The suspect, in detention in Germany, is charged with three alleged rapes and two sexual abuses on children, according to the Brunswick prosecution. It was identified by German investigators in 2020 as the main suspect in the murder of the British girl.
Le Monde with AFP
A 45 -year -old German, suspected of the murder of the young British Madeleine McCann, was charged in Germany for five other crimes and sexual crimes committed between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal, the Brunswick prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday 11.
The suspect, in detention in Kiel in Germany, is charged with three alleged rapes and two sexual abuses on children, the prosecution said in a statement. It was identified by German investigators in 2020, as the main suspect in the murder of the British girl.
But the investigations are continuing and the German prosecution has not yet charged him with the murder of Madeleine McCann, known as Maddie, disappeared on May 3, 2007 shortly before his fourth birthday to Praia da Luz, seaside resort from southern Portugal, where she was on vacation with her parents and friends.
He is now charged in Germany for five other sexual crimes and crimes committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. These are the rape of a woman between 70 and 80 years old, committed between 2000 and 2006 and that He had filmed. The victim, assaulted in his second home, had been raped and whipped.
He is also prosecuted for having attached, between 2000 and 2006, a young German of 14 years naked at a post, before whipping it and imposing an oral report. There too the scene was filmed. The third indictment concerns rape, on June 16, 2004 to Praia da Rocha, of a 20 -year -old Irishman who had managed to enter through the balcony.
The last two charges concern sexual assault against a 10 -year -old German girl, on a beach in the Faro district on April 7, 2007, and, on June 11, 2017 in Bartolomeu de Messines, against an 11 -year -old Portuguese.
“My colleagues work rather on these other cases in order to be able to close this project in the near future. When it is finished, we will take care exclusively of Maddie,” said Hans Christian Wolters, spokesperson for the Brunswick prosecution , about the investigations in progress.
The accused is a multi -writer sex offender who was sentenced, among other things, for sexual abuse, recalls the prosecution, adding that he is currently serving a sentence of seven years in prison for rape also committed in Portugal in 2005 .