According to a report released Friday, the convicted pedophile who was named as a suspect in the 15-year-old disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been formally quizzed about it for the first time in prison.

According to reports, Portuguese prosecutors travelled to Germany to officially advise Christian Brueckner, that he was a “arguido,” a phrase for an official suspect who has yet to be charged.

They then bombarded him with questions about the missing 3-year-old British girl, according to the paper’s sources.

“Where were you the night Madeleine McCann disappeared?”

Some more questions focused on incident evidence that led to the official status change this week, including mobile phone records that placed him in Portugal’s Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, the night little Maddie disappeared, the London paper said.

He was asked, “If you weren’t by the apartment she disappeared from that night, where were you?”

Brueckner, who is in custody for r*****g a 72-year-old American tourist in the same region where Maddie went missing, however, he declined to answer any of the questions, claiming his right to silence, according to the report.

The convicted s** attacker has long been suspected in the case, but this is the first time he has been formally questioned about it, according to the newspaper.

After providing German authorities a list of intended questions in a formal International Letter of Request, Portuguese prosecutors were granted permission to question him in Oldenburg Prison, according to the article.

The case’s unexpected rise comes just two weeks before the 15th anniversary of one of the country’s most high-profile missing person cases.

According to sources, he was given the title of “arguido” to enable him avoid the 15-year statute of limitations in Portugal for offences involving a possible jail sentence of ten years or more.

While family vacation in the Algarve, Madeleine vanished from her room while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were dining with friends in the neighboring town of Praia da Luz.

Madeleine’s body has never been located, and German police announced in June 2020 that she was presumed dead and that Brueckner, who was first linked to the case in 2013, was most likely to blame.

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