As new searches are carried out as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Maddie McCann, one of the main suspect’s friends has revealed that he was going to a water tank he called his “little one”. corners of paradise”.
Only four years old at the time of her disappearance, the little Madeleine McCannnicknamed Maddie, has not been seen since Thursday, May 3, 2007. The girl disappeared near Praia da Luz in the Algarve, Portugal, where her parents had gone on vacation. highly publicized, this case gave rise to several surveys in Portugal and England, which are still open today. Finally, it was in Germany that the main suspect in this case, Christian Bruckner, was discovered in 2020. The latter is a multi-recidivist pedophile currently in detention near Kiel, in northern Germany, for another criminal case.
At the time of Maddie’s disappearance, Christian Bruckner lived just a few miles from the hotel where the girl’s family was staying. It will nevertheless be necessary to wait until 2022 for the Portuguese justice to ask Germany to indict the suspect for the kidnapping of Maddie McCann. Lately, new research has been undertaken in Portugal, in an effort to find the body of Maddie McCann. The excavations were concentrated in particular around a water reserve, located near the artificial dam of the town of Silves.
Disappearance of Maddie McCann: will the water supply where the main suspect went be the key to this case?
This reserve was surveyed, while divers explored the depths of the dam. This place was not chosen by chance. Indeed, Christian Brueckner used to go there at the time of the girl’s disappearance. According to one of his friends, the suspect called this water supply his “little piece of heaven“, and went there regularly in order to “To purify“. After three days of intensive research, a “relevant clue“would have been found by the authorities, according to the revelations of a Portuguese media. For his part, Christian Brueckner proclaims his innocence from Germany, where he was imprisoned for the rape of a 72-year-old lady. He has also been charged with five other crimes and sexual offenses, committed between 2000 and 2017.