Portugal police announce new search in Madeleine McCann disappearance case
Portuguese police will conduct a new search near Praia da Luz at Germany's request in the Madeleine McCann case.
Search linked to Christian Bruckner, the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the three-year-old.
Evidence found will be handed to German authorities; UK police will offer support if needed.
Portuguese police will carry out a new search this week in the municipality of Lagos at the request of German authorities investigating the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, a spokesperson told AFP Monday.
The toddler was never found after going missing from the resort in Praia da Luz where she was with her family, one of the most high-profile missing person cases in history.
Police said it will carry out 'a wide range of actions' between Tuesday and Friday near the southern Portugal seaside resort where the girl disappeared on 3 May 2007.
The move is part of a warrant issued by the Brunswick Public Prosecutor's Office, in northern Germany, which is conducting a preliminary investigation into Christian Bruckner, suspected by German authorities of killing McCann, the Portuguese police spokesperson said, confirming information from British and Portuguese media.
'All the evidence seized by police will, with prior authorisation from the national public prosecutor's office, be handed over to agents of the German federal criminal police,' the spokesperson added.
The last search occurred in May 2023, near a lake.
'As part of the investigation into the Madeleine McCann case, criminal proceedings are currently under way in Portugal,' a spokesperson for the Brunswick public prosecutor's office, Christian Wolters, told AFP.
A British police spokesperson told AFP:
We are aware of the searches conducted by the BKA (the German federal police) in Portugal as part of their investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
'The (British) police services are not on-site, but we will assist our international colleagues wherever they are needed.'
Bruckner, currently serving a prison sentence for rape, was acquitted in October 2024 in Germany in a trial for two sexual assaults and three rapes committed between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal.
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