After 18 years of new investigation in the event of a missing Madeleine McCann

Almost two decades after the disappearance of a British girl Madeleine McCann At the request of the German authorities, Portuguese police launched a new investigation yesterday. According to foreign agencies, it will last until Friday near the seaside resort of Lagos in southern Portugal, where for a three -year -old girl who was on vacation with her parents, virtually every trace disappeared and one of the most notable began unsolved cases searching for a missing person in the world.

Eighteen years after that of May, when Maddie, as the girl called, disappeared from the holiday apartment at Praia Da Luz, while her parents had dinner at a nearby restaurant, the story, though never completely forgotten, appears again in the media. It would probably be impossible to count how many times a photo of a blond girl has been published – just as it is almost impossible to follow in this long story investigationsin which they tried to find or at least get a tangible trace of where the remains of her corpse might be.

September the sentence expires

The last investigation was carried out two years ago, and the new prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig, north of Germany, is investigating Christiano Brücknersuspected of murder of Madeleine McCann. Namely, during her disappearance, he lived near the place where the family was flying. On the night when the girl disappeared, not far from their apartment, a cellphone registered on it rang.

The principal suspect for the girl is disappearing, the German judicial authorities have announced in 2020. Brückner, who denies involvement, is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American in 2005, who will expire in September; After that, the suspect could also leave Germany.

In Germany last year, the court acquitted him in an unrelated trial of three rapes and two cases of sexual abuse of children committed between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal. According to the police, the new investigation focuses on the area between Praia Da Luz and the house where Brückner lived between 2000 and 2017.

According to the media yesterday, 21 parcels were to be investigated. « All the evidence seized by the police will be handed over to agents of the German federal criminal police after the prior permit of the National State Prosecutor’s Office, » a spokesman for the Portuguese police said before the investigation.

Determined to shift each stone

With this, under the headlights, the family of Madeleine McCann, who expressed his determination to continue the search before the date of celebrating her 22th birthday (May 12), said the British media reported.

« It seems that the years come by faster, and although we do not have any important news that could be shared with others, our determination is to turn every stone unwavering, » her parents wrote in a statement Cat and Gerry mccannwho have even been considered a suspect in the past for some time.

The investigation ordered by the German authorities is expected to last until Friday. Photo: Patricia de meloira/AFP

In 2008, the Portuguese public prosecutor archived the case for lack of evidence, and the spouses continued the investigation with the help of private detectives, until a metropolitan police began their investigation in 2011 – it was named Grange Operation. In April this year, the British authorities approved more than £ 100,000 for additional funds for Scotland Yard detectives, which are still investigating Madelein’s disappearance.

Although investigators have not yet reached the bottom, there were several series and documentaries recorded. The German documentary from 2022 revealed, among other things, that Brückner occasionally worked as a janitor at the Ocean Club resort, and German prosecutors also included information about his mobile phone and car selling.