Investigators want to start a new search operation 16 years after Madeleine McCann's disappearance. This had been applied for by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) It will take place "in the next few days" in the Algarve region, Portuguese criminal police say.
British police officers are also to take part in the newSearch operation in the south of Portugal. On May 3, 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday, Maddie disappeared without a trace from a holiday resort.