The search for Madeleine McCann begins in a reservoir in the Algarve

The Portuguese police will this week, at the request of the German police, begin the search for the British woman madeleine mccann in the tank for 50 kilometers from the Algarve resort (south of Portugal) where the minor was on the night of her disappearance, 16 years ago, according to Efe from local media.

Searches will focus on Arade reservoirlocated 50 kilometers from Praia da Luz, which would be a place frequented by the main suspect, German Christian Bruecknerbroadcast by the Portuguese channel SIC Notícias.

Brueckner is currently in prison in Germany for other crimes and has a long history of sexual abuse and pedophilia crimes, some of them in Portugal.

The German police want to know if there are any clues or evidence in order to obtain new information about the disappearance of minors, according to the same sources.

This Monday, the Portuguese police are working on limit the search area and registrations are expected on Tuesday s The British police are also present.

Madeleine McCann was three years old when she was abducted from the room where she slept with her two younger brothers in a tourist complex in Praia da Luz, Algarve, during On the night of May 3, 2007 according to the research.

Suspicions against Brueckner gained weight after he was extradited from Portugal to Germany in 2017, accused of sexually abusing minors in Greece.

The investigation of his movements showed this, through the trace of his mobile phone it was located near the tourist complex where the McCanns were staying the night Madeleine was kidnapped.