Ex-boss of Madeleine McCann suspect sensationally claimed ‘we all know’ what happened to the missing toddler
THE boss and former pal of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian B sensationally claimed "we all know" what happened to the missing tot.
Tiziano Ilg hired the fellow German at his restaurant when the paedophile suddenly turned up in the remote village of Foral in the weeks following Maddie's disappearance.
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Ilg, now in his late 60s and still living in the region, has kept a low profile since German police identified his old worker as a prime suspect in Maddie's case.
And it's understood he has not spoken to police about his fellow countryman.
But in 2016 the former restaurateur claimed it was "time to stop looking" for three-year-old Madeleine, who disappeared some 40miles away from his Foral restaurant.
Responding to an online news article about her disappearance, Ilg cryptically said: "It's time to stop looking and stop imagining.
"We all know."
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The comment was made on his secret Facebook profile, which is listed under another name.
The profile has just 12 friends.
It was widely thought that Ilg went back to his native Germany after selling the Foral restaurant to a new owner in 2013.
But The Sun can reveal he still lives in the area, in nearby Tunes.
Yesterday, we reported how the British ex-girlfriend of Christian B claimed the night before the toddler’s abduction he told her: “I have a horrible job to do in Praia da Luz tomorrow.”
She also told how she asked him if he snatched Madeleine McCann — and he warned: “Just don’t go there.”
Meanwhile, Christian B will NOT give any information about the case, his lawyer said yesterday.
The 43-year-old was named as a prime suspect in the investigation after the three-year-old Brit toddler went missing 13 years ago.
His lawyer Friedrich Fülscher, who represents the suspect together with the Hamburg lawyer Johann Schwenn, told RTL today: "Christian B is not making any statements on the case at the moment."
He said he had visited his client at the Kiel Penitentiary, where the 43-year-old German was being held in solitary confinement, it was reported.
But so far he is saying absolutely nothing to officers, he is keeping schtum
Source close to the investigation
When asked how his client was doing, Fülscher replied: "How should a person be doing who is isolated in a prison and accused of the worst crimes by half the world's population?"
Christian B is now the prime suspect in the infamous 2007 disappearance with prosecutors in Germany investigating him "on suspicion of murder".
They sensationally revealed last week they believe Madeleine is dead and know how she was killed - despite no body being found.
The German prosecutor leading the investigation believe the little girl was killed soon after she was snatched.
'BREAK IN'
Christian B is also said to have boasted about torture and destroying evidence in an online conversation with another paedophile.
He also reportedly broke into his British ex’s flat sparking chilling echoes of the Madeleine case.
The convicted sex fiend was so insanely jealous he hid under the woman’s bed in case she brought another man home.
Cops hope that continuing advances in DNA testing may yet provide a full profile for comparison with the 43-year-old convicted paedophile and rapist.
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A source close to the German Police investigation told the Sun Online: "If he is responsible for taking Madeleine and suddenly crumbles and confesses it could end reasonably rapidly.
"But so far he is saying absolutely nothing to officers, he is keeping schtum, so Kate and Gerry could be left in limbo for many weeks and months which is agonising for them."
Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry have vowed never to give up searching for their daughter, even 13 years on since she disappeared.
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