A German sex offender who is a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is asserting that he had nothing to do with the girl, who vanished 16 years ago in Portugal, the Daily Mail reports.
This week, the news outlet published a bombshell story revealing that 45-year-old Christian Brueckner has written various letters disputing any involvement in what happened to McCann, who was just 3 years old when she went missing on May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz.
McCann’s family was visiting the tourist village while on vacation from the U.K. and had been renting an apartment. Her parents and friends were taking turns checking on her and her younger siblings while they dined at a restaurant nearby when she vanished.
Brueckner is presently behind bars serving a seven-year prison sentence for sex crimes involving adults and minors in Portugal.
News of the letters comes the same week that authorities searched a reservoir that Brueckner reportedly frequented around the time the girl disappeared. Police reportedly found a “relevant clue” in the search.
“You can never imagine how it is when the whole world believes you are a child murderer, and you are not,” Brueckner allegedly wrote in pencil in one four-page letter, according to the Daily Mail.
Despite his attempt to exonerate himself, Brueckner also seemed to express confidence that he would not be charged, writing, “I got told a long time ago that the prosecutor’s office was closing the Maddie case because there is not even the smallest evidence. There will never be a trial,” the letter reads, according to the Daily Mail. “The prosecutors are not saying anything to the public because they must give the files to my lawyers – and they contain many (sic) material which confirms my innocence.”
Brueckner alleged that authorities are “attempting to create a monster” and to “divert and let people think that I am the right one,” the news outlet reported.
He went on to write: “The torture I’m going through is the best evidence I can have.
“If somebody would have told me things like that before I would have said ‘No, I don’t believe you. This is Germany and not Pakistan.”
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