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Lisbon: The BBC has reported that one of the three people being questioned by police in relation to a 4-year-old British girl who disappeared 11 days ago in southern Portugal, has been arrested as a suspect.
British channel Sky News said the man was a Briton, Robert Murat, who lives in a villa at Praia da Luz around 100 metres from the Ocean Club complex where four-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3 while her parents ate in a nearby restaurant.
Britain's Press Association (PA) and Sky News said that police began to search the villa Murat shares with his mother and three-year-old son, after journalist Lori Campbell, of Britain's Sunday Mirror, told police that she found Murat’s behaviour suspicious.
"Basically he surfaced on Friday afternoon last week and was walking around as if he was somebody official. He claimed that he was just a local guy who spoke fluent Portuguese and English and was helping the family," Campbell told PA.
"He was coming in and out of the family apartment speaking with the media and acting like he was somebody official. But when questioned about it, he was very vague about his position."
A local translator Gaynor De Jesus and Campbell, also told British media that Murat said he had a three or four-year-old daughter.
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