The Strasbourg prosecutor announced this Wednesday evening that Lina's body had been found in a wooded and isolated area. Missing on September 23, 2023, young Lina, 15, had not given any sign of life since. On Wednesday, October 16, 2024, the public prosecutor of Strasbourg announced that the young girl's body was found “in a wooded and isolated area in the Nevers region”. The body was reportedly discovered while it was “submerged” in a stream below an embankment,” we learned this evening. As specified in the press release from the prosecutor, genetic analyses were carried out urgently by the IRCGN. They confirmed that these are indeed the remains of the teenager who had been seen alive for the last time on the path that connects the family home in Plaine, in the Bas-Rhin, to the Saint-Blaise-la-Roche train station. On the day of her disappearance, the teenager was due to take the train to join her boyfriend in Strasbourg for a day of shopping. For over a year now, investigators have continued their work in the hope of finding the young woman alive. A suspect has been identified in this case, a certain Samuel Gonin, 43 years old. Originally from Doubs and in social and family breakdown, the man finally committed suicide on July 10. “The Ford Puma vehicle used by Samuel Gonin had been geolocated at “this place on September 24, 2023, the day after Lina's disappearance,” the prosecutor reveals tonight. It was therefore thanks to the geolocation of the main suspect's vehicle that investigators were finally able to find the teenager's body. On July 26, the deputy public prosecutor of Strasbourg revealed that Lina's handbag had been discovered in the box gloves of a car geolocated not far from the place of her disappearance on D-Day, and that the young woman's DNA had also been found in the trunk of the same vehicle. Live This is one of the questions that investigators will have to try to answer. As an expert mentioned earlier on BFMTV, the place where Lina's body was discovered is not necessarily the place where it was deposited. Investigators will therefore have to go back up the river in search of elements that could indicate that the young woman's remains passed through there. It is also a question of determining the causes of her death. Did the teenager drown ? Did her murder take place near Nevers or just after her disappearance in Bas-Rhin ? In his press release, the Strasbourg public prosecutor indicated that forensic examinations will be ordered. The objective ? “To determine the causes of death” of young Lina. Contact by AFP, the lawyer of Lina's mother, Me Matthieu Airoldi, reacted to the announcement of the discovery of the teenager's body this Wednesday evening. “The period is very difficult for the family. My client is devastated,” he confided, adding: “I have no particular reaction other than to ask you to respect the family's grief.” In a press release, the lawyers for Lina's parents said that the family “does not wish to react.” Their pain is “immense”, it is soberly stated. 
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By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116