New Discoveries and Investigations in the Maddie McCann Case: Latest Updates on the Missing Child Investigation

2023-06-06 07:20:00

Sixteen years ago, little Maddie McCann disappeared at the age of three. While she is in Portugal, on vacation with her parents, the little girl will faint in nature. Since then, searches have been fruitless. But now the public prosecutor’s office in Brunswick, Germany, has decided to carry out new investigations in Portugal after the discovery of new elements during excavations near the Arade reservoir, located not far from the Portuguese town of Silves. A place that has already been searched in 2008. Without results. However, it was Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the case of the disappearance of the little girl, who described the place as a “corner of paradise”, indicate our colleagues from Figaroin their edition of Tuesday, June 6, 2023.

If for the moment the investigators have not revealed the exact nature of their discoveries, the first investigations into the disappearance of Maddie McCann have been “stacked with failures and controversies”indicate Le Figaro. Many avenues are then studied: the first, that of the possible involvement of Robert Murat, British, living in Praia da Luz. Then, it was around the girl’s parents to be in the crosshairs of the investigators. They were suspected of accidentally killing their daughter. Three years later, the file is reopened, following the incarceration of two men accused of pedophilia. The English police even believe that the little girl would still be alive. But nothing conclusive is found. Years that helped the real suspect to be forgotten?

Could a letter allow the main suspect in the Maddie McCann case to get rid of evidence?

Then in June 2020, the German police identified a person who could have been at the origin of the disappearance of the girl: Christian Brückner. A repeat rapist, he was present in the village in which the British family was staying during their vacation. The testimony of a man who recognized the face of the suspect on the robot portraits broadcast, will have terrible consequences. Indeed, according to the German media The mirror, the police would then have sent a letter to Christian Brückner, telling him “that they wanted to hear him on the Maddie affair. An error, even by the German policemen’s admission, which could have left him the possibility of destroying possible evidence”. The parents of little Maddie do not despair. They try as best they can to bring new elements to the investigation so that it is not definitively stopped.