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Madeleine will be home for Christmas, says PIBy Nick Allen Last Updated: 6:26pm GMT 13/12/2007
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A private investigator hired to find Madeleine McCann said he knows who took her and the missing girl will hopefully be back with her parents by Christmas.
Francisco Marco said he believes Madeleine was taken by a paedophile ring, that she may be held in north Africa and that evidence was being collated so arrests could be made. Mr Marco is director general of Metodo 3, a Barcelona-based detective agency hired by Kate and Gerry McCann in September to find their daughter. He has previously travelled to Morocco to investigate a sighting reported there of a girl who was said to resemble the missing four-year-old. “We know who kidnapped her, we believe she is in an area not very far from the Iberian peninsula and north Africa and we have a fairly certain idea of who she is with,” Mr Marco said in an interview with Spanish newspaper Metro. “I cannot say who she is with because we are putting together conclusive proof we can present to the authorities so they can proceed with their arrests. “God willing, I hope she’ll be back with her parents before Christmas.” It is not the first time the agency has claimed it is close to finding Madeleine. Last month Mr Marco claimed the agency was “100 percent sure” Madeleine was alive. Mr Marco told Metro: “We have proof of her movements after her kidnap and we know she was alive the day after her disappearance. We are not certain she left Portugal. “I talk of certainties because we know which group may have her or could have kidnapped her to then sell her on to others. “One of the things that makes us believe Madeleine is alive is that every day she’s worth more to them.” Mr Marco rejected any suggestion that the McCanns could be involved in their daughter’s disappearance. They have been declared suspects by Portuguese police. Mr Marco said: “You only have to spend five minutes with them to realise they’ve got nothing to do with this.” Metodo 3 has a six month contract with the McCanns and has vowed to find Madeleine before that runs out in March. The McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said they have “absolute confidence” in the agency. |
Another newspaper reported that Portuguese police were only waiting for the “green light from British authorities” before leaving for England with requests to interview members of the so-called Tapas Nine, the name given to the McCanns and their friends who were eating dinner on May 3 when Madeleine vanished.
“We’re doing everything we can to get the letters requesting fresh interviews authorized this week,” a source told Portuguese daily 24 Horas.
“They are ready and simply depend on bureaucratic procedures now.”
It has also emerged that the ‘letters of appeal’, which contain a list of 100 questions that detectives want to put to the group, were ‘fast-tracked’ after a meeting with the British Ambassador to Portugal.
Detectives leading the investigation met with newly appointed ambassador Alex Ellis at police headquarters in Faro last week after learning that test results carried out by the Forensic Science Service (FSS) in Birmingham were “inconclusive”.
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“It was a private meeting between the Ambassador, the director of the Policia Judiciaria in Faro and the team that was sent to England to analyse the results from the FSS,” a senior police source confirmed.
“In that meeting it was decided that because of a lack of conclusive evidence they should go ahead as quickly as possible with new interrogations of the nine people who dined in the Tapas restaurant on May 3,” the source said.
The McCanns, both 39, were made arguidos – formal suspects – on September 7 after police allegedly found microscopic specks of blood in their holiday apartment and “bodily fluids” they thought could have belonged to Madeleine in the boot of their hire car.
It has been reported that police are working on the theory that Madeleine’s body had been transported in the rental car, weeks after she accidentally died in the holiday apartment.
Detectives are said to believe that – in the absence of conclusive forensic evidence – the key to unravelling the mystery of Madeleine’s disappearance shortly before her fourth birthday could lie with alleged inconsistencies in the statements given by the McCanns and their friends.
The McCanns left Portugal to return to Rothley in Leicestershire on September 9, less than 48 hours after they were made formal suspects in their daughter’s disappearance.
At the time the couple said that they would be happy to return to Portugal if it assisted police in their inquiries. Last night their official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said that view had not changed.
“If Kate and Gerry, or indeed any of their friends, are required to go back to the Algarve then they will be more than happy to comply.
“They will do anything necessary if it helps them move on and be eliminated as suspects.”
