German authorities did not follow correct procedures when they extradited Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner, an adviser to Europe's top court has said.
Brueckner, who lived in the Algarve region of Portugal when Madeleine vanished from her bedroom in 2007, was extradited from Italy for a rape charge, the advisor told.
The suspect had challenged the validity of the European arrest warrant issued by Germany because it cited a drugs conviction but not the 2005 rape charge.
But the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General today advised his argument is irrelevant. Brueckner, 43, was extradited to Germany from Italy under the warrant in 2018.
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