He suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann could stay in freedomafter this Tuesday was acquitted in a separate trial by sexual crimes celebrated in Germany.
The German prosecutor’s office had requested 15 years in prison against Christian Brückner, 47, for sexual assaults and rapes committed between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal.
This trial was not related to the case of Maddiea girl who disappeared in 2007 in Portugal and for which Brueckner He was not formally charged.
The acquittal pronounced on Tuesday by the court of Brunswickin the north of Germanyopens the way to a possible release next year, when Brueckner finish serving a sentence for rape.
The prosecution announced that it will appeal. “We consider this ruling to be an error”The attorney general told AFP Christian Wolters.
In 2020, the German justice system pointed out Brueckner as the main suspect in the disappearance of Maddiea case that went around the world and triggered a huge international campaign to find her.
Suspect in Maddie McCann’s disappearance could be free
Maddie He disappeared in 2007, when he was three years old, from the rental apartment where his family spent the summer, while his parents were out to dinner nearby.
At that time, Brueckner lived near where the family McCann She spent her vacation and was near the apartment where the girl disappeared, according to the data collected from her cell phone. German prosecutors described Brueckner as a “dangerous psychopathic sadist”, adding that he fears he will reoffend.
In one of the cases for which he was tried, he was suspected of having sexually assaulted a 10-year-old German girl on a beach in April 2007, a few months before the disappearance of Maddie.
In another case, He was accused of indecent exposure to an 11-year-old Portuguese girl in a playground.
He was also accused of raping a septuagenarian – tied up and beaten in her holiday apartment -, a 14-year-old girl – who was gagged and tied to a wooden post in her home -, and a 20-year-old Irish woman whose home was raided by the balcony.
The latter gave chilling testimony in court, describing a violent and filmed rape. The aggressor was masked.
But the evidence presented against him was not enough. In the absence of traces of DNAthe prosecution based its accusation on statements from witnesses and relatives of Brueckner.
The German is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for raping an American woman who was 72 years old at the time in 2005. Praia da Luzthe town where he disappeared Madeleine McCann.
Source: Ambito
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