The new German suspect in the 2007 case of the disappearance of the Briton Madeleine McCann in Portugal could be implicated in another murder in Belgium of a German teenager in 1996. Belgian justice has reopened the investigation.

Belgian courts have decided to reopen the investigation into the murder in Belgium of a German teenager in 1996, due to a possible link with Christian B., the new suspect in the case of the disappearance of the British Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007, we learned on Thursday.

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This 16-year-old German teenager, Carola Titze, was found dead, with a mutilated body, in July 1996 in a station on the Belgian coast. The Bruges prosecutor's office (north-west) "reopens the file relating to this murder," a spokesman for the prosecution told AFP, without giving further details.

The new German suspect in the case of the disappearance of the small British Maddie, 13 years ago in Portugal, does not want to speak on the facts for the moment, declared one of his lawyers for the chain n -TV. "Christian B. does not give any information at this time on this matter and we ask you to understand that we neither as his defenders do not give it", explained Friedrich Fülscher to this news channel continuously German.