Searches for Madeleine McCann will resume in Portugal, 18 years after she disappeared from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz in the Algarve.
The Portuguese and German authorities are expected to continue focusing on the search in buildings and disused wells.
Madeleine was three years old when she disappeared while she was on vacation with her parents on May 3, 2007, which caused a police investigation throughout Europe that has become one of the cases of missing people with the highest profile.
This search, which is covered by the municipality of Lagos, near Praia da Luz, will continue until Friday acrismo in a 21 km SQ site where Madeleine disappeared and where the main suspect of German researchers had stayed at that time.
Madeleine’s case was initially managed by the Portuguese authorities with the help of the Metropolitan Police, but German investigators touched the leadership in 2020, when they identified German Christian Brückner German as their main suspect.
The 48 -year -old is currently serving a sentence in Germany for the violation of an American 72 -year -old tourist in Portugal in 2005. It must be presented in September, but which would be retired in early 2026 if he does.
The search site is located about 3.5 miles from Ocean Club Resort, where Madeleine and Re -Family stayed on their legs.
The roads prior to the area, which is large and mostly enrolled, have closed since Monday, where the team had been clearing grass and vegetation.
On Tuesday morning, a Portuguese fire truck and four vehicles transported to the German police arrived. Firefighters also drained a part of the search.
The last search took place two years ago and focused on a deposit northeast where the British child stayed. It was discovered that Brückner, who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, had photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir.
The German authorities suspect Brückner of murder and fear that if he is not accused of something new, he will disappear after his release. The British police continue to deal with the case as an investigation of missing persons.
Brückner has repeatedly denied any participation.
The German police have a European order, which has been approved by Portuguese prosecutors, will allow them to perform searches in private lands. This week is expected to cover 21 different sudden or land.
The officials have not rejected if they are doing this last search in Portugal depending on any new information, which makes it look like a last look in places where evidence or a body could have a hidden bone
Portuguese authorities have also appointed Brückner as a formal suspect, or “argued.” They said they will deliver any evidence seized in the last search to the German authorities.
With the police, who said this week that he was aware of the searches made by the German police in Portugal, his investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine continues.
The case, known as Operation Grange, has been ongoing since 2011 and has cost around £ 13.3 million to date.
At night, Madeleine disappeared, her parents had been having dinner with friends in a small distance from the apartment on the ground floor that she and her younger twin brothers were asleep.
His mother, Kate, discovered that he was missing around 22:00.
A German documentary in 2022 found evidence that Brückner occasionally worked at the Ocean Club as a maintenance personnel, while German prosecutors have also linked their mobile phone data and a sale of cars to their case against them.
Madeleine’s parents marked the 18th anniversary of their disappearance last month, saying that their “determination of not leaving stone should not move is unwavering.”
