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Investigators Search Algarve Wells for McCann Evidence Before Prime Suspect’s Release

Police forces have deployed georadar in wells and cisterns near Praia da Luz seeking forensic proof to charge Christian Brueckner before his September release

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Overview

  • Roughly 30 German officers have been inspecting two wells near Praia da Luz where Brueckner once lived in a camper
  • The operation includes searching cisterns, ruined buildings and small rural plots near Lagos using georadar to detect human remains or trace DNA
  • German prosecutors secured a European investigation order authorizing Portuguese police to carry out the searches with Britain’s Metropolitan Police kept informed
  • Christian Brueckner, 48, is serving a seven-year sentence in Germany for the 2005 rape of a US tourist and faces potential release in September
  • New leads emerged from digital evidence seized in Brueckner’s cell and testimony from a former inmate that spurred the latest searches