Portuguese police have launched a new search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal’s Algarve region where the British three-year-old disappeared in 2007, following a request from German authorities, the country’s investigative Judicial Police (PJ) said yesterday.
In a statement, the PJ said it was executing a European Investigation Order on behalf of the public prosecutor’s office in the German city of Braunschweig, which in 2022 formally identified German national Christian Brueckner as an official suspect in McCann’s disappearance.
It added that ‘a wide range of investigations, namely search warrants’ would be carried out until Friday in Portugal’s Municipality of Lagos and all evidence seized would be handed over to Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
The search for traces of the child’s body will focus on an area between Praia da Luz, a civil parish belonging to Lagos, and one of the houses where Brueckner lived when McCann disappeared 18 years ago, according to news reports by CNN Portugal and German newspaper Bild.
Braunschweig prosecutors told Reuters ‘criminal procedural measures’ related to the McCann case were taking place in Portugal involving the BKA and Portuguese law enforcement, but did not provide further details.
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