Ermittler haben offenbar die Zelle des Verdächtigen im Fall Maddie verwanzt. Das behauptet eine ehemalige Mitarbeiterin des BKA.
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A former BKA employee is making serious allegations in the case of the suspect who allegedly killed Maddie McCann. This could jeopardise the trial against him.
It is a motion with explosive force. One that nobody expected to hear this Friday in the courtroom of the district court in Braunschweig. A former employee of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) claims that the suspect's custody cells in the Maddie McCann case were equipped with bugging technology. She is said to have told Christian B.'s lawyers this and also provided photos to prove it. The lawyers therefore requested this morning that the witness be heard in the trial.
During the alleged wiretapping measures, telephone conversations between the alleged murderer Christian B. and his lawyers could apparently also have been tapped. In the motion, they therefore question whether it is even possible to conduct a trial in accordance with the rule of law.
The trial was adjourned on Friday following the arraignment and the lawyers' motion.
The former BKA employee is said to have sent an email to defence lawyer Friedrich Fülscher. In it, she wrote that she had been responsible for wiretapping measures in the BKA's "Operativtechnik Audio (OE33-3)" department. In this function, she had been involved in preparations for the installation of bugging technology in Christian B.'s cell. According to the application, two BKA officers had told her that they had a personal score to settle with Christian B. and that she was therefore sure that they were up to something.
The fact that the witness actually worked for the BKA can be seen from an employer's reference, which is said to be attached to the application. It describes her work at the BKA as she stated.
Were there bugging measures?
Maddie McCann, an almost four-year-old British girl, disappeared without a trace from a holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007 and has been missing ever since. The German Christian B., who lived there at the time, is considered the main suspect. So far, however, there is no concrete evidence of a crime. Christian B. is on trial at Braunschweig District Court for five other offences that he allegedly committed in Portugal between December 2000 and June 2017. The charges relate to alleged rape and sexual abuse. B. has already been sentenced to seven years in prison in one trial, but a retrial is currently underway.
In order to obtain information about the offences he is accused of, the BKA officers apparently resorted to wiretapping. The application filed by B.'s lawyers also includes photos showing parts of the wiretapping equipment.
Additional cables can be seen leading away from the telephone socket in the cell. B.'s lawyer writes that the images originate from a chat between the witness and the BKA officers. They had had questions for the witness and had therefore sent the pictures to her.
One of Christian B.'s lawyers, Philipp Marquort from Kiel, is shocked by the police's actions: "The defence still has no knowledge of this process, apart from the information from the witness." He finds it adventurous that such important information is not disclosed to the court, "but also to the defence by the public prosecutor's office". He believes his client's fundamental rights have been violated. "We cannot yet say whether the surveillance was legal or illegal. However, the client only spoke to his defence lawyers on the phone. Monitoring the defence lawyers' conversations is illegal."
But how credible is the witness? According to B.'s lawyers, she showed them her work certificate. According to this, she had always shown great commitment and identified with her tasks.
The reference was signed by a head of unit at the BKA, and a BKA stamp was also said to be on it.
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