Sexual predator and admirer of the ‘Amstetten monster’, this is the main suspect in the Madeleine McCann case

2023-04-19 06:41:39

Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007 in the Algarve (Portugal). The little girl —3 years old— slept in the Ocean Club Resort Apartment 5A from Praia Da Luz with his siblings, while his parents dined at a nearby restaurant with a group of friends who, according to what they declared, they took turns to make surveillance rounds to everyone’s children (8 children in total) every 20 or 30 minutes.

minors they were alone and whoever took little maddie knew it. As her own mother explained, this point was noted in the establishment’s reservation book, where they had requested to have the same table every night. It was the one with the best views of the apartments where the children were. A mistake that Kate McCann and her husband they will mourn “until the end of our days”.

Supposedly, someone entered through the window and took the British minor from her bed. After many years of fruitless investigation, the main suspect in the disappearance – and perhaps the murder – of Madeleine is Christian Brueckner, a German sexual predator who is serving a sentence in his country and accumulates a long criminal record (robbery with violence, drug trafficking, pedophilia and rape).

Sex crimes in Praia Da Luz

When Maddie is kidnapped, Brueckner was living in the Algarve. Approximately three kilometers from the complex where the McCanns vacationed. He was in the spotlight from the beginning, but he was not the only pedophile who was in the area coinciding with the summer period. Actually, it wasn’t until last year —15 years after the disappearance of the little girl— when he became the first and only defendant in the case.

Among other crimes, the German has been convicted of raping in 2005 to a 72-year-old American woman (whom he tied up, beat, sexually assaulted, and robbed) precisely in Praia da Luz. The man resided there from 1995 to 2007. Reason why he was also investigated as possible responsible for other disappearances that occurred on the coast Portuguese, like that of René Hesse in 1996. A 6-year-old boy who was reportedly taken away while playing on the beach.

He went to Germany after the disappearance

Christian Brueckner was arrested in Italy and extradited to Germany in 2018.

The press named it in 2020. It was after the German police found a hidden basement in a plot that the suspect frequented and that it was close to the 43-year-old suspect’s home when he arrived in the country (precisely in 2007). She was in the city of Braunschweig, about 60 kilometers from Hannover, and the German authorities thought that he may have buried Maddie there.

They have long assumed that the little girl was murdered. So the researchers they dug in that garden in search of bones or other remains that could belong to the minor. the basement was under the building foundationa kind of cabin that was demolished in 2008. But they did not find Madeleine’s body, as they expected.

Inga, the German Maddie

Under the rubble were, yes, the bones of a dog that had belonged to Brueckner and un pen drive (portable storage device) with pedophile material. That is, more of the same. In 2016, the German authorities already found 8,000 images of child pornography in the caravan in which he lived, in an old abandoned factory, along with large amounts of girl swimsuits inside.

The discovery was made in the context of Inga Gehricke’s research. The little one, known as the maddie german, was 5 years old and disappeared in 2015, during a barbecue in a wooded area of ​​Stendal (Germany). The circumstance occurs that only 80 kilometers separate the place where he lost track of the shed where Brueckner had a secret cellar.

a monstrous chat

Hans Christian Wolters, the German prosecutor handling the Madeleine McCann disappearance case, believes Brueckner kidnapped and killed Maddie based on the findings so far. The study of his movements through the location of his calls —for example— places him in the Algarve area on the night of the disappearance of the little one

At the time, he also revealed the existence of a chat conversation in which the suspect acknowledges that he wants “catch a small child and use it for days” and even record on video “how I torture him”. He was “obsessed” with the children, says the prosecutor. Something that would coincide with the testimony given by another person close to him, to whom he confessed to feeling admiration for the Austrian Josef Fritzl, the amstetten monster.

His idol raped his daughter Elisabteh —with whom he had seven children/grandchildren— for 24 years (from 1984 to 2008). All that time he kept her locked in a hole. A room with boarded up windows in the attic, where she was forced to live isolated from the world. She so she had done previously with his wifeuntil he died in 1980. A terrible story that fascinated Brueckner.

Excavations by the German police in the plot where Brueckner’s hideout was located.

He snuck into her house and waited for her.

The people with whom Brueckner had contact during the years in which he lived in the Algarve do not hold a very good opinion of him, according to the testimonials published by the British newspaper Mirror. Among them, that of one of his exes — who preferred to keep her anonymity, for fear of possible reprisals when she gets out of jail — and whoever it was, says he is one of his best friends.

The first recounted that she met the German in a restaurant where they worked together and everyone knew him as Chris. At first he seemed like a kind and chivalrous guy with women, but later —once their sentimental relationship progressed— made his life hell. He was jealous of her, forced her to clean her apartment, assaulted her on several occasions, and threatened to harm her family if she was not with him.

The most disturbing passage occurs one night at his house, when he returns from work. Brueckner, with whom she had already broken up, entered the house through a window and was waiting for her under the bed. When he heard her, he came out of her hiding place, greeted her normally and left. She thinks she wanted to check if he took a man to sleep. Now he wonders what would have happened if that had been the case.

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A pervert, capable of everything

For his part, 46-year-old Michael Tatschl said of his former friend: “i know he did“. The Austrian was Brueckner’s roommate in Praia da Luz and considers him “capable of snatching a child to force him sexually or for money.”he was a pervert“, he sentenced in statements to the English tabloid, “all his friends thought so, he had some sexual problems.”

The man, who is now homeless, explained that the suspect had a great ability to sneak in apartments and hotel rooms to rob tourists. He thinks he could take Maddie and sell her to someone of his sexual circle. He thinks he was selling drugs and child pornography in the dark web.

According to this testimony, Brueckner he bragged about the money he earned and his friends wondered where he got it from. Especially as a result of buying a Tiffin Allegro caravan, about 10 meters long, which is the one with which he later went to Germany and in which the German police find girls’ swimsuits and pedophile photographic material.