigation on February 2 for
"rape committed on a minor aged 15 by an adult with an age difference of at least 5 years"
after the complaint filed by Lina in June 2022, indicates he in a press release this Monday.
Then aged 13, the young girl, who has been missing since September 23, 2023, accused two adult men of having abused her during an afternoon with friends.
“The complaint filed by Lina of gang rape committed in May 2022, giving rise to a procedure closed in spring 2023, was re-examined by the public prosecutor of Saverne, who relinquished it in favor of the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office this January 30, 2024
,” specifies the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office.
The investigation carried out at the time did not sufficiently characterize the facts.
The two men had admitted to sexual relations while affirming that they were consensual relations.
During a press conference given on Friday February 2, the young girl's mother assured that she did not know that this complaint had been closed.
“It’s terrible, I have the impression of having been betrayed (by the courts, Editor’s note).
By not acting, they did not protect her
,” she lamented.
An investigation unrelated to the one opened for kidnapping
This judicial information is
“unrelated and distinct from that currently open on counts of kidnapping and criminal confinement”
, details the Strasbourg public prosecutor's office.
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 walked along the departmental road 350, a small tarmac road which crosses the forest.
Lina's phone went off the air 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.
“There is no other choice than to keep hope, that’s what makes me get up every morning,”
explained Fanny, Lina’s mother, during her press conference on Friday.
“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.
“Fight, hang on and come back quickly, I love you,”
Fanny also told her daughter.