Madeleine McCann detectives are searching for a second German drifter who lived in the Algarve at the time she vanished. The man is believed to be a former friend of rapist Christian Brueckner, suspected of abducting and murdering the three-year-old in 2007.
Officers are understood to be treating him as a witness, not a suspect. It is thought he lived in a camper van near a remote reservoir nine miles from Praia da Luz.
At least one old associate of Brueckner, 43, has been quizzed about the mystery by German police in Portugal. A source said: "They didn’t seem to know his name. "They said he may have stayed up at Barragem da Bravura. "My friends and I don’t recall Christian hanging out there but he was pretty private." Notes left at the
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