“The 2nd Criminal Chamber has affirmed a strong suspicion for the five accused offences” - I believe this is the second affirmation from the court that IMO verifies the strength of the cases. IMO it seems unusual that a court would note that they too have “strong suspicion” CB comitted all 5 crimes, before a trial. Perhaps that also means the evidence in the 2 additional rape cases is more incriminating than we hypothesise. The surprising comments seem like another differential between the German system & the UK one. IMO it also invalidates the claim that HCW is breaking any rules by being so open about CB’s guilt and IMO it adds credence to the argument that jurisdictional changes don’t reflect the validity of the evidence, nor will a jurisdictional move alleviate any suspicion. I think that’s a good sign of the legal proceedings to come. JMO
The file number from the prosecution seems to be interesting.
".....52790/18"
So the prosecutors opened the investigation file against CB already in 2018. So far so good. HCW told already in 2020, to have reached the conclusion of CB being guilty for MM's death "within the last two years".
Now they charge CB using the 2018 number for 5 crimes, but excluded the MM allegations. It indicates, they investigated a whole complex, they got aware of in 2018 and classified all the possible crimes into one single complex.
That again indicates, that none of the crimes CB has been charged of with, came up to light AFTER the 2020 public inquiry, because if it had, it would carry a ..../20, ..../21 or /...22 file number.
So if i put one and one together, all these crimes excluding MM had been investigated before 2020 already und must be linked to each other in some way, again, before 2020.
According to the fact, that the wording of three rape charges included quotes like "....and recorded the deed on a videocamera." and "....yet unknown victim.", i'm convinced that there is a lot of footage still existing. Footage that probably links CB to little MM as well.
ETA:
Now it makes sense. The MM case should have another file number, with a .../19, .../20 on it. They got aware of CB related MM AFTER they started to investigate the 5 crimes, CB has been charged of.
In this relation it is interesting as well, that CB has been investigated in the Inga case very intensively in 2019 (again?), although they found his vile material at Neuwegersleben in 2016 already.
So it's pretty likely, the allegations against CB according to MM could be the result of intel, that came up to light around 2019/2020.
OR ....they had all the info about MM from 2018 as well, but just separated the murder case from the charged sex crimes. That again would indicate, that there is footage of Maddie in CB's "collection".