Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner’s lawyer has sensationally admitted he understands ‘concerns’ over his client’s sickening child sex and rape convictions.
Brueckner, 48, prime suspect for the ‘murder and abduction’ of Madeleine was released from jail earlier this week after serving six years of a seven-year sentence for rape and there are serious fears he will reoffend.
His lawyer Friedrich Fulscher confirmed he had refused to take part in a programme to rehabilitate sex offenders because Brueckner felt he was ‘unrightly convicted’ of the horrific attack on a 72-year-old woman.
The sickening assault on the American pensioner took place in 2005 in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coast just two years before then three-year-old Madeliene vanished from the same resort, and he has convictions for child abuse dating back to the 90s.
When asked if he understood people’s fears Mr Fulscher said:’ Certainly. Fear is often a very irrational feeling. But given Christian Brueckner’s past one can certainly find rational reasons for such concern.’
In a previous interview with the Daily Mail, Mr Fulscher once said that ‘Brueckner was not the sort of man you would like to look after your children’ and he told German media that society would have to ‘live with it’ as he had served his sentence in full.
Mr Fulscher added that he had ‘spoken with his client about the Madeleine case’ but said he ‘had seen no evidence to make him think he was involved’.
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has been declared homeless after his lawyer confessed that he understands ‘concerns’ over his client’s sickening child sex and rape convictions
In 2020, German authorities declared Christian Brueckner their prime suspect for the abduction and murder of Madeleine. He was released from jail earlier this week after serving six years of a seven-year sentence for rape and there are serious fears he will reoffend
He went on to say the evidence prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters has in the Madeleine case was too weak to support charges going on to say he thought ‘it will ever come to that’.
German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters has also admitted he thinks Brueckner is ‘still a dangerous individual’ and a case review in July ruled that ‘women were at risk from him’.
While at a trial last year for unrelated sex crime, forensic psychiatrist Dr Christian Riedemann confirmed Brueckner refused to cooperate with rehabilitation programmes and labelled him as being ’99 percent on a scale of dangerousness’.
As a result, as part of his release Brueckner has been ordered to wear an ankle tag for five years, report once a month to a probation office and surrender his passport although he has an ID card that will allow him to travel freely around Europe.
Hours after he was driven out of Sehnde prison by Mr Fulscher he was pictured tucking into chicken nuggets, a cheeseburger and sipping coffee while smoking a cigarette at a McDonalds on the motorway towards Bremen.
Late Friday it emerged he was living in a hostel in Neumunster south of Kiel in area ‘mainly where migrants live, who don’t read German media and have no idea who he is’, according to source close to Brueckner.
The news was initially reported by the local paper which said it was revealing the fact because of ‘over riding public interest and protection of the public’.
A spokesman for the city council, Stephan Beitz, also confirmed the report and said it had accommodated him as part of its ’emergency response’ but refused to say where exactly.
German media questioned why he had gone to Neumunster as he appeared to have no connections to the city and he had been released from a jail more than 200 miles away.
The local paper Kiel Nachrichten echoed fears he may reoffend and added:’The city is presumably concerned that protests or even riots will erupt if the location of the man with his criminal past becomes known.’
MailOnline can also reveal he is being watched by German BKA officers – the equivalent of the FBI – and has travelled on a train and ‘gone shopping in Lidl without anyone recognising him’.
Brueckner’s release is a blow to the German and British authorities who have been frantically trying to gather enough evidence to charge him since he was named as the likely suspect in June 2020.
He was known to be working in Praia da Luz when Madeleine vanished and mobile phone data puts him near the hotel complex the night she vanished, with investigators keen to identify a mystery caller he spoke to just minutes before.
Several witnesses have also come forward to name him as the suspect but crucially he has never been charged and in letters to the Daily Mail, Brueckner also insisted he had ‘nothing to do with it’ and he was being made a ‘scapegoat’.
Mr Wolters said:’ Brueckner is not only our number one suspect he is our only suspect – there is no one else.
‘We have evidence against him but it’s just not strong enough to bring a case also that’s why we haven’t charged him yet – we hope we can at some stage.’
Bruecker is due in court next month in relation to behaviour issues at Oldenburg prison where he was serving the initial part of his sentence.