German prisoner identified as suspect

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German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who is leading the investigation in the Maddie case with Portuguese and British authorities, told Expresso that "it's all just speculation". “We don't know anything about an alibi. We didn't find any alibi and Mr Bruckner didn't tell us anything about an alibi."

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... gator.html

Christian Brueckner is a monster, but I'm sure he is INNOCENT... and convicting him would leave Maddie's real killer at large: Investigator MARK WILLIAMS-THOMAS has followed every twist of the McCann case and believes the German is NOT guilty

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From the link:

Brueckner, who was living close to the Algarve resort, denies any involvement. It was reported yesterday that he claims he was having s-e-x with a woman in his camper van miles away at the time Madeleine vanished.

Brueckner said they were stopped and photographed at a police roadblock the following day on the way to Faro Airport.

He claimed the woman was arrested at the airport for carrying a pepper spray.

But the Mirror has uncovered the arrest report, which shows the woman was detained on May 10 – a week after Madeleine vanished.

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We can also reveal she has been interviewed by German investigators, who concluded she cannot provide Brueckner with an alibi for May 3.

Prosecutors in the city of Braunschweig are now poised to charge him with fresh offences by the summer.

I'm sure our man Williams-Thomas will do better ....

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Special Investigation SATURDAY. The exclusive interview with the prosecutor in the Maddie case
Special Investigation SATURDAY. The exclusive interview with the prosecutor in the Maddie case
SATURDAY
20:05

We find out what the decisive evidence against Christian Bruckner is. German Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters claims that the recent constitution of the defendant by the Portuguese justice system only confirmed his thesis. An interview to see on CMTV tomorrow, May 3rd.

15 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, the case remains shrouded in mystery. But the pieces that could allow an outcome are increasingly defined.



Exclusively to Investigation SÁBADO , the German prosecutor - who announced two years ago that he had identified Madeleine's murderer - claims that the recent constitution of Christian Bruckner as an accused by the Portuguese justice system only confirmed his thesis: the 43-year-old German, arrested by the rape of a septuagenarian in Praia da Luz, killed Madeleine McCann.



Hans Christian Wolters refuses to open the game and tell everything he has discovered about the mysterious disappearance of the English child, but he confesses to knowing exactly what happened.

The Prosecutor claims to be unable to provide details "because the suspect cannot yet have access to the facts".

Even so, the SÁBADO Investigation managed to establish that the main evidence against Christian Bruckner are traces of the English child found by the German police, the BKA, inside the motorhome that the German owned in 2007.



This is just one of several revelations that will be presented by Sandra Felgueiras from Germany, in a Special Investigation SATURDAY , on the anniversary of the disappearance, on CMTV, right after CM Jornal.

https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/ ... RZ8cOdJAZY

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Special Investigation SATURDAY. The exclusive interview with the prosecutor in the Maddie case
Special Investigation SATURDAY. The exclusive interview with the prosecutor in the Maddie case
SATURDAY
20:05

We find out what the decisive evidence against Christian Bruckner is. German Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters claims that the recent constitution of the defendant by the Portuguese justice system only confirmed his thesis. An interview to see on CMTV tomorrow, May 3rd.

15 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, the case remains shrouded in mystery. But the pieces that could allow an outcome are increasingly defined.



Exclusively to Investigation SÁBADO , the German prosecutor - who announced two years ago that he had identified Madeleine's murderer - claims that the recent constitution of Christian Bruckner as an accused by the Portuguese justice system only confirmed his thesis: the 43-year-old German, arrested by the rape of a septuagenarian in Praia da Luz, killed Madeleine McCann.



Hans Christian Wolters refuses to open the game and tell everything he has discovered about the mysterious disappearance of the English child, but he confesses to knowing exactly what happened.

The Prosecutor claims to be unable to provide details "because the suspect cannot yet have access to the facts".

Even so, the SÁBADO Investigation managed to establish that the main evidence against Christian Bruckner are traces of the English child found by the German police, the BKA, inside the motorhome that the German owned in 2007.



This is just one of several revelations that will be presented by Sandra Felgueiras from Germany, in a Special Investigation SATURDAY , on the anniversary of the disappearance, on CMTV, right after CM Jornal.

https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/ ... RZ8cOdJAZY

Even so, the SÁBADO Investigation managed to establish that the main evidence against Christian Bruckner are traces of the English child found by the German police, the BKA, inside the motorhome that the German owned in 2007.

Traces of Madeleine?

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New suspects can no longer be investigated for the death of the British girl, with the exception of Bruckner, who was accused on 21 April.
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Maddie disappeared in May 2017
It's been fifteen years since Maddie McCann disappeared without a trace. The British child, the daughter of two doctors, was on holiday with her family at Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, when she was no longer seen, on May 3, 2007. Fifteen years later, the criminal process prescribes, in the sense that no new kidnapping and murder suspects can be investigated, with the exception of Christian Bruckner, who was accused two weeks ago by the Public Ministry.

