Lina's death: will we finally know the truth ? The prosecutor will present the conclusions of the forensic examinations this week

More than two months after the discovery of Lina's body, the Strasbourg public prosecutor will hold a press conference this Friday, December 20, 2024.

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

A press conference this Friday

What could shed light on the questions that remain are the conclusions of the forensic examinations carried out after the discovery of the teenager's body. “Alexandre Chevrier, acting public prosecutor at the Strasbourg judicial court, will hold a press conference on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 11 a.m., at the Strasbourg courthouse”, underlines the press release from the public prosecutor's office, relayed by BFMTV.

These expert reports aim to discover the causes of Lina's death. Will the prosecutor make new revelations about this case that has marked France for almost a year? ? Will we finally know in what circumstances the teenager lost her life? ?

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The body immersed in a watercourse

More than a year after her disappearance in Alsace, the body was discovered “in a wooded and isolated area of ​​the Nevers region”, “immersed in a watercourse 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 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.