A woman who once claimed that she was Madeleine was now being held after she was accused of chasing the family of the missing girl by contacting them constantly and returning to their home in the United Kingdom
Julia Wandel, also known as Julia Wandel or Julia Windle, was also known as Julia Windel, He was arrested on Wednesday At an airport in Bristol, the guardian reports.
According to the port, it was Accuse Four members of the Macan – parents Jerry and Kate, and the twin siblings Sean and Emily – throughout the period of 2024 until 2025. It is also claimed that they have paid unwanted and undesirable visits to their home twice, in May and December. year.
File-on May 2, 2012, the file of the file, Kate and Jerry Macan for the media with a missing poster depicting an age-created image of their daughter Madeleine at the nine of her disappearance during a family vacation in southern Portugal in May 2007, during a press conference in London.
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Accusations indicate the alleged communication, which came in the form of phone calls, voice messages, WhatsApp and Instagram, “had a major negative impact on the family.
In 2023, Wandel began publishing many “evidence” on social media, claiming that she believed that she might be missing, which disappeared without impact in 2007 when she was only three years during her family vacation in Portugal.
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The essence of its “guide” with regard to physical similarity revolves around the rare eye disorder in Makan, and one and the end of his participation. When she lost Macan, Coloboma anomalies were used in her right eye as a major identification feature. (Colubial tumor is a hole in the structure of the eye, and it often causes a clear tear or hole.)
She also claimed that she had a dark, Macchan, many moles and freckles in a similar place, and similar gaps in her teeth.
However, after two months, her spokesman said that the DNA test confirmed that Wandel was not the missing girl. In fact, the test showed that Wandel has approximately 100 percent of the Polish heritage, without any evidence of the British or even German origin.
The Polish police suffered from the allegations of Wandal that they were about a week after reaching the viral fame, and Wandal’s parents spoke about her campaign, saying that they were “destroyed” through her allegations and the global media attention she enjoys.
On the left, Julia Wandel, the Polish woman who has once claimed to be a missing girl, Madeleine McCann, is on the right.
@iamadieinemccan/Madeleine Macan family
“It is clear that Julia is not material,” they wrote in a statement about Facebook “Missed” pageAdding that their daughter has received treatment from psychologists and psychiatrists in the past, but indicates that he may have recently stopped.
“She refuses treatment, and does not take medications regularly … We have been destroyed by the current situation.”
According to the Wasse newspaper, Wandel He appeared before the court on Friday To confront her concern. There were no appeals. It will appear in a full hearing on April 7 and will remain in detention.
The perpetrator stated that a second woman was also arrested alongside Wandal on suspicion of being pursued. The 60 -year -old Welsh woman was released on bail.
On May 3, 2007, Macan was lost from a hotel room in Braya da Luz, Portugal, while she was on vacation with her parents. Her parents were eating with friends in the nearby Tapas pub, leaving Macan and her siblings asleep in their evening bedroom disappeared.
Her disappearance launched an investigation across the country and led to international media freedom.
For more than a decade, the Portuguese, English and German police forces cooperated in an attempt to determine the location of Macan and its kidnappers.
In June 2020, German police said that Macan was supposed to be dead, but the British authorities are still treating their disappearance as a missing person.
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