Madeleine suspect 'tried to kidnap Galicia sisters' in 2001, parents reveal
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 2:01 AM
A FAMILY from Spain's north-western region of Galicia says a man identical to the photo-fit image of Madeleine McCann's suspected kidnapper attempted to abduct their little girl six years earlier.
A 'robot' image of a man seen in the aparthotel in Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve on May 3, 2007 was released five years ago, but it is only now that the family from Miño in Galicia has revealed they 'nearly choked on their dinner' when they saw the picture on TV.
“I don't know if the man in the photo kidnapped Madeleine, but as far as I'm concerned, it's the man who tried to run off with my daughter,” said businessman Andrés.
He and his wife and two daughters, aged 13 and five at the time, were on a road trip from their Galicia home through Portugal heading south, and stopped for the night en route.
“We ended up in a place called Abrantes [central Portugal], entered a modest hotel, and there was nobody there when we arrived,” Andrés says.
“On our way back from dinner, we came across an English lounge [sic] and saw a man dressed like a typical 'gentleman' – you know, folded pocket handkerchief, perfectly-combed hair, woollen jumper with a shirt collar, about 45 years old, with a gin and tonic in his hand.”
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