A witness said that he had seen a girl similar to McCann next to a woman who reminded him of Ghislaine Maxwell
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In the context of the recent declassification of new court documents linked to the Jeffrey Epstein case, the name of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007, appeared.
Within the extensive material that was released, the testimony of a witness appeared who claimed to have seen, in September 2009, a woman who looked like Ghislaine Maxwell, the partner of the child rapist and sexual abuser, together with a girl whose physical features reminded the witness of the missing minor.
According to the court documentation, the declarant recounted that the episode occurred while he was walking down the street and observed a woman accompanied by a girl, while a middle-aged man was walking a few meters ahead of both of them.
Ghislaine Maxwell y Madeleine McCann.
At that moment, the witness did not link the scene to any criminal act or to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The association arose some time later, when he began to familiarize himself in greater depth with the case and with the theories that were circulating on the internet.
One of the elements that most impacted the witness was a gesture by the minor: according to his account, the girl was covering her right eye, a detail that reminded him of a very particular physical feature of Madeleine McCann, the coloboma in the iris, a characteristic that was widely publicized during the international search campaigns. In the year 2009, Madeleine would have been six years old, an age that the declarant considered compatible with the girl whom he observed on that occasion.
The witness himself acknowledged in his statement that he did not give "immediate" credibility to what he had seen and that, for that reason, he did not report it to the authorities at the time. It was only years later, influenced by information, reconstructions of the case, and speculations that were circulating on social media, when he decided to leave a written record of his memory and present it as testimony.
Jeffrey Epstein y Madeleine McCann.
According to what the British and United States authorities indicated, the testimony doesn't constitute concrete evidence or allow for the opening of a new formal line of investigation into the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann. It is an uncorroborated statement, incorporated into a voluminous set of court documents that bring together accounts of very diverse nature, levels of reliability, and evidentiary relevance.
The mention of Ghislaine Maxwell in this context occurs within the framework of the so-called "Epstein case." Maxwell was convicted in the United States for her role in the recruitment and facilitation of minors so that they would be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. Her figure became associated with one of the most serious and complex criminal networks of recent decades, with international ramifications and a significant number of victims.
Madeleine McCann disappeared at the age of three, while she was sleeping in a tourist apartment in Praia da Luz, in Portugal's Algarve region. Since then, her whereabouts have remained unknown. The case remains officially open and is under investigation by London's Metropolitan Police, within the framework of the so-called Operation Grange.
