The prime suspect within the chilling Madeleine McCann case was charged with several sexual offenses against children.
Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist, was charged in Germany with a string of lewd crimes he allegedly committed in Portugal.
Brueckner is charged with three counts of aggravated rape and two counts of sexual abuse of kids.
The prosecutor’s office said the costs don’t relate to the McCann case.
The sex crimes allegedly took place between December 2000 and June 2017 in Portugal, in accordance with officials.
“The accused is similar person against whom charges were brought in reference to the disappearance of the then 3-year-old British girl Madeleine Beth McCann,” the Braunschweig prosecutor’s office said in a press release.
“The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann continues.”
Brueckner, known as Christian B in Germany attributable to the country’s strict privacy laws, is currently serving a jail sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in the identical resort where McCann went missing.
The three-year-old vanished during a family vacation within the resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region in 2007. She went missing from the resort on May 3, a number of days before her fourth birthday.
The toddler’s parents had left their three children sleeping within the apartment while they went to a restaurant nearby, returning recurrently to ascertain on McCann and her siblings.
But when her mom checked on the youngsters at 10 p.m., she was horrified to seek out the door and window to their bedroom wide open and the toddler nowhere to be found.
Brueckner has denied involvement within the disappearance of McCann.
With Post wires