#Best friend of Madeleine McCann suspect: ‘I know he did it’

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Christian Brueckner, the main suspect in the Madeleine McCann case.
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The best friend of the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s abduction says he spoke at length to cops a year ago — insisting in an interview, “I know he did it.”

Michael Tatschl, 46, used to live with Christian Brückner and even did prison time with him — learning that he is a “sick b—ard,” he told The Telegraph.

“He was my best friend and he was definitely a pervert and more than capable of snatching a child, for sexual kicks or money,” Tatschl told The Telegraph of the murder suspect.

“I was sure it was him the minute the police came to find me in Austria,” he said of then-3-year-old Maddie who was snatched from a vacation resort in Portugal in 2007.

“They were very clear with me from the first minute. They said ‘we are investigating Maddie McCann and Christian Brückner’ and I told them I knew it already. I was convinced it was him.”

Brückner last week denied having anything to do with McCann’s disappearance.

He is currently locked up in Germany for raping a 72-year-old American tourist at a luxury villa in 2005.

He was nailed in part by footage of the attack found on a camcorder that was stolen from a farmhouse he was staying in near Praia da Luz — the resort from where Maddie was taken, the report said.

“That’s how I found out he was a sick b—ard,” Tatschl told the paper of his friend, once also convicted of molesting a 6-year-old girl.

“It was of this elderly lady who was chained to a wooden post and she was being beaten and raped.”

Brückner was “always on the dark web,” and “even talked about selling kids maybe to Morocco,” Tatschl claimed, saying he initially “brushed it off as joking.”

He says it was while watching a documentary on the case — the biggest child abduction in recent UK history — that he “knew immediately that he was guilty,” he said of Brückner’

“I just knew it was Christian for sure,” he told the UK paper.

Just days later, four cops — two from Austria and two from Germany — called his house, leading to 14 hours of interviews over two days, he said.

“I told them, ‘I know what you want. I hope I can help,’” he told The Telegraph.

“I really hope they can finally close this case for the family and find Christian guilty for what he has done. He needs to admit it to the police and close it for good,” he said.