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| Germany police officers outside an allotment garden plot in Seelze, near Hannover, Germany |
German police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have searched a garden plot in Hannover in connection with their probe, prosecutors said.
Julia Meyer, a spokeswoman for the prosecutorโs office in Braunschweig confirmed local media reports that police investigators had been at the site since Monday with an excavator in connection with the case.
โThe procedure is taking place in connection with our investigation regarding Maddie McCann,โ she told The Associated Press.
Ms Meyer said she could not give any further details on the procedure, adding only that police would โstill need some more time to finishโ.
McCann was three at the time of her 2007 disappearance from an apartment while her family was on holiday in the seaside town of Praia da Luz in Portugalโs Algarve region.
German authorities said last month they had identified a 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the McCann case and are 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 McCannโs disappearance, and has two previous convictions for โsexual contact with girlsโ, authorities have said.
Authorities have not released the suspectโs name, but he has been widely identified by German media as Christian B.
He was last registered as living in Germany in the city of Braunschweig, which is about 40 miles from Hannover.
Press Association
