Upset by the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann thirteen years ago, the seaside resort of Praia da Luz, in the south of Portugal, welcomed the discovery of a new suspect with skepticism, according to testimonies gathered on Friday June 5 by the 'AFP.
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" News like that, we have seen others and the case remains a mystery, " says Miguel Domingues behind the counter of the shop he keeps by the beach in this village in the west of the region. from the Algarve. The 52-year-old trader still remembers this May 2007, when the little " Maddie " and her parents were among his clientele and the " shock " caused by his disappearance. " It's a story that has weighed heavily on the people here and they don't like to talk about it so as not to relive it all ," he explains, adding that " it would be important to be able to close this case ."
" We're sick of it." Every year it comes out ... it's lamentable, "says a British resident who refuses to say more on the subject or to give her name.
As in 2007, several journalists from Lisbon, Great Britain or Germany once again flocked to this peaceful village in an attempt to trace the whereabouts of a new suspect revealed on Wednesday by the German authorities. He is a 43-year-old German pedophile, a repeat offender currently imprisoned in his country for drug trafficking.
Suspected of the murder of Madeleine McCann and presented as " Christian B. ", he lived and worked for several years, between 1995 and 2007, in the region of Praia da Luz.
Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday, from the tourist apartment where she was staying with her family. On the outskirts of this hotel complex, which was closed on Friday, residents were visibly annoyed by the return of journalists.
A dozen kilometers away, a small villa on the side of a side road where the new suspect allegedly lived also drew the attention of journalists, but its current occupant, a Briton, refused to comment.
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