- German police are relaunching a major search in Portugal for Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in 2007 from Praia Da Luz while on holiday with her family.
- The search, requested by German authorities, will focus on an area between two locations: Praia Da Luz and a house where Christian Brueckner, a German national, lived when Madeleine disappeared.
- Brueckner, identified as an official suspect in 2022, is currently serving a seven-year sentence in Germany for the rape of an elderly woman in Praia Da Luz in 2005 and denies involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.
- Previous searches were conducted in 2023 near the Barragem do Arade reservoir and in 2014 on scrubland near where she vanished, but no evidence was found.
- Madeleine's family marked the 18th anniversary of her disappearance last month, expressing their determination to continue the search, and Scotland Yard detectives have received additional funding to investigate the case.
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