A 36 -year -old man, residing in Belfort, appeared before the courts on Tuesday in Strasbourg, AFP learned on Wednesday from a judicial source. He was criticized for having harassed, via her online channel, Lina’s mother, a teenager who disappeared in Alsace in September 2023 while she was walking along a Bas-Rhin road to reach a station to reach her boyfriend in Strasbourg. Moral harassment, while the investigation to find the girl was in full swing.
The latter was sentenced by the Strasbourg Criminal Court for moral harassment to four months suspended prison sentence and 5,000 euros fine. He will also have to pay the mother of Lina, Fanny Groll, 2,500 euros for moral damage and 3,000 euros for legal costs.
Money goes to the LINA Stars Association
In videos posted on his YouTube channel, the 30 -year -old “claimed that Fanny Groll had a relationship with her daughter’s boyfriend and that she was responsible for the kidnapping of her daughter,” Fanny Groll’s lawyer, Matthieu Airoldi told AFP.
At the end of the hearing, Lina’s mother told her lawyer to be “very satisfied with the decision and relieved that justice is rendered”. She clarified that “all of the funds will be donated to the association Les Bonne étoiles de Lina”. Association which was created at the time of research by Lina’s mother and which now aims to fight cyberbullying.
Our file on Lina’s disappearance in Alsace
As a reminder, six months after the disappearance of her 15-year-old daughter when she walked along a Bas-Rhin road near her village and the body had still not been found, her mother, Fanny Groll, had denounced the cyberjustment of which she was target. “Since the start, it’s a horror, I have no longer even words so much it is a relentlessness, so everything and anything is said everywhere,” said Fanny Groll at a press conference.
Cyberharity, an additional torture suffered by the mother in research then of Lina and whose lifeless body was finally discovered in October 2024, in a stream in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the Nièvre, almost 500 kilometers from the place of her disappearance. The main identified suspect, Samuel Gonin, had committed suicide in early July 2024 at his home in Besançon, before the discovery of Lina’s body.
