The Scotland Yard team investigating Madeline McKann's case in Britain is treating the whole case of the little girl's disappearance as a "missing person search", despite the insistence of the German investigating authorities that Madeleine is dead.
According to a report in the British Daily Mail, among other theories, Operation Grange - as Scotland Yard has called the search for little Madeleine - continues with the possibility that the girl is still alive.
In fact, the financing of the company remains in the "active phase" until today, as the Ministry of Interior has already given 350.000 pounds from a special account, in order to exhaust by 2022 all the margins of the search for Madeleine.
All this is happening at a time when the German authorities are expressing the certainty that the convicted 43-year-old pedophile, Christian Bruckner, kidnapped and killed Mandy.
German investigator Hans Christian Walters, who led the investigation into Madeleine in his home country, was the first to name Bruckner guilty in June 2020 of killing Madeleine, saying police had enough evidence to support him. categories.
However, a source in the British Metropolitan Police told the Daily Mail that "Operation Grange remains open and treats the case as an investigation into a missing person."
"Clearly, the Metropolitan Police are thinking more openly towards the German authorities at this stage. Madeleine's parents have always said that if they are presented with strong evidence that their daughter has died, then they will accept it. "But the fact that Operation Grange is still active and being funded shows that the Metropolitan Police believe that there is still a lot of work and enough research to be done," the same source told the online edition of the British newspaper.
The chronicle of the disappearance
In 2006 at the resort of Praia da Luz, then 3-year-old Madeline McKann disappeared from an apartment where she lived with her family. Her parents ate out with friends at a nearby restaurant and periodically checked on Madeline and her two siblings as they slept.
Around 9pm, Jerry McKann went to check on the children and found them asleep. At 9.30pm, a family friend went to the apartment and did not hear any noise, but did not check enough in the room to see if Madeline was there.
At 10pm, Kate McCann went to check on the children and found that Mandy was missing. The disappearance was reported immediately and a search team started looking for the little one that afternoon. For a long time, the parents themselves were considered suspects.
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