Main Madeleine McCann suspect claims "unbelievable scandal"
The main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has slammed German prosecutors of an "unbelievable scandal" by prejudicing the case against him.
Christian Brueckner, 44, has not been charged in relation to the 2007 disappearance of McCann but was publicly identified as a suspect last year.
He broke his silence in a handwritten letter from prison where he is serving a sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.
“Charging someone with a crime is one thing,” he said in the letter, according to the UK Telegraph.
“It is something completely different - namely an unbelievable scandal - when a public prosecutor starts a public prejudicial campaign before proceedings are even opened,” Brueckner added.
“You have proved worldwide, through arbitrary convictions in the past and through scandalous prejudicial campaigns in the present, that you are unsuitable for the office of an ‘advocate for the honest and German people who trust in justice’, and that you bring shame to the German legal system.”
Brueckner was accused last year of raping the woman in the same seaside town where McCann disappeared.
Prosecutors in the case have previously said they do not yet have enough evidence to arrest him.