British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who vanished from Portugal's Algarve region in 2007, said a 49-year-old German man remains a suspect in their investigation.

The German suspect, Christian Brueckner, lived in the Algarve at the time when McCann vanished, and is due to be released from prison in Germany. He was first named as a suspect by British and German police in 2020.

"We are aware of the pending release from prison of a 49-year-old German man who has been the primary suspect in the German federal investigation into Madeleine's disappearance," Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell of Britain's Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Monday.

"We can confirm that this individual remains a suspect in the Metropolitan

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