- Christian Brueckner boasted that he kidnapped and attacked a runaway girl
- He told his cellmate that he locked up the 13-year-old for four days
- The alleged incident took place just months before Maddie was kidnapped.
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The prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance bragged to his prison cellmate about kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl just months before Madeleine disappeared.
Christian Brueckner, on trial in Braunschweig, Germany, accused of three rapes and two counts of child sexual abuse between 2000 and 2017 that took place in the same complex from which Madeleine was taken, bragged about kidnapping and tying a girl to a post. little girl. after she ran away from a youth camp.
Her cellmate Michael Tatschl will reportedly tell the court that Brueckner boasted that she was just 13 when he held her for four days at his home in Praia da Luz, the same Algarve resort from which Madeleine disappeared in 2007.
Tatschl lived with Brueckner on the farm after they were both released from prison in December 2006.
A source told the Sun: “Tatschl will say Brueckner told him he convinced the girl to get into a car with him and held her for four days.”
Christian Brueckner (pictured) is accused of three rapes and two counts of sexual abuse of children between 2000 and 2017 that took place in the same complex from which Madeleine was taken.
Madeleine McCann (pictured) disappeared in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.
“She will tell the court that Brueckner told her he tied the girl to a post and sexually abused her.”
Brueckner’s pattern of bizarre and disgusting behavior has been laid bare for the world to see, with a former friend revealing that the alleged kidnapper had CDs in his home with labels suggesting they contained child and animal pornography.
Christian Post, a former friend who used to associate with Brueckner in Portugal, told a German court: “It was clear from the CD labels what they contained, which suggested to me that there were things involving young people.”
But I looked at it quickly and found it too dilapidated. So I threw them away. I didn’t see them personally. I just saw the label and then made a decision.
“Some were pornographic practices,” Post told the court. ‘One thing I noticed involved dogs, so this is (one) thing I later threw away.
“I don’t remember all the details, but there were some things like this and I didn’t want to risk transporting something like this.”
He described how he had seen “piles of documents and passports” at Brueckner’s house and recalled how he had boasted to him about his housebreaking skills in the Algarve, from where Madeleine disappeared while on holiday in 2007.
A former friend reveals that the alleged kidnapper had CDs in his home with labels suggesting they contained child and animal pornography.
German police are convinced he kidnapped and killed Madeleine, and investigations have continued years after her disappearance.
Madeleine is believed to have been taken from her family’s holiday home while her parents were at a nearby restaurant.
Post said: ‘He said that during the night he was active in Praia da Luz. He said he would climb buildings when the windows were open and grab things.
Brueckner is currently behind bars after being found guilty of raping a 72-year-old American woman in the Algarve in 2005, just a few kilometers from where Madeleine would disappear two years later.
German police are convinced he kidnapped and killed Madeleine, and investigations have continued years after her disappearance; The most recent high-profile searches took place in Lake Arade, 30 miles from Praia da Luz.
Brueckner himself has repeatedly denied any involvement in her disappearance and his lawyer, Friedrich Fulscher, has criticized the allegations, warning that they risk muddying the waters of Brueckner’s disjointed trial.
He told the court last month that the pedophile had been under “global media fire” since German police named him a key suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance in 2020, with no charges yet brought against him.