Madeleine ‘killed in moment of thwarted desire’
By Fiona Govan in Praia da Luz
Last Updated: 5:49pm GMT 26/11/2007
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Madeleine McCann was killed by a paedophile in a moment of “thwarted desire” before being taken from her Algarve holiday apartment, police investigating her disappearance believe, it has been claimed. Detectives now believe she was taken by an intruder who panicked and suffocated her to stop her from screaming, it was alleged.
They are close to abandoning the theory that Kate and Gerry McCann were responsible for their daughter’s disappearance and will instead focus on the man seen walking away from the apartment carrying a child in his arms. The U-turn has been suggested after a review of the case by senior detective Paulo Rebelo, 45, who took over the investigation in October. Respected Portuguese daily Publico on Monday published a chilling recreation of what it claimed police now believe may have been Madeleine’s final few seconds of life. “It was a moment. An unexpected event thwarted the prospect of desire. Madeleine cries as she wakes from her sleep. Her fear makes itself heard,” the newspaper said. “She has to be silenced. Violence, suffocation probably. And unexpected death. “All over in minutes. Now he had to get her out of there. Close the door. Flee as fast as he could. “The theory this is the explanation behind Madeleine’s McCann’s disappearance, the night of May 3, was practically ruled out previously by police investigators. advertisement “Now though, it’s gaining strength in the centre of the investigation.” Gerry and Kate McCann, both 39, who were made arguidos – or formal suspects – in their daughter’s disappearance on September 7, have always protested their innocence and claimed an intruder took her. On Monday they reiterated their belief that she was still alive. “All we will say is Madeleine was abducted and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary her family firmly believe that she is alive and being held against her will somewhere,” said Clarence Mitchell, the official spokesman for the McCanns. Speaking of the Publico report he said: “An abductor would not have had time to do what is alleged here. “This sort of unsourced report is potentially extremely distressing for Kate and Gerry,” he said. “The only point in this report to draw comfort from is the indication that police no longer believe that Kate and Gerry are involved in Madeleine’s disappearance.” Meanwhile the Spanish detective agency hired by the McCanns to find their daughter are investigating links between Madeleine’s disappearance and that of a local Portuguese girl who went missing 3 years ago. Joana Cipriano, 8, disappeared from her home in the Algarve village of Figueria, 10 miles from Praia da Luz in September 2004. She has never been found.
Her mother Leonor, 36, and uncle, Joao, 35, were convicted of murder after Ms Cipriano confessed to the crime during police questioning. She later retracted her confession, claiming it was forced during a beating by detectives, but was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in jail. Her lawyers claim she is innocent and are appealing. On Monday it emerged that Metodo 3 are looking into Joana’s case to see if there is anything to link it with Madeleine’s disappearance. “There may be a connection,” one of the Spanish detectives told Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias. “We are following all leads,” he said. Kate and Gerry deny evidence claim The McCanns have denied that key evidence held in high security storage would undermine the results of tests that they claim clears them of any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance. The couple’s legal team insist that independent forensic results carried out on the Renault Scenic hire car showed no evidence that Madeleine’s body had been transported in the boot, as alleged by the police. It emerged on Monday, however, that the McCanns’ scientists did not have access to all the evidence because some of the lining of the boot’s interior had been removed and sent to a laboratory Birmingham, where it is undergoing tests. Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ official spokesman said: “We do not believe this affects the results of our tests at all. “They were extremely thorough and covered all aspects of the vehicle. “The piece retained by the Forensic Science Service is extremely small, if anything has been found on it, there is a wholly innocent explanation for it,” he said. |
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Bombshell McCann Report Disputed
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CBS) A leading private investigator who went undercover for 48 Hours Mystery takes issue with a woman’s claim that she saw what may have been little Madeleine McCann being carried off by her kidnapper.
He also dismisses the assertion by an investigator hired by the 4-year-old British girl’s parents that he knows who took Maddie and how, and where her abductor is now.
He went on to say he believes Maddie is dead, and it doesn’t appear her parents were involved in the crime.
She disappeared at a Portuguese resort almost seven months ago when her parents left her alone in the family’s suite while they ate dinner out.
