new research underway in Portugal

The investigation into Maddie’s disappearance continues. The authorities investigating the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann, in 2007, have undertaken new research in Portugal, announced the German prosecutor’s office in charge of the file, Tuesday, May 23.

These operations”are currently underway in Portugal”, according to a press release from the Brunswick public prosecutor’s office (northern Germany). This is news “research” carried out with the support of the German judicial police, the prosecution told AFP. German justice did not give more details on the nature and location of the ongoing research in this case, which is one of the great criminal enigmas of recent years.

According to images from Portuguese television, a perimeter was delimited near a dam located about fifty kilometers from the place where Maddie disappeared, shortly before her fourth birthday. She was then staying with her parents in a hotel complex in Praia da Luz, a small seaside resort in the Algarve region (southern Portugal).

A main suspected repeat offender in the case

A German with a repeat offender profile has been the main suspect in the girl’s disappearance since 2020. The investigation stalled for years before this man caught the attention of the authorities. He lived at the material time a few kilometers from the hotel.

The Brunswick public prosecutor’s office has since been carrying out its own investigations, in conjunction with the Portuguese and German authorities. Christian B. is currently serving a prison sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman, committed in 2005 in Portugal. He was charged in Germany for five other sex crimes and offenses committed between 2000 and 2017, also in Portugal.