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Germany: New arrest warrant for Brickner – After Madeleine McCann, he is accused of sexually assaulting five other children

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The arrest warrant is intended to ensure the 45-year-old German is not released after serving his sentence

A Braunschweig court issued an arrest warrant against 45-year-old Christian Brickner — who is also a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann — on five counts related to sexual assaults on minors, German media reported today.

Among these five cases is not included the disappearance of British Madeleine McCann, whose traces were lost in 2007 in Portugal, reports the German magazine Der Spiegel.

The arrest warrant is intended to ensure that the 45-year-old German is not released after serving his sentence. Brickner has been convicted of child molestation and drug trafficking, and as of 2019 is serving a 7-year prison sentence for raping an American woman in the Algarve, Portugal, the same area where she went missing. little Madeline.

The five new cases in which Brickner is charged relate to sexual assaults on minors that took place between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal, according to the newspaper Braunschweiger Zeitung.

Christian Brickner, 45, has denied involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from a hotel room in Praia da Luz, a popular Algarve tourist resort, in Portugalwhere the family of the then 3-year-old girl was on vacation.

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