48 Hours Mystery spent months probing the case, going undercover in Portugal, in search of the truth.
In a world exclusive, the show talked to a potential key witness.
Jane Tanner told the program, “As I was walking up the road, this man … was walking across the top of the road, carrying a small child. And the thing that I noticed the most was he was holding her, and I could see her bare feet . . . and the bottom of the pajamas. … It was just complete shock and complete horror that, you know, I might have seen Madeline being abducted.”
After months of reported “Maddie” sightings, Francisco Marco, a Spanish investigator hired by a supporter of the McCanns, is asserting, “We’re 100 percent sure that she is alive. … I know the kidnapper and we know where he is. We know who he is. And we know how he has done it.”
When pressed, Marco claimed he couldn’t say any more while working the case.
Maddie’ mother, Kate McCann, insists, “I strongly believe that Madeleine is out there.”
But Joseph Moura, the private eye hired by 48 Hours Mystery pooh-poohed the claims from both Tanner and Marco.
On The Early Show Monday, Moura told co-anchor Hannah Storm he doesn’t believe Marco, and described Marco’s statements as “pretty ridiculous.”
A member of the public claims to have seen Maddy two days after her abduction in central Portugal, in a van with a man and woman and, perhaps, another man.
Moura was also having none of that, saying it wasn’t likely.
“The police had 160 police officers working on this case. If this was a set of facts consistent with the real case, they would have identified this person by now,” Moura said.
But he indicated he doesn’t feel Maddie’s parents were involved in her disappearance.
“Having worked the case and been there to identify a timeline, which was the real important part of this case, the timeline — was there a window of opportunity for these people to have committed some type of crime and then dispose of the body? We find that the timeline doesn’t fit.
“They couldn’t possibly have been involved, whether it was accidental or not, they would have had to dispose of the body and there just wasn’t enough time.”
Moura noted that Maddie’s parents were out to dinner five nights in a row with the same people, saying, “They had set a pattern. Every night was 8:30 sharp that they had reservations at the restaurant, and they all went there to dinner, they had between six and seven bottles of wine, they had their dinner. So, when you start looking at that time element, looking at the waiters who served them, looking at the bartenders who brought them the bottles of wine, that’s how you set up that timeframe we were talking about.”
The McCanns weren’t the only ones who left their kids alone at the resort at night, Moura pointed out — all the people they dined with did, even though a babysitting service was available.
He sat at the same restaurant table the McCanns were at the night Maddie vanished, and their room isn’t visible form there, Moura said, noting, “They had no visuals whatsoever.”
Moura didn’t think Kate McCann refusing to take a lie detector test mattered much. “I think a lie detector test is inconclusive,” he said. “I wouldn’t take one. I would never advise my client to take one. So, that doesn’t necessarily bother me.”
As for Jane Tanner, Moura told Storm she “gives a very inconsistent story. It’s not a truthful story, and I’m not quite sure why she did it. I mean, the fact is that it would be impossible for all these people to be getting up, going to check on the children, going out for walks, when they had an hour-and-20-minute timeframe. They had their dinner, they had seven bottles of wine, they had their coffees. There’s just not enough time to do all these things. She never left their table that night.”
Madeleine McCann ‘sighting’ in the Balkans
A British tourist believes he may have seen the missing four-year-old while on a trip to the Roman Catholic shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia ten days ago.
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The man from Fermanagh in Northern Ireland reportedly became suspicious after seeing a little blonde girl with a dark haired couple, who he felt could not be her parents.
“I’m sure that this child was not theirs and I’m convinced it could have been Madeleine,” he said at the weekend. “She was very agitated and sobbing.”
The man, a father of six, who does not want to be named, told police he heard the child say in English: “I want my Daddy,” before being “shoved” into a car and driven away.
“The instant I saw her my heart skipped a beat because it immediately struck me that she looked like Madeleine McCann,” he said.
“I got very close to her, right up beside them and was about to speak to the child when the man put his hand over her mouth and shoved her into the car.
