Christian Bruckner has just been
released from prison in Germany and now faces another torrent of speculation as
the “prime suspect” in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
People have opposing opinions on the
subject, but most of the mainstream media show little doubt that his
whereabouts and activities when Madeleine vanished in May 2007 need further
investigation.
Having just served a seven-year
sentence in a German prison for the rape of an elderly woman in the Algarve village
of Praia da Luz in 2005, Bruckner, 49, still totally denies any involvement in
Madeleine’s disappearance from the same village nearly two decades ago. .
Just days before his release in
Germany, he rejected an international letter of request for an interview from
the British Metropolitan Police Neither the British or German police have sufficient
evidence to charge him with any crime against Madeleine.
Still consider a possible danger to
society Bruckner will wear an ankle bracket to monitor his movements.
The Week print and digital publication has noted that in October last year Bruckner
was cleared by a German court of unrelated sexual offences alleged to have
taken place in Portugal.
The Guardian has reported that Bruckner was driven away from the prison
entrance this Wednesday morning by his lawyer, Friedrich Fulscher. The Telegraph in the UK, the New
York Times and ABC Australia are
among the top news outlets that have today. reported on the release. Rare
support for Broukner’s declaration of innocence in the McCann case has come
from a Norwegian private detective, Bernt Stellander, who spent seven years studying
the area next to the village of Praia da Luz where Madeleine was staying with
her parents and two siblings in a rented holiday apartment.
In his 843-page book, Stellander makes it
abundantly clear that he believes Bruckner had nothing to do with Madeleine’s
abduction, or indeed that she was abducted by anyone else.
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