An arrest warrant has been issued against Christian B., the German suspect in the case of the missing girl Maddie. The responsible criminal court had confirmed an urgent suspicion of five sex offenses, the regional court in Braunschweig said on Monday. The public prosecutor filed a complaint against the 45-year-old in October. He is charged with three counts of aggravated rape and two counts of child sexual abuse.
He is said to have committed the crimes between the end of December 2000 and June 2017 in Portugal, where the then three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared from an apartment complex in May 2007. According to the court, it is currently not possible to execute the new arrest warrant because it requires permission from Italy. The suspect was arrested there. He was extradited to Germany. Approval is required at the public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig.
In prison in Germany for further sex offences
The 45-year-old is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of an American woman in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2005. For the time after that, the 2nd criminal chamber in Braunschweig also sees the reasons for the risk of absconding and on repeat, as a spokeswoman explained. The public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig is responsible because the last German place of residence of the suspect before his stay abroad was in Braunschweig.
Source: Krone
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