The main suspects for the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Christian B, refused to talk to the British police on the eve of his prison exit.
This German citizen is expected to be known under the Pseudonym due to the Law on Privacy, but on Wednesday, after serving a sentence for rape older women in Praia that LUZE in 2005. years.
British investigators hoped that the 49-year-old could finally pledge the disappearance of the three-year-old girls from the Portuguese resort in 2007. year, which would be a key shift in a long investigation.
Metropolitan shelves (MET) confirmed that she sent him a “international letter with the request” to talk, but he refused, he writes Sky News.
Madeleine disappeared from the apartments shortly after the parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, left to sleep as they had dinner in a nearby restaurant. Despite the rejection of cooperation, MET confirmed that Christian B remains a key suspect in their investigation, in which they cooperate with Portuguese and German authorities. Christian B himself previously denied any connection with this case.
The Main Detective Inspector Mark Cranwell, the Senior Investigative Officer, said the police would “continue to monitor all sustainable traces” regardless of the absence of talks with Christian B.
“For many years, we work closely with our police colleagues in Germany and Portugal to investigate Madeleine McCann to understand what happened to this German suspected, that can only be done by the suspect. The suspect subsequently refused. In the absence of conversation, we will continue to continue Follow all sustainable marks, “Cranwell said.
Search and other legal issues
Over the years, the authorities spent a series of searches, and the last was in June near the Portuguese municipality of Lagos. In 2023. Investigators searched the area around the accumulation of Barragem to Arad, about 50 kilometers from Praia to Luza, where Christian B stayed between 2000. and 2017 and where he recorded photos and videos, index.
Last October, the German Court released Christiana B charges of unrelated sexual crimes that allegedly happened in Portugal between 2000. and 2017. years.
Total costs of the Investigation of Metropolitan Shelves, known as the Grange Operation, since 2011. They exceeded HP 13.2 million, after the additional 108,000 pounds from state funds were approved.
(Vijesti.ba)
