For one more day, the investigations into the case of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared 16 years ago, were extended. The expectation is as great as the silence adopted by officials. Little by little, the data of interest to the community that has been following this event since 2007 transcends.

In areas of a reservoir in the Algarve, Portugal, where the three-year-old girl was last seen by her parents, everything is moving for police in this unexpected turn the investigation took.

Officers, with the help of trained dogs, continue to be in the field analyzing information received by German police, which is considered “highly credible”, the Daily Mail reported.

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According to La Razón, “The first searches focused on land near the reservoir. In an area that Christian Brueckner, the main suspect in the case, called the ‘little paradise’”.

On Wednesday, May 24, the British media indicated that they learned that “the search for evidence links the child’s disappearance in 2007 to the prime suspect, Christian Brueckner”, and began “highly credible” thanks to a tip from a German police informant. .”

They published that Portuguese outlet Expresso revealed “that the informant had given detectives ‘details’ which they took ‘very seriously’.

Brückner spent several nights in Arade, it was his little paradise

Daily Express

The cited publication named Rainer Grimm as the man who led the investigation for Germany’s central investigation agency, the BKA, and said he was one of the officers on the scene, the Daily Mail added.

Reports known to the press suggest that “officials are looking for items of clothing and rags that may be related to her disappearance, particularly the pink pajamas she was wearing the night she disappeared.”

There was talk early Wednesday that tree branches had been cut.

The European press published footage of the uniformed personnel following them around the reservoir of Barragem do Arade and they did not stop capturing footage from a boat.

Those searches in the area are looking for evidence linking Brueckner to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, the British publication highlighted.

2023, a year full of news about “Maddie”

The subject of Maddie, as Gerry and Kate McCann’s daughter was affectionately known, has practically made headlines in 2023.

First a girl from Poland said it could be her. Julia Faustyna requested that they undergo a DNA test and highlighted the specific stain she has in one of her eyes, similar to that of the little girl who disappeared in May 2007.

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Last May 3, it was 16 years without the girl and in the act of remembering her, her sister, Amelie, arrived and spoke for the first time.

And now they’re reopening the investigation. On May 22, it was announced that German, Portuguese and British police would join forces to launch the largest search since 2014.

El Universo reported this week that on this occasion in 2007 they would search the Barragem do Arade reservoir, 50 kilometers from the tourist complex where the girl disappeared in Praia da Luz.

Maddie disappeared on May 3, 2007, from the apartment her parents rented in Praia da Luz, in Portugal’s Algarve, El Periódico recalls.

Her parents left her there. The baby slept next to her two-year-old twin brothers.

In April 2022, at the request of the Portuguese prosecutor’s office, the German Christian Brueckner was charged in Germany. That man became the prime suspect in the disappearance and kidnapping of Madeleine in the Algarve.