Officers were seen today that the rubble of the graffiti -covered structure removed within 100 meters from a cliff edge – only 24 hours after removing bags of earth for forensic testing
Madeleine McCann: German police keep looking in Portugal
German investigators have performed their dramatic search for missing Madeleine McCann attention on a second deserted farm near where three-year-old in 2007 disappeared.
Officers with plain closed were continued today and debris from the graffiti -covered structure within 100 meters from a cliff edge in Portugal removed. The fresh search only comes 24 hours after researchers have swollen another crumbling building in the neighborhood and put bags of the earth for forensic testing. Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 while she was on vacation with her family in Praia da Luz. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, ate in a nearby restaurant about 100 meters from the accommodation where Madeleine, then 3 years old, slept with her Toddler Twin brothers and sisters. When Kate returned to check the children, Madeleine was gone.
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Officers resume their operation on Wednesday morning on Scraband close to Praia da Luz. Search teams that put on white hard hats and gloves were seen using strimmers and chainsaws to reduce vegetation and bushes outside a second abandoned property.
On Tuesday, researchers fell armed with kicks and strimmers on the piece of land between the resort and a house in the vicinity of where main suspect Christian Brueckner lived. Researchers are searching the area for evidence that could link him to Madeleine’s disappearance prior to his expected released from prison in September.
Brueckner, 47, was born in Germany in 1976, but moved to Portugal in his late teenage years. It is believed that he lived there for about 12 years – between 1995 and 2007. At one point the convicted pedophile had stayed in a camper near Praia da Luz – and a phone call of 30 minutes put in the resort, just an hour before the Toddler disappeared, according to De Telegraaf.
He is also known that he has spent time near the Barragem do Arade reservoir, about 30 miles from Praia da Luz, between 2000 and 2017.
Brueckner comes at the end of a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in the Algarve in 2005, which he still denies. He was arrested in Italy in 2018, but will be released from prison in Germany in September in September. Authorities fear that Brueckner could disappear if he runs free from the prison if they cannot bind him to the toddler’s disappearance before that time.
He has always denied any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine.
According to the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, no leads were discovered during yesterday’s search. “The studies were suspended at the end of the day, without finding anything that is relevant to the investigation,” said the outlet.
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