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Maddie case: TV documentary meaningless for investigations
BRAUNSCHWEIG. The broadcaster SAT.1 had announced new evidence as a result of investigative research. Prosecutor reacts: "Nothing new was presented." New traces in the maddie case had promised the television channel SAT.1 on Monday evening in an investigative documentary about the case of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from a holiday resort in Portugal in 2007. After the broadcast, disillusionment sets in. "After the full-bodied praises of the television station, we expected the documentary with great interest," explains Christian Wolters, spokesman for the responsible Braunschweig public prosecutor's office, on request. His conclusion, however, is: "Nothing new was presented. The broadcast therefore has virtually no significance for our investigations." The presumption that the broadcaster's research would not contain any significant news had been confirmed.
The station had advertised that his research had already caused an international sensation. Work in hotel complex was known to investigators That the suspectEd German, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old, had once worked in the hotel complex in the resort of Praia da Luz, from which Maddie disappeared, according to a witness quoted in the program, is not a new indication for the investigating authority. "That is well known," says Wolters, but there is no temporal connection with the disappearance of the little British woman.
During the period of the crime, however, the mobile phone of the German emigrant, who had a criminal record for sexual, property and drug offences, is said to have been located within the radius of the hotel complex. Thus, the Federal Criminal Police Office and braunschweig public prosecutor's office had already gone public in 2020 in their call for witnesses. The question: Who had spoken to the suspect on the phone that evening? SAT.1 speculates about whether it could have been an acquaintance of the suspect (already questioned by the BKA). However, this does not express itself to the reporters. Suspect: "Perfect crime or innocent" In addition to the preparation already publicly in the known facts, was quoted from a correspondence of the reporter with the murder suspect in the case of Maddie, in which he sees himself, among other things, as a victim of false reporting. He also writes:
Either it was the perfect crime – or he was innocent. However, according to the journalist's summary, he did not provide a credible alibi in the letters. On the suspect's accusation that the public prosecutor's office does not let him speak, Wolters says: "The accused can comment at any time directly or through his defense lawyer. This has not happened so far."
