A new search for Madeleine McCann is underway in Portugal, the police gathering a few kilometers from the place where the British toddler was seen for the last time in 2007.
Portuguese and German police are searches 18 years after the three-year-old girl disappeared from Praia Da Luz station while her parents dined, letting her sleep in a neighboring room with her twin brothers and sisters for toddlers.
Police vehicles were seen at around 3.5 miles (5.5 km) from the station on Tuesday in the Atalaia region, where the sun The newspapers reported that the research teams should use radar equipment that could scan under the ground.
The BBC said Four vans carrying German officers were seen by car on a road leading to the sea, as well as the Portuguese police and a fire truck.
Journalists were far from the research site in the midst of a meticulous examination of the operation of the operation.
TV images have shown two Portuguese police officers keeping the end of a narrow path that leads through a field of field and scruptement with a few houses and a vineyard.
The search is carried out at the request of the German federal police while they are looking for evidence that could involve the first suspect, Christian Brückner, who is in prison for having raped a 72 -year -old woman in Praia da Luz in 2005. He should be released from prison in September if no other accusation is made.
The investigators would have looked at where the trenches were dug near the station at the time of the disappearance of Madeleine, in the wells, the ruins and the water tanks. It is planned to examine 21 pieces of land.
Brückner was authorized by a German court in October of last year of sexual offenses unrelated Portugal Between 2000 and 2017.
Thirty German police officers, including forensic experts, should participate in research with Portuguese officers, with the activity due to Friday. The metropolitan police, although aware of the operation, will not be present.
The German investigators and the Portuguese officers carried out searches in the country for the last time in 2023, near the dam do arade reservoir, about 30 miles from Praia da Luz.
Brückner, who spent time in the region between 2000 and 2017, had photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir.
Ulrich Oppold, journalist for the German broadcaster RTL, visited Brückner in prison Germany. Brückner told him that if he came out of prison, he was most impatient to be a steak with a beer.
However, he refused to answer all questions relating to Madeleine after discussions with his lawyers.
Brückner told the journalist that if he came out of prison, he should go down because he was so well known, describing himself as “Bekannt Wie Ein Buntter Hund“- What has literally translated is” as well known as a colorful dog “.
The DO ARADE dam tank was already searched in 2008, when Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid for specialized divers to search for it after pretending to have been overthrown by criminal contacts that Madeleine’s body was there.
British police were then authorized to examine Scrublin near the place where they disappeared in 2014.
Last month, the family of Madeleine, of Rothley in the Leicestershire, marked the 18th anniversary of her disappearance, describing her as “beautiful and unique” before her 22nd anniversary, and expressing their determination to continue to seek.
A declaration by her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, and the family said: “The years seem to pass even more quickly and although we have no important news to share, our determination to” leave no stone not returned “is unshakeable. We are going to do our best to get there. “
In April, British ministers approved more than £ 100,000 in additional funding for Yard Scotland detectives investigating Madeleine’s disappearance.
