Christian Brueckner: Madeleine McCann suspect’s chilling claim to man who reported him overe disappearance
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery German prisoner Christian Brueckner was first named in connection with the unsolved mystery in the summer of 2020 Brueckner is in prison in Germany for the rape of a woman in Praia da Luz in 2005, and is suspected of further rapes and child sexual abuse committed in the area between 2000 and 2017. According to a letter seen by the Daily Mail, Brueckner claimed he became a key suspect after his former friend told police he said “yes, she did not scream” when talking about the case around one year after Madeleine disappeared. He wrote: “The following sentences from the ‘witness’ Helge B in 2017 were responsible for all the public hunting and hatred against me by the German authorities.” open image in gallery Madeleine McCann disappeared from a Portugal holiday resort in 2007 Then Brueckner relates an alleged conversation at a festival in Spain in 2008, one year after Madeleine disappeared. Christian replied:’’Yes, she did not scream.’’ Brueckner’s lawyer Friedrich Fulscher told the newspaper: “It remains to be seen whether this conversation took place at all as we have other witnesses who said it didn’t.” Brueckner claims that the last time he had a conversation with Busching was in 2007 about a drug deal between them.