LONDON — The main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who was last seen while on a holiday in Portugal with her parents in 2007, has refused to be interviewed by British police before his imminent release from a German prison.

The suspect, Christian Brückner, 49, is serving time in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005 and is set to be released Wednesday, according to his lawyer.

The rape took place in Praia da Luz, the same coastal holiday resort in southern Portugal where Madeleine disappeared 18 months later.

London’s Metropolitan Police said that Brückner, who has denied involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, remained the “primary suspect” in the German federal investigation into the case as well as a suspect in their own investiga

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