“I’m Madeleine McCann,” says Julia Faustyna, a young Polish woman who says she has “two pieces of evidence” for what she says. Taking to an Instagram account called @iammadeleincann, she said she wondered if she was the missing British girl nicknamed ‘Maddie’ a few months ago after hearing some things from her grandmother’s mouth.

The 21-year-old – while Maddie, who was born in May 2003, would only be 19 – admits her age could be inaccurate and took photos of the little girl to show their resemblance. So she claims to have the same eyespot and birthmark on her leg as Maddie. To confirm her statements, she asks for help with a DNA test.

“I think I could be Madeleine. I need a DNA test. The police in the UK and the police in Poland are ignoring me. I will tell my story here in the news. Help me,” we might read in the Instagram bio the @iammadelemcann account, which now has 200,000 subscribers.

In a recent post published over the weekend, the young woman claimed to have spoken to someone claiming to be Madeleine’s cousin. This would have let him know that she could speak to Kate and Gerry McCann, Maddie’s parents, to organize a DNA test. The missing girl’s family has not yet commented on the Polish girl’s allegations.

In response to questions from her followers on the social network, the girl replied that she remembered very little about her childhood and had no memory of being kidnapped. She also claims that whenever she asked her parents questions about her childhood, they either gave her evasive answers or quickly changed the subject.

“I once asked my mother for a picture of her pregnant with me and she couldn’t find any. There aren’t even any pictures of me with her as a baby or any documentation to prove she was pregnant. Every time I bring up the subject, she calls me crazy,” says Julia Faustyna.

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a nearly four-year-old British girl, occurred on the evening of May 3, 2007 in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of Portugal, where her family was on holiday. His disappearance sparked significant media coverage in Europe, but following investigations by the Portuguese and British police and many leads, this disappearance has still not been solved.

German authorities say they are convinced Christian Brueckner, a 46-year-old pedophile, kidnapped and murdered Maddie in Portugal in 2007 while he was staying near the hotel where the McCann family was staying at the time. But more than three years after the man was named as the prime suspect, police have still not charged him due to a lack of sufficient evidence.

(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 19 – The West still shows no openness to peace initiatives on the situation in Ukraine. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel. “So far there has been no willingness or openness for peace initiatives from the entire West,” he said, quoted by Tass.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s proposal to hold talks between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in Minsk is unlikely to find support in the West. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel. “It is almost impossible to expect any kind of reciprocity or reaction from any member of the West to such an effort,” he said. In recent days, Lukashenko had invited the American President to Minsk, who will instead travel to Warsaw for a speech on February 21, a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, while the Russian leader is due to address the Duma on the same day. (HAND).

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Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) Administrator Iván Eskildsen claimed that on the first day alone, about 50,000 tourists were registered arriving in the country to take part in these celebrations, which in about four days could represent revenue of about $300 million .

There is a lot of enthusiasm for the celebration in the capital, he said, and this weekend more than 70 national performers will liven up the celebrations on Cinta Costera, while an Afro-Caribbean gastronomic fair will be held at the Atlapa Convention Center, he said.

Amidst a crackdown on public security and health officials, families have been coming to the festival since the early hours to enjoy the water poured out by the tankers.

In the capital, more than 800 agents from the National Police and other public authority branches are responsible for security during checks and searches at the entrances to the carnival, Prensa Latina confirmed.

The traditional culecos, or “mojaderas” as they were called in the past, have been held since 1986 in public squares with tankers spraying river water during the day and sometimes in the afternoon, accompanied by popular music.

All this is the prelude to parades and parades with queens in their own costumes on board floats accompanied by comparsas and tuna, activities that take place in squares and avenues at night.

For these celebrations, according to the ATP, more than a million 500,000 people are expected to travel across the country to appreciate other attractions in provinces such as Chitré (Herrera), where the nocturnal culecos and the carnival of Pechugón are celebrated with the departure of the Queens of the Calle Arriba, Ana Victoria Quijada, and Calle Abajo, Blanca Rosa Boutet.

Also in the western province of Los Santos, where the celebrations begin with fireworks, and in the city of Las Tablas, one of the most popular and representative carnivals in the country, the coronation of their rulers stands out, as well as on Calle Arriba on Down Street.

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Russia accuses the West of showing no willingness for peace initiatives in Ukraine. As the “great provocateur” of international tensions, the United States would stoke “the crisis in Ukraine” with its own actions, state news agency TASS wrote, citing the Kremlin. At the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, it was said that a new procurement procedure was being worked out in the EU because of Ukraine’s great need for ammunition.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov sharply criticized the statements by US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. The top diplomat said the US believed Crimea should be demilitarized and that his country supported Ukrainian attacks on military targets on the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. “Nuland belongs to a very wide field of the most aggressive ‘hawks’ in American politics. This is a stance we know well,” Peskov said in a TASS commentary.

Russia’s ambassador to Washington also accuses the US of fueling the war in Ukraine, which he describes as a crisis, through its own actions. Anatoly Antonov referred to the statement by US Vice President Kamala Harris, who accused Russia of crimes against humanity in the Ukraine war. “We regard such allegations as an unprecedented attempt to demonize Russia as part of the hybrid war unleashed against us,” the ambassador was quoted as saying by TASS. There is no doubt that the purpose of such attacks by Washington is to justify its own actions to stoke the crisis in Ukraine.