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https://www.sabado.pt/video/detalhe/esp ... aso-maddie

Sandra (forgotten her surname, sorry) asks:

If you find something belonging to Madeleine in Brueckner's van, ...

Walter's reply:

To the details of the investigation, I cannot give you a comment

Sandra:

But you can't deny it, can you?

Walters:

I don't want to deny it

Should have added, with thanks to Swertigo Virl at UK Justice.

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by: KAI FELDHAUSpublished on
05/03/2022 - 12:50 p.m
Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago on May 3rd. She would be 18 today. Or maybe it is, if she's still alive. I'm afraid we'll never know.

It has now been known for almost two years that the BKA and the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office believe that the German child molester Christian Brückner (45) is the man who kidnapped and murdered Maddie. So far they have not been able to prove it.

To date, there have been no charges against Brückner, and none are in sight. And for one simple reason: at the moment, such an accusation would have little chance of success. The investigators have evidence, but apparently they still don't have enough to be able to prove the suspect's crime beyond any doubt.

Has been researching the Maddie case for years: BILD reporter Kai Feldhaus at BILD TV

And so, 15 years after Maddie's disappearance from the "Ocean Club" in Praia da Luz, there is a real danger that the crime will never be solved.

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Alibi claims for the night are ‘firmly knocked down’ by police and other sources

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GERMAN police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have found traces of her in a vehicle driven by the prime suspect Christian Brueckner.

A Portuguese investigator will reveal tonight that it is one of many different clues that point the finger directly at the convicted s-e-x offender.

Journalist Sandra Felgueiras will announce the discovery on prime time Portuguese television this evening.

“I am certain Brueckner did it and the Portuguese police know he worked with an accomplice,” she told the Olive Press today.

Her SABADO Investigation on the CMTV channel managed to establish that the main evidence is a ‘trace of the English girl found by German police inside the motorhome he drove in 2007’.

Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters refused to confirm or deny this week that a DNA link had been discovered in the VW van.

But, he explained to Felgueiras – who has been investigating the case since May 2007 – that he could not confirm it ‘because the suspect has not yet been informed’.



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The DNA link is ‘just one of several revelations’ set to be presented by Felgueiras’ show, recorded in Germany this week.

“It was him. He is guilty,” Felguieras added today. “The key point is that Wolters doesn’t deny it.”

She added: “The crime was for money and I think Russians were involved.”


It comes as a rival documentary on Spanish crime channel AMC will tonight claim that Brueckner is NOT guilty of snatching the toddler.

Ex-policeman Mark Williams Thomas will claim that the German police investigation has got it entirely wrong.

He says the facts are ‘inaccurate and misleading’ and he tells the Daily Mail today that his programme will ‘blow their claims to smithereens’.

Felguiras said: “Mark is wrong. He (has an agreement) with Brueckner and his lawyer.”

In particular, he claims that the phone Brueckner allegedly used in Praia da Luz, just hours before Maddie was snatched, could have been used by someone else and up to 21 miles away.

He will also claim that he had an alibi on the night as he was illegally having s-e-x in his van with a 17-year-old girl many miles away in Carvoiera.

Yet, he himself admits in the Daily Mail article that she CANNOT give him an alibi for the actual night in question.

A German police source confirmed this to the Olive Press this morning: “Police have already interviewed the girl twice and she was unclear on the actual dates.

“She only remembers his general behaviour when they got stopped at a police roadblock. That he was absolutely calm and cool.

“Because of that she thinks many years later he had nothing to do with Maddie’s abduction.”

The Olive Press has been in touch with the German girl (who we are not revealing for legal reasons) who now lives in southern Germany.

She declined to comment and, it is understood, also refused to be interviewed for the documentary also set to air on Channel 5 in the UK, this week.

Intriguingly, she had been arrested at Faro airport on May 10, 2007, when police found a Mace rape spray in her bag going through security.

She was grilled over it, but didn’t give a proper explanation.

Madeleine Van
Christian Brueckner is currently serving seven years in prison for the rape of an American pensioner, 72, in Praia da Luz in 2005.

The 17-times convicted s-e-x offender had violently attacked Diana Menkes, before raping her on film over a number of hours.

He is expected to be charged over another rape of an Irish girl nearby in 2004, as well as three other child abuse cases, in the next couple of months.

One girl was allegedly molested by Brueckner on a beach near Praia da Luz exactly a month before Maddie went missing.

Yesterday her parents released a statement via social media stressing they will be thinking of her on the 15th anniversary of her disappearance today.

