Madeleine McCann investigators ‘search German allotment near former home of suspect Christian Brueckner’
German police were today searching an allotment near Hannover in connection with the Madeleine McCann case, local media says.
Police were at the scene with ‘heavy equipment’ including an excavator, according to HAZ, near where suspect Christian Brueckner is known to have lived.
Officials from the prosecutors’ office in Braunschweig, where Brueckner was convicted of rape last year, and the federal police were on the scene this morning.
The Braunschweig prosecutors’ office told German media that the search was linked to Madeleine, who disappeared from Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007.
What police were searching for was not clear, but Brueckner is known to have lived in a trailer in the area in between spells living in Portugal.
Brueckner was identified as the new lead suspect last month after German police released a trove of new evidence including details of his cars and phone numbers.
More to follow.
Christian Brueckner (right) is prime suspect in the kidnap and murder of three-year-old Madeleine (left) in 2007 while she was on holiday in Praia da Luz