I did nothing... well, almost nothing, says Maddie suspect

THE man suspected of abducting madeleine mcCann has spoken out about the case for the first time and claimed he is innocent.

In a five-page letter sent from his prison cell in Germany, Christian Brueckner said he ‘did nothing – well almost nothing’ and that he was not living nearby when she disappeared.

Brueckner, who is serving a sentence for raping an american woman in 2005, was made an ‘arguido’ – meaning formal suspect and usually a precursor to criminal charges – in Portugal last week.

In the letter, seen by mail Online, he wrote: ‘Welcome to the biggest adventure you can imagine. I’m the mostknown bad person in the world and I did nothing – well, almost nothing.

‘I wasn’t kidnapping anybody and of course I wasn’t killing anybody. I’ll go further, I’ll tell you I wasn’t attacking anybody after I was 18. I made some silly mistakes when I was younger, but who hasn’t?’

Brueckner, who addressed the letter to a woman whom mail Online did not identify, was named by German prosecutors in June 2020 as the man ‘responsible’ for madeleine’s suspected kidnap and murder.

Discussing the investigation into the three-year-old’s disappearance from her family’s hotel room in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007, in which he denies involvement, he said: ‘Perhaps I was a suspect after all they found out about me.

‘Drug dealer, breaking into houses, living in cars and there was something with kids when I was 17.

‘But they had [sic] not even one proof that I was involved with the mcCann case. and they still don’t have it. I know why.

‘Because they have no hairs or anything from maddie what means [sic] that nobody can put anything like that into my stuff to find it.’

He added: ‘The idea behind that all perhaps was to make the BKa (police) and German prosecutor famous as well [as] known all over the world as the smartest organisation ever.’ He has been linked to four child murders across europe since 1996 and is under investigation for two rapes in Portugal near where madeleine vanished.

Brueckner accused German authorities of leaking information to discredit him. He said: ‘I know of about five open cases against me, all of them including raping and abusing. They have manipulated the truth in such an unprofessional way.’