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Madeleine McCann -Cops Launch Major Land Search Near Suspects House
Madeleine McCann Investigators Remove Evidence From Abandoned Houses
Search teams scrutinise 20 plots of land in Portugal near where British girl vanished 18 years ago
REUTERS 4 JUN 2025
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have taken samples of potential evidence from abandoned houses near where she went missing 18 years ago.
A squad of half a dozen German and Portuguese police officers and firefighters used chainsaws, hedge trimmers and pickaxes to clear thick foliage and access several crumbling ruins near Praia Da Luz in the Algarve on Tuesday morning.
The officers removed mounds of earth and deposited them in plastic containers, which will be taken away for further examination.
Close by, two blue supply tents had been set up to store equipment, including a ground penetrating radar device.
At one derelict sand coloured house, approximately 300 metres from the coastline, a group of four firemen and one police officer pumped a disused well dry.
The full crew of around two dozen police officers, firefighters and detectives undertook the eight hour search from 9am. They were joined by a pair of plain clothed detectives.
The search is expected to last for three more days and will encompass more than 20 privately owned plots of land to the east of the coastal town where the three year old went missing while on holiday with her parents on 3 May 2007.
It covers a region of scrubland, dotted with disused wells, crumbling farmhouses and dirt tracks, that sits only a few miles from the Ocean Club resort where Madeleine vanished as her parents Kate and Gerry ate tapas nearby with their friends.
The operation was launched at the behest of German authorities as part of their investigation into Christian Brueckner, a convicted paedophile and prime suspect in the case who rented two properties in Praia Da Luz around the time of her disappearance.
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