Police in Portugal, at the request of the German authorities, intend to carry out new searches near a dam, some 50 kilometers from the spot where little British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family, local media reported. media.

According to the footage broadcast by Portuguese television, a perimeter was established today around the location where the search will begin tomorrow Tuesday.

Many reminded me that divers had already combed this zone in 2008 but found only animal remains.

Portugal’s interior ministry said last year that at its request a suspect had been prosecuted in Germany as part of investigations being carried out in cooperation with German and British authorities. According to German justice, this is Christian Brickner, a well-known pedophile who for many years resided permanently in southern Portugal.

This man, who is already serving a prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in 2005 in Portugal, was considered as of 2020 the main suspect in the murder of little Madeleine. Portuguese magazine Expresso revealed that he used to go to the Arante dam, which is very close to the Silves community.

Madeleine, who was about 4 years old at the time, disappeared from a hotel room in Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve, on May 3, 2007, while her parents were having dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant. Portuguese police dropped the case in 2008, after 14 months of investigations and after the child’s parents were previously prosecuted, who were later cleared of all charges.

After studying the case for two years, the British police launched their own investigation in July 2013. The Portuguese authorities followed suit shortly afterwards.