The Maddie case is again the subject of the ZDF cult program "Aktenzeichen xy" - the response after the show is huge.
- Maddie McCann case : Christian B. is suspected of having killed her.
- Christian B. could be responsible for other missing person cases.
- British investigators gave early references to German pedophiles in Portugal .
Update from Tuesday, June 9th, 2020, 4.50am: In the case of the British girl Madeleine "Maddie" McCann, who disappeared 13 years ago, hundreds of new reports have been received by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) since the middle of last week. That said the spokesman for the Braunschweig public prosecutor, Hans Christian Wolters.
The ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY ... unresolved" last Wednesday evening had the expected great response. The instructions would now be processed. "Experience has shown that the evaluation of this information will take at least several weeks, if not months."
Update from Monday, June 8th, 2020, 2:23 pm: Portuguese investigators are said to have received references to a German pedophile ring shortly after the missing Maddie McCann disappeared . The British tabloid "The Sun" reports.
Missing Maddie McCann: Investigators warned of German pedophiles
According to information from the "Sun", British authorities are said to have forwarded a notice marked as urgent to Portuguese investigators. In it, they referred to two German sex offenders. The men are said to have been involved in human trafficking. Whether it is for one of the men around the suspicious Christian B . is not clear.
Therefore, the question of who the two men were at all remains open for the time being. Likewise, whether they have anything to do with the missing Maddie McCann case . The girl had disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment in the Portuguese Algarve in 2007. Since 06/03/2020 is against the German Christian B . determined. He is suspected of kidnapping Maddie McCann , then three years old . There is still no trace of the girl.
Residents remembered suspect Christian B. in the case of
+++ 20:29: In a video interview with the “mirror”, a Portuguese resident remembers Christian B. , who is suspected of murder in the case of the missing Maddie McCann . He describes the German as an "unfriendly hippie", which he noticed years ago. "He made a very unfriendly impression on me," he told the magazine.
Maddie McCann (missing): Hundreds of reports are received by the British police
+++ 3 p.m .: In the case of the missing Maddie , the police in the UK have received around 400 new information. According to a police spokesman on Sunday (June 7th, 2020) in London, they received it by phone or email. Investigators in Germany are convinced that Maddie McCann is dead.
The British police, on the other hand, continue to assume that there is a missing person after 13 years . "There is no definitive evidence that Madeleine is still alive or dead," said Scotland Yard spokesman.
Missing Maddie McCann: Police are looking for parallels to other cases
Update from Sunday, June 7th, 2020, 11.08am: The new findings in the case of the missing Maddie , which caused a sensation beyond Germany, not only fuel the hope of a late solution to the case. They also cause other investigators to go through their files.
"If there are such new details, it is routine for the police to look for parallels for their old cases," said a police spokesman from Lower Saxony. The smallest chance of new investigative approaches will be used. In the case of the British girl Maddie , who disappeared in Portugal 13 years ago , no further details were officially disclosed four days after the murder investigation against the German Christian B. was announced.
Missing Maddie McCann: No breakthrough in murder investigation foreseeable yet
+++ 21.07 clock: Three days after the murder investigation against the 43-year-old German Christian B. in the case of Maddie is announced, no breakthrough is yet in sight. However, the investigators hope for clues from the population that could lead to this.
There are many indications that Christian B. was behind Maddie's disappearance , but the chain of evidence is not closed. "It is not enough for an arrest warrant or an indictment," said Hans Christian Wolters from the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office on Friday (June 5, 2020).
Missing Maddie McCann: witness from Great Britain recognizes Christian B.
+++ 16.06 clock: A witness from Great Britain has recognized the 43-year-old German Christian B. after a report of the "Sun" in the case of Maddie McCann . At that time he was said to have behaved strangely near the McCann family's apartment.
The newspaper describes the woman as a "credible witness", who is said to have described the man a few hours after the disappearance of the little girl in the holiday resort in Portugal. Now when she was shown a picture of the suspect, she said, according to the Sun, "This is the man I saw."
