Death of Lina: the teenager was allegedly strangled with a cloth bag

Forensic expertise suggests that the 15-year-old teenager, who disappeared for several months in Alsace, was strangled with the straps of a tote bag.

The body of Lina, a 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 in Alsace, was found on October 16, 2024, partially submerged in a river in the Nièvre. Source

Missing since September 23, 2023, the 15-year-old girl was found last October, without life, in a stream in the Nièvre. It was not possible to carry out a “gynecological examination” of the victim, specified the prosecutor's office.

The body of Lina, who disappeared in September 2023, was found in October in a stream near Nevers. The prime suspect committed suicide last summer.

The autopsy operations did not make it possible “to formally determine the cause of death”, underlines the magistrate, because of “the state of deterioration of the body” of the teenager, found in October in a waterway.

Young Lina, a teenager who disappeared in 2023 in Alsace whose body was found in October in a river near Nevers, is presumably dead by “mechanical strangulation”, said Thursday the interim public prosecutor of Strasbourg, Alexandre Chevrier....