Madeleine McCann
(Picture: PA)A suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been left with two broken ribs after attending a German court
The incident happened after the suspect, Christian B, whose second name is being withheld due to strict rules in Germany around the naming of suspects, was taken to Braunschweig state court on Monday for a routine hearing over a drug conviction.
Court spokeswoman Jessica Knab-Henrichs said that he was briefly treated in a hospital for two broken ribs, and was then returned to the court where the hearing took place.
The incident is under investigation and further details on what happened at the court were expected to be released later, she said.
Madeleine has been missing for 13 years
PAAlthough he is a suspect in the McCann case, prosecutors have said they do not have enough evidence to hold him on the McCann case alone.
In addition to the drug trafficking sentence, which the suspect will have finished serving in January, he was convicted in 2019 of the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal and sentenced to another seven years.
That conviction is under appeal.
Madeleine McCann was three at the time of her 2007 disappearance from an apartment while her family holidayed in the seaside town of Praia da Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region.
German authorities in June said they had identified the 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the case and were investigating him on suspicion of murder.
