Madeleine McCann suspect ‘shouted “the child is dead… pigs eat human flesh” as colleagues discussed her disappearance’
SUSPECT Christian B “freaked out” as his staff discussed the Madeleine McCann case — then yelled: “The child is dead... pigs eat human flesh.”
The convicted paedo’s cold outburst in 2014 appalled co-workers at the kiosk-bar he ran just yards from a school.
Barmaid Lenta Johlitz, 34, revealed: “Once he was completely freaked out when we were sitting talking with friends about the Madeleine case.
“He wanted us to stop. He cried out, ‘The child is dead now and that’s a good thing’, then he said: ‘You can make a body disappear quickly. Pigs also eat human flesh’.”
B is suspected of snatching Madeleine from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007 — and has been linked to the disappearances of at least two other children.
A school caretaker in B’s hometown of Braunschweig, northern Germany, told how the fiend showered pupils with toys and teddy bears as they walked past his shop in the morning.
Peter Erdmann, 64, said: “I’d ask where they got them from and they’d say, ‘Christian at the kiosk’.
“It turns my stomach now to think of his intentions. I wish I had raised what was going on with my bosses at the time.”
Christian B, 43, regularly used the kiosk for drink and drugs parties, triggering complaints from the neighbours about the noise.
One local, who gave his name as Norbert, recalled “strangle marks” on the neck of Christian B’s former girlfriend who helped run the shop.
The pair lived in a nearby apartment and Norbert said: “He was often aggressive, very bad with women.
“He had a girlfriend from Kosovo. He always beat her. Once I even saw her with strangle marks on her neck.
“He let the kiosk get very run-down. There were parties in the back, always plenty of alcohol and drugs.
“Everything in the kiosk was filthy and he’d get aggressive if you asked for anything.
“I heard that when the current owner took over from [Christian], he wanted to take the freezer and air conditioning unit with him.
“But they weren’t his and he got angry and later some friends of his showed up with a knife.”
Christian B is being held in a prison in Kiel, north Germany, where he is serving 15 months for drug trafficking. Asked about the Madeleine case yesterday, public prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said: “There is not enough evidence for a warrant or indictment against him.”
But, chillingly, Mr Wolters added: “We assume there are other victims.”
Christian B was convicted of child sex abuse in 1994, and again in 2016.
He has been linked to the 2015 disappearance of Inga Gehrike, five, who vanished during a family barbecue near to where he was living at the time.
He may have also been involved in the 1996 disappearance of German boy Rene Hasee, six, from a Portuguese beach close to where Madeleine vanished 11 years later.
A source said: “It’s all circumstantial at the moment but the hope is that by putting details out there, someone will come forward with crucial evidence.”
Under German law, Christian B can be tried in his home country if he is charged in connection with Madeleine’s disappearance.
If convicted, he is unlikely to be extradited to Britain as we would have left the EU by then.
German law states: “No German may be extradited to a foreign country. The law may provide otherwise for extraditions to a member state of the European Union or to an international court, provided that the rule of law is observed.”
Seven months ago, Christian B was convicted of the 2005 rape of an American widow, 72, in Praia.
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He has appealed the seven-year term and it cannot be imposed until a definitive judgment.
Last night, Christian B was said to be “uncooperative” and refusing to talk with investigators.
His lawyers Jan-Christian Hochmann and David Volke declined to comment.
