Today, Thursday 25 May, the new searches around the Arade River reservoir in the Algarve have been completed, looking for clues to the disappearance Madeleine McCann, the three-year-old English girl who disappeared on May 3, 2007 in Praia da Luz, where she was vacationing with her family. The Portuguese police have said in a statement that the procedures requested by their German colleagues have been completed and that the material collected after three days of research is being analyzed in Germany. The investigators, based on the hypothesis of the killing of the little girl, never stated that they were looking for her body in the Arade River, 50 km from the place where the little girl disappeared, and this can also be based on these further information Searches have revealed indications of possible further crimes by Christian Brueckner, the 47-year-old, who is officially suspected of kidnapping and killing Maddie and has been in prison in Germany since 2019 for various violent sexual crimes committed between 2000 and 2017, also in Portugal lived between 1995 and 2007. According to the investigation of the phone records, on May 3, 2007, the suspect was actually near the Ocean Club of Praia da Luz, the tourist complex where the McCann family vacationed and from whose apartment the girl disappeared while the parents were having dinner a few feet away. Between Tuesday and Thursday, investigators combed the area’s reservoir, a small promontory surrounded by trees that Brückner himself has described in some testimonies as a “little paradise” where he used to retreat. The site had already been the scene of searches in 2008 at the initiative of a Madeiran lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, who received a report that the little girl had been thrown into the water there.
Cover photo: ANSA/KOEN SUYK | Madeleine McCann’s parents
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