Police officers move a barrier blocking a road as they resume the search for the body of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in the Portuguese Algarve in May 2007, in Atalaia, Portugal, on June 3, 2025. Pedro Nunes/Reuters
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LAGOS, Portugal—Portuguese and German police on Tuesday launched joint searches of a “vast” area in Portugal’s southern Algarve region for new evidence related to the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old British child Madeleine McCann.
The scale of the searches could be the most extensive since the initial investigation was closed in 2008, a year after Madeleine went missing while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz.
