In his first-ever official interview, a witness in the Madeleine McCann case has spoken out. Christian Brueckner, the main suspect in the case, was first brought to the attention of the police by Helge Busching. Busching has now revealed that the suspect said the young British girl “didn’t scream” when she was abducted in 2007 while on vacation in Portugal.
Who is Helge Busching?
Helge Busching was a key witness in the Madeleine McCann case. Busching was also a friend of Christian Brueckner, the suspect in the case.
Busching revealed how his former friend implicated himself in Madeleine’s abduction and how he learned about Brueckner’s murky past by seeing distressing sexual assault films.
Helge claimed that he and his accomplice stole some videotapes and a gun from Brueckner’s residence and that this is how they came to understand Brueckner’s truth before McCann disappeared. Helge recalled the exact moment he saw the videos, which allegedly showed Brueckner torturing a teenage girl in Portugal and an old American woman in the United States.
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“You could see how someone whipped the woman. She was tied up, lying on the bed, wearing painted ski goggles… must have been 70 or 80 years old. She shouted: You fucking b******!… Then I saw it was Brueckner. [The teenage victim] said: ‘This borders on rape!’ And he just said: ‘Shut up.’ That’s when I knew what kind of guy Brueckner was.”
Busching claimed that in 2008 during a music festival in Spain, he ran into Brueckner once more. He claims that Brueckner questioned him about why he stopped traveling to Portugal. Busching claimed that “too many police checks” had been conducted since Madeleine vanished.
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He also speculated “how the little one could have disappeared without a trace”. Busching then alleged in his new interview: “Christian had drunk two or three beers, and he said: ‘She didn’t scream.’ I thought he knows that. He has something to do with it. But he also checked that I understood that and then left at night. At 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning, he left a packed festival with his mobile home. I looked for him the next morning, but his neighbors said he had left.”
Busching claims that when he presented the videotapes to the German police, they instructed him to “keep your hands off it” in case he “incriminated” himself. Later, in 2008, he attempted to contact Scotland Yard regarding Brueckner, but he claims he never received a callback.
