The British toddler was never found after going missing from the resort in Praia da Luz where she was with her family, one of the most high-profile missing person cases in history.
The move is part of a warrant issued by the Braunschweig public prosecutor’s office, in northern Germany, which is conducting a preliminary investigation into Christian Brueckner, suspected by German authorities of killing McCann, the Portuguese police spokesperson said, confirming information from British and Portuguese media.
Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for the 2005 rape of an American woman aged 72 at the time, in Praia da Luz, the town where Madeleine McCann disappeared.
“As part of the investigation into the Madeleine McCann case, criminal proceedings are currently underway in Portugal,“ Christian Wolters, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig (which is also known as Brunswick), told AFP.
“The (British) police services are not on-site but we will assist our international colleagues wherever needed,“ a British police spokesman told AFP.
German justice officials said in 2020 they thought Brueckner was involved in the girl’s disappearance, a globally resonant criminal mystery where false leads and twists were numerous.
Her disappearance sparked an international campaign and extraordinary media mobilisation.
His sentence theoretically runs until September 2025.
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