Search teams on Tuesday scoured undergrowth and an abandoned building in Portugal in the hunt for British toddler Madeleine McCann, with police hoping to find evidence that could implicate a convicted German s** offender in her disappearance 18 years ago.
Madeleine was just three years old when she vanished from an apartment on the Algarve coast where she was on holiday with her family, sparking a global campaign to find her and unprecedented media coverage.
A previous search of a lake near the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz in 2023 yielded no results but on Tuesday investigators were back in a part of nearby Lagos to hunt for clues.
Several police vehicles with Portuguese and German number plates as well as fire trucks were seen down a cordoned-off dirt road towards the search site, AFP journalists at the scene saw.
Portuguese police said about 25 German investigators were present, with the investigation looking at an abandoned building in an overgrown wooded area.
The new searches — carried out at the request of German authorities investigating Christian Brueckner, a convicted rap**t who is suspected of having killed Madeleine — are expected to last until Friday.
According to the British tabloid The Sun, investigators are equipped with ground radar technology that can scan the ground down to 4.5 metres (15 feet) in depth.
The area includes a cottage where Brueckner was living and is dotted with wells and ditches, it added.
A mobile phone registered in Brueckner’s name was traced close to the family’s accommodation on the night Madeleine went missing.
FULL STORY: https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2025/06/03/new-police-search-begins-in-hunt-for-missing-madeleine-mccann/
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