Overview

• Brueckner was released on September 17 after completing a seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of an American woman in Portugal and is under electronic monitoring in northern Germany.
• Officers escorted him from a council-provided flat on September 27 after his address circulated on a local WhatsApp group and residents reported sightings.
• Local coverage described him looking out at areas where children play as police moved him to another location under protective supervision.
• Photos and CCTV published by media showed him eating at a motorway McDonald's, displaying his ankle tag, and trying to buy a phone, with a source disputing that it was an untraceable model.
• He remains the German prosecutors’ prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance without charges, with investigators citing phone data near the Ocean Club but saying they lack forensic proof to indict.