Christian Brueckner’s adoptive mother has revealed that she has disowned Madeleine McCann suspect and “no longer has anything to do with him”.
Brigitte Brueckner and her late husband Fritz are said to have raised Christian as “one of their own” after they abandoned him when he was a child.
But the widow says she has now cut ties with the 47-year-old, who is a convicted rapist and was named in 2020 as the prime suspect in Maddie’s 2007 disappearance.
The imprisoned pedophile is currently facing trial for three rapes and two sexual assaults, all allegedly carried out on Portugal’s Algarve coast between 2000 and 2017.
“I have nothing to do with him anymore,” Mrs. Brueckner said, according to Sun. ‘As far as I’m concerned, I’ve already said goodbye. Auf Wiedersehen.’
Ms Brueckner (pictured in Bavaria in 2020) said she had “said goodbye” to her adopted son.
Brueckner (pictured in court last month) is currently on trial for three cases of aggravated rape and two cases of sexual abuse.
Mrs. Brueckner is shown feeding a cat in the park in Bergtheim, Bavaria, 2020.
German police named him as the alleged “bodyless” kidnapper and murderer of Madeleine McCann.
Mrs. Brueckner has long maintained that she had nothing to do with her adopted son’s actions and that she has not seen him for years.
Brueckner was born in the Bavarian city of Würzburg in 1976 and was placed in a foster home after being abandoned by his biological mother.
Mrs. Brueckner and her husband took him and his brother into their family and reportedly raised him since he was a baby.
But parents sent him to live in a teenage reformatory after Brueckner was seriously injured in a car accident and the boy’s delinquent behavior worsened.
Christian was moved to the Church-run home at age 15 and earned his first conviction two years later for sexually abusing a child.
He was behind bars in a youth prison for two years before training as a mechanic and moving to the Algarve after his release.
He spent more than two decades moving between Portugal and Germany, working odd jobs and financing his itinerant lifestyle through theft and other crimes.
When German police named him Maddie’s alleged “bodiless” kidnapper and murderer in June 2020, her adoptive mother said her life had been “destroyed again.”
Brueckner was born in the Bavarian city of Würzburg in 1976 and was placed in a foster home (pictured, aged 11).
“Brigitte is shocked, distraught… She is elderly and confused,” a family friend told MailOnline at the time.
‘She says this is not her fault and she has nothing to do with it. Now, after the death of her husband Fritz, she is alone.
“He has no contact with anyone, not with any family, and he hasn’t seen Christian or his other two children for years.
“She can’t bear to talk to anyone about all of this. But she maintains that it wasn’t obvious that Christian would do something like this.
Christian has not yet been charged over the British girl’s disappearance, but is currently on trial in a separate case relating to the attacks that occurred just minutes from where she disappeared at the Praia da Luz resort.
Among the victims were holiday representative Hazel Behan, another woman between 70 and 80 years old, a girl of about 14 years old, a 10-year-old girl who was allegedly attacked on a beach near where Madeleine disappeared, and another child.
In the photo: Christian Brueckner, linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
He is already serving a seven-year sentence for raping an elderly American woman in the Algarve in 2005 and was jailed in 2019 after evidence emerged from two former friends.
While making a series of court appearances in Germany, a former domestic worker for his children reportedly spoke out to say: “It’s terrifying to see what he’s become when you see the photos of him in court with those terrifying eyes.”
‘I’m sure anyone he knew would definitely be scared if they saw him today. We don’t want him to come back here ever again.