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Madeleine McCann Prime Suspect Says Police Want to Frame Him, Admits He Was 'Selling Drugs' Just '150 Yards' Near Resort

  • Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family’s vacation apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.
  • German prosecutors named Christian Brueckner as the prime suspect in 2020, but he has not been charged in connection with McCann’s disappearance.
  • Brueckner told the Mail on Sunday that he was selling drugs on a nearby beach and was stopped by police three times that night.
  • Brueckner denied involvement and claimed that police wanted to frame him.
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Christian Brueckner, 49, a German national who denies involvement in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, has so far refused to reveal his whereabouts when the three-year-old girl disappeared from her apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. Now he has finally spoken out and admitted that he was on the run from police that night.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Christian Brueckner told The Mail on Sunday that he was “selling drugs” near the British girl’s holiday complex and that he had previously “keep quiet because the police want to frame me in Maddie’s case.”

·Las Condes, Chile
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Daily Mirror broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Sunday, September 20, 2026.
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