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The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has tried to confront the prosecutor who accused him of her murder, it has been reported.
Christian Brueckner travelled for hours to the prosecutor’s office in the German city of Braunschweig but was denied a meeting with Hans Christian Wolters, Sky News reported on Monday.
He told the broadcaster: “The prosecutor refused to meet me, but I told his representative I wanted his help to get my life back.
“I’m being hounded by the media, and it’s his fault. I want him to take responsibility.
“I was told there was nothing they could do to help. I had been convicted and released, and I wasn’t their responsibility.”
Brueckner was released from jail earlier this month after serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2005.
Previously, in a television interview in 2022, Wolters accused him of murdering Madeleine, which he denies.
Brueckner’s lawyer Friedrich Fulscher told Sky that the public accusation had made his client’s rehabilitation “impossible”.

British police have their own investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance in which Brueckner is also a suspect, but the UK inquiry remains a missing person case, not a murder case.
A number of searches have been carried out by German, Portuguese and British authorities since Madeleine’s disappearance – with the latest taking place near the Portuguese municipality of Lagos in June.
In 2023, investigators carried out searches near the Barragem do Arade reservoir, about 50km (31 miles) from Praia da Luz.
Brueckner spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017 and had photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir.
In October last year, the suspect was cleared by a German court of unrelated sexual offences, alleged to have taken place in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
The total funding given to the London Metropolitan Police’s investigation, titled Operation Grange, has been more than £13.2 million (US$17.7 million) since 2011 after a further £108,000 was secured from the UK government in April.


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Christian Brueckner, chief suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the UK child, was denied a meeting with Hans Christian Wolters in Germany


Christian Brueckner, chief suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the UK child, was denied a meeting with Hans Christian Wolters in Germany.


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Madeleine McCann suspect tries to confront prosecutor who accused him of girl’s murder

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Christian Brueckner, chief suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the UK child, was denied a meeting with Hans Christian Wolters in Germany

Christian Brueckner, chief suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the UK child, was denied a meeting with Hans Christian Wolters in Germany