The prison facility, where Christian Brueckner, a suspect in the case of the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, is being held ahead of his expected release in Sehnde, Germany, September 16, 2025. REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler
SEHNDE, Germany (Reuters) - The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime.
German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner as a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same part of Portugal's Algarve region where McCann went missing.
