Madeleine McCann search latest: Investigators scour abandoned farmhouse near Christian Brueckner’s home in Portugal

Ministers in the UK approved more than £ 100,000 in additional funds for detectives Scotland yards that explore the disappearance of Madeleine in April.

The metropolitan police announced that it is aware of the current operational work, but British officials will not be present.

Claim that 47-year-old Christian Brueckner could be the main suspect in the disappearance Madeleine McCann He looked a little thinner when he was released in October five unrelated sex offenses – two of whom are the children involved – after the trial in February 2024. Years.

Despite the huge quantity of interest around Christian Brueckner’s past, the verdicts were not a big surprise. They were expected since last July, when the chairman of the judge, Uta Inse Engemann, in the German Regional Court Braunschweig ruled that “no longer evidence of guilt for all charges”.

Brueckner, German national, remains in prison, serving the last month of the 192-year American woman in 2005. in the restaurant Ocean Club in Praia da Luz – the same hotel in which Madeleine disappeared for two years later. But as he asks for early commissioning from the sentence in 2019. In Germany, the police rushes to charge the premiere suspect in the disappearance of British little ones before being free from imprisonment.

David James Smith Reports:

The Christian Brueckner suspects told the journalist that if he came out of prison to what is most looking forward to being a beer steak.

Ulrich Epipold, journalist of the German Emiter RTL, visited Brueckner in prison in Germany.

Brueckner refused to answer all questions related to Madeleine after talking to their lawyers.

He told the journalist if he would go out of prison, he will have to lie down as well as he is so well known.

Brueckner described as “Bekannt Wie Ein Bunter Hunter” – which was literally translated “known as a colorful dog.”

Independent crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports from Portugal:

Swinging picks up in solidated soil and cleaning piles of rocks and ruins – a dozen policemen started working Tuesday at the temperatures that have reached 20C.

Gathered Remote space CliffTop Scrubland for a few miles from the Portuguese Resort Madeleine McCann disappeared Since 18 years, one team dug up an abandoned village house under a waking view of nearby journalists.

Other officials cleared dishes and impurities around nearby buildings, while the fire crew pumped water from wounded well before they appear, and the winches cannot be used to the website.

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