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ID of German suspect 'feels more significant,' Madeleine McCann family spokesman says
June 5, 2020, 10:36 AM EDT
LONDON — The identification of a German sex offender as the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann “does feel more significant” than previous announcements about the case, a McCann family spokesman told NBC News.
Clarence Mitchell said Thursday that it was “different from other times” because three police forces in Portugal, the U.K. and Germany were all interested in establishing all the details around the man named by German prosecutors as Christian B, 43.
His last name was not released because of German privacy rules, but he has been named as Christian Bruckner by German and British media outlets. NBC News has not confirmed this information.
“This is the only time in 13 years that police have been so specific about a suspect, down to the phone numbers, vehicles and particularly with a known individual,” Mitchell said.
He added that it “does feel more significant because of the sheer level of detail they are asking about for this individual.”
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