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Approximately 20 people attended a
religious ceremony this Wednesday, at the Church of Praia da Luz, to
mark the passage of 1000 days since the disappearance of Madeleine
McCann, which happened in May 2007, in that Algarve village.
The initiative, which was organised by the FindMadeleine Fund, and
celebrated by Anglican priest Haynes Hubbard, gathered mainly members of
the English community that resides in Praia da Luz, near Lagos.
At the end of the prayer “to remember Maddie”, which lasted for about
half an hour, the participants set off some light lanterns into the sky,
in a homage to the little missing girl.
“It’s a symbolic gesture to mark the disappearance, with a request for
Madeleine to return to her parents”, Haynes Hubbard told the
journalists.
“We want to help maintain the efforts to find Maddie”, he observed.
In the United Kingdom, the FindMadeleine fund prepared similar
initiatives, in order to mark 1000 days after Madeleine McCann’s
disappearance.
Madeleine McCann, then aged four, disappeared on the night of May 3,
2007, from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, while she was sleeping
in her bedroom with two siblings and her parents dined in a nearby
restaurant.
The parents, Kate and Kerry [sic] McCann, who always maintained the
position that Maddie was abducted, were made arguidos in September 2007,
but ended up being cleared in July 2008 due to a lack of evidence to
sustain the hypothesis that had been put forward by the inquiry, of the
little girl’s accidental death.
The Public Ministry archived the process, that may be reopened at any
time, if new data that is considered to be consistent, about the child’s
disappearance, appears. |
