Maddie McCann: Was a girl from Germany a victim of Christian B.? Investigators express suspicions

In the Maddie McCann case, investigators recently dug up an allotment garden in Hanover.

Now there is another suspicion against the 43-year-old.

• Maddie McCann

  has been missing since May 3, 2007.

  Since the beginning of June, the German Christian B. has been suspected of having kidnapped the child.

• The police searched an

  allotment garden in Hanover

  for two days

  .

  The

  police are

  investigating the

  results of the excavations

  .

• Now there is another suspicion against the 43-year-old.

Update from September 4th, 7:50 p.m.:

The

of little

has still not been clarified beyond doubt, but

from Germany

is still

suspected of having been involved in the

against the little

.

Now there is another suspicion against the 43-year-old.

As Hans Christian Wolters from the Braunschweig public prosecutor

said

on

, there are separate proceedings against the man on suspicion of sexual

a child.

According to this, Christian B. is said to have acted on himself in front of a ten-year-old girl from Germany in the Algarve in April 2007, just a few weeks before Maddie McCann's disappearance.

However, the prosecutor has not yet wanted to give details.

As reported by the TV broadcaster RTP in

,

among others

, the case is said to

have occurred

about ten kilometers from

.

In other words, the place where the then three-year-old disappeared from a holiday resort.

According to Der Spiegel, the victim reported to the police after the suspicion of murder in the Maddie case was published.

Maddie McCann: Investigators hope for a breakthrough - and are sure of one thing

Update from August 30, 6:54 p.m

.: Three months after the new witness call in the

missing

person case, investigators continue to hope to find decisive evidence against a 43-year-old suspect.

"According to the information available to us, we assume the murder of the girl by the accused," said Hans Christian Wolters from the

the

.

The aim of the investigation is currently to substantiate the suspicion.

At the beginning of June, the

and the

that they were investigating a 43-year-old German on suspicion of murder.

It is the sex offender

who has multiple criminal records

.

The man is said to have

kidnapped

three-year-old

2007 from a holiday resort in the Portuguese

.

The investigators assume that the child is dead.

A bad discovery has been made in North Rhine-Westphalia: Several dead children have been found in Solingen.

Maddie McCann: excavation results are being evaluated - back and forth about request from suspect Christian B.

Update from August 18, 2020, 10:43 a.m.:

The

of the suspect's application in the

continues.

After Christian B. had again submitted his application for early release to the Penal Enforcement Chamber in Kiel, the latter had again given it to the

.

Reason: The

, where the 43-year-old is currently serving a prison sentence for a drug offense, is of the opinion that he is not locally responsible.

It continues to take the view that the decision should be made by the judges of the Braunschweig regional court, the court announced on Monday in the Schleswig-Holstein capital.

The application had already been submitted to the Braunschweig Regional Court after the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that jurisdiction lay there.

Then Christian B's lawyer withdrew the application and placed it again in Kiel.

Now you wait in Braunschweig for the files to arrive and check them again, according to a spokeswoman for RTL.de.

Maddie McCann: Did Investigators Find Hidden Basement In An Allotment?

- Police evaluate results

Update from July 30th, 5.46 p.m.:

In the case of missing girl

, who

disappeared 13 years ago

, the

now started evaluating the results of their excavations in an allotment garden.

The investigators have not yet announced any details.

The spokeswoman for the Braunschwein prosecutor, Julia Meyer, did not say on Thursday (July 30) whether the searches of the garden on the outskirts of Hanover were successful and what might have emerged there.

Initially, the investigating authorities

to submit

on the search, which ended on Wednesday evening.

Police had combed the ground on the abandoned property with an excavator, spade and rake.

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The police are evaluating the results of the search of the allotment plot in the Maddie case.

© Peter Steffen / dpa / picture alliance

The

confirmed at the beginning of using only that the

in connection with the murder investigation against a 43-year-old German stand.

The man is said to have kidnapped the three-year-old girl in 2007 from a holiday resort in the Portuguese Algarve.

The investigators assume that the child is dead.

After

disappearance, the suspect lived in Hanover - according to media reports, he lived in a minibus and worked in a workshop not far from the allotment garden that was searched.

Update from July 30th, 4:07 p.m .:

While the

case is

still keeping the investigators busy, the suspect

again

.

The district court in Kiel is processing the new application.

The Braunschweig Regional Court was responsible for the application, which B. withdrew two days earlier.

