00:01Christian Bruckner, the main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine Macan, was released from a German prison on Wednesday.
00:09He had finished serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated crime, the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Portugal.
00:17Authorities have seized his passport and he will be monitored with an electronic bracelet.
00:21Despite his release, Bruckner remains the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine, though he has never been charged in that case.
00:34German prosecutors have been investigating him for murder since 2020, but his lawyer says there is not enough evidence for charges.
00:42The 48-year-old lived in the Portuguese resort of Praia de Luz around the time the three-year-old girl vanished.
00:51Last October, Bruckner was accurate of several other unrelated sexual offenses he was alleged to have committed in Portugal.
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