Madeleine McCann prosecutors admit they are wary of charging their prime suspect because of Germany’s strict double-jeopardy law.
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, chief prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said: “If we file charges and he is acquitted, then the case is dead for ever. “In Germany, once you have been acquitted, you cannot be charged again, at least only in very exceptional cases. “If we now are hasty and he was acquitted because the court said ‘Ah, we still have a few doubts’ then we would not be able to get him later.” Speaking from the public prosecution office in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Mr Wolters added: “Therefore we want to collect as much evidence as possible.” Paedophile Brueckner, 43, was named as the
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