The Portuguese Police will begin on Tuesday the recognition of a swamp in the town of Silves on suspicion that it could be the key to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared at the age of three in 2007 in an apartment in Praia da Luz while her parents were having dinner at a nearby restaurant.
“They can look for the ones they want, but I would be surprised if they were able to find anything,” said the lawyer for the main suspect, Christian Brueckner, who is serving a sentence in Germany for the rape of an American woman.
In any case, it is the first joint operation in several years between the Portuguese police, the German authorities and Scotland Yard, which will also send a team of detectives to the area.
The inspection of the swamp, supposedly used by Christian Brueckner during his stay in Portugal, will initially last for two days, with the participation of divers who will search for possible mortal remains. Several witnesses claim to have seen the suspect in the vicinity of the swamp in the days after Maddie’s disappearance.
The German police have designated the swamp as an “area of ??interest”, although according to The Daily Mail there is apparently no clue or specific information that conclusive evidence of the disappearance that has been eluding the police investigation for 16 years could be found there.
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