Police mobilized heavy equipment and sniffer dogs on Wednesday (24) on the second day of operation at a remote dam in Portugal in search of evidence linking a German suspect to the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann 16 years ago.
Emergency services took a remote-controlled tractor-mounted tree cutter to clear what appeared to be a new search area, a few hundred meters from a temporary camp erected on Tuesday (23) on the banks of the Arade Dam. by the Portuguese police, aided by German and British colleagues.
Dozens of police were concentrating their searches on the bank of the dam and on a hill above, and it was unclear whether they would use divers to search the water.
the case
Madeleine has been missing since May 3, 2007, when she disappeared from an apartment in the Praia da Luz resort in the Algarve, where she slept with her siblings while her parents had dinner a few meters away. She would turn 4 years old. The dam where the investigations take place is about 50 km from the site.
The case had great worldwide repercussions, mainly due to the huge publicity campaign carried out by the girl’s parents to try to discover her whereabouts. About 600 people were investigated and four were considered suspects but later acquitted.
In September 2007, Portuguese police classified Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s parents, as suspects in their daughter’s disappearance, after DNA was found in a car the family rented 25 days after reporting her disappearance. They denied all allegations and subsequently the case against them was dropped.
During all these years, there were several news about the whereabouts of Madeleine, both dead and alive, in different countries of the world. None of them, however, proved true. The most recent news on the subject occurred in February of this year, when the German Julia Faustyna, 21 years old, declared herself to be Madeleine McCann. The fact generated strong worldwide repercussions, but the police ruled out the possibility and the young woman’s family expressed themselves through a note, saying that she was always part of their family, and that there are photos and memories that prove it.
(Posted by Fábio Mendes, with information from Reuters)
Source: CNN Brasil
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