Friedrich Fülscher, the 43-year-old's lawyer, announced this to the dpa on Thursday (July 30).

B. is currently in prison in Kiel for drug trafficking.

The end of the sentence is scheduled for January 7, 2021 - two-thirds of this sentence was served on June 7 of this year.

Maddie McCann case: suspect wants to get out of custody early

The 43-year-old had previously stated through his lawyer that he had lost

after the regional court there had wrongly convicted him of rape of a 72-year-old American woman.

After the Federal Court of Justice had declared the Regional Court of Braunschweig to be responsible for the issue of release from prison, the suspect withdrew his application.

As the lawyer explained, the district court at the headquarters of the prison in which the man is incarcerated is responsible for the new application, which is Kiel.

Early release, the suspect could be released despite the ongoing investigation into him in the

.

In principle, he still has to serve his sentence in the

.

According to the Brunswick judges, the man raped

the 72-year-old

in 2005 - around a year and a half before Maddie's disappearance - in

Portugal

.

The 43-year-old

against the judgment pronounced in December 2019

.

Police do not confirm discovery of "hidden cellar" in Maddie McCann case

Update, 9:30 p.m.:

The

finished their two-day work on the property in the allotment garden in Hanover on Wednesday evening.

Whether something was found was initially unclear - it was also

that a “hidden cellar” had been discovered, as the

written.

Julia Meyer, spokeswoman for the Braunschweig public prosecutor, told the dpa: "We are not commenting on the ongoing measures to protect the investigation."

Maddie McCann case: airspace over allotments closed

Update, 6:52 p.m.:

The police search work in

allotment garden is being

accompanied by the national and international press - camera teams from France, Belgium and the Netherlands are said to be on site.

have been working

behind high privacy screens for a

long time

- now, according to information from the BKA, the air space above the allotment garden has been blocked for drones.

Maddie McCann case: Investigators find hidden cellars under the allotment garden

Update from July 29, 2020, 2:20 p.m.:

The excavation work in

obviously successful: the investigators

found

a

on the property of the allotment garden

, the

reports

The main suspect in the case of the missing Maddie McCann,

apparently lived only

from the garden plot and is said to have even lived there for a time.

Will the missing girl finally be found there?

For more detailed information about the find, the investigators have not yet looked at the maps - the

is still in full swing.

Under the foundations of a demolished summer house they came across a hidden cellar room.

Maddie McCann: Police are searching allotment gardens in the Hanover area

Update from July 28, 2020, 11:45 a.m.:

Are the police now one step further?

An

has now been

searched in

the

area

.

The operation is related to the investigation into murder against the suspected 43-year-old

, said a spokeswoman for the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office on Tuesday.

She did not say anything more precise - for example, what exactly is being searched for.

Christian B is currently in custody in Kiel.

He is the prime suspect in the kidnapped girl

The searched property is an

plot

in

(Seelze).

A

used

during the operation

, as reported by the

.

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The Maddie case: The police searched a property in an allotment garden on the outskirts of Hanover with excavators and spades.

© Julian Stratenschulte / dpa / picture alliance

Update from July 22, 2020, 9:10 a.m.:

Will the fate of

disappeared

from a

in

in

2007,

ever be resolved?

If the public prosecutor and the police have their way, Christian B. could be involved in the crime surrounding the then three-year-old.

A possible suspicion has been examined for some time.

As the British newspaper

reports, investigators could already be on the verge of a breakthrough in the case.

Accordingly, the father of an ex-girlfriend of the 43-year-old expressed himself.

He is said to have stated that he himself had

made statements to

the

.

And if it is up to him, the investigators are said to have told him that 90 percent of the

for

involvement has

already been collected.

The man, who

would rather remain anonymous

in the

, is said to have also testified to the police that he met Christian B. himself.

According to this, the German is said to have shown him his caravan in the year that little Madeleine disappeared in Praia da Luz.

Christian B. is said to have boasted in front of him that he could smuggle drugs and small children unnoticed with this car.

The former girlfriend's father told

, “If I had known then what I know today.

I would have strangled him with my hands. "Accordingly, it is also terrible for the man to know that the 43-year-old was associating with his granddaughter at the time.

Maddie McCann: Woman from Bavaria now in focus - does she know what happened on the night of the disappearance?

Update from July 18, 12:53 p.m.: 

The main suspect in the

case,

Christian B., is said to have contacted his girlfriend at the time the 3-year-old girl disappeared.

