The main suspect in the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann in 2007 would have confided to a former friend that the girl would not have “screamed” during her abduction, reported the one who would have denounced him in 2008 in a very first public interview. .
“I had called Scotland Yard in 2008. On the call line for Maddie. I said I knew someone who might have something to do with it and gave them the name. But nothing happened. Nothing! They never called me back,” said Helge Busching in an interview with the German newspaper “Bild” and reported by “The Independent” on Thursday.
In his first public interview, the one who could be a key witness to the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann in May 2007 in Portugal said that he met his old acquaintance Christian Brueckner at a festival in Spain in 2008, during which the subject of the disappearance had been addressed.
“I said ‘anyway, I don’t understand how the little one could have disappeared without a trace.’ Christian had drunk two or three beers and he said to me: “she did not shout”, would have related the man to the German media.
The latter clarified that he had discovered the true nature of Christian Brueckner long before the disappearance of little McCann, after stealing video tapes and a firearm from his home, where he could be seen sexually abusing a person elderly and a teenager.
“That’s when I knew what kind of guy Brueckner was,” continued the man who reported him to the German authorities, before a policeman told him to shut up, according to him.
It was in 2017, for the 10th anniversary of the case, that the witness would have remembered the information, when he had just been released from prison in Greece, deciding to contact Scotland Yard again.
Identified as the main suspect in the case in 2020, Christian Brueckner is currently serving a prison sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old, and has a criminal history of child abuse and drug trafficking. drug, according to the British media.