Trial against Maddie suspect started. Long queues formed in front of the building and media people and visitors had to undergo extensive security measures before entering.
Defense attorney Friedrich Fülscher filed a motion for bias against a female lay judge. The 47-year-old is currently serving a prison sentence for another rape. He was convicted at the end of 2019 for an act that also occurred in Praia da Luz in 2005 - the place where Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.