Search groups with sniffer dogs and bulldozers were tearing down trees and searching the German city of Hanover for a third day.
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Christian B was known last month as the prime suspect in his abduction.
The plot is 4 miles from his last known constant confrontation in Hanover and just two miles from where the 43-year-old man worked in a car store.
The suspect reportedly lived around 2007 or 2008 in a caravan after returning from Portugal, Haz.de reports.
Madeleine disappeared while on vacation with her parents at the Algarve hotel in Praia da Luz in 2007.
An unnamed fountain told Bild that Christian B had lived in a caravan for a short time.
A neighbor reportedly identified him in the photo and recalled seeing his yellow and white VW Camper van, which German police had ordered last month.
They added that Christian B was noticed with the VW in the subdivision where he also had two dogs and where he had rowed with the locals.
Police worked all night on what Wolfgang Kossak, who lives in a nearby location, said “worrying.”
He recalled remembering a foreigner who “caused a lot of trouble” when he visited 2006 and 2007.
Divers were also spotted through locals looking for the Leine River in Seelze city centre.
Forensic officials and a search team with shovels, rakes and plastic evidence bags went looking for clues to the floor.
Possible evidence removed as specially trained sniffer dogs concentrated in a tunnel at the site.
It was noted that the search groups arrived for a third day of searches on the award site, which closed.
Two small tents were installed in a box in front of the excavation site.
A fleet of police cars covered the small rural road as passenger traffic passed.
Radars entering the flat traveled through decades-old tunnels, where prisoners were forced to paint World War II.
It is a short drive from the apartment and about 3 quarters of an hour walk.
His favorite pub at the time, the Havana Bar, also nearby, reports Bild.
This occurs when you have dropped out of your application for an early offender, where you serve a 21-month sentence for drug-related offenses.
Forensic pathologists have been inspecting the land between Hanover-Ahlem and Seelze-Letter since Monday.
Locals said up to 100 police officers have been at the scene.
The subdivision is an hour’s drive from the city of Brunswick, The Last Constant Home of Christian B.
The public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig told The Sun Online the action was linked to the probe into Madeleine, who vanished in Portugal 13 years ago.
In a statement, prosecutor Julia Meyer said: “I can confirm that the search is in connection with our Madeleine McCann investigation.
“However, I will not comment on the background and aim of this action or the status of the ongoing investigations.”
German police have repeatedly said with confidence they know Madeleine in dead, and they believe Christian B is their man.
Christian B lived an itinerant lifestyle and is known to have lived in Hanover itself in 2010.
Hanover’s district court sentenced Christian B for falsifying documents in 2010, and then three years later he was sentenced for a joint theft.
Christian B is a lifelong paedo who chased a fantasy playboy lifestyle to cover up his warped sex crimes, The Sun reported last month.
The German criminal was convicted of abusing 17-year-olds in 1994, a year before he thought he had moved to Portugal.
Back in Germany, he lived in Hanover, related to the 24-year-old Monika Pawlak’s murder, which disappeared in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2010.
His dismembered body discovered on January 4th in two bags of blue garbage in a river.
He moved to Braunschweig in 2014 and opened a newsstand in the city, a few miles from Hanover.
Staff at the kiosk recalled his bizarre and chilling behaviour including one time when he shouted “The child is dead… pigs eat human flesh” when talking about Madeleine.
He also said “there are ways to make a body disappear” as they discussed the toddler’s disappearance.
A former friend said Christian B fantasised about creating a Josef Fritzl-style dungeon at his home.
Christian B’s pal said: “He had a cellar and he said he wanted to line it with heavy plates, like the guy in Austria.”
A former neighbour of the career criminal said he was “often very aggressive”.
German police previously discovered a a trove of pictures and videos allegedly buried by Christian B at a German box factory in Neuwegersleben.
Detectives showed in the discovery that they’ve discovered 8,000 pieces of evidence.
It is alleged that at least part of this concern includes videos and images of his alleged crimes.
The files were discovered in drives and USB sticks in a plastic bag, and were buried next to their dead dog at the deteriorated and deposed site.
Chief prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, however, refused to verify that any of the photographs and videos contain evidence similar to Madeleine’s case.
