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BERLIN (Reuters) – German police investigating the disappearance in 2007 of British daughter Madeleine McCann in Portugal ended their search for a lot of grass on the outskirts of Hanover, northern Germany, according to prosecutors.
Investigators left Wednesday night, a spokeswoman for the Braunschweig prosecutor said. She gave no further details on the exact explanation of the reason for the search or whether police discovered anything similar to her investigation.
Police began searching the lawn on Monday, but prosecutors said only the activities on the site were similar to their investigation.
Madeleine was 3 years old when she disappeared from an apartment in 2007 while her circle of relatives vacationed on the beach in the city of Praia da Luz, in Portugal’s Algarve region.
The German government said last month that they had met a 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the case and that they were investigating an alleged murder.
The suspect, recently imprisoned in Germany, spent many years in Portugal, in Praia da Luz at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance, and has already been convicted twice for “sexual contact with girls,” the government said.
Authorities have released the suspect’s name, but German media widely know him as Christian B.
It was last recorded in Germany in the city of Brunswick, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Hanover. Between 2013 and 2015, the suspect spent time in Portugal and Germany. He ran a newsstand in Braunschweig and also lived in Hanover for several years, the German dpa news firm reported.
On the floors of the lawn, researchers felled trees, removed the floor, searched the facility with a sniffer dog, and removed parts of the foundation of an old cabin from the floor that was once there, Dpa reported. A guy on a nearby plot told the news firm that the lawn hadn’t been used for two years.
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