Madeleine McCann’s parents have turned 15 years since their three-year-old daughter fell with a painful line from AA Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, saying “a really horrible crime has been committed”. In a message on the official Find Madeleine Campaign Facebook page today, Kate and Gerry McCann quoted a shocking phrase from AAMilne Winne-the-Pooh – “But the most important thing is, even if we are apart, I will always be together and said they needed a closure about what happened to the toddler in the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. They wrote: “This year marks fifteen years since the last time we saw Madeleine. It’s not harder than any other, but neither is it easier. It’s been a long time. Many talk about the need for “closure”. I always felt a strange term. Regardless of the outcome, Madeleine will always be our daughter and a truly horrific crime has been committed. These things will stay. “It is true, however, that uncertainty creates weakness. knowledge and certainty give strength and that is why our need for answers, for the truth, is necessary. “We are grateful for the ongoing work and commitment of the UK, Portuguese and German authorities, as it is this combined police effort that will yield results and give us these answers. “As always, we would like to thank all our supporters for their continued wishes and support. “It’s a great consolation to know that no matter how much time has passed, Madeleine is still in people’s hearts and minds. Thank you.’ Madeleine McCann’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, posted a message today to commemorate the 15th anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance Madeleine McCann’s parents have turned 15 years old since their three-year-old daughter fell with a shocking line from AA Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. In July 2013, Scotland Yard launched its own investigation, Operation Grange, into Madeleine’s disappearance. “Fifteen years after Madeleine’s disappearance in Praia Da Luz, our thoughts are, as always, with her family,” said Metropolitan Police Chief Detective Mark Cranwell, who is leading the operation. “Officers are continuing to investigate the case and our dedicated team continues to work closely with law enforcement colleagues from the Portuguese Policia Judiciaria and the German Bundeskriminalamt. Madeleine’s parents said (in the photo) “she will always be our daughter” and thanked the well-wishers “Right now, the case remains a search for missing persons and everyone involved is committed to doing what we can to find answers.” It comes after convicted sex offender Christian Bruekner, 44, was officially declared a suspect by Portuguese authorities last month, something the couple accepted. He insisted he was having sex with a woman in his caravan when a three-year-old girl disappeared, according to reports. Bruckner claims he was stopped and photographed at a police roadblock after he drove the woman to Portugal’s Faro airport for a home flight the next day. The suspect says she was arrested at the airport security because she was carrying illegal pepper spray and she is adamant that the Portuguese police will have a file with the events, Sky News reports. German police say they found a photo of the woman lying in his van when they investigated a rape charge for which the 44-year-old is now in jail. This revelation comes a few days after the claim that Brickner did not provide an alibi to the German police. German prosecutor Hans Christian Walters, who is leading the investigation, told Sky News: “I guess if he has something that acquits him, sooner or later he will share it with us and then we will check it. What will happen then, let’s see. Christian Brueckner, 44, the main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, “has not provided an alibi to the German police,” said a German prosecutor. “So far he has not told us anything, he has not given us an alibi. Therefore, we can only work with the data we have found so far in our research. “And there was nothing to acquit him.” However, earlier this year, sources close to the case revealed that Bruckner was not at the resort in Praia da Luz the night he disappeared and was in fact “30 minutes away”. The British investigators’ television program Madeleine McCann: Investigating the Prime Suspect is expected to settle the case against the detainee. When he disappeared at the age of three in 2007, phone records were said to show the main suspect near the spot, the Sun reported.
However, the new investigation revealed that an alibi for Brueckner, whom the Portuguese authorities made “arguido”, officially suspected, last month, is “stacked”. If his latest allegation is true, he will contradict the data from the mobile phone data networks, which according to the police show that his phone was in the village when he received a call from 7.32 pm. until 8.02 p.m. Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, say their daughter went missing between 9pm and 10pm, while Brueckner insists she drove miles along the coast to Faro until 10pm.

How the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann unfolded

2007 May 3: Gerry and Kate McCann leave their three children, including Maddie, sleeping in their hotel apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal. When they return, they find Mandy missing from her bed May 4: A McCanns friend reports seeing a man carrying a child overnight May 14: Robert Mural, a real estate developer living a few meters away from the hotel, becomes a suspect by the Portuguese police May 30: McCanns meet Pope in Rome in a bid to draw global attention to the search August 11: Police in Portugal acknowledge for the first time in an investigation that Maddie may be dead September 7: Portuguese police make the McCanns official suspects in the disappearance. Two days later the family flies back to England 2008 July 21: Portuguese police remove McCanns and Mr Mural as official suspects as the case is closed 2009 May 1: A computer-generated image of what Maddie might have looked like two years after her disappearance was released by the McCanns 2011 May 12: A review of the disappearance begins at Scotland Yard, following an appeal by then-Home Secretary Theresa May 2012 April 25: After a year of scrutiny, Scotland Yard says it believes Maddie could be alive and calls on Portuguese police to reopen the case, but falls short due to “lack of new evidence”. 2013 July 4: Scotland Yard launches new investigation, claims to have identified 38 ‘stakeholders’ October 24: A review of the investigation begins by the Portuguese police and new lines of investigation are discovered, forcing it to reopen the case. 2014 January 29: British officers arrive in Portugal as a detailed investigation is underway. During the year, surveys are carried out at many sites, including a bush area near the resort. 2015 October 28: British police announce that the team investigating Maddie’s disappearance has been reduced from 29 police officers to just four, as it is also revealed that the investigation cost 10 10 million
2017 March 11: Cash is raised once again to keep the survey alive, with 85 85,000 to keep it running until September, when it is extended again until April next year 2018 March 27: The Home Office reveals that it has allocated further funds to Operation Grange. The new fund is believed to be as large as .000 150,000
2019
April: New controversial Netflix documentary releasing Maddie abduction released June 5: The Ministry of Interior provides the Metropolitan Police with sufficient funding to investigate for another year December 7: Paulo Pereira Cristovao, a longtime critic of Maddie’s parents, is convicted of plotting two violent burglaries in Lisbon and the nearby resort of Cascais. He is imprisoned for seven and a half years 2020 February 22: Scotland Yard detectives interrogate a British woman expatriate of her German ex-boyfriend. Carol Hickman, 59, claims police entered her bar in Praia da Luz to ask questions about her ex-partner June 3: Police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner has been identified as a suspect in Madeline’s disappearance. 2022 April 21: Christian Brueckner, now 44, becomes an “arguido”, officially suspected by the Portuguese authorities.