Suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is said to have confessed to taking a child with her in Portugal

A suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance has reportedly admitted to his cellmate that he kidnapped a child in Portugal.

This statement was made on Wednesday in a German court where Christian Brückner, the suspect and convicted rapist, is facing unrelated sexual charges.

Brueckner made the confession in 2020 while serving a prison sentence for raping an American woman in 2007 at the same resort – at the same time McCann’s family was on their infamous vacation.

Laurentiu C, Brueckner’s cellmate, told the court what Brueckner allegedly said.

Accordingly The sunBrueckner first asked Laurentiu C. whether he was also imprisoned for crimes against a child. He later asked “whether a child’s DNA can be extracted from bones underground.”

“He told me that he had stolen in Portugal,” Laurentiu C told the court. “He was in a hotel area where rich people live. And when he went into the hotel area, there was an open window somewhere, he told me… And he would have entered that window for money and gold. However, he didn’t find any money, but instead came across a child and took him with him.”

“About two hours later the area was full of police and dogs and he had walked away from there,” he continued. “He left the area. He then said that there was another person with him with whom he had argued and that they had broken up. Laurentiu C says that Brueckner then left the area in a car.

The cellmate also testified that the pedophile asked him to burn down his hideout when he was released from prison.