Maddie suspect in court: trial continues on Friday. Christian B.

is said to have committed the crimes in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. The then three-year-old British girl disappeared from a vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007 while her parents were having dinner in a nearby restaurant. Last year, police launched the largest search operation in years in Maddie's missing case. The German also committed this crime in Portugal. The former companion of the main suspect provided the police with crucial information about him in 2018.