The Portuguese Police will start this weekat the request of the German, the search for the British girl madeleine mccann in a reservoir 50 kilometers away from the tourist complex in the Algarve (southern Portugal) where the minor was on the night of her disappearance, 16 years ago, according to local media.

The searches will focus on the Arade reservoir, located 50 kilometers from Praia da Luz, which would have been a place frequented by the main suspect, the German Christian Brueckner, according to what the Portuguese channel SIC Notícias has advanced. Brueckner is currently in prison in Germany for other crimes and has a long history of crimes for sexual abuse and pedophilia, some of them in Portugal.

The German Police want to know if there are traces or evidence to provide new data on the disappearance of the minor, according to the same sources. The Portuguese Police is working this Monday to delimit the search area and the searches are expected to begin on Tuesday with British Police also present.

I was only three years old

Madeleine McCann was three years old when she was abducted from the room where she slept with her two little brothers, in a tourist complex from Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, during the night of May 3, 2007, according to investigations. Suspicions against Brueckner gained weight after he was extradited from Portugal to Germany in 2017 accused of a case of sexual abuse of minors in Greece.

The investigation of his movements showed, through the trace of his mobile phone, that he was near the holiday complex where the McCanns were staying. the night Madeleine was kidnapped.