Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner brags he has information to solve ‘scandal of the century’

The main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has bragged he has information about the ‘scandal of the century’ to a shop worker.

Christian Brueckner, 49, was released from prison last week for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same part of Portugal where the McCann family were on holiday in 2007.

He has been linked to Madeleine’s disappearance since 2020 but has refused to speak to police about the case.

But within a week of his release – spending his first hours of freedom with a McDonald’s – Brueckner has become very talkative with an employee at a phone store.

He spent the equivalent of about £90 on a Xiaomi Redmi Android phone and sim cards, spending about an hour-and-a-half in the shop as he tried to get the new phone and a WhatsApp account set up.

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