Yeremi Vargas disappearance in Canarias linked to Madeleine McCann investigation

Yeremi Vargas disappearance in Canarias linked to Madeleine McCann investigation
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By m.p. - Feb 4, 2008 - 11:31 AM

Seven year old Yeremi Vargas, missing from Gran Canaria. Archive photo – EFE.

The mother of the seven year old boy said Spanish police have been in touch with detectives in Portugal

The mother of Yeremi Vargas, the seven year old boy who went missing from Gran Canaria when he was playing in the street outside his grandmother’s house in Vecindario last March, says police investigating her son’s disappearance have been in contact with Portuguese police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Ithaisa Suárez was quoted by the UK’s Daily Record saying, ‘the specialist police team from Madrid have told me that they have been in contact with the Portuguese police investigating Madeleine. They are working on the theory that people involved in child trafficking are behind these cases.’

Yeremi was last seen on 10th March 2007, two months before Madeleine disappeared from Praia da Luz on the Portuguese Algarve. Yeremi’s mother is reported to believe that both kidnappings were ordered, and that the children were probably sold on.

Ithaisa Suárez contacted Madeleine’s parents when the toddler first went missing to show her support, and the two families have exchanged a number of letters since then, the Daily Record said. The paper said Yeremi’s mother believes the families should ‘stick together’ to show a united front and to make the public understand that ‘we have not given up on our children being found.’ Ithaisa Suárez wants to arrange meetings with Kate and Gerry McCann, and also with the parents of Mari Luz Cortés, the five year old girl who went missing in Huelva on 13th January.

In Portugal meanwhile, a search is taking place of a reservoir 40 miles from Praia da Luz for any sign of Madeleine’s body. The Daily Record said the cost is being paid by a lawyer, Marcos Correia, who says an un-named source told him she was, as the paper says, ‘murdered and thrown into a lake last May.’

A picture of Madeleine McCann held by a child at a protest in Madrid. Archive photo – EFE.

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