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The main suspect in the loss of British infant, Madeleine McCann, in the 2007 Algarve region of Portugal, was released from a German prison on Wednesday.
Christian Bruckner, 48, had sentenced him to seven years in an unrelated case after committing rape in Praia Dalz, the Algarve, the same beach resort town where McCann went missing.
In June 2020, German prosecutors said Bruckner was being investigated for alleged murder in connection with McCann’s loss. Since then, police have been conducting further searches in Portugal.
However, the suspect who denied involvement in her loss-disappearance has not been charged in the case.
Bruckner also said he was the suspect in the investigation into McCann’s loss disappearance, which was conducted by British metropolitan police and refused a request for an interview.
His lawyer, Friedrich Furscher, said that if there was sufficient evidence, he was charged against his client.
The McCann incident attracted global attention for several years, reporting on sightings of stretches that are as far away as Australia, as well as books and television documentaries about her loss book.
Almost 20 years later, investigators in the UK, Portugal and German still stitch together what happened on the night she disappeared.
Madeleine, 3, disappeared from her apartment in Praiadals in 2007 while on vacation with her British family.
She was in the same room as her brother and sister (two-year-old twins), but her parents, Kate and Jerry, had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.
The suspect was heard last year about several unrelated sex crimes that were allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017 and were acquitted in October.
The judge said the evidence was insufficient for convictions, and the court had heard from unreliable witnesses, and media reports about the defendants had some impact.
He faces the October 27th court date in Oldenburg, northwest Germany, if accused of shaming a prison employee. The city’s district court sentenced him to six weeks’ sentence for the crime, but defense appealed.
According to domestic reports, he remains a travel ban after German authorities seized his passport and released him with an electronic bracelet.
Additional sources •AP