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The suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, 43-year-old German Christian Brueckner , has recently been linked to another unsolved case. The father of a six-year-old German boy who disappeared on June 21, 1996 (24 years ago) while on vacation with his mother and her partner in Aljezur, in the Portuguese Algarve and about 40 km from Praia da Luz, assures that the recent events in the case of 'Maddie' have given her back the hope that what happened to her son is finally known, 'The Guardian' reported.

Andreas Hasee , father of little René, claims that a German investigator contacted him on Friday to confirm that his son's case is being reopened , after the identification of the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the British girl from three years in the Portuguese Algarve.

René lost track of him when he went for a walk on the beach at night, after having dinner in a restaurant. The boy came forward, and took off his shirt and pants because he wanted to go into the water. The adults lost sight of him and never saw him again.

"I had not heard from the police for almost 20 years," Hasee told the German newspaper 'Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger'. "They told me they will now take a closer look at my son's case . " According to what he said, the police told him that "there may be a connection" between what happened to René and 'Maddie'.

Hasee said that she thought for a long time that her 30-year-old son should have drowned; even if she never had evidence of that, since the wind and the conditions at that time pointed out that it was unlikely. "He was actually a very careful kid. He wouldn't have gotten into the Atlantic alone on his own ," Hasee explained.

René's case, which had a great impact in Germany at the time but, unlike Madeleine's case, was soon forgotten, it would be the second unexplained disappearance of a minor linked in recent days to the 'Madeleine case' and his main suspicion . German prosecutors believe the pedophile - who was first accused of "sexual contact with a boy" in 1994, when he was 17 years old - may also have been involved in the disappearance of the German girl Inga Gehricke, who was five years old. when his trail was lost on May 2, 2015 in a forest in the Saxony-Anhalt region while spending a picnic with his family.

Today, Christian Brueckner serving a sentence of seven years in the port city of Kiel , in northern Germany, for the brutal rape of an American citizen of 72 in the holiday resort of Praia da Rocha in 2005, in the Algarve.

The latest developments in the 'Madeleine case' have reported nearly 400 new reports in the first three days of the appeal launched by British police to collect more data on the suspect. Clarence Mitchell , the McCann spokesman, said it was "extraordinary" that an investigation that has spanned 13 years could generate so many comments, and reiterated the family's appeal to continue collecting as much information.

However, German prosecutors revealed Thursday that they believed Madeleine would not appear alive, although they did not reveal details to back up that information. British officials continue to treat the case as missing persons, although Gerry and Kate McCann (as well as Inga Gehricke's parents) "still wait" for their daughter to be alive.

Andreas Hasee is now confident that the truth about his son will finally come to light and, still hoping to find René safe and sound, is desperate to know the truth: "Unfortunately, we don't even have a grave."

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