The main suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, has been cleared by a German court of rape and sexual abuse in an unrelated trial.
Christian Brückner, 47, was acquitted of carrying out five offences in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. He is already serving a seven-year jail term in Germany for rape.
Brückner has not been charged in the case of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 and has never been found.
Brückner’s defence team had argued he should be cleared because of a lack of evidence, although prosecutors had called for the court in Braunschweig in northern Germany to impose an additional 15-year jail term.
Brückner’s existing seven-year jail term imposed by the court in Braunschweig in 2019 for raping an American pensioner ends next September, according to prosecutors.
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Why is THIS STILL NEWS ????? There are millions more cases like this that are not solved and never see the light of day and yet THIS ONE is in MSM news every year ?????? Why ? Who are the family ? Are they royalty ? Were they special people before this ? This doesnt make sense at all .
I believe the judgement call they made, they have to live with for the rest of their life and that's knowing they left three children alone in a hotel room while they went out and someone Cotton On they were left alone by everyone going backwards and forwards and she was taken. If anything they should have been charged with child neglect or endangerment of leaving three kids alone at night and there was childcare facilities that part I don't understand. Money wouldn't have been an issue , they made a judgement call and it cost them the life of their daughter.
They sound disappointed on the BBC seems like they are losing the narrative. Maybe the BBC can focus more on the parents actions during their holiday
Council Must Help Youth Based in Australia. They Call this homelessness in Australia. Preferably St Kilda Non For Profit Donations. The council and affairs minister is equal to justifiable means. Basically everyone's own pervations. Country town homeless as excuses.
He's not responsible for Madeleine McCann's disappearance or murder he's not been charged and convicted and he totally denied it he's been the main suspect for ages now yet no evidence to convict him probably because he didn't do it …. Main suspect indeed 😂
Ffs people you do know thats the man who who raped an elderly, and those poor victims hes been cleared have not been believed, stop bringing madelaines parents in to it ffs
Wether or not the mcanns did anything they should have been jailed for abandonment and the other kids taken into care
The two main suspects (efits ) match the podesta brothers .
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UK media pursues who it likes…no need for evidence. If they think this man is guilty that’s what they will publish ! Today’s inference is CB « got away » with something and now the matter is becoming really urgent!
On another level, the collaboration between UK and Portuguese law enforcement, including legal challenges around jurisdiction and the handling of media coverage were the domain, at least as much as he would have liked, of Two Tier Kier.
So perhaps the media might ask him about this period where Gordon Brown (LABOUR) got personally involved within days? 🤔 (anything to do with Two Tier Policing?)
Good documentary here on YouTube about this case – Public Relations and Saving Reputations
Ian Beale is looking rough
Kutch Well
There's no evidence this man had anything to do with the disappearance of madeleine mccann, NONE.. There's evidence the parents had something to do with it.. Go ask the dogs.
I feel about 300 million pounds in compensation going "missing"
BBC SKY news even scotland yard ect (DISGUSTING).You can not push another for a bus.I,am from Holland.Kate and Gerry are disgusting parents.Kate JUSTICE for your always 3 years child.Madeleine No party,s no Birthdays No nothing because of you.Wy you wanted children?your wine is the nr 1 thing for you just as the Tapas 7 ego,s
The sad thing is. Apparently in his dungeon basement they found some naked Polaroids of Madeline taken after the kidnapping, can place him staying in a trailer less than a mile from the hotel the night she was kidnapped but don’t have enough to charge him with any crime in the case
BBC, you achieved great success with the interview by Emily Maitlis of Prince Andrew… It would be great for the BBC to get rid of your subservience to Kate and Gerry and persuade them to also be proper interviewed by Emily Maitlis? Hopefully then, there will be probably more clarity about about the truth what really happened with Madeleine 17 years ago?
suspect? what does this mean suspect?, the German news not call him suspect but criminal
bbc has got new idea for suspense crime thriller drama series set in portugal
Why on earth did they bring this to court based on eyewitnesses who are so dodgy the judge couldn't believe them over someone like Bruckner?!
Do they have no double indemnity style laws in Germany or something..? 🤷♂️
you joking
Lock him up!
Looks like the media needs another scapegoat.
They will blame anyone .. apart from the parents.
Well, looks like he might also not be charged with the MM disappearance. The Mccanns are still in business of receiving funds from those that believe they are not involved. This case has so much evidence on the parents, but authorities in UK, are not willing to convict. The Portuguese police have it right, but they have been silenced by UK government. No justice for Maddie.
No words
Shouldn't they have faced charges of child neglect or something. Can't help but think that a single mum on a council estate that went out with her mates, leaving her child alone, would've had the book thrown at her.
Whats the betting the M's flee the UK anytime soon.
Its been proven that no abduction took place.
Therefore, CB is innocent of MBM's disappearance.
Christian Brueckner is not a suspect and has never been a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
I've said this man isn't guilty of the murder but he may of took her by order as Maddie is alive and will appear one day
I was in Praia da luz last month, beautiful place and we all said how easy it would be to get rid of someone with all the fairly isolated places
15 minutes ago
Ok I will write this a second time….no one associated with my name either by blood or name alone are to have access to any property or money I own, all my money and worldly possessions are to go to bishop mar mari this is my will and testament, please anyone who views this do so as a witness that this is my will, the money is to given out to the poor the underprivileged and the oppressed, I repeat no relative by blood or name is to have any right or access to any monies or possessions that are owed to me
In the word's of Gerry McCann… What's done is done… Maybe the highly paid people who were sent by the uk government to assist the parents and disrupt the Portuguese police investigation could help shed light on what actually happened… Truly disgusting 🤔 … Anyway if you want an insight into what actually happened Sonia poulton and Richard d hall are worth researching…
The evil murdering McCanns would've been happy to see an innocent man charged for their crimes.
So everyone is being locked up as suspicious except for her parents who should both be spending life behind bars for neglect
So MANY questions the media NEVER ask. Now That's suspiscious.
No one cares 😅
why are we still being told this man done it when we know its the parents? that Irish tourist who passed them that night said multiple times gerry was the one carrying his own child and the lead detective who got put off the case over the mcanns literally told British media outstraight when they cornered him and told him he wasn't doing enough that ' the two suspects are back on a plane flying back to the uk' and they wanted to sue him for it, the detective was torn to pieces in the news. even the waitress at the resturant that night said nobody in that group were frantic and that she found it strange how calm Kate was
Not obsessed want justice for little madeline