German Christian Brucknerknown to be the prime suspect in the case of the iconic British girl’s disappearance Madeleine McCannadded new court cases. The 45-year-old man He was accused by his country’s prosecutor’s office of five new sex crimes.
These new lawsuits are not related to the case of the girl who disappeared on May 3, 2007, for which the man is already detained in Germany. In three of the recent complaints, he is accused of violating minors.
The indictment, released on Tuesday by the prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig (Northern Germany), makes it clear that the accusations are directed at the same suspect in the girl’s disappearance.
However, no further reference is made to that case, though establishes that it remains under investigation. The allegations of the prosecution are specified on five cases that occurred between December 2000 and June 2017, in Portugal.
Just the same country where little Maddie spent her holidays with her parents in the Praia da Luz apartmentbefore disappearing.
In addition to the three rape charges, there are two more for severe sexual abuse. In the first case, yesYour victim was a 20-year-old Irishman years, which he brutally assaulted and raped by breaking into his vacation apartment wearing a mask.
Another of his victims was a ten-year-old German girlwho surprised him while he was playing and forced to assist him while he masturbated, but who finally managed to escape.
His victims were girls or women between the ages of ten and 80.of cases hitherto unknown and some of them revealed through videos recorded by the suspect himself.
Brueckner, with a long history of sexual abuse crimes and pederastyhe is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist, who was also committed in Portugal.
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann
“Maddie” was three years old at the time of her disappearance and his whereabouts remain unknown, despite investigations mobilized by his parents, both in Portugal and the United Kingdom and before subsequent international fora.
The suspect has lived in Portugal on a regular basis since 1995 and at least until that same year 2007, although afterwards he often returned to that country.
He lived off occasional jobs, also linked to tourism, and perpetrated property crimes, robberies in hotels and apartments.
The night “Maddie” disappeared, she was near the resort where the McCanns were spending their vacation.based on the data collected from your mobile phone.
The suspicions about his relationship with the disappearance of the child strengthened afterwards be extradited by the Portuguese authorities to Germanyaccused of another offense of child sexual abuse.
With information from EFE
Source: Clarin
