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A picture surfaced of Christian B, a German man who's the new suspect

is says The Portuguese Police , The German evidence against the new suspects in the Madeleine Mccann case is 'significant'.

A senior source told The Bbc they were interested in cooperation in The Investigation into The Disappearance of British girl in Portugal in 2007.

The new suspect, a 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, and in detention in Germany.

He was revealed as the main suspect made earlier this month, as German and British Police in a fresh appeal for help.

The convicted pedophile is been believed on in the area where Madeleine , at the age of three, was last seen while On Holiday in Portugal.

a senior Portuguese Police source who has seen The German evidence against Christian B, has told The Bbc it was "very important" and "important".

The Source also dismissed the criticism that its procedures were slow, amid reports that The German authorities have privately critical of their Portuguese colleagues.

another source close to The Investigation told Portuguese Police accepted that Christian was now a suspect.

she Asked if you had to disappear to have access to his previous convictions for sexual offences at The Time of Madeleine 's, He Said , it is important to assess The Past in retrospect, and that the Police had Changed systems since then.

Madeleine Mccann was three years old when she disappeared in 2007

Some of those Who Knew the Germans suspected that during his Time In Portugal, criticized The Investigation as "very slow", told The Bbc that only the Police approached, either British or Portuguese, the last year or two.

Several people reminded Christian B how evil and unreliable, with a neighbor who said he squatted in a nearby house, without paying rent, and let her "ransacked" in a terrible state when he left, two years before The Disappearance of Madeleine .

Analysis

Bbc News correspondent Lucy Williamson, in Praia da Luz,

announced At The German Police - the newcomers, the Madeleine Mccann investigation, they had evidence that showed that the Baby was dead, it seemed to be a cautious response from your Portuguese and British colleagues.

The British Police stuck to her line that it was a "Missing Person inquiry", and the impression of Portuguese media, is that their own tight-lipped authorities are open-minded were housed.

from first-hand confirmation from a senior Portuguese Police source, The German evidence is "very important" and "important" is A Sign of how serious this new development is made.

There is already plenty of mutual recriminations between The British and Portuguese troops in the 13 years since Madeleine Mccann Holiday Apartment disappeared from her family.

and Now a third country entered in the search for answers.

Cumbersome? Maybe. But The German evidence, it seems, is compelling enough for The Portuguese Police to signal their support.

After so long under the pressure of Unanswered Questions , you don't want to get out of a development that may promise some answers.

German prosecutors have previously said they have evidence that leads To Believe that you, that Christian B killed Madeleine , but it was not strong enough to take him to court.

Police say The Suspect has been regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007, had the jobs in the Region, including in the catering industry, but also committed burglaries in hotels and being treated for drug

The Suspect is currently in prison in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, shipped from Portugal In July 2017.

He was believed on in the Praia da Luz disappeared in may 2007, when Madeleine while on A Family holiday with her parents and siblings.

In December, 2019, The Man was sentenced to seven years for the rape of a 72-year-old American girl in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.

The Metropolitan Police , working with their German and Portuguese colleagues have said, the case of a "Missing Persons " investigation in the UK has remained, because there was no "definitive evidence" of whether Madeleine was alive or not.

Madeleine vanished shortly before her fourth birthday from a Holiday Apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry Mccann , were With Friends in a nearby tapas bar.

her disappearance sparked a large and expensive Police -hunting in many parts of Europe - and the recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost More Than £11m.

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Source of news: bbc.com