In the case of the missing Maddie McCann, the German Christian B. is suspected. It also focuses on missing children in other cases.
- Maddie McCann * is still missing.
- Is Christian B. responsible for the girl's disappearance?
- Apparently he benefited from a mistake made by the authorities.
Update of June 12, 2020, 8:30 p.m .: In the case of Inga, who disappeared in Saxony-Anhalt in 2015, the Stendal public prosecutor's office sees no evidence of involvement of the man suspected of murdering in the Maddie case. The fate of the two missing girls had hit the headlines again after the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office announced last week that the 43-year-old was suspected in the Maddie case.
The Bavarian Radio (BR) and "Focus Online" had previously reported on the development in the Inga case. The investigators from Saxony-Anhalt now again intensified the possible involvement of the 43-year-old in the case. However, there was no evidence that this was near the crime scene , prosecutor Thomas Kramer told the German Press Agency on Friday evening. For example, a radio cell query showed that the suspect's cell phone was not logged into the crime scene area.
Maddie McCann: Is Christian B. responsible for further actions? 22 year old phantom picture puzzles
Update of June 12, 2020, 4:30 p.m .: Maddie McCann has been missing since May 2007, and soon the crime against the then three-year-old could be solved. Investigators suspect that Christian B. may have had something to do with the girl's disappearance.
After the BKA Wiesbaden went public with this presumption, investigators quickly found parallels in other unsolved criminal cases that could also point to Christian B. as a suspected perpetrator.
A connection with the missing Inga is now being examined, and even in the case of Rene , who disappeared on vacation in Portugal , participation of the German cannot be ruled out.
Also in the case of Peggy Knobloch's death and the murder of the German youth Carola Titze , parallels to Christian B. are examined.
Missing Maddie: Is Christian B. a serial offender?
In the case of the missing Inga from Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt, Ingas father's lawyer could imagine Christian B.'s involvement. In an interview with RTL , Khubaib-Ali Mohammed explains that the impression now arises that "whenever a child has disappeared without a trace in recent years, Christian B. was not far away".
Another case in which a parallel to the German cannot be excluded, according to RTL, is the murder of Tristan Brübach. The phantom image of the alleged murderer of the teenager is similar to Christian B., according to RTL. It is not known whether the murder is actually being re-investigated.
Could Christian B. (right) be involved in the case of the dead Tristan Brübach? With the phantom image (left), investigators search for the murderer.
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Back in March 1998, the then 13-year-old Tristan was found dead by children in a tunnel along the Liederbach near the train station in Frankfurt's Höchst district. This tunnel is said to have been used by local people and children as a shortcut.
The McCann family has to cope with yet another loss - Maddie's grandma died of the consequences of the corona virus.
Maddie McCann: Investigative Breakdown Report - Christian B. may have benefited from errors
Update from June 12, 2020, 11:40 a.m .: Apparently the suspect Christian B. has benefited from a police mistake. The authorities allegedly broke down in the investigation, as reported in the mirror ( behind pay barrier) .
The police had informed Christian B. of their investigations too early. The mirror relies on internal documents from German authorities. The suspect apparently received a letter from the police saying that he was suspected of missing Madeleine McCann. As a result, he would have been "extremely alarmed" and would have had enough time to clear his tracks.
In his kiosk he even talked about how an acquaintance said: "Now I should have killed Maddie just because I was in Portugal", his words were said to have been. In the meantime, however, there are some indications that burden the 43-year-old, so a cell phone that B. was using was logged in near the crime scene.
Maddie McCann: Profiler speaks to Christian B. at RTL - "We only have certainty when ..."
Update of June 12, 2020, 10.15 a.m .: The TV station RTL showed a special program on the missing person case Maddie McCann on Wednesday . Among other things, the profiler Axel Peterma nn unpacked there - he paints a bad picture of the suspect Christian B. , who is still in solitary confinement .
You know a lot about the 43-year-old. Petermann describes him on the show as follows: “He is psychopathic , has no empathy for other people. If he murdered Maddie, you would have to call him sadistic. "
Meanwhile, Maddie's parents still hope that the girl will be found alive. Her spokesman Clarence Mitchell reports - even they stay away from the public.
Christian B. himself is currently exercising his right to remain silent. Petermann : “We only have certainty when we have a confession and this is verified. The information would then have to be backed up with evidence. ”
Maddie McCann: Christian B. is represented by a star lawyer
Update from June 11, 2020, 4:40 p.m .: Christian B., who is suspected of being responsible for the disappearance of the then three-year-old Maddie McCann , is now being defended by star lawyer Johann Schwemm and his colleague Friedrich Fülscher. The reported bild.de .
The 73-year-old star lawyer already represented celebrities like Jan Ullrich - and in 2016 , with weather moderator Jörg Kachelmann, won the lawsuit for damages against his ex-lover Claudia D .. At that time, she had to pay 7,000 euros in appraisal costs. Schwemm is known for winning many hopeless cases. According to the report, Christian B's previous lawyers had given up their mandate without giving any reason.
Weather moderator Jörg Kachelmann (M) in 2016 hearing room of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main between his lawyers Johann Schwenn (l) and Ann Marie Welker (r).
© dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst
Update of June 11, 2020, 2:02 p.m .: The German Christian B. is considered a suspect in the case of the missing girl Maddie McCann . However, he has not yet been heard on the case. "This time has not yet come for us," said Hans Christian Wolters from the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office of the DPA. An interrogation often takes place only at the end of the investigation so that the accused can also make concrete reservations about the results, said Wolters.
Christian B. is currently serving an old prison sentence for drug trafficking in the Kiel prison. On Wednesday, it was announced that the 43-year-old had been transferred to another tract in Kiel prison to protect against possible attacks.
Maddie McCann case: Belgium investigates Carola Titze again - connection with suspect?
Update of June 11, 2020, 1:58 pm: After the new developments in the Maddie case, the Belgian public prosecutor's office has resumed an investigation into an old murder case. It is about the murder of the German youth Carola Titze, a press spokesman for the West Flanders public prosecutor's office said on Thursday of the AFP news agency. The mutilated body of the 16-year-old was found in a Belgian coastal town in July 1996.
Christian B. in focus in other missing persons cases - "always close to the crime scene"
Update of June 11, 2020, 11:05 a.m .: Last week, the public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig declared that they had declared Maddie McCann dead. And that, although there should be no specific information about the girl's body . With the decision, the case was officially changed from a missing person to a murder case .
The main suspect Christian B . meanwhile sits isolated in the JVA Kiel and changed his legal counsel. His previous defenders resigned from the mandate without reason. B. is now represented by Kiel lawyer Friedrich Fülscher and Hamburg lawyer Johann Schwenn.
Meanwhile, Christian B. also focuses on missing children in other cases. NTV is now reporting five other cases in which the police should now check a possible connection to Christian B. "It is a common thread in Christian B.'s life that he stays close to the crime scene whenever children disappear," says a victim lawyer to the broadcaster.
Maddie McCann: Family spokesman with new details
Update of June 10, 2020, 8:30 p.m .: "Kate and Gary were informed all the time and know a lot more than she and I," explains the spokesman for the McCann family right at the start of the RTL special program. Clarence Mitchell also explains that he is certain that investigators have more against Christian B. than they have previously confirmed to the public.
Maddie McCann: Christian B. moved to a single cell for fear of attacks
Origination of June 10, 2020: Praia da Luz - The disappearance of Maddie McCann has been on the mind of investigators from Portugal and Great Britain since May 3, 2007 - and currently also investigators from Germany. Christian B., a multiple criminal sex offender from Germany, is suspected .
Maddie McCann misses: Was an employee of the resort inaugurated?
Did the 43-year-old kidnap the girl from a holiday resort in the Algarve ? While a report is now heavily burdening an employee of the holiday complex, the details that emerge from the life of the 43-year-old are piling up. Christian B. is said to have been convicted 17 times. The German is currently serving a prison term in Kiel , Christian B. is said to have been convicted for the first time in Bavaria.
Investigators hoped for new clues with the broadcast on the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY". Cars of the German * are also the focus. After the suspicion in the case of the girl from Great Britain became public, investigators in other unsolved criminal cases are now again investigating .
Maddie McCann misses: Christian B. could be involved in other cases
The 43-year-old was seen near the crime scene where little Inga disappeared in 2015 *. The disappearance of Rene in Portugal * is currently being re-examined. Investigators in the Peggy * case are now also trying to rule out a connection.
And Christian B. could be involved in another crime. The police in the Netherlands are currently investigating whether the suspect German might have had anything to do with the disappearance of a Dutch boy. The then seven-year-old Jair Soares was last seen in August 1995 on the beach at Monster south of The Hague. Since then, there is no trace of him.
Maddie McCann misses: RTL with special broadcast on the case
The Hague police are closely following the investigation in Germany and will contact German colleagues, a spokesman said on Tuesday. He confirmed a corresponding report by the newspaper De Telegraaf .
In the evening, TV station RTL now wants to broadcast previously unpublished interviews and discussions with insiders in a special program. What exactly RTL publishes in the show is not yet known in detail.
While investigators are now evaluating the evidence received in the case, the suspect's defenders have resigned. This was reported to the responsible investigative authority , the lawyers Jan-Christian Hochmann and David Volke informed the German Press Agency . They did not want to give a reason for the return of the mandate on Wednesday.
The 43-year-old man in prison in Kiel is now being represented by Kiel lawyer Friedrich Fülscher and Hamburg lawyer Johann Schwenn. Fülscher told RTL / n-tv that his client would like to "not provide any information on the matter at the moment". "We ask for your understanding that we, as defense lawyers, do not provide any information either." Schwenn confirmed the dpa the joint mandate with colleague Fülscher. "We'll see after looking at the files," he said.
Maddie McCann: Lawyers Resign Mandate
The main suspect's previous lawyers said they had been tasked with defending the 43-year-old suspect last week . In Kiel, imprisonment due to drug offenses ends in the spring of 2021. The man has already served two thirds of this sentence and has applied for exemption from imprisonment. It has not yet been decided on.
As Minister of Justice Claussen told the man for security is another Ward moved to solitary confinement Service. He was also only allowed to leave the cell individually and accompanied by security guards. So one wants to prevent potentially inmates attack the prisoner. Attacks have been expected since he became the prime suspect in the Maddie case, Claussen said.
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