The court heard that the guy known as Christian B under German privacy regulations is the victim of biased prosecutors and a shoddy police probe.
Friedrich Fulscher, the defense attorney, said: “This story will teach us what terrible consequences it can have when the investigating officers of the public prosecutor’s office lose the necessary emotional distance from a case and this attitude is combined disastrously with amateur investigations by a police authority.”
Mr. Fulscher pressed the judge to find the German drifter not guilty, even though he denies three rapes and two assaults on minors.
He said that Christian B, 47, shouldn’t have been prosecuted with the crimes, which are alleged to have been committed in Portugal’s Algarve, where he had been living irregularly, between 2000 and 2017.
Mr. Fulscher stated that if the accused had not been Christian B, the man to whom you also wish to assign an offense that has drawn attention from the public worldwide and that has hovered over these proceedings like a cloud, your decision [to prosecute] would have been different.
