- Title: FILE - German prosecutors charge Madeleine McCann suspect with sex offences
- Date: 12th October 2022
- Summary: Reuters TV footage showed on June 4, 2020 the house where the murder suspect of Madeleine McCann lived at the time of her disappearance. BENSAFRIM, PORTUGAL (FILE - JUNE 4, 2020) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF HOUSE WHERE GERMAN MAN BEING INVESTIGATED ON SUSPICION OF MURDER OF THREE-YEAR OLD MADELEINE MCCANN LIVED IN 2007, WHEN SHE DISAPPEARED WINDOW OF HOUSE FRONT DOOR EXTERIOR OF HOUSE VARIOUS OF WINDOWS OF HOUSE KIEL, GERMANY (FILE - JUNE 4, 2020) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF BUILDING WHERE UNCONFIRMED MEDIA REPORTS SAY SUSPECT IN MADELEINE MCCANN CASE WAS BEING HELD AT TIME SIGN READING (German): "KIEL PRISON" DOOR VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF PRISON NEUWEGERSLEBEN, GERMANY (FILE - JUNE 4, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF DILAPIDATED HOUSE WHICH SUSPECT CHRISTIAN B. OWNS, ACCORDING TO GERMAN NEWSPAPER VOLKSSTIMME The last place Christian B. had a fixed abode was in the central German city of Braunschweig, meaning prosecutors there have responsibility for the investigation. BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY (FILE - JUNE 5, 2020) (REUTERS) HOUSE WHERE SUSPECT CHRISTIAN B. USED TO LIVE ACCORDING TO MEDIA PRIOR TO HIS ARREST VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF HOUSE Police excavated an allotment near the German city of Hanover in search of clues in a case that prosecutors said was linked to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann. The allotment, in the Hanover suburb of Seelze, is an hour's drive from the town of Braunschweig, the last fixed abode of Christian B., whom prosecutors last month named as their main suspect in the 3-year-old's presumed murder. SEELZE, GERMANY (JULY 28, 2020) (REUTERS) POLICE VANS PARKED OUTSIDE ALLOTMENT GARDEN FENCE COVERED WITH PLASTIC DIGGER IN GARDEN SEEN THROUGH FENCE POLICE VANS OUTSIDE GARDEN POLICE SUPERVISING DIGGER CONTAINER ON SITE POLICE NEXT TO CONTAINER DIGGER PUTTING SOIL INTO CONTAINER POLICE WATCHING POLICE SEARCH IN PROGRESS
- Embargoed: 26th October 2022 11:43
- Keywords: Germam prosecution Maddie Mccann Portugal missing girl sexual predator
- Location: UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION / PRAIA DA LUZ + BENSAFRIM, PORTUGAL / KIEL, NEUWEGERSLEBEN, SEELZE + BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY
- City: UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION / PRAIA DA LUZ + BENSAFRIM, PORTUGAL / KIEL, NEUWEGERSLEBEN, SEELZE + BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Europe
- Reuters ID: LVA006166712102022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: German prosecutors said on Tuesday (October 11) they had charged a 45-year-old German man, who is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, with several sexual offences they believe he committed in Portugal between Dec. 28, 2000, and June 11, 2017.
The prosecution is due to give a statement on the case on Wednesday (October 12).
The Braunschweig prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that the accused was the same person under investigation in connection with the disappearance of the then 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007.
"Specifically, the accused is charged with three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of sexual abuse of children," the prosecutor's office added.
"The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann continues," the office added. "In view of the ongoing investigation, it is not possible to provide any further information on the results of the investigation so far."
The Federal Criminal Police Office and the prosecutor's office in Braunschweig issued a fresh request to the public for assistance with the McCann case.
Convicted child abuser and drug trader Christian B. who is behind bars in Germany for raping a woman in the same area of the Algarve region of Portugal from where Madeleine went missing in 2007, was formally identified as an official suspect in the McCann case in April.
That was the first time a Portuguese prosecutor had identified a suspect in the case since Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine's parents, were named suspects in 2007. They were later cleared.
Christian B. 45, has denied involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine from her bedroom during a family holiday.
He has been behind bars in Germany since 2019 for raping and robbing a 72-year-old American woman in the Algarve.
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