14 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, c …

A 14 years after the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann, the hope of finding the girl alive begins to fade. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new clue has changed the course of the investigation, which now they point to a German pedophile who would have kidnapped and murdered her.

This year Maddie, as her parents called her, would be 18. missing since 2007, when the girl was 3 years old and was on vacation in a seaside resort of Praia da Luz, in the Portuguese region of the Algarve.

The night Madeleine went missing, her parents, Kate and Gerry, had dinner with two friends while the daughter and the couple’s other two children slept in the apartment. It was the last time they saw her.

Last year the German prosecutor What investigation into the disappearance of the girl sent a stern letter to the parents of Madeleine. There they confirmed that Madeleine had been murdered, although he clarified that he could not reveal the cause of death as this would hamper the investigation.

“We know how difficult it will be for the family to cope with this task. We have concrete evidence, but I can’t say why she died. It is no longer a disappearance, but a murder, ”Hans Christian Wolters, the prosecutor in charge of the case, told the British newspaper Mirror.

Research Tower

The Last year, the city prosecutor of Braunschweig (Germany) opened an investigation against a 43-year-old German citizen with several convictions. The suspect, who is currently serving a sentence for another crime, is “a criminal with several convictions, including child sexual abuse,” reported the Federal Criminal Police Bureau (BKA).

According to data provided by the prosecutor’s office, the man lived regularly in the Portuguese region of the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, year of the disappearance of little Madeleine.

At this point, he lived for a few years in a house between Lagos and Praia da Luz, in the area where Maddie went missing, and according to the investigation, he held various jobs in the Lagos area, including in the restaurant industry. . Researchers suggest that the man made a living by committing crimes, including thefts from resorts and vacation homes, and with drug trafficking.

Clues in a pedophile circle

The hypothesis of the German justice, which works in cooperation with the British and Portuguese courts, maintains that the girl was killed shortly after being abducted, and that the alleged murderer spoke in a pedophile ring about “taking something small” and “destroying the evidence”.

According to prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, police discovered that the suspect, whom the media identify as Christian Brueckner, spoke of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a girl during a conversation with another pedophile on Internet forums.

The investigating prosecutor clarified that the suspect graphically described in this conversation his desire to “grab something small and wear it for days” and that when the other pedophile asked him if he was not afraid of being arrested, he replied that “the evidence is destroyed”.

Based on the evidence, Wolters said the suspect planned to record numerous videos and document in detail how she was tortured, but would not say whether Madeleine was filmed as she was with other victims.

The conversation was discovered by German police while investigating the disappearance of Inga Gehricke, a five-year-old girl, in 2015 in Germany.

The suspect

Brueckner, 43-year-old man is serving time for drug trafficking pending another sentence for rape of woman near Praia da Luz, in Portugal’s Algarve region, the same area where Madeleine disappeared.

“The sooner we get proof, we can avoid the risk of his release. If we don’t find anything new against him, it could be that in seven years at most, he will be released and leave Germany for a country where he is there is no extradition, “Wolters said.