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MADELINE McCann has been spotted living
in Paraquay, a private investigator has
claimed, sparking a huge search
operation for the missing youngster. |
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Private investigator claims
Madeline McCann is living in
Paraguay |
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Little Maddie, who went missing in 2007,
is reportedly living with a woman in the
city of Aregua.
Miraz Ullah Ali said he has found the
missing British girl who was three when
she vanished from a hotel room in Praia
de Luz, Algarve, on the evening of May
3, 2007.
Ali said Maddie is living with a woman
and moved to the city around 'a month or
two' ago.
The claims, made last week, have
reportedly prompted an anti-kidnapping
division, Interpol and four police
stations to carry out a hunt for the
little girl. |
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Madeline McCann was with her
parents on holiday when she
disappeared |
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Commissioner Sanny Amarilla, deputy
chief of one of the stations, told local
media that officers are scouring the
city to see if there is someone "with a
similar description" to the "sighted"
child.
He said: "This news stretches across the
globe, it is very important. So if they
are in the area we need to find this
girl and return her to her family."
However, Inspector Luis Ignacio Arias,
of Interpol in Paraguay, told EFE that
his office has no concrete information
on the investigator behind the claims.
Arias criticised the investigator.
He added that the researcher has not
even contacted the National Police or
the Foreign Ministry about the alleged
sighting of Maddie, Fox News reports.
Another local police officer suggested
that Ali - who has reportedly not been
seen in the area - is only getting
involved in high-profile case for the
publicity. |
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The McCann family say they
still get support messages
from people across the globe |
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Kate and Gerry McCann, both 47, of
Rothley, Leicestershire, have never
given up their search for Maddie.
Last month, the mum revealed she gets
the strength to carry on searching for
her daughter from messages of support
from people who "haven’t forgotten: her
missing daughter.
Mrs McCann said: “The urge to look for
Madeleine absolutely hasn’t changed at
all.
“You hear all the time about people who
have been missing for years being found.
“We will never give up. You couldn’t
settle if you thought about giving up.
“I want an end, an answer. Whatever that
is.”
Last month she asked one million people
to register for free Child Rescue Alerts
(CRAs).
The scheme, funded by the Royal Mail,
sends appeals to phones, computers, and
tablets when a child vanishes. |
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Mrs McCann said that if the scheme had
been around back in 2007 then Maddie may
have been found within hours.
She said: “It’s nearly nine years and
that’s so ridiculous and so
unbelievable.
“You think ‘gosh that could have been
hours, or a day’.
“If enough people had been mobilised and
galvanised early then who knows what the
outcome would have been.”
Despite Scotland Yard’s probe into
Maddie’s abduction being scaled down,
her parents insist they will continue to
search for her.
The family are said to be aware of the
alleged sighting as are the Metropolitan
Police |
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