Julia Faustyna, the young Polish woman who claims to be Madeleine McCann: “I need a DNA test”

She says her name is Julia Faustina. She is a young Polish woman who claims to be Madeleine McCann. She lives in Germany, together with her family, who refuse to reveal the details of her past, as she herself explained. Julia is 21 years old and is convinced, as she says on Instagram, that she could be the British woman who disappeared in Praia da Luz, in the Portuguese Algarve, on the night of May 3, 2007, almost sixteen years ago.

Through her profile on this social network, the girl says that although she is not sure of her true identity He does present a number of similarities in his physique with Madeleine. Specifically, he means his right eye and says so coloboma in the iris It is exactly the same as with the little Briton. His profile has close to 400,000 followers. The photos posted by the young woman show a physical resemblance, with her followers commenting that “let’s hope” this is the outcome of one of the most media unsolved cases in recent years. However, there are also users who criticized the girl because they did not believe her story.

young request help for “DNA test” with which they would “know the truth”. He also goes to Kate and Gerry McCann who he wants to talk to. “You can be my parents”he tells them in one of his publications.

The young woman explains, as reported by various media, that her family never told her about her past and that she was unable to get a copy of her birth certificate.

She also calls on the police to help her, although for now both British and Polish investigators have turned a deaf ear to her requests, as she explains on her Instagram profile under the name “iammadeleinemccan”.

He The case of Madeleine was more twists and turns in the last sixteen years. Last September, Madeleine’s parents lost their last legal battle against Portugal. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Portugal did not violate any rights at any time Kate and Gerry McCann statements by a former Portuguese commissioner who linked the parents to their disappearance in May 2007, as investigators once considered them suspects.

The case of Madeleine, the most famous disappearance in the world

He disappeared in the most mysterious way possible when he was only three years old. And almost 16 years have passed since then. However, the case of the British woman madeleine mccann It is one of the most enigmatic in the world. Because of the way it all happened, because the image of that blonde girl with a spot in her eye – a coloboma on the iris – is etched in the public’s imagination, but also because after years of silence and from what seemed like a thorough investigation, from time to time it emerges new clues that, so far, did not lead anywhere.

May 3, 2007, the day that was lost

The reconstruction and alleged step-by-step of Maddie’s disappearance is one of the most repeated accounts of criminal events in recent history.

Jerry and Kate McCann, two doctors from Leicester, traveled to Praia da Luz, a tourist spot in the Algarve, to spend a few days of vacation with a group of friends, also with small children. Maddie spent that night in an apartment rented by her parents in a tourist resort with her younger brothers. Despite the young age of their eldest daughter, who is only three years old, the McCanns dined at a restaurant at the resort with friends. Adults visited the apartments to keep an eye on their children. In one of those surveillances, Kate McCann realized this Madeleine was not in the room. The alarm was immediately raised and the entire hotel complex turned to look for the girl in the first minutes.

Within a few hours, the news about the disappearance of a little British girl in the Algarve went around the world. The case had everything: her youth, the fact that she was left alone in the room and the possibility that it was her kidnap.

Media from all over the world came to Praia da Luz. The image of the broken Kate and Jerry McCann was on the screens and newspapers of all countries. A lot was raised, but the investigation seems to have borne little fruit.

From the first moment it was said that it was the alleged one crime scene, the room where the children slept, was disturbed by the comings and goings of adults looking for Maddie. On the other hand, the Portuguese police have been criticized for the way they are handling the case.

the main suspects

In those two weeks, there were two suspects. Two foreigners who lived in the area. One of them, Robert Murat, a Briton living in Portugal, worked as a translator for the international media and the police in those days. His dedication to the investigation brought him into the limelight. The police searched his house, which was very close to the hotel, and even dug up his garden. That line of inquiry ended in a dead end. The second person questioned was a young man of Russian origin, Sergej Malinka, who was related to Murat and whom he allegedly invited to talk about the Maddie case. They searched his computer equipment and interrogated him for hours. There were no results either.

Parents in the spotlight

Four months after Madeleine’s disappearance, the public image of Madeleine’s parents changes by 180 degrees. From looking like broken parents, they have become for many the main suspects in the disappearance of the minor. Kate McCann is first questioned by the Portuguese police, and after a few days, Maddie’s parents are considered suspects. A figure that in Portugal gets the name “arguido”.

Jim Gable himself, one of the main people in charge of the investigation from the British police, claimed that at first he thought that the girl’s father was responsible for the disappearance, although he assured that a little later he believed in his innocence.

Another critical moment occurred when the investigators discovered the DNA sample in Maddie’s bedroom. The correspondence was more than 80% with the McCanns. There was talk of another bloody death, which investigators would find in the trunk of a car the family had rented for vacation. After some time, it was considered that the car was rented, but after the disappearance of the girl.

After these events, the family returns to the United Kingdom, but the McCanns travel around the world to preserve the memory of their daughter. In parallel, the girl’s parents open a new line of investigation outside the Portuguese police and Scotland Yard. Backed by private capital, the McCanns hired detectives to search for their daughter all over the world.

Since then, all steps have been in the wrong direction. In 2019 Mirror He exclusively predicted that British police could be close to solving the case after considering a new suspect, a foreigner who was in the Algarve at the time of the girl’s disappearance in 2007.

Portuguese agents claimed that “closer than ever to finding out what happened to Madeleine.

Already in 2020, a new suspect, a 43-year-old German so-called Christian Brueckner, a man with a long criminal record who is in prison. He was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in the area where Maddie disappeared.