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CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Police wrap up search for Madeleine McCann evidence in Portugal's Algarve
Portuguese and German police investigating the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann carry out searches near Lagos, southern Portugal Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Joao Matos) LISBON - Portuguese and German police were on Thursday wrapping up their search in Portugal's southern Algarve region for evidence related to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 18 years ago. There were no immediate announcements on the outcome of the operation as vans with German licence plates and a Portuguese police vehicle left one of the search sites in Atalaia, a neighborhood of Lagos municipality. A source involved in the operation said the searched area had included several derelict houses, wells and reservoirs covering 'dozens of hectares.' McCann went missing on May 3, 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz, sparking a frenzied search and gaining the attention of the world's media. She has never been found. German police said in June 2020 that McCann was presumed dead and that German national Christian Brueckner was probably responsible. He has denied responsibility. Brueckner, a convicted child abuser and drug dealer, is behind bars in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same area of the Algarve. His sentence runs until September, meaning he is set for release unless prosecutors find enough evidence to charge him over McCann's disappearance. Reporting by Miguel Pereira in Lagos, Sergio Goncalves in Lisbon; editing by Pietro Lombardi, Aislinn Laing and Andrew Heavens, Reuters
BBC News
03-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
New Madeleine McCann search under way
Portuguese and German authorities have started a new search into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal nearly two decades was three years old when she vanished from an apartment complex in the town Praia da Luz in Algarve during a family holiday on 3 May 2007. Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the Monday, Portuguese police confirmed they were carrying out the search on warrants issued by German police say the search - which covers the municipality of Lagos near Praia da Luz - is due to continue until Friday. Four vehicles carrying German police have arrived on the search site, the roads to which have been closed off. German investigators have taken the lead in the case since they identified Christian Brückner as their prime suspect in 48-year-old is currently serving a sentence in Germany for a separate crime - the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal in 2005. He is due to be released later this authorities suspect him of murder but have not found enough evidence to bring charges, while Brückner repeatedly denies any authorities have also named Brückner as a formal suspect, or "arguido". They said they would hand over any evidence seized in the latest search to German team of German and Portuguese investigators have been given permission to search 21 plots of land between the Ocean Club resort Madeleine disappeared from and where Brückner had been staying at the authorities told the BBC on Monday that "criminal proceedings are currently under way in Portugal" with the support of Portuguese previous search was two years ago, focussed around a reservoir where Madeleine was last who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, was found to have photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir. The night Madeleine disappeared, her parents had been at dinner with friends at a restaurant a short walk away while Madeleine and her younger twin siblings were asleep in the ground-floor mother, Kate, discovered her was missing at around 22:00.A German documentary in 2022 found evidence that Brückner occasionally worked at the Ocean Club as a handyman, while German prosecutors have also linked his mobile phone data and a car sale to their case against parents last month marked the 18th year anniversary of her disappearance, saying their "determination to leave no stone unturned is unwavering".The Metropolitan Police - which this week said it was "aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal" - continues its investigation into Madeleine's case, known as Operation Grange, has been going since 2011.
Reuters
22-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Portugal wants European regulators' agency to lead Iberia outage investigation
LISBON, May 22 (Reuters) - Portugal wants European energy regulators' agency ACER to lead an independent investigation into the causes of the huge power outage that brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill last month, its acting energy minister told Reuters. Maria da Graca Carvalho said Prime Minister Luis Montenegro wants an independent investigation led by the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators to complement the technical report being prepared by the European network of transmission system operators ENTSO-E. "ACER, as a suitable entity to coordinate any external evaluation process, could bring more confidence, impartiality and transparency to the conclusions," Carvalho said in an e-mail, responding to questions from Reuters. "As for speculation about cyber attacks, sabotage or human error, at this time there is no evidence" that any of those could have caused the outage, the minister told Reuters in a written statement. Spain's energy minister said last week that an abrupt loss of power generation at a site in Granada, followed by outages seconds later in Badajoz and Seville, triggered the unprecedented blackout across Spain and Portugal on April 28. Iberia lags behind the EU's target for all countries to have 15% of their energy system interconnected to the broader European network by 2030, with Iberia's share stuck at just 3%. Carvalho said that, regardless of the causes of the blackout, Portugal was pondering how to strengthen the resilience and security of the national electricity system, which is a "strategic imperative".
Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Shock twist in death of child actor
Brazilian authorities are investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of an 11-year-old child actress after her parents claimed medical officials acted negligently. Millena Brandão, of Brazil, was declared brain dead on Friday after suffering 13 heart attacks. The girl's parents filed a police report the day after her death, claiming that an urgent care center, two hospitals and the facilities' staffers were negligent in treating their daughter. The death of Brandão, who appeared in the Netflix series Sintonia, is being probed by police and has been 'registered as a suspicious death,' the São Paulo Department of Public Safety said in a statement provided to Brazilian media. 'Expert reports were requested and are in progress for analysis by the police authorities.' 'For now, we are respecting the family's mourning,' Brandão's family lawyer, Antonio Toninho, told the Brazilian news outlet G1. 'Before making any decision, we are reviewing all the facts and gathering all the documents,' he added. Brandão's parents said they don't know what led to their daughter's unexpected death. 'The doctors still haven't said what really happened to my daughter and what killed her,' Brandão's mother, Thays, told the outlet. 'We don't know what killed her.' A copy of the girl's death certificate obtained by G1 showed that Brandão's 'death [is yet] to be clarified' and that her body 'awaits complementary exams.' The outlet also reviewed a cadaver referral form in which a Grajaú General Hospital doctor indicated that Brandão had a 'sudden death, with no apparent determining cause.' The document noted that Brandão 'died during a 4-day hospital stay' and was in a 'coma' and 'circulatory shock' when she was admitted. It also showed that she had an 'expansive process' tied to her central nervous system, according to a scan that was done April 29. The form showed that it found a 'neoplastic differential diagnosis,' which can be the development of an abnormal tissue that is either benign or malignant. Brandão initially fell ill April 24 and was treated at the state-run Pedreira General Hospital by a doctor, who treated her for a headache and informed her mother that the girl had 'dengue fever' without performing any tests. On April 26, she was unable to attend a modeling event because of pain in her leg and went back to Pedreira General Hospital, where tests were inconclusive and doctors recommended home rest. Brandão was on her way to church with her family on April 27 when she complained of headaches, drowsiness and a lack of appetite and returned home. She fainted in her bathroom after having dinner at home on April 28 and was taken to Maria Antonieta Urgent Care Facility. While tests showed that that she did not have COVID-19, H1N1 or dengue fever, doctors found that she had 'a urinary tract infection' and placed her on medication. Brandão was transferred to Granjaú General Hospital the morning of April 29 and had to be intubated after she suffered her first cardiac arrest. Doctors performed a CT scan and suggested to the family that she had a brain tumor. Pedreira General Hospital said in a statement that it has opened an internal investigation. 'She was evaluated by the pediatrician on duty and medicated according to the symptoms reported,' the medical facility said. Grajaú General Hospital said in its own statement that Brandão arrived at the facility and was suspected to be brain-dead. 'The patient arrived at the unit on 04/29/2025 in critical condition, with signs of severe neurological impairment. Although regulation was initially authorized, the medical team assessed that transport represented a high risk to the child's life at that time,' the hospital said. Brandão made her children's soap opera debut on the Brazilian television network SBT in October 2023. She appeared as an extra on 'A infância de Romeu e Julieta' (Romeo and Juliet's Childhood) and 'A Caverna Encantada (The Enchanted Cave).
