After the unexpected and startling news More and more details about the man are coming out about a German suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. Christian B. has written in chat messages about kidnapping and abusing children, according to weekly magazine Der Spiegel. It is also being investigated whether he has anything to do with the disappearance of a girl in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt in 2015.
B. has a long criminal record. He is currently serving a sentence in drug prison in Kiel for drug trafficking, but at the same time he is also imprisoned for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Portugal, also the country where 3-year-old Madeleine was kidnapped in 2007. He has already been convicted for that rape, but his appeal procedure is still ongoing.
In 1994, when he was still a minor himself, B. was convicted of abusing a girl. He fled to Portugal before he was arrested. Later, in 2016, he was convicted again of child abuse and possession of child pornography.
Destroying evidence
In his own words, Der Spiegel was able to see the incriminating material against the suspect. Serious facts emerge from this. For example, in 2013 he would have said in a chat message with a friend that he wanted to “lock up something small and use it for days”. When he was told that it could be dangerous, B replied, “Ah, if only the evidence is destroyed afterwards.”
The public prosecutor in Saxony-Anhalt has started an investigation to see if B. has anything to do with the disappearance of 5-year-old Inga over five years ago. The girl disappeared while visiting a facility for the disabled. B. lived nearby at the time and knew someone who worked at the institution. In his house, the police later found children’s clothing in addition to child pornography. The composition drawing made at the time of the possible perpetrator shows similarities with B.
Man unhinged
So the suspicions against B. are mounting. From the long list of convictions and from interviews with acquaintances and neighbors of B., the image emerges of an unhinged, moreless man, always on the run from justice. German and British police also openly say they have a strong suspicion that he is responsible for the disappearance and possible murder of Maddie.
But what is still missing is concrete evidence that B. links to the British toddler. “What we have now is not enough to charge him,” prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said today. Dozens of tips were received after the investigative reports on German and British television. According to Wolters, a decisive tip has not been included so far.
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