Eighteen years after Madeleine McCann, a 3-year-old British girl, disappeared in Portugal, the man considered a suspect by Britain and Germany was released after serving a sentence in a separate case.
Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 case, rejected an interview request ahead of his release this week from a German prison for a separate crime, the British police said.
Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal, at his trial on unrelated sexual assault charges in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2024.
Though a relief for the governing coalition, the far-right Alternative for Germany nearly tripled its vote share in North Rhine-Westphalia versus five years ago.
Issa al Hasan, the perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in Germany last year, was a member of Islamic State. The terror group claimed responsibility for the rampage.