Thirteen years after the fact, the investigation is perhaps on the point of being completed. This Wednesday, German investigators claim to have "evidence" that Madeleine McCann, known as Maddie, abducted in Portugal in 2007, died. Christian B., the number one suspect in this case, would therefore be his murderer.
A call for witnesses
Investigations into the repeat pedophile, already convicted of rape in Portugal, are starting to yield results, according to the prosecutor's office in Brunswick, Germany. Two weeks ago, the police launched a call for witnesses on television in the hope of finally picking up the ultimate evidence to confuse it, and it is perhaps thanks to this approach that the prosecutor can affirm today that the girl is dead. A certainty acquired even though the body of the victim has still not been found and the suspect continues to deny his involvement in this case.
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Little girls' swimwear and child porn videos
But "it is concrete evidence or facts we have, not mere indications" that support this belief, said a spokesman for the Brunswick prosecutor's office on Wednesday. According to several media, including the television channel of the magazine Der Spiegel , the investigators discovered children's swimwear in a suspect's motorhome. They also allegedly got hold of USB keys and hard disks buried in his land containing thousands of pedophile images, some of which depict the suspect.