Madeleine McCann suspects Christian Brueckner has been protesting his innocence in a series of letters to MailOnline since he was linked to her disappearance.
In the first five-page letter, written from Oldenburg prison, where he was sent after being convicted of rape in 2019 and sentenced to seven years in prison, he mocked authorities for suggesting he was responsible.
German authorities sensationally named him in June 2020 as the man behind the “kidnapping and murder” of Madeleine in 2007, when she was just three years old, but no charges have been filed since.
The clear letters give a fascinating insight into the mind of convicted rapist Brueckner and clearly show his obsession with trying to persuade the authorities and the public, through the media, that he is innocent of involvement in Madeleine’s kidnapping. .
Brueckner wrote: ‘Welcome to the greatest adventure you can imagine. I’m the most notorious bad person in the world and I did nothing… well, almost nothing.
Madeleine McCann suspects Christian Brueckner has been protesting his innocence in a series of letters to MailOnline since he was linked to her disappearance.
A graphologist, who examined Brueckner’s letters and careful handwriting for MailOnline, says they show he was “distorted, deceived” and that his “fantastic views are constant, unchanging.”
Brueckner’s four-page letter ends with a drawing of a daisy (pictured) with its petals torn off and the words “innocent” and “guilty” circulating around it and the caption “Spring is coming …” beside.
He added: “I wasn’t kidnapping anyone and, of course, I wasn’t killing anyone.” I’ll go further, I’ll tell you that I didn’t attack anyone after I was 18.
“I made some dumb mistakes when I was younger, but who hasn’t?”
Then, referring to the Madeleine case, he said: ‘Maybe I was a suspect after everything they discovered about me.
‘Drug dealer, broke into houses, lived in cars and had a thing for kids when he was 17.
‘But they didn’t have (sic) a single piece of evidence that I was involved in the McCann case. And they still don’t have it.
‘I know why. Because they don’t have hair or anything from Maddie, which (sic) means no one can put stuff like that in my stuff to find it.
“The idea behind all this was perhaps to make the BKA (German police) and the German prosecutor also famous, and (sic) known throughout the world as the most intelligent organization that has ever existed.”
Brueckner led a nomadic existence while in the Algarve, living most of the time in a caravan.
He added: “They (German authorities) have manipulated the truth in such an unprofessional way that I laugh.”
“I haven’t lost my sense of humor yet. Even in this critical situation. This is what keeps me alive.”
The penciled letters sent to MailOnline are notable for Brueckner’s distinctive clear, tiny handwriting, which one graphologist said showed he was “distorted and deceived”.
In one of his letters from prison in Germany, where he is serving time for raping an elderly woman, Brueckner draws in pencil the long, dark hallway of a prison wing. Perhaps the isolation ward where he is being held in the Oldenburg prison.
Calligraphy expert Tracey Russell added that they also showed that his “fantastic views were constant and unchanging.”
He said that its letters indicated someone who wanted to “command and control” and added that “the long, extended final stroke on the reclining letter S symbolizes “someone who suffers with feelings of guilt.”
He continued: ‘In some cases, this symbol is seen when a violent death has occurred near the writer and they are trying to come to terms with it.
“Whatever the truth, there is a need to continually feed your ego, and your ultimate goal is to gain some form of recognition” before concluding that he had “a short fuse.”
Another letter in near-perfect English, sent to MailOnline, included a drawing of a daisy with petals torn off and the words “guilty” and “not guilty” surrounding it.
In a clear campaign to clear his name, Brueckner wrote before his current trial: “You can never imagine what it’s like when everyone thinks you’re a child killer, and you’re not.”
Madeleine McCann was three years old when she disappeared from her parents’ bedroom while she was sleeping on vacation in Praia da Luz in May 2007.
He then boasts: ‘I was told a long time ago that the prosecution would close the Maddie case because there is not the slightest bit of evidence. There will never be a trial.
‘The prosecutors do not say anything to the public because they must hand over the files to my lawyers, and they contain a lot of material (sic) that confirms my innocence.
Brueckner, who describes the investigation as a “Grimm fairy tale”, added: “The police and prosecutors are trying to create a monster to mislead people and make them believe I’m the one.”
Christian Brueckner was photographed pulling up in a prison van outside the courtroom in Brunswick, Lower Saxony, at the start of his trial.
He continued: ‘They (investigators) will never understand that the idea they had was brilliant – I already said Hollywood couldn’t do it better – but they cast (sic) the wrong lead actor: me.
‘I’m almost sure that some other people in my situation, under all the pressure, insults and threats (sic) would have capitulated long ago.
‘They would have asked where they can sign the death warrant. But not me. I’m tough as old boots.
Brueckner, again complaining that he is being made a scapegoat in both the Madeleine investigation and his current trial, added: ‘The accountability is not strong enough to admit the mistakes they made in the Maddie case.
“So they try, desperately, to accuse me of other strange things. It doesn’t matter that it looks completely different as the victims say.
“I’d really like to know what they tell them to convince them that it was me anyway.”
Closing the letter, Brueckner said, “I am writing this without self-pity and my self-confidence and self-control have never been at such a high level.”
‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Cheer up! Better days are coming.