Breaking news of Maddie McCann’s death
After a three-day search as part of the investigation into Maddie McCann’s disappearance, Portuguese authorities said this afternoon that material recovered from the area is now being sent to a specialist laboratory in Germany for analysis.
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Breaking news of Maddie McCann’s death
After three days of intensive research in Portugal, they are today The police investigation into Maddie McCann’s disappearance has been completed. in the Arade reservoir in the Algarve. This afternoon, the Portuguese authorities announced that del Material recovered in the area During the operation, they are now sent to a specialized laboratory analyzed in Germany.
The German investigators who are now investigating the case English girl who disappeared from Praia da Luz in southern Portugal in 2007. During a family vacation when he was just 4 years old, they are kept secret and have not explained if anything significant was found. The Portuguese police said, however, that the effort was worth it “the collection of some materials” and that these items are subject to a “professional assessment” in Germany.
Christian Brueckne and Maddie McCann
In fact, the digs were specifically requested by German authorities, who are looking for evidence that could link the British girl’s disappearance Christian Brueckner, A German national currently being held in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in the same area of the Algarve region where Maddie McCann disappeared.
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According to the investigators, the area of the excavations in Portugal was actually heavily frequented by the 45-year-old Brückner in the past and it is assumed that he often stayed there with his mobile home and also drove through the time that Madeleine disappeared.
German authorities have not disclosed what sparked Maddie’s latest raid, but prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said they had acted based on “some reports”. “We have indications that we could find evidence,” he told NDR, but made it clear that the reports did not come from Brückner.
According to rumors collected by the Chron, German investigators were looking for a gun and a video camera belonged to Brueckner. Both were allegedly stolen from the prime suspect’s Portuguese home by some of his acquaintances, who then disposed of them out of fear by throwing them into the Arade reservoir. Police would search for the camera as they believe it may contain images of Madeleine but also other sexual assaults the 45-year-old is suspected of.
One of them would have been to put them on the track of these finds German couple living in the Algarve around the same time as Brueckner and that they had been involved in a petty theft before the argument with him. According to the same source, the pair took possession of two items but disposed of them after viewing the video on camera, as the video showed a masked man sexually assaulting a woman. Her story would have been corroborated by a third person, sparking the new research, which mostly focused on soil samples.