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Madeleine McCann Search Yields Clothing & Bone Fragments Now Sent For Forensic Testing
According to media accounts, German police officials conducting a dig near the resort where Madeleine McCann went missing discovered garment samples and pieces of bone in their search for evidence.
Last Monday, investigators began further searches in Atalaia, a section of scrubland covered in graffiti and trash, connected by a system of dusty paths called the Fisherman’s Trail in Portuguese.
The renowned tourist hiking trail, which connects Praia da Luz with the nearby town of Lagos, was closed for four days last week so that agents of the BKA, Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, could perform searches.
The estimated £300,000 operation has yielded “only animal bones and bits of old adult clothing,” according to sources close to the probe.
One officer told MailOnline, “We always knew it was going to be a waste of time but we have to show cooperation.”
“What did they expect to find after 18 years? We were happy to work with them but we knew it would be a waste of time.”
However, Portuguese media said that enough evidence was found during the search for investigators to consider it worthy of laboratory investigation.
“During the search, several items were seized that will be examined further by the German police,” reported CNN Portugal.
“The materials will now be carefully analyzed in the police laboratory ‘to assess their potential relevance to the investigation,” according the newspaper Correio da Manha.
It occurs as Christian Brueckner, the convicted rapist and paedophile who German prosecutors suspect of being responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance, approaches his release from prison.
In 2020, German police declared that they had launched an investigation into 48-year-old Brueckner, linking him to the kidnapping and killing of Madeleine.
However, he has not been charged, and time is running out.
He has strongly refuted the accusations.
Brueckner has already promised to leave Germany and is scheduled to be released in September after serving a seven-year term for the rape of a 71-year-old lady.
It implies that if authorities discover sufficient evidence to charge him with Madeleine’s disappearance, they will have a difficult time getting him to appear in court.
His attorney stated that in order for him to be released on September 17, he would need to pay €1,500 (£1,300) in unpaid penalties from a number of moving violations.
Brueckner’s lawyer Philipp Marquort told MailOnline, “I haven’t had a chance to speak with him yet about the searches and I am not going to comment on what has been happening in Portugal.”
“What I will say is that I don’t think he will be coming out in September as he doesn’t have any money to pay the fines because it went on his legal fees, so I can’t see him leaving prison until early next year.”
“He will probably see the news on the TV in his cell and he will talk about it when he calls me next time but I still do think when he is freed he will leave Germany.”
Meanwhile, Portuguese media have accused German authorities of not adequately looking into a report that Madeleine was struck by a drunk motorist.
A tip about a British guy ‘covering up a sad secret’ regarding his German wife allegedly running over the small girl while intoxicated and then concealing the body was allegedly given to Portuguese cops.
According to Correio da Manha, however, German authorities turned down a Portuguese request to employ an undercover police officer in an attempt to establish a friendship with the wife and strengthen their suspicions.
The report – which says a sister of the British husband made the tip-off to UK police in 2018 – said: “German prosecutors were asked to authorise a covert police operation with someone posing as a friend of the woman’s and trying to get her to confess, but the courts refused.”
“It was decided to continue solely with the investigation into suspect Christian Brueckner, rejecting other possibilities.”
The mystery pair, according to Correio da Manha, were “alcoholics,” and the wife had been drinking close to the Ocean Club the night Madeleine vanished.
Additionally, it stated that the day after the three-year-old vanished, the couple’s neighbour told police she overheard them fighting.
She claimed to have heard the man shout, “Why did you bring her?” several times.
When Portuguese authorities urged the Germans to investigate the possibility that the “German wife” had driven home “drunk” with Madeleine after running her over and then soliciting her husband’s assistance in disposing of the body at sea, the Germans reportedly retaliated.
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