The poignant plea in English was overheard by a bank security guard in Brussels, Belgium — and he is convinced the kiddie was missing Maddie.
The Securitas guard became suspicious and ran out of the KBC bank branch last Monday after spotting the pair on monitors linked to CCTV cameras covering the street.
Tapes were last night being studied by police — and footage obtained by The Sun has been passed to Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry to see if they recognise the child.
The guard told detectives the blonde blue-eyed girl looked just like Maddie, who was nearly four when she vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3 last year.
The dark-skinned woman, wearing a hijab headdress, spoke in a different language, possibly broken French. Police interviewed the guard, who speaks fluent Flemish, Dutch and English, on Thursday. They also seized film from five closed-circuit cameras.
Footage first shows the girl being led along a quiet street named Ulensstraat, in the run- down immigrant area of Molenbeek. The pair are heading towards the Vergotedok canal.
The back view shows the mystery woman is dressed in black trousers, a white coat and a black headscarf. The child has a fringe like Madeleine’s. She has on a white jumper with a pink waistband, a pink tartan skirt and beige boots.
The woman is North African or Arabic with thick black eyebrows. She has on a patterned black top and white shoes and appears to be pregnant.
