The parents of missing Madeleine McCann believe a German probe into the key suspect is “beyond bizarre” – as he has not been questioned.
Friends revealed Kate and Gerry McCann’s concerns days after prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters spoke of evidence he has against Christian Brueckner.
Wolters said the public would be as sure as he is about Brueckner – if they “knew the evidence we had”.
A friend said: “Any police force or prosecuting chief should not be boasting. They should not be suggesting that members of the public would be reaching the same conclusion as they do about the suspect if they knew the evidence they had. It is beyond bizarre and not very helpful to the investigation.”
Madeleine vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday.
Brueckner, 43, a convicted paedophile, is in a German jail for drug smuggling and the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz in 2005. But the authorities in Braunschweig, where Wolters is based, have never quizzed Brueckner under caution.
The McCanns’ friend added: “If Mr Wolters has any significant evidence, we cannot understand why the key suspect is not being questioned.
If the prosecutors are intent that Brueckner is a genuine person of interest to be questioned and possibly charged over Madeleine’s disappearance, why has this action not been taken?”
