Private investigators, who are being paid £50,000 a month to find the girl, have invested huge sums in sending teams to check out reported sightings of her in the Rif mountains of northern Morocco and Marrakech in the south.
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One theory is that Madeleine, four, was abducted and brought there after vanishing from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz while on a family holiday on May 3.
The agency Metodo 3 is following the line she was kidnapped by a paedophile gang to take to North Africa, where blonde children are said to be highly prized as a symbol of social status.
More than 40 investigators are working on the case in Morocco, Spain and Portugal.
However, some experts claim the line of inquiry is fruitless and is just being fuelled by tourists who have mistaken blonde local girls in Morocco for Madeleine.
Fair-haired children are rare in the country, but not unheard of among the Berber population.
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