Suspect in Maddie McCann’s disappearance is tried in Germany for another case

The main suspect in the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann almost 17 years ago Portugal He faces a trial starting Friday in Germany for other sex crime charges.

Since your involvement case MaddieJustice in the German country has barely provided information about this 47-year-old German, who will be tried in a court in Brunswick, in the north.

READ TOO: Hamas-Israel Truce Negotiations: Will It Work This Time?

Identified by the court as Christian B.man will submit for a trial that lasted several months for sexual assaults and rapes committed between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal.

His 2020 appointment as principal suspect from the disappearance in Madeleine McCann It was a turning point in this international investigation with countless twists, false leads and hypotheses.

On a case which gained worldwide attention, Maddie He disappeared in 2007, shortly before his fourth birthday, in Praia da Luz, a tourist village in the Algarve, the southernmost region of Portugal.

Christian B. was not formally charged by the disappearance of the girl, but it was the investigation into the matter that led to the imminent judgment for sexual crimes, he said Christian Woltersspokesperson for the Public Ministry Brunswick.

“Without the investigation of case Maddiethese alleged crimes would not have been publicized for the light” he declared for the AFP.

TO KNOW MORE: The Long Story of the Lakewood Church Shooting Perpetrator by Famous Pastor Joel Osteen

Silence of the accused

The accused is currently purging in Germany a seven-year prison sentence for rape in 2005 for an American who was then 72 years old and lived in Praia da Luz, the same city where his family lived. Madeleine McCann.

In one of the cases judged for from Friday onwards suspect of sexual assault for a ten-year-old German girl on a beach in April 2007, months before the disappearance in Maddie.

Another accusation against him is for exhibitionism in front of another 11-year-old Portuguese girl in a children’s playground.

He will also be tried for raping a septuagenarian, tying her up and beating her holiday apartment; of a 14 year old girl, for who gagged a wooden post in his house, and for The Irish A 20-year-old man whose house he broke into through the balcony.

Christian B.’s lawyer, Friedrich Fülscherstated that his client chose to defend himself by remaining silent, but that this “does not mean that there is anything for to hide”.

“Ensuring a fair process will be the greatest difficulty: the prejudices media coverage of the accused is unprecedented.”declared the lawyer for the AFP.

LOOK HERE: Ukraine claims to have “destroyed” Russian warship off Crimea

Witnesses, manuscripts

Among the evidence that the prosecution will provide are witness statements and notebooks seized from the man’s house. suspecthe claimed Christian Wolters.

These handwritten notes and sketches offer insight into the accused’s “sexual fantasies,” he said.

Maddie disappeared from the rented apartment where her family was vacationing while her parents were away for dinner nearby.

From him disappearance triggered an exceptional international campaign to try to find her. The photos of the girl, with her brown hair cut to shoulder length and her big light eyes, went around the world.

The suspicions against Christian B.officially announced almost four years ago, it reignited the hope of her parents, Gerry and Kate, to finally advance the research.

The investigations dragged on for years until the authorities noticed this German who was living at the time. for a few kilometers from the family hotel McCann.

In this new phase of the investigation, Portuguese police carried out searches near a water reservoir in southern Portugal in May 2023. for request from the German authorities.

New “elements” were found, said Public Ministry Brunswickalthough he estimated it was “it’s still too early” to determine whether they were linked to the disappearance of the girl.

In any case, German investigators claim to have “evidence concrete”of the death of Madeleine.

Source: Elcomercio

jack

I am Jack Morton and I work in 24 News Recorder. I mostly cover world news and I have also authored 24 news recorder. I find this work highly interesting and it allows me to keep up with current events happening around the world.