In the spotlight comes again the disappearance of the small Madeleine In May 2007. In a shocking revelation, a former Belgian justice minister argued, arguing that a few days before her disappearance, police had issued a warning of an international pedophilia circuit.
Madeleine disappeared in 2007, at the age of three, from a rented apartment at the Portugal’s Praia Da Luz resort, while her parents, Kate and Jerry McCan, were dining in a nearby restaurant.
According to the Sun newspaper, Marc Verwilghen, who had been leading the investigation for three years infamous pediatrician Mark Ditrou, He revealed that this circuit – with ties in Belgium – may also be involved in the case of little Madeleine, which has remained unmistakable since 2007 and is still being investigated by the British and Portuguese police, with different faces and sites from time to time.
As he said, there was specific information that a group of traffickers had “ordered” a girl, three days before 3 -year -old Madeleine from the Praia Da Luz tourist resort in Algarve in May 2007.
The shadow of Dimitrios
Dimitrou, who is 68 years old, abducted, raped and murdered minor girls in the 1990s. He was arrested in 1996 and in 2004 he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with authorities considering that he maintained ties with organized children’s trading networks in Europe.
Marc Verwilghen stressed that “There was a clear circuit of pedophiles and children’s trafficking in Europe”, But the Inquiry Committee that was set up then “never received the order to investigate it in depth”.
‘Madeleine was order’
According to him, reports show that one from the circuit identified little Madeleine in the resort, photographed it and sent the material to Belgium.
“The prospective buyer approved that the girl was appropriate and then the kidnapping was made”he said.
“I never had access to the Madeleine McCan case files,” he told Sun.
“All I can say is that once I heard about the case I felt a déjà vu – because it reminded me of the Dimitrus case immediately. When you look at the case, it is certain that Madelin is likely to have been abducted by order. The alarm that had been sent seems to have come from the Belgian police and should have been taken seriously. “
He continued: “The researchers in the Dimitrou case had revealed reports of possible pedophilia circuits that were acting in Belgium at the time, but were unable to complete the research, as it focused exclusively on Ditrou, treating him as an individual perpetrator.”
These revelations come at a critical time as the release of the Christian Brickner, of the German who remains the main suspect for the disappearance of the little one.
The head of the Metropolitan Police, Detective Mark Cranwell, confirmed that the 49 -year -old is still suspected, despite the fact that he refused to testify.
The Metropolitan Police filed an international request for interrogation through a legal process, which was rejected by the suspect itself. However, the investigation is continuing, said leader Detective Mark Cranwell.
Brickner is serving a 7 -year sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72 -year -old woman in the same area in 2005, and has denied any involvement in the Madeleine case. Between 2000 and 2017 he lived occasionally in the southern part of Portugal, and was present in the area during the disappearance.
Researchers have repeatedly conducted research in Portugal, including sites around the Barragem Do Arade Dam, where Brickner had been in the past.
Although he has been described as a “main suspect” by the German authorities, he has not been charged with the disappearance of Madeleine.
The case remains one of the most talked -about unmistakable disappearances of recent decades, causing international interest and repeated calls for information.