Overview

• Christian Brückner was released from Sehnde prison on September 17 after serving six of a seven-year term for a 2005 rape in Praia da Luz.
• German authorities have imposed an electronic ankle tag, cancelled his passport, required residence approval, and assigned a probation officer, with penalties for violations.
• He remains the prime suspect for German investigators and a suspect for the Metropolitan Police, yet he has not been charged in the Madeleine McCann case.
• Brückner refused a Metropolitan Police interview requested via an International Letter of Request, according to a senior UK investigator.
• Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters says investigators have evidence pointing to Brückner but not enough to indict, as reports note public sightings of him days after his release.