This reflects progress in the investigation being carried out by the Portuguese, German and British authorities,” the parents-run website said in a statement.
However, it is important to note that the suspect has not yet been charged in connection with the disappearance of their then three-year-old daughter from a resort in May 2007, the McCanns said. “Although the likelihood is slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and that we will be reunited with her.”
The public prosecutor’s office in the Portuguese region of Faro published the decision on Thursday evening, but without naming the German. However, the authority emphasized that German authorities had acted on the basis of an international request for legal assistance from the Portuguese public prosecutor.
According to information from the German Press Agency, it is the imprisoned 45-year-old who is suspected of murder in the case. Christian B. is currently serving a several-year prison sentence in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, for raping a woman in 2005 at her house near Praia da Luz.
Source: Nachrichten
