No one can forget that little angel face and those expressive eyes. Madeleine MacCann, 3, disappeared in 2007 while on vacation in Portugal with her family. Today, a new suspect is being talked about.
How many years have passed (13 years) since the disappearance in the media in Portugal of Madeleine MacCann, known as Maddie, a Briton of 3 years old. Many theories have emerged, books have even come out. But the investigation never really progressed. According to AFP, German police have announced that they are investigating a new suspect, Christian B., currently imprisoned in Kiel in northern Germany, for drug trafficking. She suspects him of having killed Maddie, while the child was spending holidays with his parents in the small Portuguese seaside resort of Praia da Luz.
This man has a very heavy past, he is indeed a repeat pedophile. He has been sentenced on several occasions, notably for sexual violence against minors. And according to German justice, he would have broken into the McCanns' apartment to commit theft and, once there, he might have decided to kidnap the little girl.
Christian B had to be placed in solitary confinement for security reasons, the regional justice minister for Schleswig-Holstein, Claus Christian Claussen, said on Wednesday.
Man fantasized about little girls
Der Spiegel revealed that Christian B shared his fantasies on the Internet, evoking in a chat his penchant for little girls. In September 2013, he even told a friend that he wanted to "capture something small and use it for days." And in a conversation, he would have mentioned little Maddie: "He seems to have talked about her in an online forum, with another person"said a former investigator in the case to the German media. Worse still, in one of his discussions, when a friend told him that it would be" dangerous ", Christian B would have replied:" Oh, if the evidence is subsequently destroyed. "
Maddie would be dead
In an interview with The Times, the investigating prosecutor, Hans Christian Wolters, spoke about the case. According to him, "the suspect relatively quickly killed the little girl"after his abduction."He may have abused her and then killed her. We believe that our suspect committed other crimes, mainly sexual crimes, in Portugal but also elsewhere, like here in Germany"he said. And he repeated several times that according to the police, the 3-year-old girl died.
"All the information shows that the girl died. We have no information that she is alive. Everything points to the fact that Madeleine is dead. There are things that we cannot communicate but which prove that Madeleine is dead, even if I have to admit it, we do not have the body. And the body would be irrefutable proof, the most crucial proof. We expect her to be dead, but we don't have enough material to charge our German suspect with murder. And at the moment, we also don't have enough evidence to bring to court in a trial, but we do have evidence that shows the suspect is involved ", he told Sky News earlier this week.
German justice has also since indicated that it is studying a possible parallel between the disappearance of a young girl five years ago in the country and that of Madeleine McCann. Her name also appears in the disappearance of little Peggy. On May 7, 2001, the 9-year-old girl disappeared in Bavaria on her way home from school. The remains of his body had been discovered by a person gathering mushrooms in a wooded area of Thuringia, a Land in central-eastern Germany. Similarly, Belgian police have also reopened the case of the murder of a teenage girl, Caroline Titze, in 1996, in De Haan.
"The sooner we get evidence, the better we will be able to avoid the risk of his release. If we do not find anything more about him, it may be that in seven years at most, he will be released and leave Germany for a country which does not extradite", warns Hans Christian Wolter.