Operation at site about 30 miles from where three-year-old went missing in 2007, is expected to last two days
Portuguese and German police launched a search of the banks of a reservoir in the Algarve forafter photographs and video of the site were said to have been found in the possession of a man suspected of involvement in the child’s disappearance 16 years ago.
Brückner, who was jailed in 2019 for the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist a mile from the McCanns’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, was officially named by the Portuguese police as a suspect, or, last year in the disappearance of the British child, who went missing from her parents’ holiday apartment in the Ocean Club resort in May 2007.
Their daughter went missing from the bedroom she was sharing on holiday with her twin siblings Sean and Amelie, then two years old, while the couple, both doctors, were eating a tapas meal with friends within sight of their holiday apartment on 4 May 2007. “But there are also German officers from the federal criminal police office on site who are supporting the whole thing. I can’t disclose the background at the moment, ie why we are searching there and what we hope to find there. That shall remain our secret for the moment.
The Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã reported that German police had given their Portuguese counterparts videos and photographs taken by Brückner of the area at the centre of the search. German police said in June 2020 that Madeleine was assumed dead and that Brückner, 45, was probably responsible for her disappearance. He has not been charged with any offences connected with Madeleine’s disappearance and has denied any involvement, although mobile phone records placed him close to the holiday apartment on the night she disappeared.
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