“He was pushing her into the back seat and was yelling in some language I didn’t understand that wasn’t English.
“But my blood ran cold when I heard her cry, ‘I want my daddy’.”
“I was filled with panic. I knew I had to do something,” he said.
He wrote down the number-plate of the car – a Volkswagon Golf – and went to the local police station to report the incident.
But he said that because of language difficulties he was unable to make a full statement.
The witness was on holiday in the Bosnia-Herzegovina town with his wife and two-year-old and had visited the church of St James on November 1.
The place attracts Catholic Pilgrims after a series of supposed apparitions of the Virgin Mary were reported there in the early 1980s.
On returning home he alerted British police and called a hotline that has been set up by the private detective agency hired by the Kate and Gerry McCann in a bid to find their daughter.
Metodo 3, a Barcelona-based company which claims to have a 100-per-cent success rate in finding lost children, said they would be following up the report.
It is the latest in a long string of alleged sightings of the missing four-year-old, all of which have come to nothing.
In the six months since she disappeared from an apartment in the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz, she has been “spotted” in neighbouring Spain and nearby Morocco as well as further a field in Malta and Belgium.
Clarence Mitchell, the spokesman for the McCanns said yesterday: “We are aware that there has been a potential sighting in Bosnia and our investigators are treating it as a priority.
“But as with all these reports the McCann’s refuse to raise their hopes until it has been investigated fully,” he added.
Dumped bag of cloths contain DNA linked to Madeleine McCann
A major break in the Madeleine McCann case was discovered two weeks ago. A bag of cloths containing DNA linked to Madeleine McCann was found dumped near the Fargo airport in Portugal. The cloths were stuffed in a white carrier bag and are the first evidence linked to Madeline found outside the McCann’s holiday apartment where the 4-year-old disappeared. “The bag could be crucial. The DNA isn’t an exact match to Maddie’s, but it does link,” says a source. “It is the first clue found outside the apartment complex and could provide a trail.” Items in the bag included a blue fleece jacket, adult jeans, a shower curtain, light green child’s T-shirt and a pencil case. Experts reportedly concluded that the cloths contained traces of hair and body fluid that partially matched Madeleine’s DNA. Meanwhile, many believe ‘Baby Grace’ maybe Madeleine. Baby Grace was found in Galveston, Texas stuffed in a plastic storage container. She had been dead for at least two weeks and had several skull fractures. Officials named the girl Baby Grace as they have not been able to identify her. A forensic artist sketched a picture of the 2 to 3 year old girl and she bears a resemblance to Madeleine. Police asked the public to help identify the girl and have received many suggestions that it maybe Madeleine. Officials say they are working with the FBI to rule out that Baby Grace is Madeleine McCann. They say they are going through missing person cases to try to find a match.
Kate McCann believes that she is being persecuted over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine because she does not look suitably “maternal”.
Mrs McCann told her mother that she was being treated unfairly by the media over claims that she was involved in Madeleine’s death at a Portuguese holiday resort on May 3. “If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic,” she told her mother, Susan Healy.
The comments, reported in a local newspaper, follow a week in which Mrs McCann and her husband, Gerry, have been subjected to a series of unconfirmed allegations about Madeleine’s disappearance. It was claimed yesterday that traces of bodily fluids from a decomposing corpse had been found in the boot of a car that they used in Portugal.
Mrs McCann’s mother told the Liverpool Echo that her daughter, a 38-year-old GP, had been under immense pressure because of the “scurrilous rubbish” being reported about the case. “She does feel persecuted, not by the general public, who have been extremely supportive, but by some sections of the media and I feel it’s important I let people know she is not this person who is in control all the time.
