France ? Police investigating an alleged sighting last week of Madeleine McCann in southern France have determined it was not the missing British girl, a police official said Wednesday.

Investigators had taken seriously a Dutch tourist’s account that she believed she saw Madeleine at a roadside restaurant near the city of Montpellier on Feb. 15, a police official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly on the matter.

After viewing closed-circuit video footage, police investigators spotted a man and a young girl who indeed resembled the missing British girl, but determined it was not Madeleine after a thorough inspection, the official said.

The file has been transferred to a state prosecutor in Montpellier, the official said. He declined to give further information.