Maddie McCann case: Police investigate terrible suspicions
Update from Saturday, June 6th, 2020, 9:33 am: In the case of Christian B., who is said to have killed the missing Maddie McCann , the police are investigating a terrible suspect, according to the Cologne City Gazette. In 1996 the then six-year-old René Hasee disappeared in a seaside resort in Portugal . René from Elsdorf near Bergheim in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the report, had disappeared on a beach in the Portuguese Algarve; his mother and her partner had briefly lost sight of him.
The police are now investigating a connection with the Maddie McCann case . The suspect in the Maddie case is said to have lived regularly in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 . As already reported, it is also being checked whether the suspect in the Maddie McCann case could have anything to do with the disappearance of the small Inga in Saxony-Anhalt. The girl disappeared from an addiction support facility in Wilhelmshof near Stendal in May 2015. At that time Christian B. lived on an abandoned factory site in the region.
Maddie McCann case: shocking CV of suspect Christian B.
+++ 20.45 clock: More and more details on the CV of the suspect Christian B. in the case of Maddie McCann are known. The motor vehicle trainee, who was accused at the time, was still on probation for a theft when he sexually approached a girl in the playground of a community in the Würzburg district in September 1993.
When the six-year-old started screaming, he ran away, according to the report at the time. Six months later, he approached a nine-year-old and lowered his pants in front of her - just three days before the trial date that had been scheduled for the first case.
Maddie case: Suspect Christian B. raped 72-year-old and robbed her
A problematic childhood with adoption and stay at home was cited by an appraiser at the time, who, however, attested the defendant “fully guilty”. He did not escape punishment. The flight to Portugal ended with the arrest and extradition to Germany. The young man's pedophile and also court-documented criminal behavior remained against this. After the prison sentence, he moved back to Portugal, where he wanted to emigrate. In 2005 - about a year and a half before Maddie's disappearance - Christian B. brutally raped and then robbed a 72-year-old American in Praia da Luz.
Maddie McCann case: Suspect Christian B. without comment
+++ 20.17 PM: In the missing case of Maddie McCann , the defenders of the 43-year-old suspect Christian B. initially declined to comment. At the present time, one of the two DPA defenders said on Friday (05.06.2020) when he would not be able to say when such a damage was to be expected.
+++ 14.56 clock: More and more shocking details about the abysses of Christian B. are known. For example, the Spiegel has a chat protocol from investigative documents in which Christian B. reports on the kidnapping and sexual abuse of a child. For example, he "captured something small and used it for days", Christian B. is said to have written in a chat in September 2013.
Maddie case: Investigators investigate allegations against Christian B.
Christian B. is now also suspected to have something to do with the disappearance of little Inga in matters of Anhalt. The phantom photo, which was taken by the alleged perpetrator at the time, could match the one that was taken after Maddie McCann's disappearance, as spiegel.de first reports.
+++ 12.35 p.m .: In the Maddie case, the investigators are investigating further allegations against the suspect Christian B. These are related to another missing person case from Saxony-Anhalt. Several media reports.
References to Christian B. not only in the Maddie case
Accordingly, Christian B. could have to do with the case of the missing Inga. The girl disappeared from an addiction support facility in Wilhelmshof near Stendal in May 2015. At that time Christian B. lived on an abandoned factory site in the region. In 2016 child pornography material was found on the site, which shows, among other things, the abuse of small children and infants.
Maddie case: connection between Maddie and Inga cases? https://t.co/ILZy4gYFBM #Maddie
- Tagesschau (@tagesschau) June 5, 2020Christian B. was in contact with other suspects by mail
Children's clothing for girls was also found on the property. However, Christian B. has no family to which the clothes can be assigned. In addition, B. is said to have been in correspondence with an employee of the addiction support facility, who was suspected of having committed crime after Inga's disappearance.
Investigations into the Maddie case against Christian B. continue
The investigation in the Inga case as well as the Maddie case against Christian B. continues. The 43-year-old has been suspected since 03/06/2020 of being connected to the disappearance of Maddie McCann. The then three-year-old had disappeared from a holiday resort in Portugal in 2007 and has been missing since then. Christian B. had been living in Portugal at the time and was convicted of sex offenses. The previously unsettled case had caused a sensation worldwide.
