MADELEINE McCann suspect Christian B is being probed over at least FIVE other sex crimes, a German prosecutor says.

       Hans Christian Wolters revealed the convicted paedophile, 44, is being investigated over an attack on a girl, 10, as well as the murder of a teenager, 16, in Belgium.

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       Christian B is being probed over at least five other sex crimes, a German prosecutor has said Credit: AFP 2

       Madeleine vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 Credit: Handout

       Last year, German sex offender Christian was named as the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine.

       The British toddler, 3, vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 and has never been found.

       In a new book, Wolters said German cops believed "there is good basis" to suspect the paedo is responsible for a sex attack on a girl aged 10.

       He says the assault, which involved a naked man, happened six miles from where Madeleine disappeared in Praia da Luz just one month later.

       Wolters also says officers in Belgium are probing the 44-year-old over the killing of Carola Titze, 16, in De Hana in 1996.

       The sex offender is also a suspect in the 2004 rape of an Irish woman, 20 in Praia de Rocha, Portugal.

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       Speaking in the new book My Search for Madeleine by British journalist Jon Clarke, Wolters says Christian B is being probed over an incident in a children's playground in Messines 40 miles from Praia da Luz in 2017.

       He also said German cops were looking at whether the suspect is connected to the disappearance of “German Maddie” – Inga Gehricke who vanished aged five in 2015.

       Speaking of the incident in Messines, in which a man carried out a sex act in front of kids, the prosecutor said: “We have now picked up the investigation and he is facing several years in prison.”

       Asked about the German girl, 11, assaulted on an Algarve beach, he said: “We are investigating Christian B’s possible -involvement in this.”

       On the rape of the Irish lady, Wolters said: “We only have Christian B as the suspect.”

       Finally on the killing of Carola Titze, he said: “A Belgian prosecutor had some concrete questions about Carola not long ago. They needed some information about Christian B and we gave it to them.”

       Christian B strongly denies any involvement in the disappearance on Madeleine McCann.

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