After years of investigative blunders and dead ends, the police in Portugal are getting ready to arrest people who they believe have played an important role in Madeleine McCanns' disappearance.
This is the first time since the disappearance that the Portuguese police have announced an arrest on suspects tied to the case. Although many people were suspected and detained, including the parents of Madeleine, this marks the first time, that the person(s) of interest would actually be imprisoned.
The police calls the suspects, now the subject of the arrest warrants, 'key' people in the abduction of Madeleine.
Scotland yard officers were getting ready to fly to Algarve, the beach resort town where the little girl disappeared, to oversee the arrests and interrogation of the suspects.
The new leads were discovered during an investigation into a burglary ring that targeted the area and the building where the McCanns were staying. The burglaries coincided with the period in which the abduction took place.
Additional data also revealed that the 'gang' of burglars had an unusually high level of phone activity in the hours following the abduction.
The investigation has suffered significant setbacks during its six and a half years, and was once retired three years ago. But new leads and international pressure have prompted the Portuguese police to pursue the case again in earnest in the past 2 years.
Source : The Guardian/ 1.13.14
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