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Madeleine case: remember the disappearance of the girl Madeleine McCann
Christian Brueckner, the defendant, is serving a sentence in Germany for drug trafficking. On Monday, he was transferred from prison to a court to be heard at a hearing on the case for which he is being held.
See below for a video about searches at a place where the suspect lived.
Madeleine case: police search Hannover, northern Germany
The incident in court is being investigated and more details of what happened in court are expected to be released.
A Justice spokeswoman, Jessica Knab-Henrichs, told the Associated Press that the suspect was taken to hospital, and the hearing resumed after that.
The German is the suspect in the Madeleine disappearance case, but prosecutors said they have no evidence yet to incriminate him.
After serving a sentence for drug trafficking, he will remain in prison for another crime: in 2005, in Portugal, he raped a 72-year-old American woman.
In 2007 Madeleine was a 3 year old girl from the UK. Her family had gone to Portugal on vacation to the beach and the girl disappeared from the apartment where they were staying.
Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, stated that they left their daughter sleeping with her two brothers while having dinner with friends at the same resort and that when they returned, the child was no longer in the room.
In June 2020, German authorities said they had identified the suspect who is currently in prison.
In addition, according to German authorities, the man has convictions for child sexual abuse, robbery, drug trafficking and is known for breaking into hotels. He was in the Portuguese city where Madeleine was kidnapped when the crime occurred.
