"Sixteen years later, I very much doubt that they will find anything," Andre Calado, 25, who works in a hotel in a small village near the dam, told AFP. Police were monitoring access to the trails surrounding the Arade dam, built in the 1950s to irrigate agricultural land in the region. The area being searched was cordoned off on Tuesday and police had set up blue and white tents by the mass of water, set among wooded hills. Police combed the site in 2008 but divers found only animal remains, according to media reports. Portuguese weekly magazine Expresso has reported that he would regularly spend time near the reservoir outside the small inland town of Silves. German prosecutors revealed in June 2020 that they were investigating Brueckner in connection with the case, saying they had "concrete evidence" he killed Madeleine.Īccording to police, Brueckner lived in the Algarve region between 19, making a living doing odd jobs as well as burgling hotel rooms and holiday apartments. Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007 while her parents dined at a nearby tapas bar.ĭespite a huge international manhunt, no trace of her has been found and no-one has been charged over her disappearance. German police are assisting the Portuguese authorities, the German prosecutors said, while London's Metropolitan Police said it also had officers on the ground. The steps were being taken with a view to "a total clarification of the situation", the police said in a statement. Portuguese police had announced on Monday evening that new searches would be carried out "in the next few days, at the request of the German authorities" and "in the presence of the English authorities". German police said in June 2020 that the child was assumed dead and that Brueckner was likely to be responsible.īrueckner has denied any involvement and has not been charged with any crime related to it. A source familiar with the investigation told Reuters the operation was likely linked to photographs of the Arade reservoir found at the hideout of German man Christian Brueckner, who was last year named by German prosecutors as an official suspect in McCann's disappearance.īrueckner, a convicted child abuser and drug dealer, is behind bars in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same area of the Algarve region from where Madeleine McCann disappeared.
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