Swedish police search for kidnapped Madeleine

I think this is the sighting we spoke of last night....but its turned out to be false sighting,police went to the scene seen the child and woman but left after being satisfied it weren't madeleine.

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Stockholm police were called out to a local beach on Monday after
a tip off that the kidnapped British girl Madeleine McCann had been
spotted there.

The tip off was by a father who believed that he had seen the
missing Madeleine McCann at Flatenbadet in the southern Stockholm
suburb of Bagarmossen, according to the Expressen newspaper.

The mystery of Madeleine McCann - the girl who disappeared from a
holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 while her parents were having
dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant - was not however solved at
a Swedish bathing spot.


"It was an Alva or Ylva who was out with her grandmother. So the police
patrol left the scene without getting involved," Joakim Caryll at
Stockholm police said to the newspaper.


heres the link to read more on this story.

http://www.thelocal.se/21230/20090811/

Well, at least they went and had a look to make sure it wasn't her, which is more than can be said of the Portuguese police and the many sightings that they seem to have just ignored.

I am glad they took it seriously and went and had a look. I often wondered what would happened if I was walking down the street in New York or Philadelphia and thought I saw Madeleine and called the police. What am I going to say?? Will they come? Etc. I think it takes a lot of courage for people to call.

bluj1515 - when people phoned and reported that the creep who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart was seen in the area with two women - they went and investigate. So, I'm assuming that the New York police would investigate any alledged sighting of Madeleine or any other missing child.

True, calcite. I can just see the dispatcher being like - huh?