A German prosecutor investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance said the British child may have been killed after being abducted and sold to a child trafficking group.
The revelation came this week when prosecutor Hans Christian Walters was interviewed on Portugal’s Sabado news program on CMTV, according to a report.
“So you don’t believe it’s sold?” asked TV reporter Sandra Felgeiras during the interview.
“I’m not allowed to talk about these details,” Walters said, although he did not deny the script.
But when asked if Madeleine’s abduction and sale to a pedophile group was possible, he said, “Maybe it’s possible,” according to the Daily Mail.
This is not the first time investigators investigating the 15-year-old mystery of the child’s disappearance have raised the specter that she has been trafficked. Five years ago, former Scotland Yard employee Colin Sutton suggested that Madeleine was a “custom kidnapping”, according to the newspaper.
Madeleine McCann’s parents, Kate and Gary McCann, talk about their daughter in an interview with the BBC in 2017. JOE GIDDENS / POOL / AFP via Getty Images
Madeleine McCann was three years old when she disappeared without a trace from her parents’ holiday rental in Praia da Luz, a resort in southern Portugal in May 2007.
The main suspect in the case is German convicted rapist and pedophile Christian Bruckner, 45. In an interview with Felgeiras Walters, he said investigators had recently found “significant new evidence” against Bruckner, but did not want to give details. Bruckner, who was declared an official suspect in the case last month, is currently serving a seven-year sentence in Germany’s Oldenburg prison after being convicted in 2019 of raping an American pensioner in the same Portuguese resort where Madeleine disappeared.
In 2020, German authorities announced that they were investigating him as a possible suspect. Bruckner has not been formally charged and he denies involvement in the case.
Christian Bruckner is accused of kidnapping Madeleine McCann in 2007. Carabinieri from Milan through Getty Images Authorities have been investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann for the past 15 years. METROPOLITAN POLICE / AFP via Getty Images Madeleine McCann was 3 years old last time METROPOL was 3 years old. POLICE / AFP via Getty Images
But Walters is sure he is responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance. “I can only say that at the moment we have only one suspicious person and that is Christian, there is no other person for us who is suspicious,” Walters said in an interview with Portuguese television. “We are sure that he is the killer of Madeleine McCann.
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