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An ex-girlfriend has positive memories of the Maddie suspect. When asked on the witness stand about his incriminating letters from prison, her memory fails.
Braunschweig – Christian B. is currently on trial for alleged rape in three cases and two counts of sexual abuse of children. But the suspicion of being responsible for little Maddie's disappearance in 2007 remains persistent, but is not the subject of the current investigation.
On the tenth of a total of 29 days of proceedings in the current trial against the 47-year-old, a former girlfriend of the suspect was called to the witness stand. In letters from prison, he is said to have asked her for several favors to exonerate him. But 64-year-old Marina F. can't remember it exactly – contrary to several witness statements. Including her own from previous interrogations.
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So far, several witnesses have been heard in the trial against Christian B. Some shocking details were brought forward against the suspect, but his former acquaintance painted a predominantly positive picture of him in her testimony.
“I knew he was a Hallodri,” she said, referring to minor burglaries and drug offenses. “But when we were together, he was grounded and lovable in his way,” said the 64-year-old from Dresden about Christian B., whom she describes as neat, polite and nice.
According to her, the two met in the fall of 2005 in the Algarve, where Christian B. and the witness's parents lived at the time. During a visit to the parents, the defendant approached them in a bar. A loose relationship developed, as the witness emphasized in court. The liaison ended in March 2007, shortly before little Maddie disappeared at the beginning of May.
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During this time, the 64-year-old was in the defendant's apartment several times and, among other things, spent New Year's Eve there with him. The Maddie suspect's home gave no indication of criminal activity. The finca was “relatively tidy,” it quotes Bild newspaper the witness.
In the spring of 2006, contact, which was mostly telephone, broke down; Christian B, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape in an institution near Hanover, also had to go to prison back then. Because of theft. When asked about prison visits with Christian B. at the time, the witness revealed major gaps in her memory at the current hearing. Contrary to other witness statements, she also did not want to know anything about favors that she was supposed to provide the defendant.
The public prosecutor's office quoted from a letter that Christian B. wrote to her at the beginning of May 2006, in which she is said to have asked her several times to remove traces from his house. “I'm afraid that the police will come to the attention of the house. The more you find, the more you can accuse me of, the longer I sit here. So far I can still laugh at the stupid police. If this stuff doesn't go away soon, they'll laugh at me,” it says loudly Picture said in it.
Witness should remove traces for Maddie suspect – contradictory statements in court
The witness was also shown a list that was said to have been included in the defendant's correspondence. In it, Christian B. is said to have named specific things that should be taken out of his house. Accordingly, “two to three large boxes and a few garbage bags” should be disposed of, and any cameras and films should be taken away in cupboards.
The woman said she didn't know the list and wasn't supposed to take anything out of the house. “That was 17 years ago. I no longer had it in my mind,” said the 64-year-old. However, investigation files show that she was the one who gave the list to the Federal Criminal Police Office. During previous interrogations she said: “I didn’t understand why we should get all of this out.”
Since 2020, Christian B. has also been the focus of investigators in the Maddie case. According to the accusation, he kidnapped and murdered the then 3-year-old. In other letters from prison, the Würzburg native protested his innocence to friends and wrote of “psychological torture by the public prosecutor.” (rku/dpa)
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