Overview

• The operation started Tuesday in the Lagos district near Praia da Luz at the request of the Braunschweig public prosecutor’s office.
• About 25 German Federal Police investigators are working alongside Portugal’s Judicial Police to examine a property linked to Christian B., who lived there in the early 2000s.
• Christian B. is currently serving a sentence in Germany for sexual offenses in Praia da Luz and is expected to be released by early 2026.
• This search follows an inconclusive 2023 effort and highlights sustained cooperation between German and Portuguese authorities in the nearly 18-year investigation.
• Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family’s holiday apartment on May 3, 2007, and no confirmed trace of her has been found since.