Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner has gloated he will never be charged without a body.
In a chilling letter, the 48-year-old convicted paedophile said “the dropping of the investigation will hit the world like a bomb”.
He bragged that police lacked the evidence needed to support their accusations against him in the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
The letter, seen by The Sun, read: “It is the important questions, the decisive questions that can never be answered.”
He questions whether his vehicle was clearly seen near the crime scene on the night of the crime, whether there is DNA evidence, or a body, to which he says: “All no, no no.”
Brueckner adds: “You don’t have to be a realist like me to predict that the accusations made against me will not hold up and that the investigation will be dropped.”
It comes as police officers returned to Germany following a fresh three-day search conducted between Praia da Luz—where three-year-old Madeleine vanished on May 3, 2007—and a house near the resort where Brueckner once lived.
He also revealed in his letters a knowledge of how the German legal system works in his favour, The Sun reported.
He wrote: “You know, of course, that in Germany you don’t have to prove your innocence as a suspect, but that the public prosecutor’s office has to prove that you are clearly guilty.
“Even the slightest doubt leads to an acquittal, if there is a court hearing at all.”
German authorities maintain that Brueckner is the main suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance and are pushing for charges before his scheduled release in September.
Brueckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for raping an elderly American tourist in Praia da Luz in 2005, has always denied having any role in Madeleine’s abduction.
He has also denied committing the 2005 rape for which he was convicted in 2019 and is still serving his sentence.
Brueckner is due to be released later this year and police face a race against time if they are to charge Brueckner in the McCann case.
Investigators looking in to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann concluded their latest searches after three days without success.
The British toddler vanished after she was left sleeping while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, went for dinner in a nearby restaurant.
Personnel have spent two days focusing on one particular derelict building, using a ground-penetrating radar on the cobbled ground after clearing the area of debris and vegetation using a digger and chainsaws.
