{"id":149810,"date":"2025-09-17T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149810\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:27:10","slug":"suspect-released-from-german-prison-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149810\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect released from German prison, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Brueckner, the German man who remains a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/madeleine-mccann\" title=\"Madeleine McCann\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Madeleine McCann<\/a> in Portugal, has been released from prison on after serving a sentence on other charges, German police said.<\/p>\n<p>German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in part of Portugal&#8217;s Algarve region where McCann went missing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b68fb014-ef47-4969-86cd-d4bfcb489365.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Madeleine McCann, then aged three, disappeared from her bedroom in a holiday resort as her parents dined metres away. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>He will be electronically tagged, must declare a place of residence and cannot leave without permission.<\/p>\n<p>Brueckner&#8217;s lawyer denies any connection with the McCann case. <\/p>\n<p>Brueckner has convictions for child abuse and drug trafficking in addition to the rape of the woman, who has since died.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Britain, Germany and Portugal, who have identified Brueckner as their main suspect, have long sought evidence to link him conclusively to the case. <\/p>\n<p>Portuguese and German police spent four days digging for evidence in the Algarve in June.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/fe40c323-61e5-4d9c-ad43-5d36d2889874.jpeg\"   alt=\"Portuguese sources have named the suspect as Christian Brueckner. \"\/>German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in part of Portugal&#8217;s Algarve region where McCann went missing. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>British police said on Monday Brueckner, who is detained in a prison in Sehnde in northern Germany, declined their request for an interview in connection with the disappearance. <\/p>\n<p>They said they would continue to pursue any viable lines of enquiry.<\/p>\n<p>McCann, then aged three, disappeared from her bedroom in a holiday resort as her parents dined metres away.<\/p>\n<p>Brueckner, 49, lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, where, according to court documents seen by Reuters he burgled hotels and holiday flats.<\/p>\n<p>McCann&#8217;s parents continue to campaign for their daughter, who would now be 22, to be found and issue a statement each year on the anniversary of her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love her dearly and miss her beyond words,&#8221; they wrote on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Brueckner, the German man who remains a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-149810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}