Maddie suspect: Claims against me ‘a scandal’
Letter slams prosecutors
THE prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case claims the investigation into him is a “scandal”.
Christian Brueckner wrote to German media attacking the prosecution team, complaining about being treated unfairly and claiming they brought “shame” on the German legal system.
Brueckner, 44, was named last year as the chief suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance after phone records placed him in the resort
Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the night she went missing.
The convicted rapist wrote: “Charging an accused is one thing. It’s an unbelievable scandal when a public prosecutor starts a public campaign for prejudice before a court case is opened.
“Freedom of expression is not a basic right so that everyone can say and write what they want. It does not protect the most logical, most convincing or most popular views, but the outsider position.”
The letter, which appears to be genuine, was dated May 8.
It went on: “I call on the public prosecutors to resign. They bring shame on to the judiciary.”
He also attached a cartoon which mocked prosecutors Hans Christian Wolters and Ute Lindeof mann by claiming they have no forensic evidence against him.
It is the first time Brueckner has publicly commented on the case of Madeleine, who vanished in May 2007 days before her fourth birthday.
German prosecutors believe she is dead and believe jailed Brueckner is responsible.
His lawyer Friedrich Fuelscher and prosecutor Mr Wolters declined to comment.