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LEAVE ME ALONE

Maddie suspect: It’s a scandal

- ■ by JERRY LAWTON

THE prime suspect in Madeleine Mccann’s disappeara­nce insists he is innocent and called his accusers “scandalous”.

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 44, called on everyone involved to resign because they had “brought shame to the legal system”.

In a rambling letter, he said: “Charging an accused is one thing. Something completely different – namely, it is an unbelievab­le scandal – when a public prosecutor starts a public campaign of 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. Freedom of expression does not protect the majority. It protects the minority.”

Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters last week admitted police “don’t yet have enough” evidence to charge the German drifter.

Brueckner is in jail for a 2005 rape in Praia da Luz, Portugal, the resort Madeleine vanished from in 2007.

 ??  ?? VANISHED: Madeleine
VANISHED: Madeleine
 ??  ?? ACCUSED: Brueckner
ACCUSED: Brueckner

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