Madeleine Magkan, the suspect, Christian Brockerner, which was released in Germany, refuses to speak to the UK police

Berlin – Christian Pruitkner, the convicted sexual perpetrator launched by the German authorities as a major suspect in the disappearance of the British child Madeleine McCann for nearly two decades, rejected an interview with the UK police a few days before the prison was released from prison.

The 49 -year -old German citizen is scheduled to walk on Wednesday after he spent a seven -year prison sentence for a separate crime, which is the rape of an American woman aged 72 years in the same area of ​​Portugal from which she disappeared during a vacation with her family.

While Brueckner remains under official The investigation of Macan’s disappearance of 2007He has never been charged with regard to the case and continues to reject any participation.

His decision is seen by the decline in the London Metropolitan police request to conduct an interview as a setback in the long search for answers in the case that thwarted investigators in Britain, Portugal and Germany for years.

British investigators were hoping to interrogate Brookner to clarify the main details about his movements in Braia da Luz, the resort city in the southern Garf region in Portugal, from which Makan disappeared, then three years. She disappeared from her family rented apartment while her parents had dinner nearby.

For many related to the case, BrooknerThe release, which waves on the horizon, represents a pivotal and obstacle. The authorities were weighing the amount of supervision they could maintain reasonably on the perpetrators of sexual crimes, as soon as they were no longer behind bars.

Representatives of Prosecution in the city of Bronchy promoted a petition to the regional court in Hildeshim for what is known as supervisory control, a form of monitoring similar to the conditional release that can allow them to impose strict conditions on Brookner after his release, and may guarantee ankle tracking mark.

Brueckner may also be required to announce a fixed place of residence, inform the authorities of any change in the title or workplace, and to face restrictions on the place to be allowed to travel. Such restrictions can include preventing it from areas associated with His previous crimes. Germany can also be banned without requesting explicit approval from the authorities.

Procner Ferdrich Veturge’s lawyer refused to comment when he was asked by CBS News about the possibility of his client to supervisory supervision measures.

The regional court will eventually decide the measures, if any, to implement it after the BRUECKNER.

Even if supervisory supervision measures are granted, it is unlikely to satisfy critics who believe that the circumstantial evidence that links Brookner is satisfied with the state of what should dictate more close cooperation with British investigators.

His refusal to answer the questions of investigators in the UK means that they will not get an opportunity to push him on contradictions in alibis or face him directly with the statements of witnesses they collected over the past 18 years.

The issue of Macan was one of the most lost investigations in the world.

BRUECKNER was in the investigation center since public prosecutors Known it as a suspect In 2020, quoting phone records and history of violent crimes in the Portuguese Garf region. However, no charges were brought against him in the Macan case, as circumstantial evidence was considered insufficient to proceed with charges under German law.