A suspect being investigated in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been locally identified as Christian Brueckner, according to reports, as German officials reveal the case is being treated as a murder.
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Officers confirmed that the man is a white German national with short blonde hair, possibly fair, and about 6ft tall with a slim build at the time Madeleine vanished.
Police said he was seen in the area around the resort of Praia da Luz, on the Algarve coast in the days and weeks ahead of her disappearance, in Portugal on May 3, 2007.
It is understood the suspect is carrying out a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005, reported German newspaper Braunschweiger Zeitung. He was convicted of the offence in Braunschweig district court in December last year, the newspaper reported.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/04/madeleine-mccann-suspect-named-christian-brueckner-12803974/I think it highly unlikely that the German police were deliberately looking for a 'patsy' to clear up the crime rate in Portugal.
I think it far more likely that one piece of evidence led to another which tied into something else which just could not be ignored.
'We DO have new evidence… but we did NOT find fibres in Madeleine McCann suspect's van': German prosecutor DENIES bombshell claim but says new clue points to Christian Bruecknerhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10785769/Madeleine-McCann-didnt-clothes-fibres-prosecutor-says.html This is an evidence led inquiry and rightly so, that evidence has not yet been released into the public domain. Why anyone thinks it should, is merely another mystery associated with everything to do with genuine attempts to solve Madeleine's case.