Saturday April 22, 2023 | 11:00 a.m.
Christian Brueckner, the main suspect in the “Maddie” case, will not go to trial this year in Germany, as expected, for five other cases of rape and sexual assault, after the court declared itself incompetent.
“The Brunswick court declares itself incompetent” in these five cases, always committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017, the court said in a statement on Thursday, explaining that the suspect’s last known address was not under its jurisdiction, but in another region. , in Saxony-Anhalt.
It is unclear whether the loophole pursued by the defense will also prevent the man from being tried in Brunswick in the Maddie case, and whether other German courts will quickly take up open cases.
Who is Christian Brueckner?
German Christian Brueckner is the main suspect in the murder of the British girl, who disappeared on May 3, 2007 shortly before her fourth birthday in a spa in the Algarve tourist region, where she was on vacation with her family.
This recidivist pedophile lived for several years in the south of Portugal and is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz, in the same place where Maddie disappeared two years later.
He was also accused of five other crimes and sexual offenses committed between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal, for which a trial is expected in the coming months.
It is now up to other German regional prosecutors – where the suspect lived – to decide whether to take these cases.
The chats that incriminate the main suspect in the Madeleine McCann case
Months ago, investigators in the Madeleince McCann case claimed to have found “shocking evidence.”
These are conversations that Christian Brueckner would have had with another pedophile on the internet where they refer to “capturing something small”.
According to RTL, in the chats, the suspect called himself “madness-der-holger” and said he wanted to “capture something small and use it for days, that’s all.”
“Oh yeah, the evidence is destroyed afterwards,” his chat partner would have replied.
In addition, the German media detailed that the investigators found the conversations after Brueckner’s girlfriend denounced him in 2015 for an assault and police officers searched his home.
At that time they had access to those online conversations, in addition to finding a video camera and several memory cards with child pornography.
Another piece of information provided by RTL is that in the chat Brueckner wrote that he would make many movies if he “captured a little one.”
