2023-05-22 22:02:02
LISBON (AP) — Police in Portugal will resume their search in the coming days for Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal’s Algarve region in 2007.
The Portuguese Judicial Police issued a statement confirming local media reports that they will carry out the search at the request of German authorities and in the presence of British officials.
Earlier Monday police officers could be seen setting up tents and cordoning off an area next to the Arade dam, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Praia da Luz, where the girl from 3 years.
British, Portuguese and German police are still piecing together what happened when the girl disappeared from her bed in the southern Portuguese resort on May 3, 2007. She was in the same room as her 2-year-old twin brother and sister while her parents They dined with friends at a nearby restaurant.
In mid-2020, German police identified Christian Brueckner, a 45-year-old German who was in the Algarve in 2007, as a suspect in the case. Brueckner has denied any involvement.
The suspect is under investigation on suspicion of murder in the McCann case, but has not been charged. He spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.
In October, prosecutors in the northern German city of Braunschweig indicted Brueckner in several separate cases involving sexual crimes allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
Braunschweig prosecutor Christian Wolter said on Monday that he would issue a statement on the case on Tuesday morning.
Madeleine’s disappearance sparked worldwide interest, with public claims to have seen her as far away as Australia, and a large number of books and television documentaries have been produced about the case.
The reward for information that leads to finding Madeleine already reaches several million dollars.
#Search #resume #British #girl #missing #Portugal