her police Portugalat the request of the German authorities, plans to conduct new searches near the dam, about 50 kilometers from the place where the little British girl went missing in 2007. Madeline McCann while on vacation with his family, according to local media.

According to footage broadcast by Portuguese television, a perimeter has been established today around the place where the search will begin tomorrow, Tuesday. Many media outlets recalled that divers had already combed this area in 2008, but found only animal remains.

Last year, Portugal’s interior ministry announced that, at its request, the suspect had been prosecuted in Germany as part of an investigation carried out in cooperation with the German and British authorities. According to German justice, this is Christian Brickner, a well-known pedophile who lived for many years in the south of Portugal.

This man, already serving a prison sentence for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal, was considered as of 2020 the main suspect in the murder of little Madeleine. The Portuguese magazine Expresso reported that he went to the Arante dam, which is very close to the community of Silves.