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Kate McCann believes that she is being persecuted over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine because she does not look suitably “maternal”.Mrs McCann told her mother that she was being treated unfairly by the media over claims that she was involved in Madeleine’s death at a Portuguese holiday resort on May 3. “If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic,” she told her mother, Susan Healy.The comments, reported in a local newspaper, follow a week in which Mrs McCann and her husband, Gerry, have been subjected to a series of unconfirmed allegations about Madeleine’s disappearance. It was claimed yesterday that traces of bodily fluids from a decomposing corpse had been found in the boot of a car that they used in Portugal.Mrs McCann’s mother told the Liverpool Echo that her daughter, a 38-year-old GP, had been under immense pressure because of the “scurrilous rubbish” being reported about the case. “She does feel persecuted, not by the general public, who have been extremely supportive, but by some sections of the media and I feel it’s important I let people know she is not this person who is in control all the time.function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) { var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+’template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id=’+articleId+’&&offset=0&§ionName=WorldEurope’,'mywindow’,'menubar=0,resizable=0,width=615,height=655′); }
Kate McCann believes that she is being persecuted over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine because she does not look suitably “maternal”.
Mrs McCann told her mother that she was being treated unfairly by the media over claims that she was involved in Madeleine’s death at a Portuguese holiday resort on May 3. “If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic,” she told her mother, Susan Healy.
The comments, reported in a local newspaper, follow a week in which Mrs McCann and her husband, Gerry, have been subjected to a series of unconfirmed allegations about Madeleine’s disappearance. It was claimed yesterday that traces of bodily fluids from a decomposing corpse had been found in the boot of a car that they used in Portugal.
Mrs McCann’s mother told the Liverpool Echo that her daughter, a 38-year-old GP, had been under immense pressure because of the “scurrilous rubbish” being reported about the case. “She does feel persecuted, not by the general public, who have been extremely supportive, but by some sections of the media and I feel it’s important I let people know she is not this person who is in control all the time.
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Kate in tears as she talks about Maddie heartache
Kate McCann finally broke down publically today during a fresh appeal to find her missing daughter.
She spoke of her heartbreak and loss since four-year-old Maddie went missing in May during a family holiday.
Mrs McCann said: “I feel sad and I feel lonely and our life is not as happy without Madeleine. I feel anxious she is not with us.”
All Black Howlett apologises for drunken behaviour
PM: I’m the devil you know
CANBERRA – Australia is bracing itself for six long weeks of bitter political campaigning as Prime Minister John Howard attempts a fifth – and final – term in power.
Promising to hand over to long-suffering deputy Peter Costello well before the following election, Howard has launched his battle for the November 24 poll with appeals for recognition of 11 years of economic prosperity and warnings against the inexperience of Labor leader Kevin Rudd.
Rudd will respond with blistering attacks on Howard and his Government as a tired, unimaginative and out-of-touch Administration in control of a dynamic country that needs fresh leadership.
The latest polling continues to predict a commanding win by Labor.
After a long and uninterrupted run of polls forecasting a Labor landslide since Rudd became leader last December, a Taverner poll in Fairfax newspapers yesterday handed the Opposition an 18-point lead over the Government.
If the 59 per cent two-party preferred vote in this poll was repeated at the ballot box, Howard would be buried by a landslide that would give Rudd 108 seats in the House of Representatives, Melbourne’s Sunday Age reported. Howard would be left with just 40 seats.
Branson pledges cash for McCann legal bill.
LONDON (Reuters) – Billionaire Richard Branson is to donate 100,000 pounds to create a fund to help the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann pay their legal bills, his spokeswoman said on Sunday.
The Virgin Group boss hopes other wealthy individuals will add to the fund as Gerry and Kate McCann try to clear their names after Portuguese police named them as formal suspects in the disappearance of their daughter.
Since their return to England last Sunday, the McCanns have faced intense media speculation about their role in the case.
“In the midst of all of this speculation and rumour, we must remember there is a family in pain and a little four-year-old girl is still missing,” Branson said in a statement. “We must not lose sight of this fact. It is the only solid fact we know.
“The search for Madeleine must not let up for one moment.”
The couple have denied any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance. She went missing while on holiday in southern Portugal on May 3. They are convinced she is still alive.
Branson has closely followed the case and is keen to “relieve the burden” from the McCanns, his spokeswoman said.
Well-wishers have already donated more than a million pounds to a fund to help find the girl. However, the trust’s directors decided last week that the money should not be used to pay the couple’s legal bills.
