Serious blunder German police in Maddie case | Abroad

Last week, the Federal Investigation Service and the Public Prosecution Service of Braunschweig surprisingly announced that 43-year-old Christian B., who is imprisoned for other crimes, is suspected of the disappearance and murder of the missing Maddie. In 2007, at the time of the events, he lived a few kilometers away from the hotel in Portugal where the child had disappeared. The child was there on vacation with her parents.

According to Der Spiegel, the German police were already on the trail of this suspect in 2013 after information from a man who claims to have been a colleague of B. at the time of the events. Following this testimony, the police in Braunschweig B. had immediately called, according to the same source, to question him as a witness.

Interrogation notice

In the official letter to the suspect on November 4, 2013, which Der Spiegel claims to have read, the police clearly told the suspect that they wanted to hear about the Maddie case, giving Christian B. enough time to destroy all the evidence.

“It should not have happened this way and in no way corresponds to the usual procedure in such a delicate case,” regretted a police officer in Der Spiegel. Usually, investigators first attempt to gather information without directly confronting a potential criminal with the suspicion.

Neither Braunschweig’s lawyer nor the police want to comment on the information in the magazine.

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