The new investigation is a joint operation between the prosecutor and the Federal Criminal Police Office.
Maik Niemtschke, who lives in Hanover, told Sky News that the main search is in a land where there is a bungalow, which is used as a moment at home, and a lawn shed.
Niemtschke said the domain is between a road and a river.
McCann was 3 years old when he disappeared from an apartment while his circle of relatives vacationed on the beach of Praia da Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region in 2007.
Police have 22 months to catch the prime suspect in Madeleine’s abduction, according to her family’s lawyer.
Rogerio Alves says the 13-year mystery was over due to a 15-year delay in prosecutions in Portugal.
He told ITV: “We have a 15-year barrier, including for homicides, homicides, safe sex crimes, and even the highest severity of kidnapping.”
“So we’re on time. But time is running out now.
German police resources told The Sun that they feared that the last piece of the puzzle still did not exist to record a complaint opposed to Christian B.
However, others claim that German police have “an asset up their sleeve” to officially rate it.
1976: Born in Bavaria, Germany.
1992: Some misdemeanors are a series of robberies.
1994: Trial for the first time, at the age of 17, for child sexual abuse and sentenced to two years.
1995: He left early and began promoting drugs.
1996: travels to Portugal with his then-girlfriend. It is the idea that they lived between Germany and the Algarve in the mid-1990s.
1999: arrested in Portugal and extradited to Germany, he is serving a juvenile sentence.
2005: He ties up, rapes and robs an American woman, 72, in her home near Praia da Luz, but is not caught.
2006: Live in a bungalow about 3 kilometers from the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz. This year, thieves lend a camera that looks like a brutal rape and attack, leading the police to it.
2007: Christian B lives in a VW T3 camper van near one of the McCann’s favourite beaches. A 1993 Jaguar saloon with German plates, owned by him, has its registration swapped on May 4 — the day after Madeleine’s disappearance.
2010: Returned to Hanover in Germany and began living in a caravan while working in a car repair shop.
2011: District court in Niebüll, Germany, gives him a suspended sentence for drug dealing which is later activated and he is jailed.
2013: He sexually abuses another child, it is claimed.
2014: Christian B is in Braunschweig, Germany, where he claimed to be starting a business.
2016: The Braunschweig District Court sentences him to one year and 3 months in prison for “sexually abusing a child while buying and possessing child pornography.”
2017: From June, he is arrested for child pornography before being imprisoned in July. Christian B convicted of assault.
2018: He is released in August, but is homeless. Police are tracking him down, but the German government arrested him in Milan in September after he fled to Italy. He’s incarcerated for drug offenses. He was then imprisoned for rape.
2019: Sentenced to a new criminal term for violating narcotics law and charged with the 2005 rape of 72-year-old American in Praia da Luz. Now 43, he was discriminated against for seven years.
2020: While in prison he is hit with another jail sentence for drug offences.
Madeleine reportedly snatched her from the Ocean Club apartment where she slept with her two brothers Sean and Amelie on 3 May 2007 in Praia du Luz.
Christian B is known to have lived in a secluded location in the open-air hills of Praia de Luz, but abandoned it and began living in a VW T3 Westphalia motorhome from the 1980s to the late 2006.
He is alleged to have earned a living with misdemeanors, such as interruptions and supplies, and has owned a cell home that boasted of transporting “drugs and children.”
Christian B was recently imprisoned in Germany for drug offenses and the rape of an American in Portugal in 2005.
Described as a “twisted loner”, the sex offender is understood to have been a kind of drifter around the resort at the time.
Christian B first connected with Madeleine’s case after allegedly making a drunkard to scam her while she was in a bar on the tenth anniversary of the crime.
Madeleine is said to have turned 17 last month and the family circle described Christian B’s identity as “potentially very significant.”
Experts said Christian B fits the profile of a “paraphilic” similar to Jimmy Savile, who suffers from goals of all ages.
His former lawyer Serafim Vieira described him as having “psychopathic traits” and admitted that he may be guilty of Madeleine’s abduction.
However, a series of pushes in the police investigation cast doubt on the ability of prosecutors to secure a conviction.
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