
Nearly two decades after three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's holiday apartment, German investigators have launched a new search operation in the Portuguese resort town where she disappeared.
Federal police from Germany are combing areas of Praia da Luz this week alongside Portuguese authorities. This marks the first major search in the area since 2023 and focuses on the route between the Ocean Club resort, where the McCanns stayed, and properties linked to Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the case.