The Portuguese police will start this week, at the request of the German police, The search for the British Madeleine McCann in the pond 50 kilometers from the tourist complex in the Algarve (south of Portugal), where the minor was on the night of her disappearance 16 years ago, local media reported.

The search will focus on the Arade reservoir, located 50 kilometers from Praia da Luz, where, according to the Portuguese channel, the main suspect, the German Christian Brückner, often visited. News SIC.

Brückner is currently in prison in Germany for other crimes. and has a long history of crimes for sexual assault and paedophilia, some of them in Portugal.

German police want to know if there are traces or evidence to provide new data about the disappearance of a minor, according to the same sources.

The Portuguese police are working this Monday to delimit the search area It is expected that the searches will begin on Tuesday with the participation of the British police.

Madeleine McCann she was three years old when she was kidnapped According to the investigation, from the room where he slept with his two younger brothers in a tourist complex in Praia da Luz, Algarve, on the night of May 3, 2007.