German authorities say there are “many pieces” of the Madeleine McCann “puzzle” pointing towards suspect Christian Brueckner.
Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters admitted there still was no “smoking gun” evidence enabling charges to be brought against the 43-year-old paedophile over the British youngster’s disappearance.
He said: “All I can say is this is like a puzzle and there are many pieces that lead us to believe Christian B is responsible.
“One of the pieces is the signal from the mobile phone he was using at the time Madeleine McCann disappeared and has been shown to have been in the area of the Ocean Club resort where she was staying.”
Making his strongest assertion yet to justify the German decision to treat her disappearance as a murder case and not a missing persons’ inquiry, Mr Wolters added: “The result of our investigation does not point in any way to the possibility the suspect might have kept Madeleine alive.
“Everything we have points to her being dead. We have no margin of manoeuvre.”
He also dismissed earlier reports that German police believed the chief Madeleine McCann suspect had an accomplice.
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