Portuguese police embark on new ‘Maddie’ search
AFP | Lisbon
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At the behest of German authorities, Portuguese police are to search a remote reservoir as they probe the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, local media reported.
Portuguese televisio n showed an area cordoned off around the Arade reservoir, nearly 50 kilometres (30 miles) from where the then three-year-old Maddie went missing in the Algarve tourist resort of Praia da Luz.
Portuguese media reported the police had already combed the site in 2008 but divers found only animal remains, adding the new search would begin Tuesday.
The toddler vanished without trace from her parent’s holiday apartment in May 2007 as they dined with friends at a nearby tapas bar.
Portugal’s public prosecution service said last year a suspect had been indicted in Germany as Lisbon pursues investigations alongside German and British authorities.
German judicial authorities say the man concerned is Christian Brueckner, already serving prison time for sex offences but identified as chief suspect in the Maddie after spending several years living in southern Portugal.
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