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According to the Portuguese public prosecutor, Christian Brückner, who has a criminal record for sexual offenses, is responsible for the death of Maddie McCann, who disappeared in 2007.
The German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters is firmly convinced of Brückner’s guilt.
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Maddie was almost four years old when she disappeared. To this day there is no trace of the girl, who would be 18 today.
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On May 3, 2007, almost four-year-old Maddie McCann disappeared in Portugal.
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In June 2020, the public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig announced that they were investigating the murder of Christian Brückner.
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Now the Portuguese public prosecutor’s office has officially accused the German.
The Portuguese public prosecutor’s office is pressing ahead with its investigation into the Maddie case. A German suspect was officially accused, the public prosecutor’s office in Portimão announced on Thursday. She did not provide any information about the identity of the accused.
Maddie McCann disappeared from her family’s home at a holiday resort on Portugal’s southern Algarve coast on May 3, 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday, while her parents were having dinner at a restaurant. Despite large-scale international searches, the case was never solved, and to this day there is no trace of the girl.
In June 2020, there was a surprising turn of events: the public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig announced that they were investigating the murder of the German Christian Brückner. He has a criminal record for sex offenses and lived regularly in the Algarve from 1995 to 2007.
«Procedural trick»
The suspect’s lawyer, Friedrich Fülscher, told the “Bild” newspaper on Thursday: “The step taken by the Portuguese authorities should not be overestimated.” He assumes that the measure is “a procedural trick to prevent the impending statute of limitations in a few days” in Portugal. A spokesman for the Oldenburg public prosecutor’s office confirmed the receipt of a request for legal assistance from Portugal.
B. is currently serving a seven-year sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman. He was extradited from Portugal to Germany in 2017 on the basis of a European arrest warrant for child sexual abuse. After serving a prison sentence, he left Germany in 2018, but was extradited a year later by Italy. The basis was a second European arrest warrant that had been issued for a drug-related offence.
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(AFP/chk)