He May 3, 2007 the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, one of the cases that shocked the entire world because its whereabouts continue to be a question for Justice. This Friday 17 years have passed since her parents returned to a hotel room in Praia da Luz and realized that their daughter was missing.
The search for Madeleine remains active and, on its anniversary, one of the police officers who worked from the first moment revealed one of the latest findings, which gave a turn in research.
Madeleine McCann case: the message on the answering machine
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On the day of her disappearance, Madeleine McCann was 3 years old.
He Tribunal de BraunschweigThe person handling the cause of the disappearance received Detective Mark Draycott to give a statement last Wednesday. The agent said that he discovered a message on an answering machine of a man who knew the main and only suspect in the kidnapping of the minor, Christian Brueckner.
Draycott revealed that the message was from Helge Busching, a man who knew the main man targeted in the Hotel Algarve, the place where the girl’s family stayed. In 2017, Busching contacted the British police through a number that the authorities had offered to provide information about the Operation Grangethe investigation to find McCann.
In that context, Mark Draycott said that he checked his answering machine and found a message from Helge Busching, who said that ““He had information and left a Greek cell phone number.”. She then called the number and spoke to the man who met Brueckner and gave him information about Madeleine.
According to Busching, the main suspect told him: “She didn’t scream“This statement gives a twist in the investigation since it coincides with the day of Madeleine’s disappearance in which no one heard anything.
“As the line of inquiry continued he was happy to give a statement to the British police. She said that she had a conversation with Christian at the Orgiva Festival in 2008. That conversation was in relation to Operation Grange”, revealed the agent.
Brueckner is currently serving a sentence for rape of an elderly woman in 2019 and is accused of sexual attacks in Portugal between 2007 and 20017.
17 years have passed since the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
On May 3, 2007, Madeleine McCann’s parents, Kate and Gerry, They left their three children sleeping in a hotel rooml in Praia da Luz, in the south of Portugal, and they went to eat at a restaurant in the same complex that was located about 50 meters away.
Every 20 or 30 minutes they came to the room to check that their children were okay, until At 10:00 p.m., her mother realized that Madeleine was missing. After that, nothing more was heard from her and the investigation still continues since whoever took the girl left no trace and no one who was in the complex heard anything suspicious.