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By Jon Clarke and Rainer Burkard in Braunschweig
“CHRISTIAN wanted to take in little girls in Portugal… he wanted to foster children.”
This is what a former girlfriend of convicted sex offender and paedophile Christian Brueckner told a court in Germany.
Speaking about the two years she spent dating the Madeleine McCann suspect from 2005 to 2007, Marina F, added: “He knew the (German) state pays a lot of money to do that.”
She said Brueckner had concocted the plan once he met another girlfriend, Nicole F, who was already taking in foster children as part of an unofficial programme on the Algarve.
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The 65-year-old, who had dated Brueckner, 47, for two years, told Braunschweig court Nicole was already linked in the scheme.
The travel agent from Dresden had first met Brueckner in …
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