Two weeks after being released, Christian Brückner traveled for hours to confront the prosecutor who said he had proof of his responsibility for the disappearance and murder of Madeleine McCann
Two weeks after being released from a penalty for violation, 49 -year -old Christian Brückner traveled for hours to confront prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who accused him of the murder of Madeleine McCann in the event of the British girl.
“I’m being chased by the media and it’s his fault. I want you to take responsibility,” explains Brückner, in an exclusive interview with.
The suspect also states that he asked the attorney’s help, through his representative, “to recover” his life, but Wolters “refused to meet”: “They told me that there was nothing they could do to help. I had been convicted and released, and it was not their responsibility.”
Hans Christian Wolters has publicly stated that he has unveiled evidence that Christian Brückner kidnapped and killed ‘Maddie’, missing from a holiday at Praia da Luz, in Portugal, 18 years ago. Brückner, however, denies any involvement in the crime.
“Public Prosecution Service made rehabilitation impossible”
On September 17 of this year Christian Brückner left arrest in the company of lawyer, Friedrich Fulscher, and has lived since then in a host of local authorities in the city of Neumunnster, northern Hamburg.
But journalists quickly located and disclosed their new address, generating revolt among the community, concerned about their convictions for sexual crimes against children.
According to Sky News, Karin Mundt, a councilwoman and member of the far-right movement Heimat Neumunster, resorted to Facebook to appeal to local residents who were vigilant, did not leave alone and guarantee the safety of their children and the elderly. He also summoned a public protest with the slogan “Christian B. out of Neumunster – tougher measures against abusers of children and violators to protect all citizens!”
Although the rigid privacy laws in Germany prohibit, as a rule, the dissemination of images without consent, the group considered that the danger represented by Brückner justified the exception. Thus, they published their photographs, claiming that it was of public interest and that the residents, especially the elderly, needed to recognize him to protect themselves.
Two online messaging groups were created: one dedicated to mobilizing efforts to force Neumunster’s ex-reclusion to leave and another to share supposed sights. Among the reports that circulated was the presence of Brückner near schools, a situation that will have led some to call the police. However, workers from these institutions ensured that the authorities had never been called.
The allegations multiplied. An employee of a pizza chain said he would have appeared disguised with a fake beard, but days later a colleague contradicted the story, saying that the images seen did not confirm that it was the suspect.
At the same time, a source close to Brückner’s defense assured the press that it hardly left the accommodation, just to solve a problem with the mobile phone and, on another occasion, to eat a steak.
The tensions increased to the point of circulating in the said groups invitations for a night meeting with the City Council. Police vehicles moved to the scene to avoid disorders, but online speech was radicalized, with users sharing addresses where they believed they lived. The distrust of journalists was so great that all members with nicknames considered “English” were expelled.
Faced with the climb of hostility, the police decided to remove Brückner from Neumunster. According to reports, quoted by Sky News, he was later seen in a hotel in another city whose location was not revealed.
In an interview with the German magazine Stern, Brückner’s lawyer accused Braunschweig’s prosecutor to foster a “media pre-judgment.” According to the jurist, the authorities publicly stated that they were sure of their client’s fault without showing solid evidence or allowing access to the proceedings, which, in his view, “made any hypothesis of rehabilitation impossible.”
Hans Christian Wolters, the attorney responsible for the Madeleine case, confirmed to Sky News that he learned of Brückner’s attempt to contact his Braunschweig office, but refused to receive it.
