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 has Christian Brückner in a trial which is not linked 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 acquittal – requested 15 years in prison.
The prosecution accused him of having stalked several children and masturbated in front of them, as well as the rape of a young Irish woman at knifepoint after entering her apartment and other sexual assaults for which there is only evidence in videotapes that have never been found.
The Irish victim gave evidence in the proceedings last May, but since the man who raped her His face was covered with a mask, an unambiguous identification of the author was not possible.
He raped a woman in Portugal
Brueckner is currently serving a sentence of seven years in prison for the rape of an American woman in 2005, also in the south of Portugal, but, unless the public prosecutor’s appeal is successful, He will be released in less than a year.
In 2020, the Brunswick public prosecutor’s office announced that Brueckner was suspected of having kidnapped and murdered little Madeleine McCann, but had not yet formally filed a complaint.
The disappearance of the young British girl from the tourist apartment she occupied with her family in the Portuguese Algarve in 2007 constitutes one of the most publicized and studied cases of this type of all time.
Brueckner was nearby when the little girl disappeared, according to his cell phone signal, and there is a witness who says the suspect confessed to the little girl’s murder, but at this time there is no enough evidence to formally charge him. him.
