Authorities in Portugal, Germany and Great Britain have stopped searching for items related to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who went missing as a child. Praia da LuzPortugal, 16 years ago.
Madeleine was kidnapped from a first-floor apartment during a family holiday in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, when she was three years old.
Portugal’s judicial police said in an evening statement Thursday that the request by German authorities had been completed and “led to the collection of some materials that will be subjected” to analysis, according to a translation.
Items collected during the search will be handed over to German authorities for inspection in accordance with international regulations, Portuguese police said.
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Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 from her family’s apartment in Portugal. (Handout/ Yui Mok/PA Images)
German prosecutor Christian Wolters told NDR radio earlier this week that authorities “have indications that we may find evidence” near the dam in Portugal’s Algarve region.
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on monday the police were seen conducting a search near the Arade Dam, about 31 miles from Praia da Luz.
Authorities in Portugal, England and Germany continued their search for evidence in the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann on Wednesday. (Yui Mok/PA Images)
“The only thing I’d like to clarify is that it’s not from the suspect,” Walters said of the search for evidence. “So we don’t have a confession or anything like that at this point, no indication of a suspect where it would make sense to conduct a search. . . . We were prompted for this search by other evidence.”
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In 2020 German authorities named 45-year-old Christian Bruckner as a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance. Bruckner continues to deny his involvement in the case.
This undated handout image provided by the Carabinieri Milano shows a police mugshot of Christian Bruckner, the suspect in the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal. (Carabinieri Milano via Getty Images)
Bruckner spent many years in Portugal, including Praia da Luz, around the time The disappearance of Madeleine.
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He was charged in 2022 with child sex crimes that German authorities say he committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017, and is currently serving time for raping a woman in 2005.
Kate and Gerry McCann hold an aged police photo of their daughter during a news conference to mark the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann on May 2, 2012 in London, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Madeleine was born in May 2003 and would have turned 20 this month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
