118 CHA

Thanks to the research work, it has been known that the now charged with Maddie’s disappearance He was adopted and lived in a family with a very strict discipline. His adoptive father suffered a serious traffic accident, which left him many sequelae and prevented the family from taking care of him, so he ended up in a religious institution. He was 14 years old. At 16 he committed his first crime. The first was a raid in 1992. Little more than a year later, with only 17 years, he was sentenced to two years in prison for sexually abusing two 6 and 9 -year -old girls, but escaped from the authorities and in 1995 he took refuge in Portugal, where he continued his criminal career and where the investigators suspect that he committed numerous sexual abuses that were not denounced.

During the following years, Brueckner moved throughout the south of Portugal, changing his car regularly and making a living with the drug trapicheo, fuel theft and the purchase and sale of used vehicles. He also spent seasons in Germany, where he bought a couple of isolated field properties and worked at a bar.

Despite the authorities, they were recorded that it was a pedophile, it was not arrested until 2017. That year, one night of the month of June, it approached a playground along with which some families were celebrating. The children played in the slide. Brueckner got into the castle under the swing, he lowered his pants and began to masturbate. An eight girl spent him near him, saw him and ran to warn the adults, who surrounded him and immobilized until the police arrived. He was never convicted of it. A few months later he was extradited to Germany to be tried and convicted of a drug trafficking crime.

But what happened during the two decades that passed since he arrived in Portugal and was extradited? During that time, the main suspect not only He continued to trap with drugs but continued committing abuse, recording them and sharing them With other pedophiles.

Upon arrival at Algarve, he rented a country house that he used as an operations center to record material. He took the minors, where he abused them, sometimes even with his mother. Among the material seized by the police in one of the numerous records of its properties was an image of Brueckner sitting in a chair, with a girl on top and a woman who should be her mother, next to her. The photo would be another of any family album unless the German had pants and underwear down.

The house was visited by many of her friends and in her meetings she boasted her robberies in tourist apartments and sometimes talked about her sexual fantasies with children.

A 54 -year witness who passed through the country house called “La Vieja School” told the authorities that he had a hundred passports on the chimney, stacked in three montons, who had obtained in his robberies, as if he would like to take a trophy of each apartment that assaulted. As has also happened with other people who met him when he met that he had been convicted of sexual crimes against minors, he was clear that he was responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance: “I am 100% sure that it was. I think he found her by chance and took her in the heat of the moment,” he said in an interview with a British media.

When the recently accused left the old school, he left everything upside down. As if he had fled. Inside he left numerous computer material, bags full of children’s toys and clothing. Brueckner did not want the authorities to live there and in fact, when he was tried for a fuel theft he told the popular jury that he lived in a caravan even though not having a place of fixed residence could be a major sentence.