A German man has been formally named as a suspect in connection with the 2007 disappearance of British three-year-old Madeleine McCann.
. He has also been charged in past years with theft, forgery, and drug trafficking.
Brückner is the first and only official suspect in the case since McCann’s parents, Kate and Gerry, were probed by investigators in 2007 but later cleared. Earlier this year, a German documentary crew discovered that Brückner worked as a handyman at the resort from which McCann disappeared, the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, in the spring of 2007, during the family’s stay., Brückner’s lawyer, Friedrich Fülscher, said that his client had not been charged, calling the move a “procedural trick to avoid the imminent statute of limitations in a few days.