The worrying revelations about Christian Brueckner, main suspect in the Madeleine McCann case

Christian brueckner (44 years old) falls into the hands of justice several years later Madeleine McCann disappeared from a quiet hotel Praia da Luz, In the south of Portugal, a tourist town chosen by many Britons every summer. On the night of May 3, 2007, while his parents were dining with friends a few meters away, Maddie and his two brothers slept in his room. At an unknown time of night, an intruder broke into the room and kidnapped the girl who was then about to turn 4. We never heard from her again.

Brueckner was arrested for other reasons years later at Germany. A series of fortuitous events led investigators to believe that in addition to the background for which he was being tracked, the man may be responsible for the kidnapping of the little girl who had made the headlines of newspapers, television channels. , radio and magazines for more than a decade. In addition to his complete medical file, the suspect lived in the area of Algarve Portuguese between 1995 and 2007 and was near the holiday home of Praia da Luz the day he disappeared Madeleine.

Now, a book reveals details of his past life, when he had not yet started his path of crimes and crimes against minors. Jon clarke just published “My search for Madeleine“(My search for Madeleine). He devoted years to the affair which not only moved the public opinion of the UK, but it has attracted millions and millions of curious people around the world.

So many Brueckner like his two brothers, they were the target of constant shouting and belt strikes during a tormented childhood. His adoptive mother, Brigitte, time “brutally dominant“And I was looking for a”an iron discipline“for children. Like his father, Fritz used to “whip them properly on bare ass shouting: “If you cry, there will be more!”», According to the book review by the English newspaper The temperature. Before falling back into what would become his definitive family, the man – who at the time of Madeleine He was 30 years old – he lived for a long time in an orphanage.

Neighbors and relatives Würzburg, in the center of Germany, told the author of the book that the adoptive parents of Brueckner they had only welcomed the three brothers for the money they received from the German state. The biological mother of the main suspect in the case “Maddie“And whose identity remains unknown”lived above a tavern and interacted with local criminals”. The children’s nightmare did not end with corporal punishment: their adoptive parents constantly reminded them that they were “the children of a criminal and a whore.”

German police are following in the footsteps of Brueckner began to investigate him for the disappearance of “Maddie»Following his conviction in 2019 for the rape of an American tourist in his chalet. This happened in 2005, a few blocks from the vacation rental that the McCann they rented it in 2007. Was it the profile of the man who could have kidnapped a girl and then made her disappear?

With a long history of crime, the suspect decided to flee to Algarve to avoid German justice. It was 1995 and the crime he was accused of was child abuse. In Portugal, he lived peacefully and without being wanted by the authorities. his the first sex crime trial took place in 1994, when he was 17, when he was sentenced in Bavaria for abusing a child. After that, he managed to escape. The last case involving minors was a trial for possession of child pornography in 2016.

Brueckner He lived and worked between 1995 and 2007 in the south of Portugal, where he allegedly committed several crimes, thefts from hotels and apartments and the rape of an elderly American woman 15 years ago. Moved in contemporary weeks with the disappearance of McCann and returned to Germany, where he committed crimes related to drug trafficking.

Currently serving a sentence for a rape committed in Portugal in 2005, whose victim was a 72 year old American, that he tied up, hit, sexually assaulted and ultimately stole. He was not arrested and prosecuted until ten years later, following DNA tests carried out on a hair found at the scene. Madeleine’s disappearance in 2007 occurred during this period.

Despite the hope of the parents of Maddie –Kate and Gerry McCann 53 years old – that the girl is alive, the German prosecution believes that she was murdered in Portugal a few hours after being kidnapped. While, Brueckner claims to be innocent. Time and trials will determine the truth.

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