3-year-old Madeleine McCann mysteriously disappeared on vacation with her parents and younger twin sisters in 2007. From that day on, no news can be heard whether Madeleine McCann is alive or not for years.
Who is Madeleine McCann, the missing child, who disappeared in 2007 and is the leading role in a story that has still not been clarified after fifteen years, and how did she disappear?
The reason why this event gains importance is not the disappearance of the child; The event turns into a political, magazinel and chaotic mess between Portugal and England. It is also thought to have been consciously transformed.
A middle-class English family goes on vacation to a small Portuguese seaside town. On the evening of the day when the calendars show May 3, 2007, mom and dad put their children (Madeleine and their 1.5-year-old twins) to sleep and go to the restaurant to eat. Every 20-30 minutes, their children go to the control and eat their meals. The next check-up parent discovers that their three-year-old daughter, Madeleine, has been kidnapped.
The little girl who disappeared while her family was having dinner 50 meters away became news to all the world media. The incident turns into an international investigation. The case soon became the dominant topic in the British media. The little girl's face is printed on the front pages of newspapers every day and shown on television every day.
Millions of people witness and feel the pain of this family as the McCann couple, who are the main characters of this tragedy that has made quite a sensation in the world, desperately beg for information and help. But in addition to accompanying their suffering, many people also blame the family. How could they leave their children alone and go out to have fun? The pain of the couple, who received heavy criticism, increases with these statements.
While the search continues, in which thousands of volunteers participate, the suspects are questioned. Portuguese authorities also question Kate and Gerry as suspects. This situation carries the trauma experienced by the couple to different dimensions. In 2008, the investigation of the couple as suspects ends as there is not enough evidence. The McCann couple's lawyer, who later commented on the situation, described the British press's treatment of them as a "national scandal".
The investigation into the sudden disappearance of the little girl initiates a large and high-budget police hunt across Europe. Sometimes investigations are even led by private detectives hired by the McCann family.
By 2010, Gerry McCann explains that the Portuguese and British police had not been actively searching for his daughters for a long time. In 2011, the couple publishes a book about their daughter's disappearance. The case, which is on the agenda of the country again, begins with a large-scale investigation again upon the call of Prime Minister David Cameron, and the police allocate a budget of more than 11 million pounds for this investigation.
Unfortunately, the mystery of Madeleine's disappearance remains unsolved, although many suspects and crime scenes have been identified over the years.
After years, in 2019, the German police announced that a person who was imprisoned in the country for sexual assault and had a criminal record for pedophilia was a suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolter, who is leading the investigation, explains that they are sure that the main suspect, the German pedophile Christian Brueckner, killed the girl. But despite all the doubts, Brueckner could not long be formally blamed for Madeleine's disappearance.
However, this investigation in Germany did not yield any results. The event still remains unclear.