Our correspondent Gavin Lee said.

This report this small villages where Christiane B.

Is said to have stayed in the weeks after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The suspects reported to have turned up here 30 miles from where she went missing without money, asking for work.

Christiane B.

Is understood of state in this village for several months and was often seen this restaurant on with his camper van.

Police have appealed for information on and several people have told us they found him strange and that he was intimidating.

They said he spent time with two friends who rented this house and claimed they were fostering German Children.

This woman, who asked not to be identified, rented the property to the couple, she says.

Locals feared him and he was seen with a weapon on his belt.

Everybody was really terrified of him because my friend's daughter had a health issue, a mental health issue, and my friend was very scared that, you know he could.

He could really do something tour and being seen with the gun.

I suppose you know people will will.

Will would be frightened In Germany, police are also investigating the suspect over the disappearance of five year old anger in 2015 and the father of another German child, six year old Renee, who went missing from this Algarve beach in 1996 says police have told him that could be a link.

This local fireman was part of the search team.

No, we never had any evidence about where they had been seen, one person said He was near the river but wasn't very sure who my normal.

Normally, when people drown in this part of the coast, the body appears after a few hours in four days since the new Madeleine McCann appeal, police have received almost 400 tip offs from the public help, which is vital, they say.