Police begin new search near Portugal’s Praia da Luz

The Portuguese and German authorities have started a new search for Madeleine Macan in Portugal, after nearly two decades of their disappearance.

Madeleine was three years old when she disappeared from a residential complex in Braya da Luz in Garv during a family holiday on May 3, 2007.

The disappearance of the British child raised an investigation in Europe, one of the highest cases of people who have not been resolved in Europe.

On Monday, the Portuguese police confirmed the research, as they drafted German prosecutors between the resort, where they lost Madeleine and where the suspects of the German investigators were residing at that time. According to what was reported, the site covers 21 plots of land.

The research – which covers the municipality of Lagos, is scheduled to continue near Braia da Luz in a crowded tourist area – until Friday.

On Tuesday morning, a Portuguese fire engine and Four vehicles carrying a German police arrived at the search site – located about 3.5 miles from the Ocean Club Resort, where Madeleine and her family were staying.

The roads leading to the site – which are large and mostly of them – have been closed since Monday, while today it seems that the concentration of today on the abandoned buildings near the coast.

The team cleansed the grass and vegetable cover around the search site, as well as searching in wells. A large blue tent was also placed in the same area.

About 30 German officers are expected to participate in the research.

Charlie Hedges, the former head of the lost children at the National Crime Agency, which worked on some of the highest prominent issues in the United Kingdom, said it seemed investigators, “they meet the network a little wider” with the latest research.

“It seems that spread [that] “They are looking for a certain thing, if this is a firm leadership, I thought it would be defined and about one place.”

However, he said they should have enough justification to gain research orders.

“They need to obtain funding approval from Germany, and it must be a large cost with the number of resources and work abroad and the rest of them.”

The Madeleine case was initially dealt with by the Portuguese authorities with the help of the Capital Police.

German investigators have taken the initiative since 2020, when they identified the German Christian Patriot Brunkner as a major suspect.

The 48 -year -old is currently serving a penalty in Germany for rape of a 72 -year -old American tourist in Portugal in 2005. He was to be released in September, but he could be returned to early 2026 if he did not pay a fine of it.

The German authorities fear that if Brookner is not accused of anything, it will disappear after his release.

German police suspect murder. British police continue to deal with the case as an investigation into the missing persons.

Brokenner has repeatedly denied any involvement and no charges were brought against him regarding its disappearance.

The Portuguese authorities also appointed Brückner as an official suspect, or “Arguido”. They said they would hand over any evidence that was seized in the last research to the German authorities.

MET Police, who this week, said they were aware of the inspection conducted by the German police in Portugal, to investigate Madeleine’s disappearance.

The case, known as the Grang operation, has been going on since 2011 and cost about 13.3 million pounds so far.

The officials were not discovered if they were conducting this last research in Portugal based on any new information, which causes them to appear as if they were taking a last look at the places where the evidence or body could have been hidden.

The German police have a European memorandum, approved by Portuguese prosecutors, to allow them to perform searches on private lands.

Another research was conducted two years ago and focused on a tank where Madeleine was last seen.

Brückner, who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, was found that it contains pictures and videos of itself near the tank.

Mr. Hedges said that the latest research area could be “a gap trying to deliver.” He suggested that the brutal brocker launch was “might lead things” and the police needed to “secure” additional evidence.

On the night where Madeleine disappeared, her parents were at dinner with friends at a restaurant shortly on foot while their three -year -old daughter and her twin siblings were sleeping asleep in the ground floor apartment.

Her mother, Kate, discovered that she was missing at about 22:00.

In 2022, a German documentary film found evidence that Brookner was sometimes working in Ocean Club as if he were a man, while German prosecutors linked his mobile phone data and cars selling him.

Last month, Madeleine’s parents celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of the disappearance, saying that “their design on leaving any unexpected stone is underestimated.”