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The murder suspect in Maddie’s case remains in jail for an extended period. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected his appeal against a sentence issued in late 2019 for the rape of an American woman.
This means that Christian B., who is currently serving the final weeks of another prison sentence, will not be released anytime soon, and investigators on the Maddie case bought time.
In early June, the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Braunschweig Prosecutor announced that they were investigating the sex offender with multiple criminal records for murder in the Maddie case. But: So far, no arrest warrant has been obtained against him. Without his previous convictions, he would not be in custody.
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Christian B. is serving a long term (one year and nine months) in Kiel since February for drug trafficking. End: January 7.
In December last year, the Braunschweig Regional Court convicted the man of raping the American (72) in Portugal. Total sentence: seven years in prison. This judgment is now final. It had based its review mainly on the argument that the German authorities were not authorized to prosecute.
Friedrich Fülscher (36), lawyer for Christian B., at BILD: “The criminal appeal is not statistically promising with very less than ten percent of the reviews submitted. In this sense, the result is not surprising ”. According to the lawyer, who did not represent Christian B. in the rape case, the Federal Court of Justice is not re-examining the real circumstances of the case, but is only verifying the sentence of the previous instance for legal errors.
Fülscher: “The possibility of reversing the verdict depends largely on whether all possibilities have been exhausted in the first instance to force the court to reach a certain conclusion. Only if the court is urged in a certain direction can a procedural error be affirmed with high probability. “
Maddie disappeared from a vacation spot in Portugal in 2007 without a trace. For years, the fate of the three-year-old was unclear. Until German researchers presented the new trace.
