'We started to investigate this situation for 45 minutes and what we got back [was that] no police officers whatsoever in Poland said that she is, or she is not, Madeleine McCann.'
The Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann has deleted her Instagram account as doubts are cast on the Polish police's public statement.
The 21-year-old, who believed she was the missing Leicestershire girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged 7, had amassed over 1 million followers on the social media site.Here she claimed she had a speck in her eye similar to Madeleine's, that she couldn't remember most of her childhood and that she was allegedly abused by a German paedophile who looked like an early suspect in the Madeleine case.
She stated: "We started to investigate this situation for 45 minutes and what we got back [was that] no police officers whatsoever in Poland said that she is, or she is not, Madeleine McCann." She also said that Polish police could only look into the case if prompted by British or Portuguese authorities.
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