CREEP Christian Brueckner plonked his leg on a phone shop counter showing off his electronic ankle tag and bragging: “Look, I’m under control” — before bursting into laughter.
The fiend, who is a prime Madeleine McCann suspect, said he could solve one of the “greatest mysteries ever” as he shopped for a phone and begged for help on how to use WhatsApp.
Dan CharityPrime suspect Christian Brueckner showed off his ankle tag to a bewildered shopkeeper just a day after his release[/caption]
Dan CharityThe prime Madeleine suspect was buying and setting up a mobile phone from a shop in Neumunster, Germany[/caption]
He was freed last week after serving an unrelated sentence for rape and told bewildered staff he would not last long — because he holds dirt on people who want him killed.
His claims raise the prospect he withheld knowledge on the disappearance of Madeleine in Portugal in 2007.
Brueckner had refused to answer any questions on the case while in prison, or engage with police.
Shop manager Farouk Salah-Brahmin, 32, said: “Brueckner told me he had some information that meant he ‘can solve the scandal of the century’.
“I don’t know if it’s the McCann case but he said he had evidence that could bring the scandal of the century to an end.
“He said he would end all the accusations against him. He said he can bring his own solution. He said something about USB sticks.”
After a 90-minute chat with the fiend Farouk was left sure that he had been discussing Madeleine McCann, saying “What else would he be talking about?”
Brueckner spent £90 on a Xiaomi Redmi Android phone and bought a SIM using his ID card.
Farouk revealed the fiend, jailed for raping a US woman in 2005, also claimed his life was in danger.
The shopkeeper said the prime suspect in young Madeleine disappearance had hinted at being part of “something wider.”
He said the bizarre conversation left him with the chilling feeling that Brueckner had knowledge of “some network or something.”
Farouk would go on to say: “He told me that he has special information about some people, and that’s why they want to finish him.
“I don’t know if it is linked to all the USB sticks and information they found at his lair.
“Brueckner told me there are some people out there who ‘want to make him cold’.
Dan CharityBrueckner left shopkeeper Farouk Salah-Brahmin convinced that he was hiding information about the Madeleine McCann case[/caption]
Dan CharityBrueckner visited the shop a number of times, bringing a kebab with him on one bizarre occasion[/caption]
“He told me, ‘I won’t do long here — maybe someone will murder me. He made it sound like there were people from his past – maybe people from when he was a paedophile.
“Maybe he had clients who are worried about being revealed.
“He was a client of someone famous. I don’t know.”
After their discomforting chat Brueckner would show off his electronic monitoring tag to the shopkeeper.
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EVIL Brueckner laughed and smirked over the German FBI agent working on his case who had paid for his early release.
Shop manager Farouk said Brueckner had read The Sun exclusive earlier this month about Rebecca K covering a £1,300 court fine he owed.
Farouk said: “Brueckner told me he saw the interview and that was the first time he’d ever seen her. He said he had never heard of this woman before.
“He said it was unbelievable, a surprise she’d paid.
“He laughed like he found it funny but it felt to me he had some more information — that he knew more about her payment than he was saying.”
Rebecca K, 39, said she felt sorry for the fiend and felt his rights were being violated.
She was part of the covert team monitoring Brueckner before a row with colleagues saw her career fizzle out.
Brueckner was released last Wednesday being driven from prison in a blacked-out £60,000 Audi A6 driven by his lawyer and flanked by a police convoy.
His freedom came after his 2019 seven-year sentence for the 2005 brutal rape and torture of a woman, 72, in Praia da Luz – the same village Madeleine disappeared from.
While he remains German cops’ prime suspect over the disappearance and murder of Madeleine McCann no arrest warrants currently exist meaning there is nothing to keep him behind bars.
Investigators say they have “physical” evidence Madeleine is dead but no forensic proof tying Brueckner to the case.
GettyBruekner has been fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet which he showed off to a shopkeeper during a chilling interaction[/caption]