Has essential testimony been ignored? In the case of the disappearance of little Maddie, a British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007, a man claims to have alerted the English police in 2008 about the main suspect, Christian Brueckner. No follow-up at the time.
According The Guardianthe man admitted to the German tabloid Picture having committed petty crimes with Christian Brueckner when they both lived near Praia da Luz, the seaside resort where Maddie McCann disappeared. “I called Scotland Yard [police britannique] in 2008. I told them I knew someone who had something to do with Maddie’s disappearance and gave them her name. They took down my personal details, my phone number, but nothing happened. Nothing ! They never called me back,” he explained.
Alerted by the media coverage of the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of the little girl, he then decided to contact the authorities again, nine years later. This is when he will finally be questioned by the police.
“She didn’t scream”
Among his morbid revelations, the discovery of a video of the rape of an American in 2007 in the apartment of Christian Brueckner (for which he was convicted and is currently imprisoned in Germany). He also said he saw other videos, including one in which Christian Brueckner assaults a girl around 13 or 14 years old, tied to a pillar. According to him, a policeman friend and a lawyer advised him not to say anything so as not to get in trouble.
In 2008, the two men met again in Spain. They would then have mentioned the disappearance of Maddie. “I don’t understand how the little one could have disappeared without a trace,” the man reportedly said, before Christian Brueckner’s icy response: “She didn’t scream. “I immediately understood what he meant,” said the witness. Christian Brueckner would then have fled.