The main suspect in the ‘Madeleine Case’ may be released from jail in September 2025. Society

prime suspect of madeleine caseA German man serving time in a German prison for other crimes could be released in September 2025 after being acquitted this Tuesday of three counts of rape and two counts of child sexual abuse. A court in Braunschweig (in central Germany) declared Christian Bruckner not guilty in a trial not related to the disappearance of the girl Madeleine McCann and in which the German allegedly carried out several attacks in Portugal between 2000 and 2017 .

Magistrates determined that there was not enough evidence to convict Bruckner, while the prosecution – which had already announced that it would appeal against the sentence in the event of an acquittal – demanded 15 years in prison. Prosecutors accused him of stalking several children and masturbating in front of them, as well as raping a young Irish woman at knifepoint after entering her apartment and committing other sexual assaults, of which there was only some evidence. The video tapes were never found. The Irish victim came to testify as part of the trial last May, but because the man who raped her had his face covered with a mask, clear identification of the perpetrator was not possible.

Bruckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of an American woman in southern Portugal in 2005, but unless the prosecution’s appeal is successful, he will be released in less than a year. In 2020, the Braunschweig prosecutor’s office announced that Bruckner is suspected of kidnapping and murdering little Madeleine McCann, but charges have not yet been formally filed.

On May 3, 2007, when she was three years old, Madeleine McCain disappeared from the room she shared with her two brothers in an apartment in Praia da Luz in the Portuguese Faroe Islands while her parents were having dinner with other couples. Were staying. A restaurant on the premises. Media attention first turned to the parents, who were treated as formal suspects by Portuguese police, a charge that was dismissed. After years without reliable leads, in 2020 German authorities announced they had a suspect, pedophile and sex offender Christian Bruckner, who was in the vicinity at the time of the girl’s disappearance according to the signal of her mobile phone, and There is a witness They claim that the suspect has confessed to the murder of the little girl, but at this time there is not enough evidence to formally charge him.