How can SY be working closely with the Germans if they think Maddie is still alive.. The Germans are 100% certain maffie was murdered by CB
..why haven't SY told them they are wrong
I don't know why OG haven't told them that they are wrong, but it could be that they are still tying it all up and it is sensitive. I am inclined to think that Madeleines disappearance, whilst ordered by one man, Mr Big, was linked to a massive global trafficking set up in drugs and slaves. Probably mainly modern sexual slavery including pa-dop-llia.
Not only this but blackmail and extortion money.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10239367/Scotland-Yard-open-thinking-Madeleine-McCann-Germans-think-dead.html
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Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann team has 'more open thinking' and is still treating her disappearance as a missing person's investigation – despite German prosecutors insisting she is dead.
Among other theories, the bespoke London unit of officers codenamed Operation Grange is still working on a possibility she may be alive.
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It goes a wee bit further on this lower down the article, but I haven't the energy. Soz.
This, of course was about Christmas and the UK must have been under terrible pressure financially. The funding stopped. Just hope they have enough funds left to finish their investigation into a living Madeleine.