The place would be linked to the disappearance of the british Maddie McCann, abducted in 2007 in Portugal while she was on holiday with his family.
Digger, sniffer dogs, and rakes : the German police combed through this Tuesday, a garden worker near Hanover in connection with the mysterious disappearance of the little British Maddie McCann, in 2007 in Portugal, a new development in this story full of twists and turns.
This business has seen a sudden increase since the beginning of June with the identification of a new suspect, Christian B., 43 years old, a pedophile German multirécidiviste already sentenced for a rape in Portugal and are currently in detention. “These searches are related to our investigation on the case of Maddie McCann,” said Julia Meyer, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office Brunswick, without giving further details.
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Several police cars were present on the scene of this subdivision located in the western outskirts of the city, at the edge of a road, excavated by a score of police using shovels, rakes and dogs. The investigators also used a mechanical digger in these allotments are very popular in Germany. They allow to the inhabitants of the cities to benefit from a small green area where they grow fruit and vegetables, organize barbeques with friends and rest at the weekend.
The suspect has lived in Hanover
This research could confirm the beliefs of the German investigators who, recently, have been the first to affirm that Madeleine McCann, who disappeared 13 years ago and at the age of 3 years, had died. In mid-June, the prosecutor’s office of Brunswick had explained to hold of the “evidence or facts” to support the conviction of the death of the girl but not of the “forensic evidence” in the sense that, for example, of the remains of the body would have been found.
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Christian B. is currently in detention at Kiel, in northern Germany, for another case. He lived at the time of the facts a few kilometres from the hotel, in the small seaside resort of the Portuguese of Praia da Luz, where the child had disappeared. In detention, he had to be placed in solitary confinement in order to prevent it being attacked by co-detainees.
He is suspected of the murder of the little girl, who was on holiday with his parents and their other two children in Portugal at the time of his disappearance. According to his lawyer quoted in the media, the man denies any involvement in the disappearance of Maddie. According to the local newspaper, Hannoversche Allgemeine, he had lived in Hannover, in the north of Germany, to 2007.
Errors of the German police
According to German media, the investigators have found out in a camping-car of the suspect of swimwear for children. They would also put the main on USB drives containing thousands of images of child pornography, including some featuring the suspect. It is also covered by an extradition request to Portugal for the rape of a woman 72 years of age.
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The case has raised several controversies, including around obvious errors of the German police. It would have informed Christian B. as soon as 2013 that they suspected him, that he could have left the possibility of destroying possible evidence. In 2013, the German police had been put on the track of the man after a show widely watched in Germany, which allows the police to call witnesses.
The German investigators are also looking at a possible parallel with another case of disappearance, that of the small Inga in 2015 in a forest in the German region of Saxony-Anhalt. Several other unsolved murders of children and adolescents in Europe, particularly in Belgium and the netherlands, are also the subject of checks to establish if the suspect could be involved.
