A new search for Madeleine McCann gets underway in Portugal
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The search, expected to last three days, will see more than 30 German police search 21 private plots of land in the area of Lagos, in southern Portugal.
German authorities have begun a new search in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann near the Portuguese holiday resort she was last seen 18 years ago.
The then three-year-old British girl disappeared from her bed while on vacation with her family in the Praia da Luz resort, in southern Portugal, on May 3, 2007. She has not been seen since.
Detectives acting on a request from a German public prosecutor will carry out “a broad range” of searches this week in the area of Lagos, in southern Portugal, according to Portuguese police.
The search, expected to last three days, will see more than 30 German police search 21 private plots of land after Portuguese authorities granted permission for them to fly into the country, according to BBC News.
Prosecutors in Braunschweig, Germany, who are responsible for the investigation, didn’t give details of the “judicial measures” taking place in Portugal. They said the measures are being carried out by Portuguese authorities with support from officers from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office.
Britain’s Metropolitan Police said it was “aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.”
“The Metropolitan Police Service is not present at the search, we will support our international colleagues where necessary,” the force added, without giving more details.
One of the areas of interest in the search falls between Praia da Luz and a house near the vacation resort where the main suspect in the case, a German national identified by media as Christian Brüeckner, previously lived.
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