In an interview with Sky News, Christian Brückner lashes out to the prosecutor. “I don’t feel free,” said Brückner, who after his release had to be relieved after threats from the neighbors. “I have an ankle band and I am followed by the police 24/7. I don’t feel free. I want them to stop this witch hunt on me. I want my life back.”
Brückner had traveled for hours to speak OVJ and lawyer Hans Christian Wolters at his office in Braunschweig, near Hanover. Wolters tells Sky News that he was informed about the visit and that he refused to talk to Brückner.
According to Brückner, he had asked for a meeting with the public prosecutor to help him get his life back on track, but was refused. “I am harassed by the media and it is his fault. I want him to take his responsibility. But they told me that they could not do anything to help me, that I was convicted and released and that I was no longer their responsibility.”
Brückner was released on 17 September after a prison sentence he was looking for an abuse case in Portugal, where the aforementioned McCann disappeared in 2007. Although OVJ Wolters says he has had proof to the 49-year-old, for his involvement in the disappearance of McCann, that evidence was not yet complete and sufficient to hold him longer.
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Since his release, Brückner has been living in Neumünster, north of Hamburg. That this is known is because journalists managed to detect him and made his address public. It led to a fuss in the city, after which people called for his departure. The police eventually took Brückner from Neumünster. Now he is staying in a hotel in an unnamed city.
As a condition for his release, Brückner received an ankle band, he had to hand in his passport and was imposed on him that he must give up his regular address at the probation service.