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'Maddie' sighting dismissed
21/02/2008 14:56 - (SA)
Toulouse - A child spotted outside a restaurant in the south of France by a Dutch tourist was not Madeleine McCann, the four-year-old British girl who went missing in Portugal last May, French police said on Thursday.
The tourist contacted police after she saw a girl resembling
Madeleine in a restaurant parking lot near the Mediterranean
port city of Sete last Friday.
A Sky News report said the girl had been seen with a man and
attracted the tourist's attention when she appeared to be
dancing to music from a mobile phone.
But a police source in Montpellier said after studying CCTV
footage from the roadside restaurant the police had concluded it
was not the missing British girl.
"We checked the tapes and confirm that it is not her," said
the source, who did not wish to be named.
Local French police said they were in touch with their
counterparts in Britain and Portugal and would send on the CCTV
tapes.
Madeleine was left asleep with her younger brother and
sister in a family holiday apartment in the Portuguese resort of
Praia da Luz on May 3, just days before her fourth birthday.
Her parents say she was abducted from the apartment while
they had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.
Authorities have investigated a number of possible sightings
of Madeleine - from Morocco to Argentina - during the 10-month
long investigation but have so far produced no concrete results.
- Reuters
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