Madeleine McCann, the girl lost in Portugal in 2007, did she appear on social networks?

A few days ago a user appeared on instagram called @iammadeleinemccan (I’m Madeleine Mccan). A 21-year-old girl behind this profile claims to be Madeleine, who would have disappeared in May 2007 at the age of 3 in the Praia da Luz tourist complex in southern Portugal. The case went around the world due to the strange conditions of the disappearance.

In the name of the new account created on the platform Instagramowned by the technology conglomerate Meta, ensures that the objective of the account is to contact what would be their parents: “Help, I need to talk to Kate and Gerry McCann.”

The arguments and evidence presented by the young woman to support her identity are physical similarities that coincide between the photographs that exist on the internet of the little girl. Madeleine and the 21 year old girl.

“I think I may be Madeleine because I was the victim of a German pedophile who looks like the image number 4B on the website: findmadeleine.com. I have a mark in the same eye (…). I have a similar shape of the face, the ears, the lips and the space between the teeth”, can be read in one of the stories shared by the Instagram account managed by Julia Wandelt, the young woman of Polish origin who claims to be Madeleine.

The popularity of the case has added almost half a million followers to the profile of the alleged Madeleine McCannSo much so that the account itself has reported problems responding to messages since the platform has detected excess activity due to the amount of interaction in such a short time of creation.

“I am having problems with messages due to too much activity and Instagram think it’s spam. So if you want to get in touch with me as soon as possible, send me an email: madeleinethuth@gmail.com” shared the account manager I am Madeleine McCann

Interest in the case has spread to all social networks, from where content generators have taken advantage of the situation to create videos, reviews and viral threads with details of the disappearance.

Recently, the account shared that the main objective with which it would have been created would have been fulfilled: to contact Kate and Gerry McCann, who would have given their consent to perform a DNA test in order to confirm their identity: “Thank you for your support! Kate and Gerry have agreed to the DNA test.”

The Madeleine case

In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of MadeleineThey were having dinner with a group of friends in a restaurant a few meters from the room where the McCann family was staying during their vacation.

The mother of the little girl, who was 3 years old at the time, decided to confirm that her three children were resting in the room where they had been left alone, when she was surprised that little Madeleine was not in the apartment.

The family called the police and a search began that has generated several lines of investigation, among which the questioned innocence of the parents themselves, originally from the United Kingdom, and, most recently, a known German prisoner, stands out.
like Christian Brueckner, suspected of having kidnapped and murdered the minor.

Following evidence submitted by 21-year-old Julia Wandelt to prove her similarities to Madeleine, a source close to the McCann told the British media BirminghLive that “The family is willing to investigate all leads.”

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