Madeleine McCann latest: Police launch new search in Portugal’s Praia De Luz 18 years after disappearance
A new search for Madeleine McCann is set to begin near to where she was last seen in Portugal.
German police are said to have requested the searches in Praia da Luz – the town in the Algarve where she went missing almost two decades ago – to begin on Tuesday.
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.
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.
The last search for Madeleine was carried out in May 2023, when police searched an inland reservoir in the Algarve.
