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This Friday, the German court confirmed the sentence of seven years in prison for rape of a septuagenarian applied to Christian Bruckener, a German citizen identified as a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the British girl Maddie McCann in Portugal.
According to the AFP news agency, confirmation of this prison sentence by the German courts was already awaited after the Court of Justice of the European Union rejected, at the end of September, Christian Bruckener’s appeal against that sentence initially rendered by the German courts in the end. 2019.
Bruckener was sentenced in Germany in December 2019 to seven years in prison for Rape and robbery of a 72-year-old American, a crime that occurred in 2005 in Portugal., at a location near Aldeia da Luz, Lagos, where Maddie mysteriously disappeared in May 2007.
“He (Christin B.) threatened the woman with a knife, tied her up and raped her. He then forced the victim to give her money,” the Brunswick court said in a statement.
Christian B. will thus remain in prison, allowing investigators, who feared his possible conditional release, to continue their investigations into the disappearance of Maddie McCann.
The Maddie case developed suddenly in early June, with the identification of this 43-year-old German, considered a repeat pedophile and who is currently detained in Kiel, in northern Germany.
According to German investigators, the detainee is suspected of the murder of the British girl who was three years old (at the time of the events, in 2007) and who was on vacation with her parents when she disappeared from the hotel room where she slept in the villa tourist of Praia. of the light.
In mid-June, the Brunswick Prosecutor’s Office clarified that it had “strong evidence” supporting the belief that the girl was dead, but not “forensic evidence” in the sense that, for example, the remains of the body had been found. .
According to Christian B.’s lawyer, quoted by the media, the detainee denies any involvement in Maddie’s disappearance.
At the end of July, the German police carried out searches and excavations in a field near Hannover, frequented by the suspect, but did not reveal if they had found relevant evidence there.
Christian B. lived the date of Maddie’s disappearance a few kilometers from the beach resort of Praia da Luz where the English boy’s family was on vacation.
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