
Madeleine McCann's disappearance may be linked to an organised paedophile network that ordered her kidnapping just days before she vanished, according to newly highlighted intelligence and former officials involved in historic European child abuse cases.
Madeleine was three years old when she went missing on 3 May 2007 from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal. A major new focus of the case centres on an alert issued by Belgian police three days prior to her disappearance. The warning indicated a gang of child traffickers may have placed an order for a young girl to be abducted.