Maddie McCann suspect releases statement from prison amid intensive investigations

He's given an explanation as to why it couldn't have been him who abducted Madeleine McCann

The prime suspect in the abduction of Madeleine McCann has claimed he could not have kidnapped the child because he was a drug dealer at the time and wanted to avoid the attention of the police. In 2020, Christian Brueckner was named as the prime suspect in the case looking into Maddie's 2007 disappearance, with German prosecutors convinced he is the man responsible. He is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for raping a 73-year-old American woman at her home on the Algarve. However so far no charges have been able to be brought forward against him in relation to Maddie's case. Now, a new documentary from German TV channel SAT.1 entitled New Clues In The Case Of Missing Madeleine McCann, has revealed that the 44-year-old claims he was lying low at the time when the three-year-old went missing because he was a drug dealer and was trying to avoid police attention. The documentary reveals a series of letters exchanged between investigative reporter Jutta Rabe and Brueckner, who is in a prison in Oldenburg, near Bremen. In one of the letters, alongside admitting he worked as a drug dealer, Brueckner wrote: "I was never caught by the police because I followed a few key principles.