Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has mocked the case against him and once again protested his innocence.
The convicted sex offender was last week made an “arguido”, or official suspect, by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the three-year-old’s disappearance from Praia da Luz in May 2007.
He is being held in a high-security prison dubbed the Alcatraz of the North in Germany for raping a pensioner.
And now a letter has emerged in which the 45-year-old German insists his accusers have no evidence.
Describing himself as “the most-known bad person in the world” he adds: “I did nothing – well almost nothing”.
Brueckner writes: “Perhaps I was a suspect after all they found out about me. Drug dealer, breaking into houses, living in cars and there was something with kids when I was 17.
“But they had not even one proof I was involved with the McCann case.
“And they still don’t have it. I know why. Because they have no hairs or anything from Maddie [which] means that nobody can put anything like that in my stuff to find it.
“I wasn’t kidnapping anybody and of course I wasn’t killing anybody. I wasn’t attacking anybody after I was 18. I made some silly mistakes when I was younger but who hasn’t?”
In June 2020 German lawyers declared Brueckner was “responsible” for the kidnap and murder of Madeleine but he has not been charged due to lack of evidence. He has so far refused to speak to investigators about the case.
Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said: “In Germany, there is no end in sight to the investigations.”
Brueckner fled to Portugal in 1995 after completing a two-year sentence for abusing a child.
He is now serving seven years for raping a 72-year-old US woman in the Algarve in 2005.
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