The main suspicion of Madeleine McCann case, who is serving a sentence in a German prison for other crimes, He could be released in September 2025, after being acquitted this tuesday three counts of rape and two of child sexual abuse.
A court in Braunschweig (central Germany) declared not guilty to Christian Brueckner in a trial that is not related to the disappearance of the girl Madeleine McCann and in which several attacks that the German allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
The magistrates determined that there was not enough evidence to incriminate Brückner, while the prosecution – which had already announced in advance that it would appeal the sentence in the event of an acquittal – demanded 15 years in prison.
The prosecution accused him of having stalked several children and masturbated in front of them, as well as having raped a young Irish woman at knifepoint after entering her apartment and other sexual assaults of which there is only evidence in video tapes that were never found.
The Irish victim came to testify as part of the process last May, but since the man who raped her He had his face covered with a mask, an unambiguous identification of the perpetrator was not possible.
He raped a woman in Portugal
Brueckner is currently serving a sentence of seven years in prison for the 2005 rape of an American woman, also in the south of Portugal, but, unless the prosecution’s appeal is successful, He will be released in less than a year.
In 2020, the Braunschweig prosecutor’s office announced that Brueckner is suspected of having kidnapped and murdered little Madeleine McCann, but has not yet formally filed an accusation.
The disappearance of the British girl from the tourist apartment she occupied with her family in the Portuguese Algarve in 2007 constitutes one of the most media and investigated cases of this type of all time.
Brueckner was in the vicinity when the girl disappeared, according to the signal from his mobile phone, and there is a witness who claims that the suspect confessed to the murder of the little girl, but at the moment there is not enough evidence to formally accuse him.
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