内容摘要："One thing you cannot have is a puncture," says Florent Menegaux, chief executive of the French tyre-maker Michelin.

"One thing you cannot have is a puncture," says Florent Menegaux, chief executive of the French tyre-maker Michelin.

Searches for Madeleine McCann are to resume in Portugal, 18 years after she disappeared from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz in the Algarve.Portuguese and German authorities are expected to continue to focus the search on disused buildings and wells.

Madeleine was three when she vanished while on holiday with her parents on 3 May 2007, sparking a Europe-wide police investigation that has become one of the highest-profile missing persons cases.This search - which covers the municipality of Lagos, near Praia da Luz - will continue until Friday across a 21km sq site between where Madeleine went missing and where the German investigators' prime suspect had been staying at the time.Madeleine's case was initially handled by the Portuguese authorities with the aid of the Metropolitan Police, but German investigators took the lead in 2020, when they identified German national Christian Brückner as their prime suspect.

The 48-year-old is currently serving a sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal in 2005. He is due to be released in September, but that could be pushed back to early 2026 if he does not pay a fine he owes.The search site is located around 3.5 miles from the Ocean Club resort, where Madeleine and her family had been staying.

Roads leading up to the area - which is large and mostly scrubland - have been closed since Monday, where the team had been clearing grass and vegetation.

On Tuesday morning, a Portuguese fire engine and four vehicles carrying German police arrived. Firefighters also drained a well as part of the search."I thought maybe he'd remarried, and his second wife wasn't allowing him to come back home," she says sadly.

"I've been asking: 'Where is my son?'"The first time I heard he was a zama zama at Stilfontein, I was told by my son. He came to my house holding his phone and he showed me the news on social media and explained that they were saying he escaped from the police."

The police say several illegal miners described him as one of the Stilfontein ring leaders.His mother does not believe he could have been in this position and says seeing the coverage of him has been upsetting.