Madeleine McCann disappeared exactly 12 years ago, on May 3rd, 2007 from Praia da Luz - she was three years old.
The investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance remains an open case with "active lines of inquiry," according to Portugal’s Attorney General's Office which has responded to press questions after an article in Correio da Manhã published today alleged that the Judicial Police is following up on an active line of inquiry.
The PJ has also stated that, "research has been developed in liaison with international authorities, following the rules of judicial and police cooperation, which the circumstances of the situation justify."
As more than ten years has gone by, Correio da Manhã asked to look at the Madeline investigation paperwork, a request that at first was granted.
Later, a magistrate decided not to authorise any such reading of the documentation, justifying the turnaround as the investigation is, "still with lines of active investigation " and that any disclosure of case details would be prejudicial.
In May 2017, as ten years had passed since Madeline’s disappearance, then deputy director of the Judicial Police, Pedro do Carmo, said that the case was still open and that the investigation had been delivered to a PJ team in Porto, which was reviewing the case.
At the time, Pedro do Carmo considered that this was "a unique case in the history of the country and the PJ."
Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from the apartment in Praia da Luz while her parents dined nearby with friends.
Portuguese police abandoned their investigation after 15 months, as they had found no evidence of what had happened but reopened the investigation in 2012 and at first worked separately to the Metropolitan Police but now share information.
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And the question is: is there a "competition in fake news" going on between PJ and the Met ??? one can hardly call this "subtile or discrete" isn't it ?
Al & Expat: best comments so far... Maybe Daphne & J.Bull are convinced masochists, there's no other reason why they should stay even only one minute longer in this lovely, hateful country...
And as for Daph and Bull there are flights leaving to the UK everyday, be sure to get a one way ticket.
But never any detail or a single piece of evidence is revealed.
Time to move on and spend the money looking for the hundreds of thousands of other missing persons.
* it was never clear what's the parent's involvement was in the case
* the "insults" vis-à-vis Portugese police hurted and disturbed the police
* from the very first moments it was clear the parents should try to make the max money out of their case (wnd that's what they did amply)
* the very hautain Met police choqued several times the Portugese police… although their results were thiny to zero....
* and the public asks itself why "all possible suspects" where never been interrogated during these 12 years >>> lack of time maybe ?