{"id":22629,"date":"2025-09-15T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/22629\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:27:06","slug":"german-man-refused-interview-over-mccann-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/22629\/","title":{"rendered":"German man refused interview over McCann disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007, said a 49-year-old German man remained a suspect but had refused to be interviewed.<\/p>\n

Christian Brueckner lived in Portugal’s Algarve region at the time when Madeleine vanished, and is due to be released from prison in Germany this month.<\/p>\n

He was first named as a suspect by British and German police in 2020.<\/p>\n

“We have requested an interview with this German suspect but…it was subsequently refused by the suspect,” DCI Mark Cranwell, Senior Investigating Officer from Britain’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Madeleine went missing on 3 May 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz, sparking a frenzied search and gaining the attention of the world’s media.<\/p>\n

She has never been found.<\/p>\n

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\nChristian Brueckner is suspected by German authorities to have killed Madeline McCann (File image)<\/p>\n

Brueckner remains a suspect in the Metropolitan Police’s own investigation, the police statement said, adding that the force was aware of the pending release from prison of the 49-year-old.<\/p>\n

The convicted child abuser and drug dealer is behind bars for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same area of the Algarve.<\/p>\n

Officers will continue to pursue any viable lines of enquiry, the British police statement added.<\/p>\n

Portuguese and German police spent four days in June searching for evidence related to Madeleine’s disappearance in the Algarve.<\/a> <\/p>\n

“We can provide no further information while the investigation is ongoing. Any questions about the conditions around his release should be directed to the German authorities,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

German police said in June 2020 that Madeleine was assumed dead and that Brueckner was likely responsible.<\/p>\n

Brueckner has denied any involvement and has not been charged with any crime related to the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-22629","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}