Julia Faustyna, a young German living in Poland, claims to be Maddie McCann, a young girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007. However, Julia’s family denies it.
For several weeks, Julia Faustyna, a young German woman, has been claiming loud and clear to be Maddie McCann, a young British girl who disappeared in Portugal during a trip with her family in 2007. An unthinkable version denied by Julia’s family. This family residing in Poland reacted with the voice of a association Polish helping in the search for missing persons. In the press release, Julia’s entourage describes a woman who has undergone “numerous therapies, medications, psychologists and psychiatrists”. However, she has since left her parents’ home as an adult and “refuses treatment, does not take medication regularly”. The press release also specifies that a specialized center in Poland had agreed to follow her but that she did not go there.
Julia W.’s real name family also claims that she “always wanted to be popular. Which is happening now because she has a million followers. (…) It’s obvious that Julia is not Maddy”. Julia’s parents say they are “devastated” by this situation and therefore reject their daughter’s allegations.
Julia, a German who claims to be Maddie McCann
It’s on his Instagram account, @iammaddiemccanthat Julia claims to be Maddie McCann, a four-year-old girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007. Followed by more than a million subscribers, the young woman claims to have many points of resemblance to Maddie, in particular the same color of eyes and hair, similar moles and a similar eye spot.
On the social network, the 21-year-old young woman regularly posts photos of comparisons between her photos and that of Maddie McCann. She says there that she created this account in order to approach Maddie’s parents to do a DNA test to confirm or refute her statements. Operation which seems to have borne fruit because she specified in her Instagram biography that “Kate and Gerry McCann [les parents de Maddie] have agreed to do a DNA test!”. Yet the question of age poses a major concern for consistency. Maddie McCann should be 19 today, not 21. An inconsistency to which the young woman has provided an answer: “On my papers, I am 21 years old, but I think that when someone kidnaps a child, he probably changes his identity” she told on the networks.
In addition to the argument of physical similarities, Julia advances other tracks, in particular a disturbing discussion with her parents: “when I asked my father if he was really my biological father, he said to me: “Yes yes, and even if I’m not, it wouldn’t change anything”. As for my mother, she was angry and didn’t want to answer,” said the young adult. Another clue according to Julia, one of the suspects in the Maddie McCann case “looks like” the man who attacked her when she was younger, indeed Julia said she was the victim of “a German pedophile” and no longer remembering his childhood and suffering from “post-traumatic amnesia”.
What do we know about the disappearance of Maddie McCann?
Disappeared in May 2007, Maddie McCann and her family are staying with friends in a hotel complex in southern Portugal. It was on the evening of May 3 that Maddie disappeared while she was in her hotel room with her 2-year-old twin brothers. His parents then in the restaurant a few meters from the room with friends regularly making rounds in the children’s rooms to check that everything was fine. When Kate McCann returns around 10 p.m., Maddie’s bedroom windows are open and the little girl is gone. First suspected parents were quickly exonerated.
Who is the prime suspect in the McCann case?
The main track favored by the investigators weigh on a German pedophile who would be linked to the case. He is currently charged in Germany for five other crimes and sexual offenses committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. Yet his guilt in the Maddie case has never been demonstrated. Many other tracks were revealed but often abandoned by the investigators for lack of evidence.