Portuguese police officers, accompanied by German and British troops and equipped with high-tech equipment, The search for evidence of his disappearance resumed this Wednesday. Madeleine McCann In a reservoir in the Algarve in southern Portugal.
Search focuses In Silves, in an area of the Arade reservoirIt is about 50 kilometers from Praia da Luz, where the girl was abducted 16 years ago, and is the haunt of German Christian Brueckner, the main suspect in the case, which, according to local media, features pictures of the reservoir. computer.
The largest operation in recent years over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann began on Tuesday and has so far No information was given about possible developments in the investigation..
According to local media, agents swept the area with dogs, georadar and drones, then collected materials in bags for analysis.
Sources from the Portuguese Judicial Police told EFE that they would not provide information about the operation until something new happened.
The German Prosecutor’s Office in Braunschweig also confirmed this. “for tactical reasons, no more background information is released at this time”.
The field has already been searched
The search focused on the land area of the reservoir on Tuesday, although police had boats and divers.
Area already watched in 2008 Private investigators failed to succeed, but forensic experts this Wednesday agreed that advances in technology over the past years are necessary to solve the case if evidence of the girl’s disappearance is found.
madlen he was three years old when he disappeared From the room she slept with her younger siblings in a tourist complex in Praia da Luz, on May 3, 2007.
In 2020, after years of investigation, the case took a turn, with German Christian Brueckner, who was imprisoned in his country for other crimes, becoming the prime suspect.
The German Prosecutor’s Office in Braunschweig is working on the following theory: Madeleine died at Brueckner’s handsIt has a long history of sexual abuse and pedophilia crimes, some in Portugal.