They hinted that they finally knew – and accepted – that their daughter had been killed.

“Many people talk about the need for ‘closure’. It’s always felt a strange term. Regardless of outcome, Madeleine will always be our daughter and a truly horrific crime has been committed.”

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Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters refused to confirm or deny this week that a DNA link had been discovered in the VW van.

But, he explained to Felgueiras – who has been investigating the case since May 2007 – that he could not confirm it ‘because the suspect has not yet been informed’.

If that doesn't say: It's true, but I can't confirm it's true, because the suspect has not yet been informed, then I'm the Queen of Sheba .....

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about: "They hinted that they finally knew – and accepted – that their daughter had been killed.", where was that possibility mentiioned. I have not read or heard any comfirmation about it. for me, more speculation from the press.

until I heard something reliable from the couple or from OP Grange, you know what I think about it.

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updates from the official website:

http://findmadeleine.com/updates/index.html

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https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime ... im-3679103

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18451677/ ... ian-b-van/

MADDIE BREAKTHROUGH Fibres from Madeleine McCann’s Eeyore pyjamas ‘found’ in suspect Christian B’s camper van in bombshell development


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ervan.html

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m ... l-26863366

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m ... l-26863366

So will Williams-Thomas do the decent thing and cancel his documentary?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... gator.html

Christian Brueckner is a monster, but I'm sure he is INNOCENT... and convicting him would leave Maddie's real killer at large: Investigator MARK WILLIAMS-THOMAS has followed every twist of the McCann case and believes the German is NOT guilty

Oh well if MWT thinks he's innocent then I guess he must be

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The world (according to Amaral) conspires to clean the reputation of two Leicester docs
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German prosecutor says he is "sure" that Christian Brueckner "is Maddie's killer". Gonçalo Amaral responds that he is "scapegoat"
The English child disappeared 15 years ago from the Algarve, and the case was recently revived with the emergence of a new suspect. German authorities believe Christian Brueckner killed Maddie.


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Gerry and Kate McCann with a robot image of what Maddie would look like at 9 years oldi
Gerry and Kate McCann with a robot image of what Maddie would look like at 9 years old

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German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who leads the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007, says the German authorities are sure that Christian Brueckner - the German man who in recent days has been accused in the case at the age of 15 - is the English child killer. “ We are certain that he killed Madeleine McCann ,” Wolters said in an interview with CMTV broadcast this Tuesday. "We are certain that he is Madeleine McCann's killer."

Wolters stressed that "the investigation is still ongoing", but that German authorities find new evidence in the case that incriminates Brueckner. “ I think we found some new facts, some new evidence, not forensic evidence, but evidence ”, he said, although without specifying details about the criminal investigation and about the new evidence allegedly found (which could be, CMTV says, fibers from Maddie found in Brueckner's van). Faced with the journalist's questions, the prosecutor chose not to confirm or deny any information, although he added that the authorities are still "looking for the person" who called Brueckner after Maddie's disappearance - and who could be a key figure in the case. case.

Recently, Brueckner said he has an alibi for the night of May 3, 2007 that clears him of the child's disappearance. However, Wolters denies it and says that the suspect " does not have an alibi " to remove responsibility for the crime. The German prosecutor also fired at the Portuguese authorities and, above all, at former inspector Gonçalo Amaral, the first leader of the investigation, removed in 2007, for not having immediately considered the suspicions against Brueckner: “I think that the fact that Christian Brueckner is now being a suspect in Portugal shows everyone that we were not on the wrong path. I think the McCanns are not suspects in the Portuguese investigation. Gonçalo Amaral was wrong when he attributed the crime to them.”

Gonçalo Amaral says Brueckner is a “scapegoat”
Also this Tuesday, the day that marks 15 years since the child's disappearance, former Judiciary Police inspector Gonçalo Amaral, who in 2007 led the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann before being removed from the investigation, considers that the focus of the Portuguese, English and German authorities on the German suspect Christian Brueckner is “ a product of detective fiction to clean up the image of the missing girl's parents and a scapegoat to whom the responsibilities of others are attributed ”.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País , Amaral also says that the constitution of Christian Brueckner as a defendant last month “ seems like a simple procedural engineering to avoid the statute of limitations ” — which happens this very week, when exactly 15 years have passed since he Maddie was reported missing at a tourist complex in Praia da Luz, Algarve, where she was on vacation with her parents and siblings.



“The fact that the action [to establish Brueckner as a defendant] was asked to the German authorities without having formally questioned Brueckner indicates that there is nothing concrete. The Portuguese authorities have not been able to find evidence that implicates him in the girl's crime, because the disappearance itself does not constitute a crime ,” Amaral said.