B. tried to call someone for half an hour that night.

Her name became known because the two

are believed to be

in several break-ins in the

region

.

This is reported by

with reference to the Portuguese TV show "Sexta às 9" on the RTP channel with investigative journalist Sandra Felgueiras.

The woman is said to have helped the now 43-year-old to select luxury vacation homes that were worth breaking into.

The number that B. dialed that night is said to have been assigned to the woman.

There

are no

indications that she

knew

of a possible

.

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Journalist Sandra Felgueiras on Christian B. and his girlfriend in the Maddie case.

© Screenshot: RTP / Sexta às 9

Maddie McCann case: Christian B. is said to have had an accomplice

Court files revealed the connection between

and his girlfriend at the time.

The woman's name should appear in those.

Sandra Felgueiras called her an "accomplice of Christian B."

The woman, who comes from Bavaria, is said to have been questioned twice by the German police, but is not suspected.

However, the investigative journalist from Spain previously suspected that Christian B. had been working with an accomplice on the night of Maddie's disappearance (see update from July 14, 11.46 a.m.).

Perhaps the woman from Bavaria can now help with the investigation.

During a break-in into a villa with a pool, the woman and Christian B. are said to have stolen hundreds of thousands of euros.

Journalist Sandra Felgueiras made it clear in her program: “I have evidence that

committed

with his girlfriend

.

They always acted on the same plan.

She called him as soon as the house was empty.

Then it was attacked. "

Christian B .: Freund talks about professional break-ins

The woman denies

having been close to

Her

, a taxi driver, is said to remember meeting the man in Portugal.

Another man appears in Felgueiras' research.

claims that he and Christian B. specialized in break-ins between 2005 and 2006.

They would have focused on

, as they were easy to attack or rob.

The two men spent eight months in prison after they were caught stealing gasoline from cars in April 2006.

Maddie McCann case: crazy turnaround?

Main suspect Christian B. could be released soon

Update from July 16, 9:13 p.m.: In 

the case of the missing girl

, the

European Court of Justice (ECJ) is examining

whether the German suspect could be convicted of a rape there by a German court without the consent of Portugal.

The ECJ announced that a decision is

expected

.

"My client was extradited to Germany on the basis of a different arrest warrant, a prison sentence in any other matter may not be carried out without the consent of Portugal," said

to

.

Suspect in the Maddie McCann case: decision should be made in late summer

The European court has not yet made a decision.

Depending on this, B. will either be released in

- then he will have served his sentence for drug trafficking, or must remain in prison at least until 2026.

This case occurs when the ECJ rejects the request for revision.

“At the beginning of August, the advocate general's motions come;

I think the decision will come in the course of August.

I was optimistic that the Republic of Ireland, which was the only other nation to participate, fully shares my legal opinion, ”said lawyer

to

.

In an interview with

, a

profiler said

he expected the prosecution to

pull

a

.

"The current evidence is not enough for an indictment," said the analyst

.

He thinks it is unlikely that the cautious German public prosecutor in the world's most famous missing person case will claim to be certain of something if it had no evidence.

Maddie McCann case: main suspect Christian B. could be released soon 

Update from July 16, 9:18 a.m.:

The case of

,

who has been missing since 2007,

has still not been cleared up, but Christian B. was targeted by the

, who is investigating the 43-year-old.

The suspect is currently serving a

for

.

Since he has already served two-thirds of the sentence, B. applied for early release.

In addition, the 43-year-old was sentenced in December 2019 by the Braunschweig Regional Court

to a total of seven years in prison for

and extortion against a 72-year-old American

and other offenses.

On the other hand, B. went into revision.

The Federal Court of Justice forwarded the appeal request to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which will start with the hearing on Thursday. 

Maddie McCann case: will Christian B. be released soon?

B. committed the rape in Portugal; he justified his request for appeal by stating that he had been extradited to Germany for child abuse and not for rape.

Therefore, the Braunschweig public prosecutor was not authorized to convict him.

If he gets through with his urgent appeal for a review, the judgment would be null and void.

And if early release is also granted, B. could be at large in just a few weeks.

The

wants to

prevent this at all costs.

Rudi Cerne comments on the Maddie McCann case  

Update from July 15, 9:35 a.m

.: Maddie McCann has been missing for 13 years. 

, moderator of

“hopes that this case can still be cleared up.

