Overview

• The Portuguese Judicial Police and Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office resumed searches Wednesday near Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann vanished in May 2007.
• Operations will continue through Friday under a warrant issued by the Brunswick Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is overseeing a preliminary inquiry into Brückner’s involvement.
• Investigators are deploying ground-penetrating radar to probe up to 4.5 meters beneath a chalet and surrounding terrain linked to Brückner.
• Christian Brückner, named the primary suspect in 2020, is currently serving a seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American in the Algarve.
• All evidence collected by Portuguese teams will be transferred to German authorities for forensic examination as part of their joint investigative agreement.