BERLIN –
German prosecutors mentioned on Tuesday they’d charged a 45-year-old German man, who’s a suspect within the Madeleine McCann case, with a number of sexual offences they imagine he dedicated in Portugal between Dec. 28, 2000, and June 11, 2017.
The Braunschweig prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release that the accused was the identical individual beneath investigation in connection with the disappearance of the then 3-year-old British lady Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007.
“Specifically, the accused is charged with three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of sexual abuse of kids,” the prosecutor’s workplace added.
“The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann continues,” the workplace added. “In view of the continued investigation, it isn’t doable to supply any additional info on the outcomes of the investigation to date.”
The Federal Criminal Police Office and the prosecutor’s workplace in Braunschweig issued a contemporary request to the general public for help with the McCann case.
Convicted baby abuser and drug dealer Christian Brueckner, who’s behind bars in Germany for raping a girl in the identical space of the Algarve area of Portugal from the place Madeleine went lacking in 2007, was formally recognized as an official suspect within the McCann case in April.
That was the primary time a Portuguese prosecutor had recognized a suspect within the case since Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s dad and mom, had been named suspects in 2007. They had been later cleared.
Brueckner, 45, has denied involvement within the disappearance of Madeleine from her bed room throughout a household vacation.
He has been behind bars in Germany since 2019 for raping and robbing a 72-year-old American girl within the Algarve.
(Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Madeline Chambers, Rachel More, Gareth Jones and Nick Macfie)