Overview

• Brueckner left a German prison on September 17 after serving part of a sentence for a separate 2005 rape in Praia da Luz and is subject to electronic monitoring, travel limits and passport seizure.
• He remains the sole named suspect in the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann but has not been charged and continues to deny involvement.
• Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters says investigators consider the case against Brueckner compelling yet not sufficient to meet the threshold for an indictment.
• The UK Metropolitan Police say they requested an interview via an International Letter of Request that Brueckner refused.
• Local media report post-release public sightings, including a nightclub visit and use of a false beard, while authorities continue cross-border inquiries that have recently produced no major breakthroughs.