Public Prosecutor reopens inquiry into Maddie case
October 24, 2013 at 13:04
The Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday the reopening of the inquiry into the disappearance of the English child Madeleine McCann. The reopening of the investigation follows a proposal from the PJ and given the "presentation of new elements".The case is reopened after a team of investigators from PJ do Porto have re-examined the disappearance of the British girl with a fine comb.
It is recalled that the disappearance in 2007 was filed in July 2008 by the Portuguese Public Ministry.
The team that returned to analyze the case is from the Regional Section of Investigation and Criminal Prevention of the PJ of Porto.
It is a brigade with experience in cases of disappearance. One example of success was that of a young woman from Lamego, Carina Ferreira, whose body was found after a month of searching a ravine for a motorway.
This Thursday, a note from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) said that the MP ordered the reopening of the investigation into the disappearance of the child Madeleine McCann, according to the criminal procedural law that "the investigation can only be reopened if new evidence that invalidates the grounds invoked by the MP in the filing order "of the case.
The PGR further clarifies that the reopening of the investigation follows a proposal from the PJ and given the "presentation of new evidence that justify the continuation of the investigation".
The new evidence provided by the PJ to the MP is not disclosed, and it is limited to the PGR that in the investigation, in Portimão, "the competent Criminal Investigation Judge was required to postpone access to the case for an objectively indispensable period to the conclusion of the investigation, because it is understood that the regime of secrecy of justice is required ".
On 4 October, officials at Scotland Yard reported in London that the PJ had already formed a new team to work on lines of investigation identified by the British police on the disappearance of the child.
Madeleine McCann disappeared a few days before she was four years old, on May 3, 2007, from the bedroom where she slept with the two twin brothers in an apartment in a tourist village in the Algarve, while her parents had dinner with a group of friends in a nearby restaurant .
Portugal was one of the 31 countries whose rogatory letter was sent with a request for assistance relating to elements that British police want to see clarified, relating to persons or telephone data.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood then said that British police are trying to discover the owners of the cell phones identified as having been in the area and height of the disappearance.
In June, British police announced the existence of "38 people of interest" who wanted to question, including several Portuguese. "It's people who were within a radius of the disappearance site and who there are reasons to be suspicious of. It takes a little more than circumstantial issues," Redwood explained.
The 12 Brits initially identified were joined by three others, who are already being investigated, but the inspector believes that "possibly will be eliminated" soon from the list.
Scotland Yard, working on the case a year ago, is confident he has found relevant "new information," based on the 40,000 documents and clues collected by police in Portugal, UK and eight different private detectives.
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