FILE PHOTO: Police work at the site where they started digging in an allotment area near Hanover, Germany July 29, 2020, where Christian B, a suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation, lived for a while some years ago. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo
BERLIN/LISBON (Reuters) - A German prosecutor investigating a jailed rapist over the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann said on Friday that the man's naming as a suspect in the case by Portuguese police was a legal formality while investigations continued.
Braunschweig prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said the suspect - whom he identified as Christian B but has previously said a man called Christian Brueckner is his main suspect in the case - had been told of the development by German prosecutors in prison in the northwest German city of Oldenburg.
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