Telephone number remains an important reference to Christian B. in the Maddie case
Update from Friday, June 5, 2020, 9:10 am: The investigation into the Madeleine "Maddie" McCann case is in full swing . The investigation continues to focus on a call that suspect Christian B. received on the evening of Maddie's disappearance.
That evening Christian B. received a call from the Portuguese telephone number +351 916 510 683. The investigators assume that the caller is an important witness and call on the person to contact the authorities.
Suspect Christian B. in the Maddie McCann case is already in custody for another offense
The Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) in Wiesbaden announced on Wednesday (03.06.2020) that Christian B., 43 , was being investigated. The authorities ask for further information, which can be submitted online on the BKA website. Christian B. is suspected of being linked to the disappearance of Maddie McCann. The then three-year-old girl disappeared in the Portuguese Algarve on May 3, 2007. Investigators assume that Madeleine "Maddie" McCann is now dead.
The suspect Christian B. is said to have lived regularly in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007. Officials describe the investigation against B. as possibly the most important investigation so far in the 13-year-old case. According to the BKA , B. has appeared on several occasions for sexual offenses and is currently in custody in Bremen.
Prosecutor's Office in Braunschweig assumes Madeleine "Maddie" McCann's death
++ 1:22 pm: The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig assumes that the three-year-old Madeleine “Maddie” McCann, who disappeared in Portugal about 13 years ago, is dead. The investigation against a 43-year-old German, Christian B. , was carried out on suspicion of murder. "We assume that the girl is dead," said the spokesman for the authority, Hans Christian Wolters, at a press conference on the Maddie case in Braunschweig.
The investigation was directed against a man convicted of sexual offenses who, according to dpa information, is behind bars in Kiel . He lived in the Portuguese Algarve during the period of disappearance. The investigators are now hoping for clues from the population.
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++ 12.23 p.m .: The parents of Maddie, who has disappeared for 13 years, do not want to comment further on the suspect Christian B. from Germany. "They want everything to focus on the investigation now," said press officer Clarence Mitchell. The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is investigating a 43-year-old who has had multiple convictions for sex offenses, including on children.
The findings on Christian B. could be the most important outcome of the long-standing investigation into the Maddie case , Mitchell told Sky News. The British Maddie had disappeared on May 3, 2007 at the age of three from an apartment complex in the Algarve in Portugal.
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"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever comes out we need to know because we need to find peace," Kate and Gerry McCann were quoted in a Scotland Yard statement . "All we ever wanted to do was find her, bring the truth to light and hold those responsible to account." If Madeleine was still alive, she would be 17 years old.
Maddie case: Neighbor describes suspect Christian B. as aggressive
++ 12.12 PM: 13 years after the three-year-old Maddie McCann disappeared, the German sex offender Chrisitian B. is now suspected. The man was at the time of the Maddie case in the Portuguese Algarve, where the girl's family was on vacation. According to information from the "Braunschweiger Zeitung", the accused is a man who was sentenced to seven years in prison in Praia da Luz in 2005 by the Braunschweig Regional Court for raping a 72-year-old American woman in 2005. There are many indications of this, according to the newspaper.
The "Braunschweiger Zeitung" writes with a view to the trial that Christian B., dressed in a plain gray shirt and slightly too large jeans , had an intelligent effect. German witnesses from Portuguese times would have described him as a knight of luck, "who tried to broadcast what, but also did not do big Zampano".
A former neighbor from Portugal, however, described Christian B. as aggressive. "He was always a little angry, went up and down the street quickly and one day, around 2006, he disappeared without a word," the woman told Sky News. About half a year after the man's disappearance, she was asked to help clean up the property, the woman said. "It was disgusting." Everywhere in Christian B.'s accommodation there were damaged things like computers. In a garbage bag were wigs and strange clothes - possibly for costumes.
Maddie McCann's case: What role did the Jaguar and the call to Christian B. play?
