A British couple have tried to rescue a child at a Croatian holiday island, because they believed it was missing toddler Madeleine McCann.
Daily Mail has reported, a couple spotted the child with long blonde hair, around the same age as Madeleine, and immediately jumped to conclusions.
Little did they know the child, who was actually a little boy, was the son of a famous Croatian footballer and his model wife – the Posh and Becks of Croatia.
Dino Drpic, and his wife Nives had noticed the pair taking photos of their son Leone, but weren’t too suspicious because people were often taking photos of them.
But it soon became evident that they had ulterior motives.
“I started getting suspicious when the British woman approached Leone and started chatting with him,” Nives told Daily Mail.
“Suddenly she grabbed him by the arm, apparently thinking nobody was watching him.”
Nives said she rushed over, and the British woman immediately realised her mistake and apologised.
Since Madeleine went missing from a holiday apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May last year, there has been dozens of false reported sightings across the world.
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