New search action ended for the time being – Diepresse.com

In the case of the “Maddie” McCann, who has disappeared as a child, investigators from Germany and Portugal have initially completed their new search on the South Portuguese Algarve coast without results. The investigation was terminated on Thursday, said a spokeswoman for the Portuguese judicial police of the AFP news agency.

As on Tuesday and Wednesday, the investigators from both countries had previously driven via a dirt road to an area near the Praia da Luz seaside resort, where the British girl had disappeared during a vacation with his family in 2007, as reporters from the AFP news agency reported.

Between Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon, the investigators, including around 25 officers from the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), searched a forest area and the surrounding area of ​​several dilapidated houses near Praia da Luz.

Rehearsals before evaluation

As Portuguese media reported, they combed through excavators, shovels and saws. There is a house nearby in which the suspect German had lived temporarily. The investigators were therefore also equipped with a radar device that can track down possible traces in the ground. They already took some rehearsals that are now evaluated.

The renewed search took place at the request of the German public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig and should take until Thursday evening. The Braunschweig prosecutor Christian Wolters had said in advance for his expectations: « I would be rather reserved which results we can expect ».

Madeleine « Maddie » McCann had disappeared from the apartment of her family in a holiday complex in Praia da Luz on the Algarve coast on May 3, 2007, while her parents ate dinner in a restaurant a few meters away. Despite international searches and numerous calls to her parents, the British girl still lacks any trace to this day.

At the time of « Maddies » disappearance, the German lived not far from Praia da Luz on the Algarve. On the night of her disappearance, his mobile phone elected a radio cell near her holiday complex.

Suspect is currently in Germany

The man is currently in Germany in Germany due to the rape of a 72-year-old US citizen in 2005 in Praia da Luz. His prison sentence is expected to end from September. Last October he was acquitted in a process of rapes and sexual attacks in Portugal.

Most recently, in the “Maddie” case two years ago, there was a search on a reservoir on the Algarve, even at that time at the operation of the German investigators. It went without success. Your parents have not given up the search for her daughter to this day. « Our determination of turning around every stone has not subsided, » they wrote on their daughter on May 3 on the 18th anniversary of their daughter. (APA/AFP)