After the ZDF broadcast in June, 16 reports were received that the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is pursuing. 

Among them, a hint could be useful, said Rudi Cerne to the

.

It is about a Portuguese phone number, explains Cerne.

Apparently there is a way to find the owner of this phone number.

Everything is still very vague, but you really want to know who has called now.

"I very much hope that the case can be resolved," said Rudi Cerne.

There is no urgent suspicion against Christian B., only one suspicion, he emphasizes.

There is no evidence that Maddie's body has not yet been found.

In a "Aktenzeichen XY" broadcast in August, the investigation into the case of Maddie who has disappeared will be the subject again, Cerne announced.

As reported by tz.de *, the ZDF special program "Aktenzeichen XY ... solved" (July 15) deals with three spectacular criminal cases that have already been solved.       

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"File number XY ... unsolved": Rudi Cerne talks about the Maddie McCann missing person case.

© ZDF / Nadine Rupp

Missing case Maddie McCann: did Christian B. have an accomplice?

Update from July 14th, 11.46 a.m

.: Sandra Felgueiras, who works for the Portuguese TV broadcaster

and is intensively involved with the

case

, told the English newspaper

an explosive suspicion about the night of the crime in connection with the alleged perpetrator 

Portuguese reporter suspects that Christian B. had an accomplice in Maddie's kidnapping

"My guess is that Christian B. had an accomplice with whom he worked on the night Maddie was kidnapped," said the reporter.

She added that German police are convinced

dead. 

Felgueiras

also commented on the investigations of the wells: “The wells that were examined contain lime.

This substance can break down a body quickly.

They didn't find anything, but it was a logical place to search because the pictures showed his vans on a beach not far away. "

In addition, the reporter revealed that

was suspected

in 2008 when a 16-year-old girl disappeared near his former home Foral - near Praia da Luz, from where

kidnapped.

After the girl reappeared, however, no action was taken against him and the case remained unsolved. 

By the way: The search for Yves R., who was on the run in Oppenau in the Black Forest, is currently running at full speed.

The 31-year-old is most likely heavily armed and dangerous.

Was Maddie thrown into a well?

New evidence emerged

First report from July 13th

: Vila do Bispo - New lead in the case of

?

New "fundamental pieces of evidence" gave the investigators hope that they might

find the

remains of the kidnapped

.

According to several media reports,

investigators have examined

three

in the small village of

in southwest

.

The suspicion: Did

throw

little

into one of the wells in 2007?

The German has been the main suspect in the

case since the beginning of June

.

Investigators with new evidence - Maddie dumped in well?

A 15-man team consisting of the police, fire brigade and divers is said to have

searched

the three

.

According to the English newspaper

, the search took twelve hours.

The whole thing without

finding

a trace of the missing

!

According to sources in the English newspaper, the search is now to be extended to other abandoned wells in the area.

The newspaper

and the TV broadcaster

reported on Friday evening, citing police circles, that criminal investigators had carried out investigations in recent weeks. 

UPDATE: Police teams and divers have searched remote wells for the body of Madeleine McCann.

Portuguese media have reported extensive searches were conducted in wells 16km from Praia da Luz.

Watch @ 60Mins investigation into Maddie's disappearance: https://t.co/IFWbPe2kdE # 60Mins pic.twitter.com/ExyXhizg7N

- 60 Minutes Australia (@ 60Mins) July 13, 2020

A local resident told

: “15 firefighters and police officers came.

I saw divers being

let

into the

with flashlights

.

If you fall in there, you will never get out. ”The three irrigation wells have been shut down for years and overgrown with bushes.

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Maddie McCann has been missing since May 3, 2007.

© AFP / HANDOUT

Will investigators find Maddie in Wells?

New evidence emerged

The investigators had come across the 5000-inhabitant community because

by several witnesses on a beach in the immediate vicinity of the fountain.

In addition, the beach is only 15 minutes away from Praia de Luz.

So the place where little

disappeared 13 years ago.

The police interviewed a couple

who had lived

near the suspect

, as reported by the Portuguese TV broadcaster RTP.

The "fundamental evidence" was found.

Christian B.

is currently serving a prison sentence in Kiel for a drug offense.

In the past weeks and days, his lawyers had repeatedly complained about the investigators.

Despite a lack of evidence, his mandate is "pilloried worldwide" *, so lawyer Friedrich Fülscher der

.

*

List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / Luis Forra / LU