Five charges: Criminal trial against Maddie suspect starts on Friday. Christian B.
is said to have raped women and abused girls. The 47-year-old is also considered a suspect in the case of the missing Maddie. The process begins on Friday (February 16, 2024) and will last several months. There is currently no trial in the Maddie case. The last large-scale search operation in Portugal in 2023 apparently brought little movement. The interest of the British press in the trial against Christian B is great.