Dlk79
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I did wonder that too. The way it is reported in the article makes it sound like BKA have known about the fingerprint since 2017 -I wonder the article mentions that the BKA have known since 2017, does it refer to the fingerprint or generally about CB being involved in MM's disappearance?
By amazing fortune, the programme will reveal, while he had attempted to clean up the scene he left a partial fingerprint on the knife.
“Initially German police believed all the evidence had been destroyed,” said an investigator working on the film Der Fall Maddie – auf der Spur des Taters (meaning The Maddie Case – on the trail of the culprit).
“But while most of it was thrown away by Portuguese police, luckily the main bits had been uploaded onto a computer, including half a fingerprint, which links to Brueckner.
“It makes it a very clear case and the prosecutors in Germany have known about this for some time, since 2017 in fact.
“Wolters is very sure about it and is set to proceed with the conviction now, and we are pretty certain it will be in February.”
But if they knew about it then, why didn't BKA charge him in 2019 when they put him on trial for the DM rape. And why didn't HB seem to know anything about the German investigation? She only came forward after the news about CB and the MM case broke in 2020.
Police in Portugal reopen rape investigation after claim against Madeleine McCann suspect
Last month, when German drifter Christian B was named as the main suspect in the Madeleine case - and Ms Behan read about his conviction for raping an American woman in strikingly similar circumstances - she contacted the Scotland Yard Madeleine squad.
So, yeah I'm not too sure if that statement about 2017 is accurate if it is referring to the fingerprint revelation.