Gonçalo Amaral, a former PJ inspector, led the investigation into Maddie's disappearance until October 2007, when he was removed from the investigation. The former investigator, who named Maddie's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, as suspects in the case, has argued that he was removed from the case due to the direction the investigation was taking - and he never spared criticism of the British authorities, who joined in investigation in the first few months.



After being removed from the investigation, Gonçalo Amaral continued to talk about the case and defend the thesis that Maddie's parents could be behind the disappearance. In 2008, he published the book Maddie: The Truth of the Lie (War & Peace), which earned him a lengthy court battle with the child's parents . In 2015, Amaral was ordered to compensate the McCann couple , in a court decision that also involved the removal of the book from bookstores. The following year, the Court of Appeal overturned the sentence and, after an appeal by the parents, the Supreme Court upheld the decision.to absolve Amaral of any conviction. Dissatisfied with the final decision of the Portuguese justice, the McCanns appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.

After years of stagnation, the investigation into Maddie's disappearance took on new developments in June 2020, when a joint effort by the police of England, Germany and Portugal announced a new line of investigation and a new suspect : Christian Brueckner, a German who had already convicted of sexual crimes, who had lived in the Algarve and who had been in Aldeia da Luz in May 2007, at the time of Maddie's disappearance . Brueckner was made a defendant at the end of April this year.

However, for Gonçalo Amaral, it's all just a decoy set up by the police to clean up the McCann couple's image. In the interview with El País, the former inspector says he feels “saddened and revolted, because after these years it has not been investigated what happened, nor have those responsible been identified or judged, and because the main concern of police investigators and most journalists is to clean up the image of parents”.

In October 2021, the former inspector published a new book, Maddie: Enough of Lies! (Contraponto), in which he seeks to dismantle the German investigation of Christian Brueckner. “My conclusion is that Brueckner is a scapegoat. He is in prison for the 2005 rape of a US citizen in Praia da Luz. The gynecological examination carried out at the hospital, according to the protocol for rape cases, concludes that it did not happen. The question is how could he be tried and convicted for this crime if the examination of the victim concludes that it did not happen”, says Amaral. “ The Portuguese process was translated into German, except for the gynecological exam, which was handwritten by the doctor, because the translator said it was illegible. ”



“There was such a desire on the part of German investigators to arrest Christian Brueckner that the main element of the case was not taken into account. In Germany, an individual is imprisoned for a non-existent crime, it's a free-for-all, it's sad ," the former inspector also told El País.

**Gonçalo Amaral confirmed, however, that Brueckner was on a list of suspected pedophile suspects analyzed by the Portuguese police in 2007 after his disappearance. “ It was investigated like dozens of others, nothing was discovered ”, said the former policeman, adding that the main mistake of the Portuguese authorities in the case “was accepting that the British police came to Portugal to investigate with us”.

**would that be the knock on the van? villa? to find that CB was out
or was there ever a knock on his door?

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I wondered when amaral would rear his head, fodder for the carpet chewers suppose.

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Why would the German Police want to clear the McCann's? He is living in cloud Cuckoo land. Why would a 72 year old lady lie about being raped? Amaral so doesn't want CB to be found guilty of anything I wonder why?

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An item belonging to Madeleine McCann has been found in a camper van belonging to a German p.a.e.dophile accused of abducting the young British girl 15 years ago, it was claimed last night.

If the discovery is confirmed it will be one of the first significant breakthroughs in the two-year investigation into Christian Brückner, who has been identified as the prime suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance.

Sandra Felgueiras, a Portuguese television presenter who has covered the case for several years, claimed a local police source had told her that one of Madeleine’s possessions had turned up in a fresh search of Brückner’s old VW camper van.

Brückner was living in the van at a location several miles away from the McCann family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, on the Algarve coast of Portugal, when the girl vanished in 2007.

His mobile phone is said to have been active in the area on the evening in question but he has repeatedly denied any involvement in her suspected kidnapping and insists he has an alibi

However, Hans-Christian Wolters, the prosecutor leading the German investigation into the case, said his team had uncovered “new facts and new evidence”, without going into details.

There has been unconfirmed speculation in parts the British press that the item may be several threads from the pink Winnie the Pooh-branded pyjamas Madeleine was wearing on the night she disappeared.

Wolters told Portuguese TV: “It’s not forensic evidence, but evidence, and because of our evidence, we are sure [Brückner] is the murderer of Madeleine McCann.”

Asked by Felgueiras whether it was true that an article associated with Madeleine had been found in Brückner’s van, Wolters said he could not comment on the details of the investigation.

Today's Times.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ailymailUK
Lawyer for Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner slams 'bull***t' claims of German prosecutor who said he was 'SURE he is Maddie's murderer'