German police searching an allotment plot used bythe prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have reportedly found a cellar once believed to have belonged to a garden house that was torn down at the end of 2007. German media have been reporting on the apparent development, though police have yet to comment. Two small excavators are being used to dig up the plot on the outskirts of the north German city of Hanover, which was once used by Christian Brückner, 43, German investigators’ main suspect in the abduction of the three-year-old British girl in 2007. Brückner reportedly lived there during 2007, a former neighbour told local media. He said he had lived off grid and had left within a year. The operation, which involved a large team of police officers, forensic specialists and sniffer dogs, began in the early hours of Monday morning and is expected to continue at least until the end of Wednesday. They have been digging up the plot, using spades and rakes to comb over the ground. Big slabs of building materials have also been removed apparently from the remains of the foundation of the garden house. The cellar was reportedly discovered on Wednesday morning. One allotment tenant next to the plot told the newspaper Bild the cellar had belonged to the plot “for many years” and had been added by a previous tenant. It was not filled in when the summer house attached to it was torn down at the end of 2007, he said. It is not clear who tore the house down. Police have sealed off the area, and added extra non-transparent screening on Wednesday, according to reporters at the scene.

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Article Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/29/madeleine-mccann-police-in-germany-find-cellar-during-allotment-search


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