Portuguese police have announced plans to resume the search for Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in 2007 while on vacation with her family in the Algarve region. The search, which is being coordinated by the Portuguese police and will be carried out in the presence of British officials, is being requested by the German authorities. It is unclear why the German authorities requested the search, although they had previously said that they were investigating a German sex offender as a possible suspect. Madeleine was 3 when she vanished on the night of May 3, 2007, while vacationing with her family in the seaside village of Praia da Luz. After the girl’s disappearance, her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, helped to galvanize an international search effort that included appeals for help from British celebrities and promised millions in rewards for information leading to the arrest of her abductor. In 2020, the German authorities said that they did not expect to find the girl alive after more than a decade of false hopes and empty tips. The search is set to begin in the next few days.
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