Maddie McCann Suspect Christian Brueckner Demolishes A McDonald’s In His First 24 Hours Of Freedom

Now that prime Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner is free, he can expect a lifetime of being followed by the press while police in England, Germany and Portugal continue to investigate in an attempt to find enough evidence to charge him with Maddie’s disappearance.

Having the likes of Daily Mail and BILD stalk him everywhere he goes could also serve as a useful deterrent in case he comes into contact with any more children. You know where you can usually find a lot of children? McDonald’s…

Indeed, 49-year-oldBrueckner was seen tucking into a McDonald’s cheeseburger and McNuggets on his first day out following a seven-year stint in German prison for raping a 72-year-old American woman. The crime took place in Praia da Luz in 2005; the same village in Portugal where Madeleine went missing in 2007.

Brueckner was also seen to be wearing an ankle monitor as he popped out for his Maccies:

After 15 minutes, he walked off. His lawyers have declined to say where Brueckner will live, which is probably in his best interests, but with the press following him around everywhere, it won’t necessarily remain a secret.

Earlier this year, police in Germany claimed to have found  ‘significant evidence’ of Brueckner’s involvement in Maddie’s disappearance in a factory owned by him, aside from also having three witness statements from people who say he confessed to them, and mobile phone logs that show he was in the area at the time.

One witness was a ‘former associate’ of his who he told at a festival that Maddie “didn’t scream when I took her”, and the other is a former cellmate who testified that Brueckner had told him about how he abducted a child from an apartment in Portugal.

Unfortunately, it seems this evidence was not significant enough, because Brueckner was released from prison this week after prosecutors failed to find enough to charge him with.

So, what now? Earlier this week, DCI Mark Cranwell of the Metropolitan Police revealed the Met had requested to interview Brueckner for themselves – but he had refused to cooperate. And so the force will need to pursue other ‘viable lines of enquiry’ as it continues to search for evidence.

Investigators in all three countries (England, Germany, Portugal) are certain that Brueckner is their man; let’s see if they can do what needs to be done to prove it, and let’s hope Brueckner does not bring harm to anyone else in the meantime.

For a look at some of the conspiracy theories going around about Maddie McCann’s disappearance, click HERE.