Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case refusing police interview

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has refused to be interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives before his release.

Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist, is set to get out of prison in his native Germany this week and could be allowed to leave the country with no restrictions.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says Brueckner has refused to reveal why he's not taking part in this.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray are UK correspondents with US. Hello, Gevin Hiver.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hella.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So, the suspect in the case of Medal McCann doesn't
want to be interviewed by UK police. Why no?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
And what's more, they can't make him now. Basically he
hasn't given any reason. It's been reported he has just
rejected the request for an interview. Now. Christian Bruckner is
his name. He's forty nine years old. We've been reporting
about him before, haven't we. He's never been charged in
the Madeline McCann case. He denies any involvement in the

(00:31):
little girl. She went missing back in two thousand and
seven on the Algarve in Portugal as a little three
year old girl. She's never ever been seen since and
despite extensive searches, her body has never been found. Now
the police are treating this in Germany as a murder case.
UK police treating it is a missing person's case. But

(00:51):
the Christian Bruckner is currently serving time in prison for
the rape of an American tourist, a seventy two year
Oldmerican tourists. He is forty nine. He's about to be
released from prison, we believe Wednesday of this week and
the faries he will simply then go to another country
where there is no extradition treaty and he will never

(01:14):
then have any realistic prospect of being questioned about Madeline McCann.
So I think this is a big setback for the
McCann parents. But as I said, he has never ever
been charged and has said he had no involvement in
her disappearance.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, now, who are police hunting after this rally at
the weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, so a really amazing rally which I think, the
numbers of which way out strip what both the police
and Auger thought, but also the organizers too. More than
one hundred and fifty thousand people went on a reich
A march through London organized by the far right activist
Tommy Robinson, well known here for some of his views

(01:54):
anti migrant and during that rally there was a separate
rally of the opposing view of roughly five thousand people.
The police were trying to keep the two groups separate.
Then when they got close to one another right in
the heart of London, that's when it got violent. Sadly,
there were twenty four arrests, twenty six police injured, and

(02:17):
those police had four of them quite serious injuries. There
were broken teeth, of prolapsed disc head injury, and some
really pretty unpleasant scenes. And plenty of the other protesters
who weren't arrested at the site have been caught on
body cameras worn by the police or other cameras, and
so they're trying to identify them, and then they're going

(02:38):
to try and catch them, of course, and bring them
to justice.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Listen, how worried we about what's going on with the
Russian drones?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
In short, very and we should all be very worried
about this. So last week we reported that Poland had
downed three or maybe four Russian drones that had come
over the border. They were supposed to course, to be
operating in Ukraine and attacking Ukraine, part of that war
that Russia is conducting there. But they were not just

(03:07):
on the edge of the border. They were a long
way into Poland. Russia said, oh no, no, not nothing
to do with us, or it's a mistake, but plenty
of people think no, they were so far into Poland.
This was testing NATO and seeing what the response would be.
Now we learn they've also done the same in Romania.
So the eastern flank of NATO very much in need

(03:28):
of enhancement, more security. About four countries in the European
Union now pledging that enhancement to bolster security in defense.
But I'm afraid chilling words from Vladimir Zelenski who said
this is an obvious attempt by Vladimir Putin to extend
the war in Ukraine outside the boundaries of Ukraine. In

(03:49):
other words, saying to Europe, this is coming to your
doorstep soon, I fear.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely something to be scared of. Hey, thank
you very much. Gevin appreciated. Devin Gray, UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
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