Is Beijing hacking into NZ’s computers?
The Security Intelligence Service’s claims that foreign governments are hacking its network aren’t surprising given the stir created in the last couple of weeks at news that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army allegedly hacked the Pentagon’s network.
Britain’s intelligence service claims China is increasingly resorting to electronic hacking to gather intelligence.
And while President Bush suggested when he was in Sydney for APEC that he might bring up the hacking issue with the Chinese, he clearly doesn’t want to enter that diplomatic minefield just yet.
But where New Zealand is concerned, what exactly are we talking about? Targeted attacks aimed at uncovering sensitive Government information or electronic fishing trips to see what can be turned up in general?
Corrections Minister in hot water
Corrections Minister Damien O’Connor, who is touring France with the parliamentary rugby team, is in hot water for taking a suspended prison guard along as a team mate.
O’Connor is co-captain of the team. The prison guard is the partner of a senior official in the minister’s office.
He has been stood down from Rimutaka Prison as part of an independent investigation.
The Department of Corrections won’t comment but Helen Clark says she will investigate further when she returns from Apec.
Apec security fence rises across Sydney
Construction of a concrete and wire security fence which will cut the centre of Sydney in half began on Saturday as part of the nation’s biggest security operation for next week’s Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit.
The 5km fence will isolate the leaders, who include US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the Sydney Opera House and surrounding hotels.
Thousands of protesters, demonstrating against the Iraq war and global warming, plan to rally in Sydney during the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) meetings.
Police say they expect the protests to be violent and have warned demonstrators not to march near the Apec summit venue.
“We expect there will be violence,” New South Wales (NSW) state police commissioner Andrew Scipione told reporters at a recent Apec security briefing.
“If someone has a plan to come to Sydney, to come to the Apec event, and they have violence in mind … they can expect to be looking at the inside of a cell,” Scipione said.
Parents thought to have killed Madeleine
Both parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann are now being treated as suspects in the case.
Portuguese police have interviewed Gerry McCann, after earlier grilling his wife Kate for 11 hours.
McCann was questioned by police on Thursday and Friday and left the police station on Friday as her husband, Gerry, entered to be interviewed separately.“Kate knows it’s possible that she could get arrested,” Justine McGuinness, a spokeswoman for the McCanns, said before the police announcement.McGuinness said Kate McCann had told her that police found blood in a car hired by the couple but there was no confirmation it was Madeleine’s blood. The car had been hired 25 days after Madeleine disappeared.Police received results this week of forensic tests on evidence from various sites including the holiday apartment from which Madeleine vanished. weather warnings did not reach in time
People throughout South Africa, and particularly in rural communities, have lost their lives because weather warnings did not reach them in time.That’s just one of the findings of the South African Weather Service, which met media representatives in a bid to strengthen channels of communication that could save millions in property and hundreds of lives.Speaking at a networking workshop in Durban last week, prominent forecaster Colin Anderson said weather staffers often had less than 20 minutes to warn disaster-management institutions of imminent storms or cyclones that could threaten lives.A case in point was a massive Midlands thunderstorm and associated flash flood in 1995. In that incident, a small stream
Police arrest 18-year-old for murder of Grammar boy
An 18 year-old unemployed Otahuhu man has been arrested and charged with the murder of Augustine Borrell, who was stabbed to death in Herne Bay early on Sunday morning.
He will also be charged over a second knife attack, which occured on Saturday night.
Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Breach, said the arrest came after an interview with the man, who presented himself at Auckland Central Police Station this morning accompanied by a lawyer.
Girl spotted thought to be Madeleine
A woman alerted police last month after spotting a girl she believed was Madeleine at a roadside cafe in the eastern Belgian town of Tongeren with a Dutch-speaking man of about 40 and an English-speaking woman of around 25.
Belga news agency said prosecutors had confirmed the girl was not Madeleine, but Sjanneke, the four-year-old daughter of a Belgian man from the town of Hoogstraten.
It said the girl, who had lived for the past year with the man’s ex-wife in the town of Riemst, had been at the restaurant with him and a female friend from Poland.
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