I don't think it can be said 100% certain if the rape he showed on his phone was the 72-year-old given other inaccuracies in the Press but most of the UK media certainly reported that it was. Some examples:
He was reportedly chatting to the friend in Germany when a TV report came on about the tenth anniversary of the girl's disappearance and he suggested he knew what had happened to her.
German sources claim he boasted he had "snatched her" but didn’t say he had killed her.
Christian B then allegedly showed a video of himself raping a 72-year-old tourist in Portugal in 2005, which he was later convicted and jailed for eight years over.
Sky News reported: "He was in a bar in Germany with another man, around the tenth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance. A report came on the TV and he said something to suggest that he knew what happened.
"He also allegedly showed a video of himself raping a woman. Video of the rape led to an investigation that last year meant he was convicted of the rape of a tourist on the Algarve in around 2005.
Maddie McCann paedo suspect 'told pal in bar he snatched her on 10th anniversary of disappearance'
The suspect, a 43-year-old German named by prosecutors as Christian B, allegedly said something to suggest he was responsible for her going missing.
Later, he showed his companion a video of himself raping an elderly woman, an American tourist, in Portugal in 2005.
Madeleine McCann: Suspect is named Christian B - What we know about jailed German
Madeleine McCann suspect 'told pal he'd snatched her while watching TV in a pub'
In the recent ITV documentary, it was also said that the 72-year-old rape conviction was as a direct result of the MM investigation. Whether that was initiated because of the phone video viewed or because of something else that was uncovered during the investigation I can't be sure.
This is all very confusing to me. And soon I won't even know what's right anymore.
This in advance: Already weeks ago I had contacted the
Mail, the
Sun and the portal "
Anorak" by e-mail - very friendly - because they had written nonsense all the time. Of course I have not received an answer until today. Maybe my letterhead was too intimidating or my English too bad.
If the tabloids make up their own stories, that's fine, but in my opinion it is more prose than news. But if it refers to German media, at a time when these false reports are not yet in any German newspaper, and then the following day the German tabloid media copy the same nonsense from the English and embellish it further, then the whole thing becomes a farce for the consumer.
I believe in the case of reporting on CB / MM aspiring media scientists can work off later and earn academic merit.
First of all what is true:
It is true that the video of the rape of the 72 year old was the trigger for the investigation of the MM case. (ITV has presented this quite correctly)
It is true that CB said in a pub on the 10th anniversary of MM's disappearance, "what the heck, we'll have to stop now. She is dead - such a child can be made to disappear".
It is true that CB once bragged to a friend in a pub (and I seem to remember that it was not the same day) and showed him a rape video of himself.
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As far as I know, the video of the 2005 rape existed only once, without copies, in the house in PdL in 2006, when CBs two "friends" (who were only supposed to secure the money) took it from the house and stole both: money and camera including video. Later, one of them deliberately put the video in a car that was scrapped.
Years later, these two criminals got their guilty conscience and they went to the police to report what they had seen on the video (which probably contained other cases as well). I suspect the German authorities contacted the Portuguese authorities to assign the case and get more details. I also assume that the two guys testified as witnesses at the court case last year. Unfortunately, I cannot access the court files without a huge effort.
In any case, the video disappeared immediately and therefore could not have been shown in a pub in 2017. So it must have been a different video.
It wouldn't make any sense that two buddies, who had stolen a whole lot of money from him, would suddenly be sitting together with him in a pub again - by chance on the 10th anniversary of MM's disappearance.
Everything I have described above comes from German media and television. Since I was not CB's lapdog, I was not there.