The prime suspect within the chilling Madeleine McCann case was charged with a number of sexual offenses in opposition to kids.
Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist, was charged in Germany with a string of lewd crimes he allegedly dedicated in Portugal.
Brueckner is charged with three counts of aggravated rape and two counts of sexual abuse of youngsters.
The prosecutor’s workplace stated the fees don’t relate to the McCann case.
The intercourse crimes allegedly befell between December 2000 and June 2017 in Portugal, based on officers.
“The accused is identical individual in opposition to whom fees had been introduced in reference to the disappearance of the then 3-year-old British woman Madeleine Beth McCann,” the Braunschweig prosecutor’s workplace stated in an announcement.
“The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann continues.”
Brueckner, known as Christian B in Germany because of the nation’s strict privateness legal guidelines, is at present serving a jail sentence for raping a 72-year-old girl in the identical resort the place McCann went lacking.
The three-year-old vanished throughout a household trip within the resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal’s Algarve area in 2007. She went lacking from the resort on Might 3, just a few days earlier than her fourth birthday.
The toddler’s mother and father had left their three kids sleeping within the condo whereas they went to a restaurant close by, returning often to verify on McCann and her siblings.
However when her mother checked on the children at 10 p.m., she was horrified to seek out the door and window to their bed room broad open and the toddler nowhere to be discovered.
Brueckner has denied involvement within the disappearance of McCann.
With Publish wires
