Netflix will air the much-anticipated documentary on the disapperance of Madeleine McCann tomorrow - in which, it is claimed that the schoolgirl is still alive, as she was taken by traffickers. The Sun reports that the documentary suggests people traffickers abducted the three-year-old in 2007 - and that the criminals would have kept her alive as she would have been viewed as ‘valuable.’ The new eight-part series will speak to 40 key figures, including high profile investigators, and attempt to piece together the events of that fateful night.
Aapprently, a lot of the documentary is spent trying to explain how Madeline could have been taken to another country by traffickers. Julian Peribanez, the private investigator hired by the McCanns, explained: “[Traffickers] usually go for lower-class kids from third world countries — that’s the main supplier of these gangs. The value that Madeleine had was really high because if they took her it’s because they were going to get a lot of money.”
And makers of the show are also hopeful that Madeleine will be found. “We’re trying to lay out as much detail as we can about the case - and if it could jog someone’s memory in some way then that would be amazing,” executive producer of the documentary, Emma Cooper, said. “Keeping any search for what happened to Madeleine in the consciousness - particularly globally - is something that’s so important. As we show in the documentary, other children are found - so you have to hope.”
The three-year-old was taken from her hotel room as she slept alongside her twin younger siblings, while her parents were eating dinner at a restaurant close by. The documentary is also expected to show interviews with experts who will say that naming the parents as suspects was a desperate act by Portuguese police. Jim Gamble, the top child protection cop in the UK’s first Maddie investigation, said: “The police were clutching at straws.”
The Disappearance ofMadeleine McCann will be available to stream from tomorrow. You can watch the trailer below. Here's everything we know about the show so far.