Hi Everyone,
This post is an update for the search on the search for Madeleine McCann. I don’t no if many people in the US have been following this story but it is worldwide news. If you don’t then I will give you a brief history of the case.
Madeleine McCann disappeared on the evening of Thursday,
3 May 2007 in the resort of
Praia da Luz in the
Algarve,
Portugal, just days short of her fourth birthday. The
British girl was on holiday with
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er parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, and siblings when she disappeared from an apartment in the central area of the resort. Madeleine's parents have said that they left her unsupervised in a ground floor bedroom with her two-year-old twin siblings while they ate at a restaurant about 120 meters away. Since this tragic event occurred there has been an ongoing case in the search for the missing 4 year old. There have been many "false" sightings of the little girl but nothing has come of them. Also the case has had many twists and turn along the way with several suspects being arrest, no more so prolific than Kate and Gerry McCann....the girl’s parents. None of these arrests stuck and the Portuguese police continue to investigate the case. If you want to read more about the case, which I suggest you do as it is a truly touching story, then
click here.
This story has touched the hearts of millions and millions of people around the world. All you have to do is look at her picture and you can feel the pain at which her family must be suffering. I decided to post now as there have been some recent developments in the case. Friday 15th February and the French police received news that little Madeleine had been sighting in Montpellier, France. A Dutch student spotted a blonde girl bearing a resemblance to the missing four-year-old near Montpellier last Friday. Melissa Fiering, 18, claims she saw Madeleine with a man at the L'Arche motorway service station restaurant. The girl had Madeleine's distinctive 'cat-like' iris in her eye, she said. When she called out the girl's name, the man wrapped the child in her coat and hat, bundled her out of the restaurant and drove away before police could arrive, she claimed.

The cat like eye that the girl describes has been a hope from her family as Madeleine is quite distinctive when seen up close. She has a slight attachment between her pupil and the color of her right eye which makes her very unique. This is something that the family have tried to get people to take not of as it could be the key to finding her if she is still alive. Her family has never given up hope of Madeleine being found but has time has gone on the chances have become slimmer and slimmer. However this latest sighting has given new hope that she might just still be out there.
The Mirror Newspaper released the story of the sighting yesterday. Melissa, from Nijmegan in Holland, told the Hart van Nederland newspaper: "When I saw the little girl, I recognized her immediately. At first I could not believe it. She was about six feet away from me. She had the same deformation in her eye. I had followed everything about the story on TV and I knew about the cat-eye. She looked just the same, though she was skinnier about the face and her hair was shorter. I was listening to music out loud on my mobile phone and the girl started dancing to it. Then I called out 'Madeleine' and she looked up. The man with her was about six feet tall, with black hair, a black leather jacket and several days’ growth of stubble. When I shouted out, he put on her coat and hat and bundled her away."
This sounds as if the story could have something behind it and so brings fresh hope to the world that Madeleine will be

returned safely without harm. I urge you to keep up to date with this story as it truly is an ongoing tragedy. Millions of people have aided the search for Madeleine including celebrities such as David Beckham and governments throughout the world. If you would like to help then please check out the website
http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/. Anything you can do to help will be appreciated by her family.
Every day we hope that little Madeleine will be returned home safe and well. If this is not the case then we hope that the culprits for this tragic crime will be brought to justice and that her family can finally feel some sort of closure of this awful time. All we can do is hope for her return.