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Wednesday 25 November 2020
The Brunswick prosecutor confirmed it today.
Maddie McCann went missing in Portugal in 2007 while on holiday with her family.
The search in Hanover was linked to an investigation in which a 43-year-old man is a suspect.
Police are using excavators, sniffer dogs, shovels and rakes to investigate the plot.
A garden allotment in the northern German city of Hanover is being searched, prosecutors said.
Irish woman Hazel Behan, now aged 37, was viciously assaulted by a stranger in her Portuguese apartment 16 years ago.
The Mirror reported that police and divers in the Algarve region examined three disused wells on Thursday.
Three-year-old “Maddie” disappeared from the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.
Kate and Gerry McCann said reports are causing “unnecessary anxiety to friends and family and once again disrupted our lives”.
A suspect in the case, who is currently serving a prison sentence, has been named as Christian Brueckner.
Carola Titze (16) was found dead in July 1996 in the resort town of De Haan on the Belgian coast.
Christian Brueckner has been linked to the disappearance of two children in 1996 and 2015.
The German national was 30 years old when three-year-old Madeleine vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
The suspect has been described as a “sexual predator” who has in the past been convicted of crimes against children.
Her parents Kate and Gerry said they will “never give up hope” of finding their daughter alive.
Her parents say they haven’t lost hope of finding her.
The pair have spoken to the BBC to mark 10 years since the disappearance of their daughter.
A former investigator made the claims in a book about her disappearance.
Madeleine would turn 13 next month.
It is Kate and Gerry McCann’s ninth Christmas without their daughter.
That number has been cut from 29.
Police have dismissed the speculation as ‘attention seeking’.
A 67-page dossier detailing malicious internet postings has been sent to the Commissioner in Scotland Yard, according to the news channel.
The McCann’s are suing former police chief Goncalo Amaral for libel.
Around 20 investigators spent today scouring two areas either side of a highway on the outskirts of the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.
At least three “mostly Portuguese” suspects are to be questioned.
Everyone’s talking about the Labour Party, the bodies of 800 babies in Tuam and a review of the Justice Department.
Everyone’s talking about Labour Party leadership, marathons and job worries in Waterford.
The area in Praia da Luz on the Algarve was cordoned off and police officers were seen in the area with sniffer dogs.
Earlier this year British detectives said they were looking for a paedophile who sexually abused five girls during break-ins at holiday homes between 2004 and 2010.
Police say they believe the 18 incidents in the Western Algarve could be linked.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Scotland Yard says it wants to identify a man who assaulted children in the area where Madeleine McCann went missing almost seven years ago.
No arrests have been made, according to Scotland Yard.
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A lot of people who were in Praia da Luz at the time of the 3-year-old’s disappearance have been in touch with police since the re-enactment of her disappearance.
Everyone’s talking about an inquiry into the Roma child cases, cheap alcohol and re-opening the Madeleine McCann case.
The attorney general’s office in Portugal has reopened the inquiry into the missing child after new information emerged.
Last night’s Crimewatch programme showed a re-enactment of the disappearance of the 3-year-old and established a number of significant changes to the timeline of her disappearance.
Everyone’s talking about John Gilligan in court, Madeleine McCann suspect, and free GP care for under-fives.
THE NATIONAL PUBLIC Health Emergency Team is meeting today to make its recommendation to Government about easing Level 5 restrictions.
The recommendation will potentially set out what people are able to do in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ahead of the Government’s decision this week on whether or not it will re-open things like pubs and restaurants across the country after 1 December.
It’s been reported this week that some ministers believe restaurants should be allowed to open for indoor dining during December and that pubs should also be allowed to reopen.
However, some public health experts believe that it would not be safe to re-open restaurants next month, given the potential to the virus to spread in congregated indoor settings.
But what do you think? Today we’re asking: Would you be comfortable going to a restaurant for a meal in December?
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