German suspect in Madeleine McCann case freed from prison | International

SEHNDE, Germany, Sept 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The top suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal was freed from a German prison on Wednesday, an AFP journalist at the scene reported. Christian Brueckner, 48, had been serving a seven-year term at Sehnde prison in northern Germany for rape, but he has not been charged in the McCann case because of a lack of evidence, prosecutors say. Brueckner was driven away in his lawyer's car accompanied by two police vans, watched by a large group of journalists who had waited outside the correctional facility. Prosecutors in Braunschweig have accused him of being behind the disappearance of McCann, widely known as "Maddie", the notorious missing person case...