Madeleine McCann search latest: Investigators scour abandoned farmhouse near suspect’s home in Portugal
A new search for Madeleine McCann has begun in scrubland and around an abandoned building near where she was last seen in Portugal.
Police are expected to use ground-penetrating radar, according to reports, in a search that will run until the end of the week.
The search for traces of the child’s body will focus on an area between Praia da Luz and one of the houses where Brueckner lived when the three-year-old disappeared 18 years ago.
Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from the holiday resort on May 3, 2007, sparking a Europe-wide police investigation.
German national Christian Brueckner was formally identified as an official suspect in the toddler’s disappearance in 2022. Brueckner has denied any involvement and has not been charged with any crime related to the case.
About 30 German police and forensic experts will reportedly take part in the search, alongside Portuguese police. The last search for Madeleine was carried out in May 2023, when police searched an inland reservoir in the Algarve.
