Main suspect in Madeleine McCann case due to be released from German prison | Germany

Madeleine is expected to be released on Wednesday, because the main suspect in the disappearance of McCann, because the German authorities admit that they no longer have legal reasons to keep him in prison.

49 -year -old Christian Brückner will be released from prison in the city of Northern Germany, after giving the rape of a 72 -year -old American woman in Portugal in 2005.

The rape took place in Praia da Luz, a holiday resort on the Southern Portuguese coast, where the three -year -old British child disappeared after 18 months.

German prosecutors, a German citizen Brückner, as a murder investigation, they are the main suspects in the disappearance of the disappearance. The British police call it suspicious in their investigations and continue to treat them as a lost case.

Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007 when she was on holiday with her family. His family disappeared from the apartment on the ground floor where the family stayed in a close restaurant. The young twin brothers were in the room with him.

Hans Christian Wolters, the chief researcher of the case, reiterated his belief that Brückner was responsible for the disappearance of a girl in an recent interview. “We believe that Madeleine is responsible for the disappearance of McCann and killed Madeleine McCann,” he said.

The prosecutors called on the authorities to ensure that Brückner is equipped with an electronic ankle label, so that his movements can be traced, but it is unclear whether the court would accept it. They also asked Brückner to give up his passport and fear that he could try to leave the country regularly.

The German police have been investigating Brückner since 2017. State prosecutors said that there were conditional evidence of the disappearance of Madeleine. Among them, it contains the sworn expression of three witnesses who say that the mobile phone is open and that it has been signing in the area where it disappears and confessed them.

After a TV criminal program that asked for information about Brückner after a TV criminal program in Germany, after a TV criminal program that requested information, the Federal Penal Police Office called him suspicious in 2020. Children announced that it dates back to other crimes, including sex crimes and drug trafficking, thief and small thief.

Between 1995-2007, Brückner lived in the Portugal Algarve region and worked as a pool care assistant at Praia da Luz Resort.

In the autumn last autumn, Brückner was cleared by a court in Braunschweig, the North German city of Braunschweig, allegedly allegedly occurred between 2000-2017.

Before Brückner’s release, his lawyer Friedrich Fülscher said he would not comment on the media outside the prison or Brückner.

Brückner rejected a request made by the British authorities with an “International Laqmer of Request”.

DCI Markwell, a senior investigation officer of London’s metropolitan police, said that the request was “rejected by the suspect”. Authorized, Met will still continue to maintain any investigation line, “he added.

After completing his seven and a half years of sentence for rape 2005, Brückner was expected to remain behind the bars until January 2026 for a fine crime for a fine of € 1,447 (£ 1,253). However, a former police officer working on the investigation into Brückner paid the fine because he said he was “upset”. He said he’s been making a mistake since then.