Update from Thursday, June 4th, 2020, 11:24 am: As Scotland Yard reports, the suspect Christian B. , who had short, blonde hair when the three-year-old Maddie McCann disappeared at the time of the crime in May 2007, was about 1.80 meters tall large. In the Maddie case, British investigators paid particular attention to two vehicles and two telephone numbers that Christian B. is said to have used. It's about a VW T3 Westfalia caravan with a Portuguese license plate, in which the man is said to have lived at times, and a Jaguar, model XJR 6, with a German license plate. The day after Maddie's disappearance, the Jaguar was re-registered to a new owner.
Is the call to Christian B. related to the Maddie case?
On the evening that Maddie disappeared, Christian B. is said to have received a call on +351 912 730 680 with a Portuguese country code. The call was answered in the Praia de Luz region. "Investigators believe that the person who made the call is a key witness and urge them to contact them," the Scotland Yard statement said. The caller's number was +351 916 510 683.
The findings on Christian B. are the result of years of cooperation between the British, German and Portuguese police in the Maddie case , it said. “After the 10th anniversary, the Metropolitan Police received information about a German man who is known to be in and around Praia de Luz. We have worked with colleagues in Germany and Portugal and this man is a suspect in the event of Madeleine's disappearance, ”said Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell, according to the release. Scotland Yard, however, stressed that the case was still missing .
Missing Maddie McCann: Parents See “Significant Development”
Update from Thursday, June 4th, 2020, 10:38 am: After the BKA in Wiesbaden announced on Wednesday in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY" that in the case of Maddie McCann, who had been missing for 13 years, the German Christian B. is now suspected of murder, is noticed in the past on several occasions for sexual offenses committed against children and, now also have parents of Maddie McCann expressed. Gary and Kate McCann told Sky News that the current news situation was a "significant development". The parents have never given up hope of seeing their daughter again.
The couple had been targeted by the investigators themselves, but had always vehemently denied any guilt in the Maddie case . This suspicion of the investigators was never confirmed.
First message from Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020: Wiesbaden - Almost exactly 13 years ago, the three-year-old Madeleine "Maddie" McCann disappeared from an apartment complex in Portugal. The girl has been missing since then . An unprecedented search campaign begins, in which the parents involve the public and the media closely. There was also a lot of criticism for this. At times, they themselves were suspected of having something to do with Maddie's disappearance . Now there is a surprising turning point in the spectacular missing person case .
Missing case of Maddie McCann: girl disappears without a trace in Portugal
As the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced in Wiesbaden on Wednesday (June 3, 2020), the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office is investigating the missing Maddie McCann against a man from Braunschweig. The man is suspected of murder. According to the BKA, the 43-year-old has been convicted of sex offenses on children several times. He is currently serving a longer sentence in another case.
Between 1995 and 2007 the suspect Christian B. is said to have lived regularly in the Algarve in southern Portugal, including for a few years in a house between Lagos and Praia de Luz. There he pursued several odd jobs, including in the catering industry. According to the BKA, Christian B. is said to have made his living from committing crimes such as burglary and drug trafficking.
Like the Braunschweiger Zeitung reported to Christian B . In 2019, she was convicted by the Braunschweig district court for raping a 72-year-old American at the time. The crime is said to have been committed in the same Portuguese town where Maddie McCann was kidnapped about a year and a half later and has been missing since then.
Maddie case: Now the trail leads to Christian B. in Germany
The then three-year-old Maddie McCann had disappeared from a holiday resort in Portugal in May 2007. The Maddie case had caused media attention worldwide. The investigators assumed a kidnapping. At times, the parents themselves were also suspected. The responsible investigative authorities have been following information on the missing person case for 13 years . The Braunschweig public prosecutor's office is involved in the investigation because the 43-year-old had his last residence in the district before his stay abroad.
The BKA in Wiesbaden called on the public to help with the investigation. In the ZDF program "File number XY ... unresolved", BKA official Christian Hoppe asked the viewers on Wednesday to report any information about the missing Maddie McCann case to the BKA or any police station. Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann were also guests on the show in 2013.
Rebecca Reusch, 15, has also been missing for more than a year. The police fear the worst. Now a bizarre Facebook profile caused a stir. Two teenagers recently disappeared without a trace in Frankfurt. The police made a surprising discovery 500 kilometers away.
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