All it is advisable to know as Madeleine McCann suspect strikes near main faculty

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Christian Brueckner, named as prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, has moved into a flat in Braunschweig, Germany, near multiple schools and nurseries, sparking concern among neighbours who say ‘we’re all afraid’

• Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner has sparked fury by moving into a flat just yards from a primary school in Braunschweig, Germany.
• The convicted paedophile’s new two-bed gaff is surrounded by two more primary schools and three nurseries, with terrified locals saying: “We’re all afraid.”
• Brueckner has been under 24-hour police surveillance since his release from prison last September. Two plainclothes cops sit in a car behind his house around the clock.
• One neighbour told The Sun: “Everyone here in Braunschweig knows him. I know neighbours who no longer send their children to the supermarket.”
• The 47-year-old has struggled to settle across northern Germany, with families regularly demanding he be moved on from various neighbourhoods.
• Brueckner was named as the prime suspect in three-year-old Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance from Portugal by German police in 2020. His mobile phone pinged in the area on the night she vanished.
• Despite police possessing disturbing child abduction stories written by Brueckner, investigators remain reluctant to charge him due to lack of forensic evidence.
• Brueckner continues to maintain his innocence through his lawyers while refusing to answer police questions about the case.
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