Rome, May 25, 2023 – They were looking for traces of Maddie, Madeleine McCann the three-year-old English girl who disappeared on May 3, 2007 while on vacation with her parents in Portugal.
And just in the south of the country, im Arade reservoir in the Algarve near Silves, 16 years after the disappearance of German and Portuguese police officers They were looking for the little girl’s body or his pajamas that come with Winnie Poohbecause Maddie slept in her room when her parents went to dinner. When she came back, she had vanished into thin air.
And after three days of research, almost nothing has leaked out. As the BBC reports, the agents were seen break down structures that had been set up in the area.
Maddie’s disappearance
Madeleine McCann disappeared on vacation with her parents and twin brothers a resort in Praia de Luz. German and Portuguese police used hoes, rakes, brush cutters and a small excavator to clear paths on a nearby slope.
The pedophile home
The area around the Arade Dam, about fifty kilometers from the site of Maddie’s disappearance, was already sieved in 2008, even by divers who had only found animal remains. According to local media, the German suspect was a regular visitor and described the place as his “little paradise”.
The man, who is serving a prison sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005, was identified by German investigators in 2020 Christian Brueckner, a 46-year-old multiple pedophile who lived in the Algarve for several years.
The tools used to search for Maddie
Between Tuesday and Thursday, investigators patrolled the area with dogs and a drone and a caterpillar brushcutter. Some parts of the site were combed with probes, shovels and rakes. According to local media reports, the investigators have increased soil samples since the excavation began and have merged several scraps of fabric found on site. According to local press reports, police were looking for a pink blanket or the pajamas Maddie was wearing the night of her disappearance. According to the Portuguese weekly Expresso, this was the case the statement of an informant was deemed “highly credible” by German investigators, prompting them to revisit this site.