The search for the Madeleine McCann reservoir ends in Portugal | Latest news

Madeleine McCann’s latest search has come to an end in Portugal as tents have been taken down and heavy machinery removed from the site.

Officers spent three days combing a reservoir and the surrounding scrubland after receiving “certain denunciations”.

It is not yet known if anything significant has been found, but a number of bags have been removed from the site.

A police boat entered the water on Tuesday at the Arade dam in the municipality of Silves.

Staff started digging in an area of ​​land on a peninsula at the Barragem do Arade on Wednesday afternoon.

A source familiar with the investigation told Reuters news agency there was ‘nothing to report’ after the search, which involved cutting through extensive underbrush and using rakes and pickaxes , as well as sniffer dogs.

German prosecutor Christian Wolters added: “Of course there is some expectation, but it is not
high”.

He told Reuters it was important to show authorities were investigating the case.

The reservoir is about 31 miles from where the British girl went disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3, 2007. Madeleine was only three years old at the time.

Last year, German prosecutors named Christian B an official suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance.

It is claimed that the convicted child molester and drug dealer used to visit the reservoir, allegedly calling it “his paradise”.

Christian B is currently in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same area of ​​the Algarve region from which Madeleine disappeared, but he has not been charged with any crime related to the disappearance.