Harris told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that Russian troops in Ukraine were committing “widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population”. It is an “attack on our common values ​​and our common humanity”. It is the first time the US has accused Russia of crimes against humanity in the war.

These included “cruel murders”, “execution-type” killings of men, women and children, torture of civilians with beatings and electric shocks and the deportation of Ukrainian civilians to Russia, the vice president said. “We have examined the evidence, we know the legal norms and there is no doubt: they are crimes against humanity”, emphasized the vice president, a former prosecutor. The US has documented more than 30,600 cases of war crimes committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine since the start of the war, according to the State Department in Washington.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the US government’s position. Russia is waging a “genocidal war” against Ukraine, during which the Russian army is committing crimes against humanity, war crimes and countless other atrocities, he said in Munich. However, it is difficult to prove the individual responsible for his actions.

In view of Ukraine’s large ammunition needs, the EU is working on a new procurement procedure. This was confirmed by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday at the Munich Security Conference. Ukraine cannot win the war without ammunition. Borrell said, “We’re in war mode.” Now it’s a matter of reacting quickly.

According to Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, the aim is to use a procedure similar to that used to ensure rapid procurement of vaccines during the corona pandemic. According to Kallas, EU states must provide money, with which large orders can be placed to the arms industry through the EU. The process can ensure that the industry can make the necessary investments to expand production.

In Munich, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly rejected Ukraine’s demands for cluster munitions and incendiary phosphorus weapons. “We deliver artillery and other types of weapons, but not cluster bombs,” Stoltenberg told RTL and ntv.

Norway wants to help Ukraine in the long term and regardless of the current government in Kiev. “Whoever governs Norway after the next elections, Ukraine can be sure that it has support for reconstruction and self-defence,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in an interview with Portal TV published on Sunday. “7.5 billion euros in five years was our message.” The decision was made along party lines. A long-term engagement with Ukraine is considered important because there is speculation about a change in US policy towards Ukraine after the next presidential election.

Nine of the twelve ambulances that were blessed at Ballhausplatz in mid-February by Viennese Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and sent on their way arrived in Kiev on time on Saturday. According to Kathpress, the Vicar General for the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria, Yuriy Kolasa, handed over the emergency vehicles to the head of Byzantine Rite Catholics, Grand Archbishop Svyatoslav Shevchuk, at Kiev’s Resurrection Cathedral.

According to local authorities, several Russian shells landed in the town of Druzhkivka in eastern Ukraine. Two residential buildings were damaged overnight on Sunday, said the governor of the disputed Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko. Initially, he did not provide any information on injuries or deaths. Druzhkivka is far behind the front, but is still being targeted by several rocket fire, wrote Kyrylenko on the Telegram network.

According to a report by the “Ukraiinska Pravda” news portal, a total of eight Ukrainian administrative areas have been bombed since Saturday. These included Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, all close to the front lines. According to authorities, a military object was hit by a long-range missile in the capital of the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine. Another rocket landed near a station. The explosion damaged several homes and schools.

As of Sunday morning, there were intermittent airstrikes in eastern and southern Ukraine, with no reports of actual attacks. The Russian war of aggression against the neighboring country has been going on for almost a year.

The family of the missing girl Madeleine McCann contacted the Pole Julia Faustyna with a view to a DNA test. The interaction between the McCann family and the 22yearold was reported by British newspaper Daily Star following Faustyna’s interview with the international press on the matter. The same publication said they spoke to people close to Madeleine’s parents, who confirmed plans for the exam.

“The family does not want to exclude anything,” said the contact person of the newspaper. “They are ready to examine every lead. It is important to take everything into account and the girl is similar. This is not up for debate. If what she says is true, chances are she is.”

2 of 5 Julia Faustyna — Photo: Instagram

Julia Faustyna — Photo: Instagram

Julia Faustyna’s allegations recently came to light after she created an Instagram account called “I am Madeleine McCann” which already has more than 382,000 followers. She claims to be the English girl who disappeared from a holiday resort in Portugal in 2007.

She says she has no memories of her childhood and is unsure if the woman she grew up with is really her biological mother. However, her family members claim that she needs psychological help and rule out the possibility that she is Madeleine McCann.

3 of 5 Little English girl Madeleine McCann, missing since 2007 — Photo: Reproduction

Little English girl Madeleine McCann missing since 2007 — Photo: Reproduction

Julia also says she has memories of being molested by a German man. In this case, the report would cover the suspicions about Christian Brückner. He is serving time in a German prison for raping a 72yearold woman at the same resort where the British child disappeared in 2007. He is silent on this subject.

4 of 5 Christian Brueckner — Photo: Reproduction

Christian Brueckner — Photo: Reproduction

Brueckner was living in the same area of ​​Portugal when Madeleine went missing. He was providing maintenance services at the resort where the girl was staying when she last saw her family. In 2020, he became the prime suspect after telling a friend he was involved in Madeleine’s disappearance, without giving further details about his allegations.

Faustina’s lines also reflect the content of the documentary The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The work, published in 2019, considers the possibility that the girl is still alive today. The theory presented by the case investigators in the production is that the child was a victim of child traffickers when he was abducted from the hotel where he was staying with his parents in Praia da Luz.

5 out of 5 The young Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann — Photo: Instagram

The young Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann — Photo: Instagram