A suspect could soon be charged over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it’s been revealed.
Reports suggest that German police could soon charge prime suspect Christian Brueckner, 45, in the New Year.
It’s been nearly 16 years since the three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her bed on a family holiday in southern Portugal in May 2007.
Brueckner, from Germany, is a convicted paedophile and is the primary suspect in the continuing investigation.
A newspaper reports that Brueckner could be charged within the next twelve months.
Police are continuing with their inquiry as they test evidence to lead to a possible arrest.
There’s also a high-level meeting about the investigation that’s set to take place between law enforcement officials next month in Wiesbaden, western Germany.
Once he’s charged, Brueckner will probably face trial about September time.
Police have identified Brueckner as the main suspect in their investigations since 2020 after it was found that the convicted paedophile was living in a campervan near the McCann family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal.
Christian Brueckner has repeatedly denied any involvement in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
Brueckner is presently serving a seven-year jail sentence in Germany for a rape he committed in Portugal in 2005.
His prison term is scheduled to conclude in September 2025.
Just last month German police in the northern city of Braunschweig charged Brueckner in a further five separate cases.
The cases involve sexual offences allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
They include the rapes of two unidentified women in Portugal, the rape of a 20-year-old Irish woman in 2004, the sexual abuse of a 10-year-old German girl in April 2007 on a Portuguese beach, near where Madeleine disappeared a month later, and another sexual abuse case in 2017, again in Portugal.
Brueckner has repeatedly protested his innocence, arguing that German police were trying to frame him for the numerous offences in the hope he would crack and confess.
In a letter sent from prison and obtained by a newspaper outlet in November, the condemned rapist wrote that there was no proof at all that he executed any of these offences – no DNA, nothing, and that the prosecution was trying to trap him and hoped that he would yield under the mental pressure.
Without tangible evidence, the police have no case, and why has so much money been put into the UK (Met) continuing investigation into this case? What about those other youngsters that have gone missing but whose parents get no support or assistance and most of those investigations get shelved?
The parents of Madeleine McCann will still never know if he doesn’t confess and if the police don’t have cast iron evidence, it will only ever be speculation. Getting and punishing someone for this offence and getting the right person responsible aren’t the same thing.
There’s evidently no evidence, but hey ho, they’re going to charge someone whether they did it or not, and unfortunately, the Portuguese Police didn’t handle it very well from the start, and as much as we want someone to pay, so that her family can have some closure, I have a terrible feeling this man is not the one, and that the police just want to put this to bed, and if the German police had enough evidence against this individual, then they would have already charged him, and this is just another attempt to keep it in the news.
There’s still no body, or anyone coming forward with concrete evidence that they’ve seen Madeleine McCann. This is only circumstantial evidence – nothing forensic, and this is extremely cruel to the parents.
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