authorities of Portugal, Germany and Great Britain together for a massive search for Madeline McCannthe English girl who disappeared in Portugal’s Algarve region, sixteen years agoafter receiving new leads that may link a suspect to the case.

The Arade Reservoir, the area where McCann’s body is believed to be, had been cordoned off for search purposes. That same place was already unsuccessfully tracked down by private investigators in 2008, but experts in forensic medicine agreed today that the technological advances of recent years are essential to solve the case if it is eventually found. Evidence about the girl’s disappearance.

The quest evolves. Photo: RTVE

This area is 50 kilometers from Praia da Lu, where McCann disappeared from a tourist complex.

Until now No information has been released about possible progress in the investigation. and Portuguese judicial police sources told the EFE agency that they will not reveal anything about the operation until something new comes out.

The images captured in the area during these two days suggest that during the first day, the officers collected material collected in bags for analysis after combing the area with dogs, georadar and drones.

On the second day, they devoted themselves to clearing the land, using brushcutters and chainsaws, in the areas most difficult for the officers to access.

The suspect who raised the alarm and breathed new life into the case is the German Christian Brueckner, who has a history of pedophilia and is currently serving a sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman. The reservoir that the authorities are capturing today was a place frequented by the German man.

The Arade reservoir was Brueckner’s “little paradise”, as he himself described it, and he spent a long time there with his camper.

Brueckner also had images of this area on his computer, according to local media, which indicate that an informant’s tip prompted German authorities to request search work in the reservoir.