The caption, in a drawing by Poe and Gourounopoulos’s friend, posted on the Find Madeleine website, reads: “But the most important thing is, even if we are apart, I will always be with you.” Kate and Gerry McCann also wrote: “Regardless of the outcome, Madeleine will always be our daughter and a truly horrific crime has been committed. These things will remain. “But it is true that uncertainty creates weakness; knowledge and certainty give strength, and that is why our need for answers, for the truth, is necessary.” They added: “We are grateful for the continued work and commitment of the authorities of the United Kingdom, Portugal and Germany, as it is this combined police effort that will yield results and give us these answers.” Image: Kate and Gerry McCann: “Our need for answers … is essential” Madeleine, three, disappeared from the family rented holiday home in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. Since then there is no trace of her, although her parents cling to the hope that she will be found alive. Their words were published as the man suspected of abducting Madeline insisted that he was several miles away from the scene having sex in his truck with a young woman who would support his alien. Christian B says he drove her to the airport in Faro for a home flight the next day and they were stopped and photographed at a police roadblock. The suspect, a German troller, claims she was arrested at airport security for carrying illegal pepper spray and later appeared in court. Christian B, as he is known under German privacy laws, believes that the Portuguese police should have a record of those events that will prove his relationship with the young German woman who was on vacation with her parents. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 3:01 Christian B Insists he has an alibi Apparently, German police found a photo of the woman lying in his van during her search for a rape for which Christian B is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany. When he first spoke about his alibi, he could not remember the woman’s full name, but it is understandable that he has since been able to recognize her. If true, the alibi will be contrasted with vital but occasional data from cell phone databases that police say bring him close to the apartment from where Madeleine disappeared from her bed. According to police, the suspect’s mobile phone was in the village when he received a call from 19.32 to 20.02. Madeleine’s parents said she disappeared between 9 and 10 p.m. Christian B insists that by 10pm he had driven miles along the coast east to Faro. “Nothing to acquit him” German prosecutor Hans Christian Walters, who is leading the Madeleine investigation with Portuguese and British detectives, told Sky News: “I guess if he has something that acquits him, sooner or later he will share it with us and then we will check. “What will happen then, let’s see.” “So far he has not told us anything, he has not given us an alibi. Therefore, we can only work on the evidence we have found so far in our research. And there was nothing to acquit him.” However, until two weeks ago, German prosecutors had never had a formal interview with Christian B, a convicted sex offender, even though he had been the prime suspect for more than four years. He was interrogated on April 21 on behalf of the Portuguese authorities who had just made him an arguido, officially a suspect, for their own purposes to avoid the statute of limitations for serious crimes under Portuguese law. But as an arguing, Christian B had the right to remain silent and refused to answer questions about his whereabouts the night Madeleine disappeared. Serafim Vieira’s former lawyer, who represented him for fuel theft in Portugal in 2006, said the alleged alibi’s alleged alibi should not simply be rejected. He said: “If he really has this alibi, he should work on it. All I know about him was that he was a straight person, so if he says he has an alibi it is possible.” Madeleine’s parents were having lunch with friends near the holiday complex and had left her to sleep with her younger twin brothers. They and their friends regularly checked the sleeping children. The McCanns were once suspected of their daughter’s disappearance, but later got rid of any suspicion. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 8:44 The hunt for Madeleine McCann Portuguese police and Scotland Yard detectives in the UK investigated, but German authorities took the lead in 2017 when a friend of the suspect told them that Christian B had claimed he knew what had happened to Madeleine. Mr Wolters said: “In fact we have not found a single piece of the puzzle in the last two years that would have helped Christian B.’s acquittal in any way. in the light, really anywhere. “What we learned, everything went in the other direction, so it was rather incriminating, without being able to analyze it now. He added: “However, it is not predictable when we will finish. Therefore, I can not say for sure that we will complete the research this year. It really depends on how it will develop.” Dedicated groups for the cause Mr Wolters has previously said he believed Madeleine was dead, but did not say what evidence he had. He is also investigating Christian B on three other counts of sexual assault, including the rape of a young Irishwoman, Hazel Behan, who worked as a holiday agent in the Algarve in 2004. She has spoken publicly about rape in her Praia da Rocha apartment and resigned. anonymity. Metropolitan Police Chief Detective Inspector Mark Cranwell, who is leading the investigation in the UK, said: “Fifteen years after Madeleine’s disappearance in Praia Da Luz, our thoughts are, as always, with her family. “Officers are continuing to investigate the case and our dedicated team continues to work closely with law enforcement colleagues from the Portuguese Policia Judiciária as well as the German Bundeskriminalamt. “Right now, the case remains unanswered and everyone involved is committed to doing what we can to find answers.”
