On May 3, 2007, while on a family vacation in the Algarve, Madeleine McCann, then three years old, disappeared from her bedroom as her parents were having dinner with friends close by in the town of Praia da Luz.
German citizen Christian Brückner, who lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, was declared a suspect in April 2022 by Portuguese and German authorities.
Brückner has denied any involvement in McCann’s disappearance.
Portuguese police began scouring the reservoir after, according to the Braunschweig public prosecutor’s office,
The public prosecutor’s spokesperson for the German city of Braunschweig said Portuguese police started searching the reservoir after a tip off from Germany.
The Arade reservoir was previously searched in 2008, when the divers found bones which were later discovered to be animal remains, according to CNN Portugal.