Death of Lina: 16-year-old girl strangled with tote bag according to local press

While a press conference by the Strasbourg public prosecutor is scheduled for this Friday, December 20, 2024, information about Lina's death has been revealed.

Some more information. While some questions still remain unanswered in the case of the death of young Lina, the first results of the forensic analyses were revealed in the local daily newspaper L’Est Républicain.

We know the murder weapon

The teenager who disappeared at the end of September 2023 in Alsace and whose body was found in Nièvre in October 2024, was reportedly “the victim of strangulation using the strap of a fabric tote bag”, reports the press local.

Des “fragments”tissues were found at the neck of the young victim, which would confirm the hypothesis of death by strangulation. However, no other traces of physical or sexual violence were found, again according to information from L'Est Républicain.

A press conference this Friday

While the discovery of the body of young Lina in Nièvre last October put an end to part of the mystery, gray areas still hover over this affair. The main suspect in this case, Samuel G., killed himself shortly before the summer, taking with him a large number of answers.

However, official announcements should be made by “Alexandre Chevrier, acting public prosecutor” who “will hold a press conference on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 11 a.m., at the Strasbourg courthouse”, the public prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday.

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The body submerged in a stream

More than a year after her disappearance in Alsace, the body was discovered “in a wooded and isolated area of ​​the Nevers region”, “submerged in a stream located below an embankment”, on October 17. The vehicle of the main suspect had been geolocated in the area where the body was found, the day after the young girl's disappearance.

At the At the end of September 2023, Lina mysteriously disappeared while on her way to the train station to join her boyfriend Tao in Strasbourg, Alsace. If the investigation struggled to progress for many months, the case took a completely different turn when the justice system suspected a man of having kidnapped Lina.

Images CCTV footage from a gas station in Doubs shows suspect number 1, Samuel G., with the stolen car in which Lina's DNA was found, report our colleagues at L'Est Républicain. Samuel G., 43, the main suspect in Lina's disappearance, was arrested in early January 2024 in Sigean, Aude, at the wheel of the car in which the young girl's DNA was discovered, it has been learned Midi Libre from concordant sources.

The car, a Ford Puma stolen in Germany, was kept for long months in the Narbonne pound, before the gendarmes of the Strasbourg research section discovered in June that this vehicle, which appeared on a list of around ten cars that had been seen in the La Plaine area (Bas- Rhin) on the day of the kidnapping, was kept there. But the main suspect in this case killed himself shortly before the summer.