Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has compared the German prosecutor investigating him to Adolf Hitler.
The 45-year-old rapist and paedophile hit out at Hans Christian Wolters in a ranting prison letter. He told German authorities to “put up or shut up” after spending two years as the prime suspect in the case.
Brueckner, who denies any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, is serving a seven-year jail term for rape. Wolters has repeatedly said they have proof that Maddie was snatched by him in May 2007 and that she is dead.
But despite spending years investigating the German, they appear no closer to charging him with the crime. Now Brueckner has gone on the offensive, challenging prosecutors to prove the claims they have made against him.
In a letter written in pencil, the convicted pervert said his life has been destroyed by “Hitler-like behaviour”. He wrote: “I’m wondering why people still ask me where I was on 3 May, 2007.
“It is not on me to present evidence. Ask the prosecutor in the same overkill way like it happens with me. Ask him why he destroyed the life of a human being by telling lies to the public in 2020.
“I can’t ask him. He is talking to me only by using the media.”
Likening Wolters to Hitler, he added: “I can’t give any answer why a German prosecutor can act like that in the McCann case. The only answer I find for myself is that Hitler is still everywhere.
“The prosecutor has been sowing for two years now and he knows that there can’t be a return.”
Brueckner accused German authorities of trying to frame him for other crimes allegedly committed in Portugal. Prosecutors are believed to be weeks away from charging him with raping an Irish tour rep in the Algarve in 2004.
They also suspect him of involvement in two indecent exposure cases in Portugal involving children. Brueckner, who denies them all, added: “The whole world is watching him (Wolters). To cover the blame he starts more and more inquiries against me, all of them happened many years ago and far away from Germany.
“Witnesses are having bad memories already and they are easy to influence. I’ve spent the last few days reading files – 5500 pages without any evidence for even one stolen bicycle. Nothing. I knew it would end like this.”
Brueckner also moaned about his conditions in Oldenburg Prison in northern Germany. He said: “It’s not even possible for me to buy even one pen.
"I’m in a special protected place (isolation) for more than four months. Locked up for 24 hours with no TV.”
He said in a previous letter: “I wasn’t kidnapping anybody and of course I wasn’t killing anybody.”
Portuguese officials made Brueckner an official suspect in May, almost 15 years on from Maddie’s disappearance. He is currently in jail for the 2005 rape of a pensioner in Praia da Luz, the resort where Madeleine vanished from her family holiday apartment 15 years ago.
Kate and Scot Gerry McCann, who live in Leicestershire, believe she is alive. Wolters has previously refused to comment on Brueckner’s prison letters.
Last year he said that prosecutors have enough evidence to charge Brueckner with her murder, but as he is in jail for separate offences, they decided to continue their probe indefinitely.
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