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“Based on the information available to us, we assume the murder of the girl by the accused,” said Hans Christian Wolters of the Braunschweig prosecutor’s office, three months after the new call for witnesses in the Maddie case.
Currently, the objective of the investigation is to substantiate the suspicion. In early June, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Braunschweig prosecutor announced that they were investigating a 43-year-old German as a murder suspect. He was a sex offender with multiple criminal records. The man is said to have abducted three-year-old Madeleine McCann in 2007 from a vacation spot in the Portuguese Algarve. Investigators assume the boy is dead.
The man is currently detained in Kiel for drug trafficking. The German Federal Court of Justice also recently processed an application for early release. Furthermore, a decision from the European Court of Justice is awaited because the 43-year-old is calling for a Braunschweig judgment to be overturned. According to his defense attorney, the suspect did not comment on Maddie’s kidnapping and murder charge.
Maddie was kidnapped from this house in Lagos (Portugal) in 2007.
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