Naoual Malhi says men claiming to work for the Morocco's crime barons have warned her to keep her mouth shut
Naoual Malhi, 24, says men claiming to work for the country's crime barons have warned her to keep her mouth shut about what she saw - and ditch plans to probe the sighting herself.
The mum-of-one, whose daughter Ines is Madeleine's age, has told how one growled: "Let this lie if you know what's good for you, your daughter and the rest of your family, otherwise you're a dead woman next time you're in Morocco."
But brave Naoual is pressing ahead with plans to defy the threats and return to her homeland to look for the girl she saw.
She is also getting the calls - which come from withheld numbers - taped so she can hand them over to police helping in the hunt for the missing four-year-old.
Naoual, who lives near Marbella, Spain, said: "I'm not frightened by the mafia.
"It's obvious I'm on to something otherwise they wouldn't be calling.
"They've warned me I'm going to be killed next time I step on Moroccan soil unless I shut my mouth about Madeleine.
"But I know the girl I saw getting into that taxi was her and I'm not going to stop until I find her.
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Spanish woman Naoual Malhi claims to have seen Madeleine McCann being bundled into a taxi in Morocco
"We're taping all the phone calls and I'm going to give them to police to investigate.
"It could provide them with another good clue to her whereabouts."
Naoual claims to have seen a blonde girl with Madeleine's distinctive right iris in the arms of a middle-aged woman in Fnideq, northern Morocco, at the end of September.
She lost them after they headed to the former Spanish garrison town of Al Hoceima, further east along the Mediterranean coast.
Last month she travelled to north Africa with private investigators working for the McCanns - and says she received hundreds of phone calls from people who had seen the pair in various locations in Morocco's Rif Mountains.
They were last spotted in the remote town of Karia Ba Mohamed near Fez - but the trail is now thought to have gone cold.
Naoual says she and her family have been receiving death threats on a Moroccan mobile she put on a picture poster of Madeleine distributed throughout the area.
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Kate and Gerry McCann consider Naoual's information to be 'highly credible'
Her Fez-based family have been answering the phone and taking information down from callers since she returned to Spain on October 16.
Kate and Gerry McCann believe Morocco is the place their daughter is most likely to be - and consider Naoual's information to be "highly credible".
They insist Portuguese police are wrong in believing Madeleine died by accident in their apartment on May 3 when she was last seen - and they disposed of her body.
Naoual, who describes herself as a qualified doctor, said: "All I want to do is reunite the McCanns with their daughter.
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Detectives working on behalf of the McCanns have been focusing their attention on the remote Rif Mountains
"I have a young girl the same age so I know how they must feel.
"There is no doubt in my mind Madeleine is in Morocco. Blonde girls are highly sought after there. I suspect the woman she is with is looking after for someone until she is old enough to be forced into child prostitution.
"After the death threats I've received, I'm more certain than ever that that someone is the Moroccan mafia.
"It's not nice to get these calls. But they just make me more determined to get to the bottom of this. I'm preparing to return to Morocco as soon as I can."
Metodo 3, the private investigators working for the McCanns, has said it also believes Madeleine is alive and being held against her will in Morocco.
They are currently trawling lists of Portuguese paedophiles in the belief a local man stole her to order from her Algarve apartment and took her to Morocco after crossing the border with Spain hours after the snatch.
A Norwegian tourist and two Spanish tourists have also reported sightings in the north African country.
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Map: Recent 'sightings' of Madeleine in Morocco
A newspaper reported at the weekend that criminal Godfathers in Morocco have been told police will scale back drug busts against them if they agree to help the Madeleine probe.
Police chiefs in Morocco have angrily denied their country is a child sex haven and say their searches for Madeleine have produced no evidence she is there.
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