Maddie suspect blasts police 'scandal' in prison letter and sketch
The German paedophile sensationally declared a prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann case has broken his silence in a letter and sketch from prison, declaring the investigation an "unbelievable scandal".
It is the first time Christian Brueckner has spoken publicly about allegations levelled against him by German police, including so-called "concrete evidence" that Madeleine is dead.
German prosecutors have said Brueckner, who is currently jailed for another crime, is a suspect in Madeleine's unusual disappearance 14 years ago – but that they do not have enough evidence to charge him in court.
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Madeleine McCann vanished from her holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal during May 2007. Getty
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In a letter dated May 8, written from his prison cell and published by German tabloid Bild, the 44-year-old Brueckner slammed suggestions he abducted or harmed Madeleine.
"Charging someone with a crime is one thing," he wrote.
"It is something completely different, namely an unbelievable scandal, when a public prosecutor starts a public prejudicial campaign before proceedings are even opened," he continued.
"Freedom of expression is not a basic right so that everyone can say and write what they want. Freedom of expression does not protect the majority," Brueckner wrote from his prison in Oldenburg, near Bremen.
"It protects the minority. It does not protect the most logical, most convincing or most popular views, but rather the outsider position.
"I call on the Brunswick public prosecutors (Hans Christian) Wolters and (Ute) Lindemann to resign from their offices."
Christian Brueckner, a suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann Supplied
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In June last year prosecutor Mr Wolters stunned the world when he presented Brueckner as a new prime suspect in the case.
Mr Wolters has repeatedly claimed he has evidence Madeleine is dead but he has never revealed what that evidence is, or how it might be linked to Brueckner.
Brueckner appeared to take aim at Mr Wolters over this fact in his letter.
"You have proved worldwide, through arbitrary convictions in the past and through scandalous prejudicial campaigns in the present, that you are unsuitable for the office of an 'advocate for the honest and German people who trust in justice,' and that you bring shame to the German legal system."
Mr Wolters has admitted he has no forensic evidence which would link Brueckner to Madeleine's disappearance.
Brueckner also drew a cartoon in his letter which showed two prosecutors ordering a dinner of "filet forensics" in a restaurant.
In speech bubbles, a male character in the coloured drawing says: "I'll take the filet forensics."
His dinner companion, a woman, replies: "Yummy, me too."
Madeleine went missing in 2007 while on holiday in Portugal with her family.
She was aged three at the time of her disappearance.
Christian Brueckner's letter, which was dated May 8 and published by German tabloid Bild, reportedly included a drawing of two prosecutors ordering 'filet forensics' at a restaurant. Bild
Brueckner had lived in Portugal's Algarve region from 1995 to 2007, and also resided in a house in Praia da Luz, the resort town from where Madeleine vanished.
He is currently appealing a conviction for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American woman, for which he was sentenced to seven years in jail.
German police have previously investigated Brueckner in the 2015 disappearance of a German girl, Inga Gehricke, who vanished in the woods while on a family picnic.
He was not charged with any crimes relating to Inga, but police did prosecute him over the child abuse material found inside his camper van.
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