The 47-year-old German man who is the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal went on trial on Friday morning for unrelated sex offences. The crowd of spectators and press outside the courthouse in the central German city of Braunschweig was so large that the start of the trial was briefly delayed. The accused, who can only be identified as Christian B under Germany's strict privacy laws, is facing charges on three counts of rape and two co
Sweden's Prosecution Authority said the primary purpose of their investigation was to determine "whether Swedish citizens were involved in the act and whether Swedish territory was used to carry out the act, and thereby risked damaging Swedish interests or Sweden's security."
The Nord Stream underwater pipelines connecting Russia to Germany were blown up in September 2022. Investigations have been ongoing since then, but have yet to produce a definitive conclusion into the source of the explosion.
There is no evidence to suggest that Poland was used as a hub for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, Polish prosecutors said on Thursday, rejecting a report that a team that blew up the pipelines may have used Poland as an operating base. It also said that there was no direct evidence to suggest that the "Andromeda", a 50-foot (15-metre) yacht suspected of being involved in explosions at the site, took part in the sabotage. The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported this month that German investigators are examining evidence suggesting a sabotage team used Poland as its base to damage the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September.