The criminal record of the "masked monster", the new suspect in the case of Madeleine McCann

Twelve years after the disappearance of the little British Madeleine McCann, the survey asks more questions than answers. However, this week it appeared that British detectives would have a new suspect in the line of fire. It's about Martin Ney, a German pedophile Aged 48, jailed for murdering three boys and abusing another 40. His criminal record would complicate his situation before the authorities, but it has not yet been revealed whether they actually had evidence against him.

According to local media The sun, the man had already been identified as a suspect in this case in 2011 by the London Metropolitan Police. But they abandoned it because their victims had always been men.

The local press calls him "the masked monster"because in his attacks he wore black and He was wearing a ski mask not to be recognized for the boys.

Now, Ney was back in the center of the stage. Several witnesses who were also on vacation on the same beach as the McCann family in Portugal claimed that the night of the disappearance of the girl, then three years old, They saw a man very similar to the German walking the region with suspicion.

Twelve years later, British researchers believe that this could be related to the case, since the disappearance of Madeleine fits the pedophile crime model: one every three years. His last victim would have been in 2004.

Ney was convicted for the murder of three German boys: Stefan Jhar in 1992, Dennis Rostel in 1995 and Dennis Klein in 2001. He was then the subject of an investigation for the crime of one. Dutch boy in 1998 and another in France 2004

The case of Madeleine McCann has two open lines of research, which work in parallel. One comes from the Judicial Police of Portugal and the other from the United Kingdom, headed by the London Metropolitan Police.