BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said the police investigating the disappearance of British woman Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007 was a turf in the northern city of Hanover as a component of their investigation.
Julia Meyer, a spokesman for the Braunschweig District Attorney’s office, on Tuesday showed local media reports that police investigators had been on site since Monday with an excavator regarding the case, but that they could provide additional details.
McCann was 3 at the time of her 2007 disappearance from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal while on a vacation with her family.
The German government said last month that they had known a 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the case.
The suspect was “in and around Praia da Luz” at the same time McCann went missing, officials said in the news release.
The suspect was noticed driving two cars remaining in Portugal: a VW motorhome and a 1993 Jaguar XJR 6.
Authorities say the Jaguar re-registered with someone else in Germany the day after McCann disappeared.