On Thursday, the child sex offender was handed a document in prison informing him he was being made an 'arguido' by Portuguese prosecutors. Madeleine vanished from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 where she was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry and siblings.īrueckner, who has been linked to four other child murders across Europe since 1996, was sensationally named by German prosecutors as the man 'responsible' for Madeleine's kidnap and murder in June 2020. Madeleine McCann vanished from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 where she was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry and siblings The Madeleine McCann: Prime Suspect documentary, created by US network AMC Crime, is due to air on Tuesday, May 3 - the fifteenth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance. 'He has not given any information so far - not even via his defence attorney.'
However, Brueckner has allegedly told British investigator Mark Williams-Thomas in a new documentary about Madeleine's disappearance that he can prove he was elsewhere the night the toddler was kidnapped.īut German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters told The Sun: 'We're not aware of any alibi at all.
The chief suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 'has not provided German police with an alibi', a German prosecutor has said.Ĭhristian Brueckner, 44, was officially designated as a suspect, or 'arguido' by Portuguese authorities on Friday, in connection with the three-year-old British girl's disappearance on May 3, 2007, at a resort on the Algarve.īrueckner, who is already behind bars in his native Germany for an array of grisly crimes, reportedly exercised his right to remain silent when formally questioned by German police about the events of that night.