Скачать или смотреть German police to start new search in Portugal near where British toddler disappeared in 2007

(2 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Praia da Luz, Portugal - 15 June 2007
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1. Wide of resort where British girl Madeleine McCann went missing
2. Sign at reception
3. Wide of building
4. Resort sign and copy of front page of British tabloid paper showing picture of Madeleine
5. Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, walking with their children
6. McCanns walking back to apartment

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Arade Dam, Portugal - 23 May 2023
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7. Various of police search
8. Police tent

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Praia da Luz - 3 May 2017
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9. Various of Madeleine McCann postcard and candle at Praia da Luz church
10. Exterior of Praia da Luz church
11. Exterior of Ocean Club hotel, from where Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007
12. Various of exterior of apartment from where Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007
13. Close of sign reading (English and Portuguese): "Strictly no admittance, residents only"
14. Various of exterior of Ocean Club hotel
15. Various of hotel entrance
16. Various of ocean
17. Man fishing at beach
18. Various of beach, children in swings
STORYLINE:
German police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann are to carry out fresh searches near the Portuguese holiday resort she was last seen 18 years ago, U.K. police said on Monday.

The 3-year-old disappeared from her bed while on vacation with her family in the Praia da Luz resort, in southern Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

She has not been seen since.

The main suspect in the case is Christian Brueckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.

He is under investigation on suspicion of murder in the McCann case but hasn’t been charged.

He spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz, around the time of the child's disappearance.

Brueckner has denied any involvement in her disappearance.

“We are aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann," the Metropolitan Police, in London, said in a statement.

“The Metropolitan Police Service is not present at the search, we will support our international colleagues where necessary," it added, without giving more details.

The McCann case received worldwide interest for several years, with reports of sightings of her stretching as far away as Australia as well as books and television documentaries about her disappearance.

Investigators in the U.K., Portugal and Germany are still piecing together what happened on the night she disappeared.

She was in the same room as her brother and sister — 2-year-old twins — while their parents, Kate and Gerry, had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.

Madeleine's family marked the 18th anniversary of her disappearance last month, and expressed their determination to keep searching.

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