• German prosecutors said they have charged a 45-year-old German man, who is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, with several sexual offences he allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017.
• Police in Germany had announced in 2020 they were investigating Christian Brückner in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine, who went missing from her family’s Portuguese holiday flat in May 2007.
• A statement released on Tuesday by the prosecutor’s office in the German city of Braunschweig said: “The accused is the same person against whom charges were brought in connection with the disappearance of the then three-year-old British girl Madeleine Beth McCann.”

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