Christian Brueckner Wiki – Christian Brueckner Biography
Christian Brueckner has been called the new prime suspect in the 2007 removal of Madeleine McCann, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
On Thursday, German prosecutor Hans Christian Walters said in a press conference that while investigators are still reviewing Brueckner, they do believe McCann is dead at this time. Walters stated, “With the suspect, we are talking about a sexual predator who has already been condemned of crimes against little girls and he’s already working a long sentence.”
Christian Brueckner Age
He is 43 years old.
Madeleine Mccann Disappearance
Three-year-old Madeleine went missing from the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while on a family holiday in May 2007. At the time, her origins, Kate and Gerry, were eating dinner at a tapas restaurant on the hotel with 7 other people. Madeleine was sleeping in her bed just fifty yards away from the restaurant. When Kate checked in on Madeleine and her two siblings at 10 p.m., Madeleine’s bed was empty.
“We think Madeleine McCann is dead.”
German public prosecutors confirm they are treating the Madeleine McCann case as murder, adding the new suspect is a convicted sex offender who is currently in prison.
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For the past thirteen years, detectives in Portugal, Germany, and the UK have worked tirelessly to identify the person responsible for Madeleine’s alleged kidnapping. Now, they may be closer than ever to solving the mystery of her disappearance.
Brueckner Criminal History
Brueckner, who is now 43, is a doomed child sex offender and rapist, according to The Guardian. He is currently working time at a prison in the northern German city of Kiel. Brueckner would have been 30-years-old at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance, but German prosecutors say he “may have seen between 25 and his early 30s” at the time.
The German newspaper Braunschweiger Zeitung reports that Brueckner is now serving a seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal. He was convicted in Braunschweig district court in December 2019.
According to SPIEGEL, Brueckner has a total of 17 convictions.
Christian Hoppe, from the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) tells the ZDF television channel that two of Brueckner’s previous convictions are for “sexual contact with girls,” according to Metro UK. Hoppe adds that German police have “not ruled out a sexual motive for the alleged crime against Madeleine.”
While police have not revealed how Brueckner emerged as a suspect, The Australian reports that the 43-year-old confessed that he knew “all about” Madeleine while drinking with friends one night when German television was airing a broadcast on the 10th anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance. Suspicious of Brueckner’s statements, one of those friends later came forward to the police.
Investigation
On Thursday, The Metropolitan Police announced the details of two vehicles that Brueckner is recognized to have had access to and used at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.
The first vehicle they mentioned is a VW T3 Westfalia campervan– an early 1980s model. DCI Mark Cranwell states, “We believe he was living in this van for days, maybe weeks, and may have been using it on 3 May 2007.”
The second car, a 1993 British Jaguar, model XJR 6, with a German license plate, is believed to have been in the areas surrounding Praia da Luz in 2006 and 2007. The Jaguar was originally registered in Brueckner’s name. One day after Madeleine’s disappearance, the car was re-registered to someone else in Germany, according to The Met Police.
Speaking on Thursday, DCI Mark Cranwell asked anyone who saw either car during the spring and summer of 2007 to contact them.
While it is too early to tell if Brueckner is a breakthrough in the case, the Met’s deputy assistant commissioner has said that he is the “main line of inquiry” at this point in time. The Guardian quotes the deputy assistant commissioner as saying, “He is the main focus of our investigation, which is why we are making this appeal, to help us with that investigation, to prove or disprove his involvement.”
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Police have released Brueckner’s phone number, and the number he dialed on the night Madeleine vanished, and are asking for the public for any information related to these numbers.
Those with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251. As of 4 pm on Thursday, Detective Chief Crankwell stated he had received over 270 calls and emails linked to McCann’s disappearance.
A joint appeal from the British, German, and Portuguese police currently includes a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance.
