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Madeleine McCann Suspect Declared After 11 years, the investigation is set to close by London police due to the budget running out in the fall. Kate and Gerry McCann will likely continue the investigation through private funds and have said they won’t stop looking for their daughter.
Prosecutors in southern Portugal are formally accusing a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Madeleine has never been found, and no one has ever been charged for her disappearance.
Since 2007, this is the first time Portuguese authorities have a formal suspect in the case. Madeleine McCann, a British girl, was three years old when she went missing on May 3, 2007 from a resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal while on a family vacation.
In 2020, Christian Brueckner was named as a person of interest by German police. According to www. apnews.com, “Brueckner, 45, is serving a sentence on drug offenses in a German prison and has a pending seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of a 72-yearold American woman in Portugal. The rape also took place in Praia da Luz.”
Madeleine had disappeared from her bedroom while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were dining with friends in the resort.
Brueckner has denied being involved in the disappearance and is being treated by Portuguese police but has not been arrested or charged.
It has been almost 15 years since Madeleine went missing. Throughout the years of her disappearance there has been an international hunt to find her.
Reasons are unclear as to why prosecutors identified Christian Brueckner as a suspect but may be due to Portugal’s 15-year statute limitations.
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Florida Takes Away Disney's Special Privileges The Florida house recently passed a bill to remove the special district, Reedy Creek Improvement District, that allows Walt Disney Co. to self-govern. The district was created by a 1967 state law which allowed Disney to collect taxes and provide emergency services. According to NBC News, “Disney controls about 25,000 acres in the Orlando area, and the district allows the company to build new structures and pay impact fees for such construction
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without the approval of a local planning commission.” According to Investopedia, “The bill eliminating Disney's self-governing status awaits signature by Governor Ron DeSantis after passing the Florida Senate by a vote of 23-16 on April 20, 2022, and the Florida House by a vote of 68-38 on April 21.” The Florida legislation will strip Disney’s Special District on June 1, 2023.
