Madeleine McCann Detectives start a new search for the missing girl where she was last seen

Fresh police search assignments will start tomorrow near the place where Madeleine McCann was last seen.

The German police are said to have asked for the searches, it is expected that Praia da Luz, where three -year -old disappeared on 3 May 2007 and a house near the holiday resort where the main suspect Christian Brueckner used to live.

A well -placed Portuguese source confirmed that this week’s operation was planned, start tomorrow, but said that some preparation work can take place in advance.

He said: “They will only be land search assignments. The main objective is to look for signs of Madeleine’s body. ‘

Sources said the searches would take place on more than 20 private pieces of land near a rickety rented house on the outskirts of Praia da Luz where Brueckner lived a few years before 2007.

One said: ‘The search will take place on 21 private pieces of land that are open in some cases and are not fenced. Wells, ruins and water storage tanks are searched. ‘

The Portuguese police are supposed to have agreed to work together with the search after it was approved by the judicial authorities of the country after a formal request from German agents and prosecutors.

The search is expected to take approximately three days, unless something is relevant.

It will be the first search in Portugal for more than two years, after an operation for almost week with Portuguese, German and police officers at an external dam on an external dam at 40 minutes drive from Praia da Luz.

The searches in May 2023 at Arade Dam, an ‘area of ​​interest’ that Brueckner reportedly called his ‘Little Paradise’, came to nothing.

It is not clear whether detectives are now acting on a new tip about where Madeleine’s body could be.

The German police team is expected to include forensic experts, who were also present for the searches for May 2023 Arade Dam.

They were the first important searches in Portugal for Madeleine McCann in nine years after an earlier June 2014 operation when the British police were given permission to perform excavations in Praia da Luz involving sniffer dogs that were trained in detecting bodies and soil-penetrating radar.

Those excavations were linked to the leading British police theory when Madeleine died during a burglary and burglars hid her body in the neighborhood.

They also failed to provide evidence that points to the residence of the missing young person.

In a smaller operation in July 2020, the Portuguese police and firefighters searched three wells to Madeleine’s body, but could not find any trace of her.

Prime suspect Christian Brueckner stays in prison in Germany, where he serves for a period of seven years for rape.

The 48-year-old convicted pedophile faces with his hope to be released from prison in September after being reportedly accused of new offenses against prison protectors behind bars.

He is being investigated on suspicion of kidnapping and murder in the McCann case, but has denied any involvement in the disappearance of the girl 2007.

While German researchers have made the unusual move to name the convicted pedophile as a suspect in the case, he has not been charged.

The prison sentence of Brueckner will end with his release in September – much earlier than public prosecutors after he was acquitted after a trial after a trial of non -related sexual offenses.

The convicted rapist is no longer held in lonely imprisonment when he approaches the end of his sentence.

Now that the release of Brueckner is popping up, the pressure on public prosecutors to accuse him after explosive revelations in a channel 4 documentary and evidence that was found in a former factory, the authorities believe that he can link him to the abduction of Maddie.

The materials, excavated in a non -used box factory in Germany, include a mean catalog of corrupt documents, children’s clothing, small bicycles and more than 75 bathing suits and toys that are believed to belong to young girls.

Some were reportedly buried under the body of the dead dog of Brueckner, who was excavated during the police search.

“The clock here is against the case and researchers do not want to see Brueckner walk for free,” a source told The Sun.

‘The best option can be intervention from British police, but they must be willing to accept it. There are 20,000 pages of Madeleine evidence and the Germans are ready to translate the party. ‘

Officers searched the area around the Arade Dam in Silves in May 2023, but have not made any significant progress in their research.

The site is approximately 45 minutes from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine was three years old in 2007 without a track.

It was the first major operation in its kind since June 2014, when the British police were given permission to dig in Praia da Luz with the help of sniffer dogs that have been trained in detecting bodies and ground penetrating radar.

The Portuguese broadcaster SIC reported that the German police asked for permission to search the dam in an official judicial request to Portugal after concluding that it was ‘an area of ​​interest’.