A German citizen has been charged with his alleged connection to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in southern Portugal in 2007, just days after the 15th anniversary of her disappearance.
Fifteen years after the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in southern Portugal, Portuguese justice continues to unblock the case after identify the alleged perpetrator of the kidnappingthe German Christian Brueckner, incarcerated in a German prison for other crimes.
The German authorities have given the green light to the Portuguese prosecutor’s charge against 44-year-old Brueckner, who serving sentence for drug trafficking in Germany and under investigation for several violationsincluding a 72-year-old US citizen and a young woman.
The girl was three years old when she was abducted from the room where she slept with her two brothers, in a tourist complex in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, on the night of May 3, 2007
The suspicions against Brueckner gained weight after being extradited from Portugal to Germany in 2017 on charges of a case of sexual abuse of minors in Greece.
After serving half his sentence, he left his country but was extradited again, this time from Italy, on another drug-related case.
He was also charged with the rape of the 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz and is under investigation for another alleged rape of an Irish woman in 2004 in Portugal. cell phone that he was near the vacation spot where the McCanns were staying the night Maddie was kidnapped.
Brueckner has an abundance of criminal record for sexual abuse, physical assault, robbery and petty crime, in some cases during their stay in Portugal.
In the Algarve he lived from odd jobs and also from robberies in hotels and apartments.
The suspect has been identified after a lengthy investigation involving the Faro Criminal Investigation and Action Department (DIAP) and the Judicial Police, in conjunction with the English and German authorities.
A global case
The erratic investigation by the Portuguese police, the international campaigns of the McCanns and the disproportionate media attention that aroused made Madeleine’s disappearance a global affair.
Before Brueckner was suspected, Portuguese police followed clues for years that led nowhere and fueled the mystery.
One of those responsible for the investigation ended up in court for a controversial book in which he identified the little girl’s parents as the authors of an accidental murder.
The case remains one of the major failures of the Portuguese police, who have collected more than 2,000 proceedings and 500 searches in the area and have nearly 20 suspects.
Source: EITB
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