They have also said they realise that she may be dead, but will continue to believe she may still be alive until it is proved that she is not. A perfectly normal reaction by any parents of a missing child IMO- and also respecting Madeleine's right not to be dismissed and discarded as 'dead'.
We are not privy to SY's investigations into the man who broke into 12 apartments and targetted British little girls. IMO it could well be that those investigations have led SY to suspect he may have killed Madeleine - either deliberately or by accident.
We shall have to wait and see.
Officers from Operation Grange have identified a series of 12 crimes between 2004 and 2010 where a male intruder entered villas occupied by UK families on holiday in the Western Algarve.
In four of these incidents - between 2004 and 2006 - the man sexually assaulted five white girls, aged between seven and 10, while in their beds.The British police's new suspect was already investigated by the PJ and is dead20 March 2014
Yesterday, the British police announced that it is investigating a new lead within the alleged abduction of Madeleine McCann, in 2007, but the suspect was already investigated (and excluded) by the Judiciary Police, Diário de Notícias reports. The man died in 2009.
The new suspect that Scotland Yard was announced yesterday to be investigating, within the alleged abduction of Madeleine McCann, in 2007, has already been investigated by the Polícia Judiciária and was dead since 2009, Diário de Notícias reports.
Euclides Monteiro, who was described by witnesses, at the time, as a man with tanned skin and dark, unruly hair, is a Cape Verde native, worked at the Ocean Club (the tourist complex where Maddie's family was spending their holiday) and died in 2009 in a tractor accident.
The inquiry was reopened by the PJ, based on the discovery of this suspect and the British press even reported the Portuguese authorities' lead.
Information that was advanced yesterday by the British authorities mention
"a potential suspect of 12 crimes that took place between 2004 and 2010", who "from 2004 until 2006 sexually molested five white British girls aged between seven and 10".The deceased Cape-Verdian man was responsible for several burglaries and laid on the childrens' beds, according to a PJ source, but never committed any rape. All of these developments were investigated by the GNR, initially, and then passed on to the PJ, which shared them with Scotland Yard.
http://www.noticiasaominuto.com/pais/191195/novo-suspeito-da-policia-britanica-ja-foi-investigado-pela-pj-e-esta-mortoSo, No sexual assualts between 2004 & 2006, All he did was lay on their beds & the remaining 8 crimes were also just burglaries.