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FOUND: Main suspect in madeleine mccann case due to be released from german prison | Mind Blowing Facts

Christian Brückner, wearing handcuffs, enters a room at a courthouse
Brückner, pictured at a Braunschweig courthouse last year, denies involvement in McCann’s disappearance. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images

The main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was freed on Wednesday as German authorities said they no longer had legal justification to hold him in jail.

Christian Brückner, 49, was released from prison in Sehnde, northern Germany, after serving a sentence for the rape of an American woman, then 72 years old, in Portugal in 2005, journalists at the scene reported.

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