By Joseph Gamp
CHRISTIAN B has been named an official suspect in the Madeleine McCann case – but he is refusing to co-operate with authorities.
Christian B, 43, was told he is now an ‘arguido’ in Portugal in his German prison cell on Thursday morning according to an insider.
The 44-year-old was handed a document informing him he was being made an arguido over the British youngster’s May 3 2007 disappearance from her Algarve holiday apartment.
He was then quizzed with a barrage of questions after Portuguese prosecutors made him a formal suspect in the unsolved crime
The convicted rapist was asked: “Where were you the night Madeleine McCann disappeared?”
He was asked to account for his whereabouts the night Madeleine vanished as her parents ate tapas nearby with friends, Portuguese sources said.
German authorities acting on behalf of Portuguese prosecutors also asked him: “If you weren’t by the apartment she disappeared from that night, where were you?”
Sources close to the case in Portugal also revealed the suspect answered none of the questions put to him during his jail interrogation, retaining the right to silence afforded him by his new ‘arguido’ status.
It is the first time he has faced a formal quiz over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
It comes after it was revealed the convicted rapist travelled between Praia da Luz and Germany in a camper van for several years before Madeleine vanished.
It is now understood that investigators are focusing their forensic work on the vehicle.
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