EXCLUSIVE – Pictured: The teenage girlfriend Madeleine suspect Christian Brueckner ‘beat black and blue’ before they split who police believe may hold vital clues over three-year-old’s disappearance
- Nakscije Miftari was a teenage girlfriend of Maddie suspect Christian Brueckner
- German and Brit detectives want to quiz her on what she knows about his past
- Family friend says she’s been laying low since Brueckner was named last week
Police believe a former girlfriend of Christian Bruecker, whom it is claimed he ‘beat black and blue,’ could cold vital clues over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Nakscije Miftari was the teenage girlfriend of Christian Brueckner, the man widely believed to be responsible for the four-year-old’s disappearance in Portugal in 2007.
However a family friend says she has been laying low following revelations that her former boyfriend is suspected of multiple crimes.
Maddie McCann suspect Christian Brueckner with his girlfriend Nakscije Miftari, who police believe may hold vital information about the four-year-old’s disappearance
Nakscije, who is German of Albanian descent, travelled to Portugal in 2014 with Brueckner, but returned the following year
The German authorities have issued an Interpol Red Notice for the immediate apprehension of Nakscije Miftari who they believe may hold vital information about the Madeleine McCann case.
Detectives in Britain and Germany want to quiz her about what she knows about Brueckner’s past, in particular his time in Portugal.
Brueckner seduced Nakscije after he set up home in a run-down part of Braunschweig, a crumbling industrial city in northern Germany, and ran a kiosk selling beer, soft drinks, snacks and sweets.
He later took Nakscije, who is German of Albanian descent, to Portugal in 2014 but she was deported back to Germany less than a year later following allegations of criminality.
The couple are thought to have split up and Nakscije reported Brueckner to the police over his violence
Brueckner seduced Nakscije after he set up home in a run-down part of Braunschweig
However the couple split up and Nakscije reported Brueckner to the police over his violence.
‘Nakscije reported Brueckner to the police,’ a family friend told MailOnline.
‘She was only a teenager when they got together, 17, I think. He was much older.
‘They lived in a flat together here in Braunschweig, around the corner from the kiosk he ran.
The couple lived together in Braunschweig, in North Germany while Brueckner ran a kiosk selling beer, soft drinks, snacks and sweets
‘She is a very nice girl. But she was terrified of him. He is completely mad.
‘Brueckner took her to Portugal in the spring of 2014. But she was deported from Portugal in 2015.
‘Brueckner also came back to Germany a few months later. They continued to live together but they kept arguing and fighting.
‘They finally split up when he tried to kill her. He beat her black and blue.
Maddie McCan vanished from a hotel room in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007
‘Brueckner disappeared and Nakscije was given counselling.
‘After he left Braunschweig he tried to keep in contact with Nakscije. Brueckner would keep phoning her, telling her that he loved her and missed her.
‘But he was always out of his mind on drugs. He was always drinking and taking drugs.’
The family friend revealed that Nakscije started to lay low after Brueckner was named as the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case on German TV last week.