Search for Madeleine McCann

Madeleine's parents continued the investigation using private detectives until Scotland Yard opened its own inquiry, Operation Grange, in 2011. EFE

Madeleine McCann dissappered in Portugal on May 3, 2007. EFE

Combo photograph showing the photograph distributed in May 2009 by the British McCann family showing what their daughter Madeleine looked like two years ago (left) and on the right, the image included in a video distributed by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) on the Internet, showing a tanned Madeleine, with the possibility that the child, now aged 6, may have been taken to North Africa. EFE

A computer image shows what nine-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in the Portuguese Algarve almost five years ago, would look like in 2012. EFE

The young Polish girl offers information that could correspond to the missing British girl. Julia, aged nine, and, on the right, the experts' reconstruction of what Madeleine would have looked like at that age. EFE

Madeleine McCann's parents deny they have been informed of her death. Madeleine's parents, in 2007, with a poster of Maddie. EFE

Maddie's parents in June, 2020 continue their search for their daughter. EFE

Police described Madeleine as blonde-haired, with blue-green eyes, a small brown spot on her left calf, and a distinctive dark strip on the iris of her right eye. EFE

Gerry and Kate McCann return to Portugal in 2010. Reuters

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann, Gerry (l) and Kate (c) arrive at Rothley Court Hotel in Rothley, Leicestershire, where they held a press conference on, Monday 21 July 2008. Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of the British girl Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in May 2007 in Portugal, said today that they will never give up the search for their daughter, after the Portuguese prosecutor's office decided to close the case for lack of evidence. EFE

Kate and Gerry McCann (L) leaving an ecumenical service on November, 3 2007, at St Mary and St John's Church in Rothley, Leicestershire (UK) to mark six months since the disappearance of their baby daughter Madeleine in Portugal. EFE

Gerry and Kate McCann, seen in their car in Portugal after Maddie's disappearance in 2007. Reuters

Flowers at the McCann residence Rothley. Reuters

Kate McCann and Gerry, leaving Porturgal. Reuters

File photo from 30 May 2007 showing Kate (right) and Gerry McCann (c), during a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City. EFE

File photo from May 30, 2007 showing Kate McCann, mother of little Madeleine McCann, showing a toy of the girl at a press conference in Rome, Italy. EFE

File photo from 6 June 2007 showing Kate (right) and Gerry McCann, parents of little Madeleine McCann who disappeared on 3 May while the family was spending a few days in a Portuguese Algarve resort in Praia da Luz, during a press conference in Madrid. EFE

Madeleine McCann was on holiday with her family in Portugal when she went missing. EFE

Kate McCann, mother of Madeleine, English girl who disappeared in Portugal, testifies before the judge in 2007. Reuters