Town where Maddie McCann went 行方不明の hopes parents find 終結

By Catarina Demony

PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal, June 5 (Reuters) - Foreign 居住(者)s in the Portuguese 訴える手段/行楽地 of Praia da Luz on Friday spoke of their hopes that the parents of British girl Madeleine McCann, who went 行方不明の there 13 years ago, can find 終結 at last.

German 当局 say she is now assumed to be dead and that an 拘留するd German child abuser is 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd of her 殺人.

Madeleine, then 老年の 3, disappeared from her hotel room in 2007 during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, a small town in the southern Algarve where some foreign 訪問者s 結局最後にはーなる living all year 一連の会議、交渉/完成する.

"I always hoped they would find her alive," said Sally Clegg, a 69-year-old from Yorkshire, who bought a holiday home in the white-塀で囲むd town, whose 指名する translates as "Beach of Light", eight years ago.

"I think for parents, even if horrible, at least they know and they can find 終結," she told Reuters not far from the 訴える手段/行楽地 コンビナート/複合体 where Madeleine disappeared.

Coffee shops were open, but serving few 顧客s as the town of about 3,500 居住(者)s remains 大部分は 砂漠d 予定 to the coronavirus lockdown.

The church where the McCanns used to go and where 地元のs prayed for her 安全な return years ago was shut.

"I feel bad for them. They are in a limbo, for so many years now. I can't even imagine what that's like so it would be 広大な/多数の/重要な if there was some 終結," said 57-year-old New Yorker Susan Harris, who moved to Praia about the time Maddie disappeared, as she strolled by the ocean.

にもかかわらず Madeleine's 見えなくなる, Harris thought the 訴える手段/行楽地 was 安全な and still felt "like a very family place".

Peter Sehurter, 70, from Switzerland, has lived in Praia de Luz for two years: "When I moved in my 隣人 said it happened in his flat ... I hope this is it - everybody does, but I think there's still 欠如(する) of 証拠. It would bring 終結, おもに to the parents." (令状ing by Andrei Khalip Editing by Ingrid Melander and Giles Elgood)

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