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Air ‘search for Madeleine’ as British police warned to ‘zip it’

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX 7 YEARS ON

NEWS MAY 2014

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Original Source: Portugal Resident 09 May 2014

Posted by jomad on May 09, 2014

 
 

A Portuguese air force helicopter flew visiting Metropolitan Police officers over the beachside resort of Praia da Luz yesterday (Thursday, May 8) as the seven-year investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cranked up several notches.

The Alouette III flight - paid for by the British - was to enable officers working on Operation Grange to take aerial photos of “various points of interest for future searches”.“The objective was to see if there were areas with uneven levels consistent with a place where a body had been buried,” writes Correio da Manhă in its latest report.

Such photo-searches are considered “essential” by the British police now three years into their investigations into the seven-year-old mystery. Yesterday’s air reconnaissance took place when the village of Luz was braced for the prospect of earthmovers moving in, added CM.

British tabloids began the week with inflated stories of legions of diggers being drafted in to search key sites near the Ocean Club resort from which Madeleine went missing in May 2007. The result seems to be that the Portuguese authorities have warned their British counterparts to ‘zip it’.

Sky News reporter Martin Brunt said yesterday that “the Portuguese authorities have threatened to hold up cooperation if British police talk about the new phase of the investigation”.He also intimated that new searches - far from involving “diggers everywhere” - are more likely to use police dogs and ground-penetrating radar. However, when these searches will start is anyone’s guess.

As CM writes, “despite the latest advance in investigations, it is not certain that new developments will take place in the next few days.”Meantime, the visiting officers from the Met - led by Chief Inspector Andy Redwood - are due to leave Portugal sometime today.

This latest visit had been to discuss Met requests on how Operation Grange would like to advance in its investigation. Officers are understood to be keen to interview eight people of various nationalities resident in the Algarve, and there has been talk of them wanting to search the homes of three former employees of Luz Ocean Club.

The latter request is understood to have been turned down, but as the PJ warning on silence when it comes to the media is now firmly in place, details are hazy.

In an insightful round-up of the latest developments, journalist Len Port - who has been covering the mystery since the very day it began - remarks that the terrain in Luz “in most of the neighbourhood consists of limestone bedrock”.“Even in patches of shallow hard soil, how could an abductor have buried a body, or any other material evidence, unobserved and without tools?”

Port queries in his blog algarvenewswatch. As the investigation continues, we may at last be getting closer to learning the truth of what really happened to three-year-old Madeleine McCann.

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