The most famous case of a child’s disappearance in Europe: a new search for almost two decades later – BBC News in Serbian

Portuguese and German authorities launched a new search for British Madelen soft in Portugal, almost two decades after her disappearance.

Madlene was three years old when she disappeared from a housing complex in Praja to Luz in Portuguese Algarve during a family vacation 3. Maja 2007. years.

The German citizen Christian Brikner is suspected of abduction and murder of a girl.

The circumstances of the event were as follows: Parents put her her children in bed and went out for dinner, and when they returned, her mother discovered that girls were gone.

The disappearance of the British girl has launched a police investigation across Europe and is one of the most significant unresolved cases of the missing in the world.

He especially gave the attention of the European public after the Portuguese police accused Madlen’s parents that they killed their daughter and hid her body.

The police later apologized to their parents for these claims.

Then, 2020. year, the German authorities suspected Brookor for kidnapping and killing a child.

Portuguese police confirmed 2. June that she restarted the search for the British, at the request of German prosecutors.

Police searches for 21 different sites, more accurate plots between the resort where Madelen disappeared and where the main suspects stayed at the time.

The search, which includes the municipality of Lagos, near Praja to Luz in a popular tourist area, should last until 6. June.

The Portuguese fire truck and four vehicles arrived at the German police. June in the place of search, about five, six kilometers from the resort Oušn Klab, where Madelen and her family stayed in 2007. years.

The roads leading to the search point, which is mostly covered with a shrub, are closed from 2. June.

Police teams search various places, among others and facilities similar to wells.

Who is the suspect?

The investigation into the disappearance of the girl was first led by the Portuguese police, in cooperation with British, that from 2020. Case took over German investigators when they identified the German citizen of Christian Brooker as the main suspect.

This 47-year-old serves a prison sentence in Germany for rape 72-year-old US tourist in Portugal 2005.

It was supposed to be released in September, but it could be moved for the beginning of 2026. If he did not pay the sentence he owes.

German authorities fear that, if Brikner is not accused, disappear after release.

While the Germans lead to him as a suspect for murder, the British police further treat the case as an investigation into the missing person.

Brickner repeatedly denied any involvement and no indictments were filed against the disappearance of the girl.

The Portuguese authorities also appointed Brikner as a formal suspect.

It is said that they will submit all evidence seized in the last search of the German authorities.

The London Police, which this week announced that it was familiar with the searches the German police in Portugal, continues the investigation into the disappearance of Madelen.

The case, known as the heating operation, lasts since 2011. and until today it cost about £ 13.3 million (near 16m euros).

Officials did not find whether they conducted this last search in Portugal based on new information, which creates the impression as if they were searching places where evidence or body could be hidden.

The German police have a European Order, who approved Portuguese prosecutors, which allows them to search in private land.

The last search was performed two years ago, and it was a tank where Madelen was last seen.

In Brikner, who spent time in that area between 2000. and 2017. years, photos and videos of him alone near the tank.

The night Madelen disappeared, her parents were at dinner with friends in a restaurant on a short walk away, while their three-year daughter and her younger brothers and sisters twins slept in the apartment on the ground floor.

Her mother, Kate, found that she had disappeared about 10 pm.

In the German documentary film from 2022. the evidence was presented that Brikner was performing in the Own Club as a master occasionally.

German prosecutors also connected its data from mobile phone and selling cars, which they attached their case against him.

Last month, Madlenin’s parents marked 18. Anniversary of her disappearance, saying that their « determination did not leave stone on stone until unshakable ».

McKen family in May 2011. published a book « Madelen ».

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