Christian Brückner, the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Maddie McCann, has revealed he was identified as the culprit by an informant after telling him he thought it was “strange that she didn’t scream”. He reports this in one of the letters he wrote to clear his name and which the British ‘Daily Mail’ could view.
Convicted rapist Christian Brückner (45) makes the revelations in a few letters in which he criticizes the police investigation against him and describes it as completely unfounded. He also denounces his treatment in prison.
In addition, he attacks informant Helge Busching who had contacted police in 2017 to say he had information about the Maddie McCann case – while Busching was serving a prison sentence in Greece for human trafficking at the time.
The two men befriended in Portugal in the early 2000s. But as Brückner explains in his last letter, their friendship ended after a drug deal went wrong the year Madeleine disappeared. After that, they would never have spoken to each other again, according to Brückner.
He writes: “The following sentences of ‘witness’ Helge B. in 2017 were responsible for the public scandal and hatred against me from the German authorities.”
Hippie festival
He then quotes Busching and writes: “I was at the hippie festival in Spain in 2008. Manfred (Seyferth, another witness) was also there, as was Michael (Tatschl, another witness). Manfred, Christian and I then started talking about Portugal.”
“It was then that Christian made a comment about the missing British toddler. Christian asked me if I was still going to Portugal. I replied: ‘I will not go to Portugal anymore because there are too many problems there, there are too many police in Portugal because of the missing child’.”
“It is indeed strange that she disappeared without a trace. To this Christian replied: ‘Yes, she didn’t scream’.”
According to Brückner, that is not the case at all. “It’s not even worth commenting,” he writes. Still, he apparently got into the pen several times.
Camcorder and gun
Busching and Seyferth also told police that they broke into Brückner’s home in the Algarve in 2007 and stole a camcorder and a gun – which they later allegedly threw into a lake.
Both men claimed that the camcorder contained scenes of sexual assault and torture of two women and they recognized Brückner in the footage. It was this testimony that led to his conviction for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in the Algarve – that crime took place the year before Madeleine disappeared.
“It remains to be seen whether this conversation took place at all, as we have other witnesses who say no,” said Friedrich Fulscher, the lawyer for the German prime suspect.
The revelation comes just days after German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters confirmed items had been found following a massive search at Portugal’s Arade reservoir just 50 kilometers from where the then three-year-old Madeleine was last seen.
Can Maddie McCann be found alive? Alain Remue: “They are not just looking” (+)
German prime suspect visited dam a few days after Maddie McCann’s disappearance
Free unlimited access to Showbytes? Which can!
Log in or create an account and don’t miss a thing of the stars.