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Maddie Case: English police want to come to Portugal to perform excavations

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NEWS MAY 2014

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Original Source: Publico 05 May 2014
Pedro Sales Dias 05/05/2014 - 09:51
(updated at 12:56)
Translated by Astro
 
The disappearance happened seven years ago in the Algarve. The English police has in the meantime opened a parallel investigation into the case and sent recent rogatory letter to the Attorney General's office with a request to carry out more diligences which has not been approved yet.

The English police authorities are preparing to come to Portugal to start a new phase of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which happened in the Algarve seven years ago. The police now wants to perform excavations in the resort where the English family was staying and also in some nearby areas.

According to the Guardian, a British newspaper, a forensics team wants to com into the country to use an equipment that functions based on a radar that allows for information to be collected from the soil. The work plan is described in a police report, but the authorities did not want to comment on the information, justifying that since the operation led by the British police started, they don't want to feed speculation. Operation Grange started in May of 2011 and since July an investigation has been formally opened.

Despite the will of the English investigators, the diligences that are at stake have to be authorised by the Portuguese authorities. A PJ source asserted to PÚBLICO [newspaper] that the Attorney General's Office has recently received a rogatory letter in which the British authorities request several diligences that have not been authorised yet. The PJ has not confirmed if said diligences include excavations.

The same source said that some of the diligences, due to their nature, are not expected to be approved. The requests that are authorised may be carried out on the terrain with or without the presence of investigators from the English police, the PJ stressed. PÚBLICO questioned the Attorney General's Office which, until now, has not offered clarification.

The inquiry into the disappearance of the little English child has been reopened in Portugal in October last year, but these diligences that have now been thought up by the British investigators will, eventually, be carried out only within that country's investigation.

According to the Guardian, Madeleine's parents will not travel to Portugal, and will follow the operations from a distance, this time. Nevertheless, just last week, Kate and Gerry McCann said that they believe a joint operation might accelerate the investigation into their daughter's disappearance.

"What we really would like to see is a joint investigation instead of two running in parallel. There is a lot of bureaucracy involved, international rogatory letters that are very inconvenient and which have a very slow process", the father stated in an interview to Lusa agency.

There are currently two investigations taking place, one in Portugal, under the Polícia Judiciária, after the inquiry was reopened by the Public Ministry, and another one in the United Kingdom, under the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard). Recently, the joint vice-commissioner of the British police, Martin Hewitt, regretted the refusal of the Portuguese authorities in forming a joint investigation, but Gerry McCann insists on this solution.

On the British police's side, the developments after several public appeals for information - the most recent of which is related to alleged sexual attacks against British families spending their holidays in the Algarve - resulted in the identification of several cases. The police confirmed that it has identified a total of 18 cases in which English families spending their vacation in Portugal complained about an intruder entering their underaged daughters' bedrooms, of which nine resulted in sexual attacks, and describing common traces that lead to believe that the cases may be related.

Madeleine McCann, then aged four, disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz where, in 2007, she spent her holidays with her parents and siblings. At the time, her parents were dining with friends at a restaurant near the apartment. The case was investigated by the Portuguese authorities, and archived by the Public Ministry in 2008, due to a lack of evidence, and later reopened with additional data that was collected in the United Kingdom.

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