Madeleine McCann appeal to air in Germany and Netherlands
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Version 0 of 1. The German public broadcaster ZDF is to air an extra-long episode of its equivalent to BBC's Crimewatch focusing on Madeleine McCann's abduction more than six years ago, in the hope of receiving information about two German-speaking men who British police think may have been involved. The show, <em>Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst</em><em> (</em>File Reference XY … unsolved), due to be broadcast on Wednesday, will include the 22-minute reconstruction of the day the then three-year-old went missing during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on 3 May 2007. The programme will also broadcast the images of two men, thought to be German speakers, who were previously believed to be unimportant, but may in fact have been involved. Madeleine was taken from the apartment where she was sleeping with her younger twin siblings, while her parents, Kate and Gerry, were dining in a tapas restaurant with friends 50 metres away. "For six years we have not given up looking worldwide for our daughter," Madeleine's parents told the show's host Rudi Cerne, according to a ZDF statement. "We are happy that <em>Aktienzeichen XY </em>is giving us the opportunity to reach the German audience to tell them about the new investigation. Maybe they can help us still find Madeleine." Following the reconstruction, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the investigation with the Metropolitan police, will address German viewers on questions still open in the investigation and the McCanns will make a live appeal from Munich. The German broadcast comes after the McCanns appealed for information on Crimewatch, from which police said they had received almost 1,000 responses. The appeal will also be shown on the Netherlands crime programme, <em>Opsporing Verzocht</em>. In a statement released on Monday, the Metropolitan police said that, except for the Portuguese community, German and Dutch people were thought to be most prevalent nationalities in the area at the time of the abduction. Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning. |