In the case of Maddie McCann determined the public Prosecutor's office in Braunschweig against the 43-year-old Christian B., 2007, the then 4-year-old British girl from a holiday resort disappeared in the Portuguese of Praia da Luz.

negotiating begins on Thursday

Christian B. is the investigators already extensively known: He has a criminal record, he currently sits in Kiel, a 21-month sentence for drug trafficking. Two-thirds of them are over now. A request for early dismissal has been made already.

However, another fact: the 43-Year-old was sentenced in December 2019 by the regional court of Braunschweig because of the serious rape in conjunction with extortion of a 72-year-old American woman and a further crime to a seven-year prison sentence.

B. to have been the victims of masked Rob, you have tied up and gagged and with a metal object have taken. This fact had occurred in September 2005 in Portugal, not far from the village, in the Maddie McCann two years later, disappeared.

McCann calls a suspect to "speciality protection"

The judgment is not because of a revision request of B. the Federal court of justice, however, is still quite strong. The Supreme court forwarded the application to the European court of justice (ECJ). The hearing starts on Thursday. The speaker of the European court of justice Hartmut East explains in an interview with FOCUS Online, that B. is relying on the so-called "specialty protection".

B. alleges that the justice must not have to condemn in Braunschweig him, because he had been delivered due to child abuse and not because of the rape from Portugal to Germany. Because "sexual abuse of a child in coincidence with the gain and possession of child pornographic writings" sentenced him, the district court of Braunschweig in 2016, to imprisonment for a term of one year and three months. This punishment has served Christian already.

Prosecutor's office seeks to prevent release

The Revision in the terms of the rape is carried out in the summary proceedings, with a ruling is expected in a few weeks. Whether Christian B. appears personally and expresses itself, could not ECJ spokesman for the East to say. A similar case of East is not known. The European court of justice must now decide how the EU law must be interpreted. The lawyer of Christain b. not expressed upon written request by FOCUS Online.

If the court of law and also its application for the early release corresponds to, he could come up theoretically soon on free foot.

However, the public Prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is trying to prevent a dismissal of the Suspect, Christian B.. Using a stuff call in "aktenzeichen XY", try to get the investigators to new evidence to, to be able to Christian b. in the case of a possible release in custody because of the McCann investigation is to bring.

No success in search for Maddie McCann

In the case of Maddie had been searching for the Portuguese police, according to media reports, in the last few weeks in the fountain after the girl. The officials of the criminal police were there with the help of divers in the municipality of Vila do Bispo in use. No trace of the British girl had been discovered, it said.

The public Prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is examining a tangle of Christian B. in other cases of missing children. In search of the 2. May 2015 missing Inga Gehricke came mobile the investigators, according to a report four years ago in an old box factory in neuweger life in Magdeburg, on a residential, the B. is said to have bought at a foreclosure sale.

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Date Of Update: 16 July 2020, 04:26