Search continues in Germany in missing girl probe

(29 Jul 2020) German police investigating the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007 were searching a garden plot on the outskirts of Hannover in northern Germany for a third day in a row Wednesday.
Police were using excavators, sniffer dogs, shovels and rakes to investigate the plot.
Prosecutors did not say what exactly the investigators were looking for.
A spokeswoman for the Braunschweig prosecutor's office said only that the work on the site was connected to their investigation regarding Madeleine.
Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from her parents' holiday apartment in the seaside town of Praia da Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region.
German authorities said last month they had identified a 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the case and were investigating him on suspicion of murder.
The suspect, who is currently in prison in Germany, spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz around the time of Madeleine's disappearance, and has two previous convictions for “sexual contact with girls,” authorities have said.
Authorities have not released the suspect’s name, but he has been widely identified by German media as "Christian B".
He was last registered living in Germany in the city of Braunschweig, which is about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Hannover.

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