Madeleline McCann suspect Christian Brueckner hit and abused his ‘naïve’ teenage girlfriend Nakscije Miftari and put her family through hell, her sister has revealed.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, elder sister Azra Miftari revealed that Nakscije, now 25, has been interviewed by German detectives about the convicted paedophile and is under the care of a social worker.
Azra recalled how Brueckner, who had an 18-month relationship with Nakscije in 2014, was repeatedly cruel: ‘He hit my sister. It was horrible for her.’
The mother-of-two revealed how her then 17-year-old sister Nakscije ignored advice from her relatives not to get involved with Brueckner who is 20 years older.
Azra said the whole family now live in fear of being associated with Brueckner, who is angry at claims that he abducted Madeleine in Portugal in 2007.
It comes as Brueckner’s lawyer Friedrich Fülscher told German broadcaster RTL that the serial sex offender will fight false statements made against him.
According to German politicians, Brueckner is now being held in solitary confinement in a high-security prison in north Germany for his own safety.
The revelations are likely to feed into a major row in Germany over whether Brueckner should be released from jail early – amid reports that he left jail in 2018 and was allowed to travel undisturbed in Europe for a month.
Madeleline McCann suspect Christian Brueckner hit and abused his ‘naïve’ teenage girlfriend Nakscije Miftari and put her family through hell, her sister has revealed
Elder sister Azra Miftari revealed that Nakscije, now 25, has been interviewed by German detectives about the convicted paedophile and is under the care of a social worker
Speaking from her modest home near Braunschweig, Azra told MailOnline: ‘The whole family had nothing to do with Brueckner.
‘Only my sister Nakscije had anything to do with him. She was his girlfriend. But she was young and naïve. We told her he was too older for her but she didn’t care.
‘I don’t know Brueckner. I’ve never met him but I know that Brueckner hit my sister. It was a horrible for Nakscije. I know what he did to her.’
A former neighbour said: ‘Brueckner was a violent brute. I saw him hit his young girlfriend in the kiosk. He smashed up the place and beat her with his fists.’
Azra revealed that German detectives have spoken to all members of her close-knit family, telling MailOnline: ‘The police have spoken to Nakscije. The police have spoken to the whole of Miftari family.
‘They have told Nakscije not to speak about Brueckner. They have told the whole Miftari family not to speak about Brueckner. There are a lot of people asking where Nakscije is and this situation is affecting the whole family.
Madeleline McCann suspect Christian Brueckner hit and abused his ‘naïve’ teenage girlfriend Nakscije Miftari and put her family through hell, her sister has revealed
Brueckner, who is being held in Kiel, Germany, has now applied for early release after reaching the two thirds point of a drug dealing sentence on Sunday
Christian Brueckner’s 17 CONVICTIONS
Christian Brueckner, the new key suspect in the Madeleine McCann case
Serial offender Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, has a total 17 convictions for child sex abuse and rape, drug offences, theft and forgery.
Brueckner’s first burglary was in his home town of Wurzburg, Bavaria, in 1992, when he was 15.
He was also given a two-year youth sentence in 1994 for sexually abusing a child when he was 17.
After his 12 years in Portugal he was jailed for drug smuggling in northern Germany October 2011.
In 2013 he abused another little girl and was caught with child porn, and was jailed for those offences in 2016. It was only in 2019 he was jailed for the rape in Praia da Luz after being found living on the streets in Milan.
‘But no one in the family has had anything to do with Brueckner apart from Nakscije,’ she said, adding: ‘We are poor but we are not criminals.’
Meanwhile, Mr Fülscher, who represents Brueckner, told RTL: ‘Christian B. does not provide any information on the case at the moment and we ask for your understanding that we as defenders do not provide any information.’
Mr Fülscher angrily added: ‘How can a person, who is isolated in a prison and whom half the world’s population accuses of the worst crimes, be?’
Meanwhile, Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Claus Christian Claussen said Brueckner has been moved to prevent attacks from other prisoners.
Mr Claussen said in a statement: ‘CB [Christian Brueckner], who is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, has moved into solitary confinement.
‘We want to prevent him being attacked by other prisoners in Kiel Prison. He will only be allowed out of the cell accompanied by guards.
‘He will be kept in the solitary confinement cell until further notice. The solitary confinement cells are in a separate wing of the prison.’
Brueckner is at the centre of a major row in Germany over whether he should be freed as it emerged that a judicial error meant he was released from prison in 2018 and allowed to travel undisturbed through Europe for weeks.
The serial sex offender, who has a total 17 convictions and is being held in solitary confinement in a high-security prison in north Germany allegedly for his own safety, has now applied for early release after reaching the two thirds point of a drug dealing sentence on Sunday.
He has not been charged over Madeleine’s disappearance in 2007 and cannot be held for it. Prosecutors admitted they didn’t have enough evidence to question him.
Brueckner was serving a prison sentence for sexually abusing a child in 2018.
Days before his expected release on August 31, German lawyers raced to keep him jailed by invoking a 21-month suspended sentence for drug dealing from 2011.
To impose this older sentence, prosecutors had to ask the judiciary in Portugal, who had extradited Brueckner to Germany in 2017, for their consent.
However, they had failed to mention the old verdict for drug dealing in their initial extradition request, meaning they could not punish him for the old offence.
German prosecutors are probably trying to find grounds to charge Brueckner with the Madeleine McCann case, Mark T Hofmann, a German crime analyst, said
Portuguese prosecutors lay out Christian Brueckner’s criminal convictions
Christian Brueckner was named as the chief suspect in the disappearance of Maddie McCann last week
State prosecutors have confirmed Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has two convictions in Portugal.
It was reported last week the 43-year-old had served two prison sentences in the country – one of two months in Evora Prison in 1999 for a minor offence and a nine-month jail term on the Algarve in 2006 for petrol theft which he completed shortly before Maddie disappeared.
But Portuguese prosecutors have now taken the unusual step of publicly confirming his criminal record.
According to local reports, German prosecutors made the approach to Portugal too late – and Brueckner walked free in September 2018.
On September 18, Brueckner travelled to The Netherlands before heading on to Italy. He was arrested by Italian authorities on September 27, 2018, meaning it had taken four weeks for Germany to obtain a European Arrest Warrant to arrest him.
German lawyers are now desperately trying to find grounds to charge him with the Maddie case to avoid a situation in which he could be freed again.
Brueckner has also been handed a seven year sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old widow in the Algarve in 2005.
He was prosecuted in Germany last year but appealed, arguing the trial was unfair because he had been extradited from Portugal in 2017 on a different matter.
Lawyers said he could only be prosecuted in Germany for the offence for which the European Arrest Warrant was issued. The case is being considered by the European Court of Justice. Under German law, sentences are not imposed until the appeal process is exhausted.
The Kiel Regional Court confirmed the public prosecutor’s office had been asked to provide statements on his release and why they would oppose it. Brueckner has also given a statement.
A judge will rule on early release after interviewing the prisoner, taking into account their behaviour in prison and the crime they have been sentenced for. A spokesman for the court said this process usually took ‘weeks not months’.
Brueckner’s lawyer Jan-Christian Hochmann said yesterday: ‘We have decided to give no comment for the time being.’
