The primary suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Christian Brückner, has written a letter taunting the police as German investigators return from Lagos, Algarve, after conducting recent searches with the Polícia Judiciária (PJ).
In the letter, published by the British tabloid The Sun, the German pedophile boasts that the police lack evidence to substantiate accusations regarding the child’s disappearance in Portugal, claiming that the closure of the investigation “would hit the world like a bomb.”
“Is there a body? No, no, no,” wrote Christian Brückner, emphasizing that “important and decisive” questions regarding his involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance remain unanswered.
The 48-year-old man is currently serving a prison sentence in Germany for rape and is expected to be released in September.
“Are there other traces and DNA evidence indicating it was me? Photos? All no, no, no,” stated the German, also arguing that one needs to be “realistic” and predicting that the investigation “will be shelved.”
The pedophile has been a suspect for five years, with German police believing he is one of those responsible for the British child’s disappearance due to circumstantial evidence found in an old warehouse purchased by Christian Brückner in 2008, a year after Maddie was last seen.
In that location, police discovered “horrible” and “disturbing” documents, such as photographs, swimsuits, children’s toys, files with images of abuse, and Skype conversations with other pedophiles, leading investigators to believe Maddie was killed.
In the recent searches for Maddie, which concluded on Thursday, Portuguese and German authorities found only animal bones and adult clothing, which are unlikely to be related to the British girl’s disappearance.
However, a Portuguese police source told Lusa that all items seized during the searches will be handed over to German authorities with the Portuguese Public Prosecutor’s authorization.
In 2023, Christian Brückner was named as a defendant in the English girl’s disappearance. Authorities claim the German lived in the Algarve from 1995 to 2007, with phone records placing him in the Praia da Luz area on the day the child disappeared.
Last year, he was found not guilty of three rapes and two cases of sexual abuse of minors, allegedly committed between 2000 and 2017, in the Algarve. The defense argued that Brückner was only being tried for his connection to the Madeleine case, a stance with which the Braunschweig court agreed.
Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, days before her fourth birthday, from the room where she was sleeping with her twin siblings, in an apartment at a tourist resort in Praia da Luz.
