(8 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Braunschweig, Germany – 8 October 2024
1. Wide of people waiting to get into courtroom
2. Close of back of security guard
3. Wide of security checking people attending trial
4. Cameras
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Christian Wolters, prosecutor:
"The decision today is not surprising. We believe that the decision is wrong so we will appeal to the German Supreme Court so the Supreme Court can check the verdict for mistakes. The ruling has no direct impact to the Maddie (Madeleine McCann) case because the findings of this court are not binding."
6. Cameras
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Christian Wolters, prosecutor:
"So Christian B. will stay in prison until September 2025 and we will see if we have the possibility for a new arrest warrant in the next summer. But I can’t say if the evidence in the Maddie (Madeleine McCann) case will be enough for an arrest warrant in the Maddie case. Maybe we will get the decision of the Supreme Court until next summer and then we will have the possibility to ask for another arrest warrant for the cases which are part of the investigation or the trial today."
8. Various of media outside courtroom
STORYLINE:
A German court on Tuesday acquitted a man who is also under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in his trial on charges of unrelated sexual offenses.
The Braunschweig state court acquitted the 47-year-old German national, who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner, and was accused of two counts of rape and two of sexual abuse.
However, Brueckner will remain in prison because he is still serving a sentence until 2025 in a different case.
Brueckner had been on trial since February over offenses he is alleged to have committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
Defense lawyers had pointed to what they labeled a lack of evidence and witnesses who weren’t credible, and suggested he might not have been charged if he hadn’t also been a suspect in the McCann case.
The suspect has not been charged in the McCann case, in which he is under investigation on suspicion of murder.
He spent many years in Portugal, including in the resort of Praia da Luz around the time of Madeleine’s disappearance there in 2007.
He has denied any involvement in her disappearance.
He is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany to which he was sentenced in 2019 by the Braunschweig court for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman he committed in Portugal in 2005.
The Braunschweig State Court has jurisdiction because Brueckner had his last German residence in that city in Lower Saxony.
In July, the court had lifted an arrest warrant in the cases that were at stake in the current trial, citing a lack of “urgent suspicion” against the defendant.
But he has remained behind bars because of the sentence he is currently serving.
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