Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner could be released from prison next year after he was acquitted of separate rape charges by a controversial German judge.
Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner, the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, could be released from prison next year after he was acquitted of separate rape charges by a controversial German judge.
“Everyone had heard about him in the Maddie McCann case. And they all knew that Brückner since 2020 was always named by the public prosecution office.” Mr Fülscher, Brückner’s defence attorney, tried to dismantle the prosecution’s case in his terse closing plea on Monday, and showed solidarity with the judge, whom the prosecution accused of bias in favour of Brückner.
Her career took a controversial turn between 2005 and 2010 because of her association with Vaternotruf, a fathers’ rights organisation based in Berlin. By 2015, her career focus shifted to criminal cases, and she presided over a violent crime trial in Brunswick in 2017. A prosecution motion for prejudice was filed at the 28th hearing and claimed that by making the previous announcement, she had hinted at a preconceived intent to acquit Brückner.
In court on Monday, Mr Fülscher said: “We are sitting here today to decide on the freedom and the fate of a human being. Mr Brückner, is accused of committing five serious offences, but the court of the main trial tells a completely different story than the public prosecution office has presented here.”
He also hit out at Busching over his description of the rapes. In particular, Mr Fülscher said Büsching’s testimony gave three contradictory accounts of the offences.
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