The Polish authorities ruled out the possibility that Yuliya Wandelt as Maddie McCann, an Englishwoman who disappeared from Praia da Luz in the Algarve in 2007. To the Polish news website Gazeta, a police spokesman from Wroclaw, Poland, stated that “the steps taken in this phases contradict the version presented by the young woman.
“The investigation is ongoing, but even now it can be ruled out that the version is true,” the source said.
Julia Wandelt became popular on social media after creating an Instagram account under the name @Iammadeleinemccann (“I am Madeleine McCann” in Portuguese). In less than ten days, when the publications showed the resemblance to the missing child, the Pole gained more than a million subscribers.
Julia has also attracted national and international media attention.
Madeleine McCann disappeared from her Algarve apartment while on holiday with her family in 2007. At that time she was three years old. The case remains unsolved 16 years later, hundreds of people have been investigated and thousands of leads have been found.