Germany/Portugal - Christian Brueckner, 27 @ time of 1st crime (2004), charged with sexual assault crimes, Praia de Rocha, Portugal. #5

[MadMcGoo]

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[MadMcGoo]

Please continue the discussion here.

 

[Niner]

Just an FYI on when the trial continues:

Next Trial dates: Sept 5, 6, 25, 26, 27, Oct. 2, 7, 8, 21 & Oct. 22, 2024.

 

[frank-cole]

Just an FYI on when the trial continues:

Next Trial dates: Sept 5, 6, 25, 26, 27, Oct. 2, 7, 8, 21 & Oct. 22, 2024.

If I remember rightly, some decisions for some of the motions are due in October. I may be wrong - does anybody know if this is the case?

 

[Niner]

If I remember rightly, some decisions for some of the motions are due in October. I may be wrong - does anybody know if this is the case?

Yes, I do recall that too - in October the decisions on some of those motions.

 

[Davieson]

Dates never seem to have been held to throughout the trial process so I suppose the October dates could be changed as well.

 

[RichardKimble]

The original end was June, can't recall seeing any thing suggestive of when trial verdicts would be given certainly not on any press release, happy to be corrected.

 

[Denis R Tandib]

It has been suggested on this forum that the MO of DM and HaB was the same due to the filming aspect of the crime - that this is unusual.

Today on the BBC are two stories of horrific sex offenders committing and filming crimes. One is in France, the other Australia and Italy.

Australian childcare worker guilty of abusing dozens of girls

Ashley Paul Griffith confessed to 307 offences at childcare centres in Australia and Italy between 2003 and 2022.

www.bbc.com

Man accused of recruiting strangers to rape his wife

The men are accused of assaulting the woman, who was so heavily sedated she was not aware of the abuse, her lawyers say.

www.bbc.com

 

[Anxala]

It has been suggested on this forum that the MO of DM and HaB was the same due to the filming aspect of the crime - that this is unusual.

Today on the BBC are two stories of horrific sex offenders committing and filming crimes. One is in France, the other Australia and Italy.

Australian childcare worker guilty of abusing dozens of girls

Ashley Paul Griffith confessed to 307 offences at childcare centres in Australia and Italy between 2003 and 2022.

www.bbc.com

Man accused of recruiting strangers to rape his wife

The men are accused of assaulting the woman, who was so heavily sedated she was not aware of the abuse, her lawyers say.

www.bbc.com

To be fair though, it wasn't just the filming that led the comparisons. Whether or not it was CB, the ritual aspects of the attacks in the DM, HaB and the unknown elderly victim are imo compelling.

 

[Denis R Tandib]

To be fair though, it wasn't just the filming that led the comparisons. Whether or not it was CB, the ritual aspects of the attacks in the DM, HaB and the unknown elderly victim are imo compelling.

The differences are equally compelling IMO.

 

[RichardKimble]

To be fair though, it wasn't just the filming that led the comparisons. Whether or not it was CB, the ritual aspects of the attacks in the DM, HaB and the unknown elderly victim are imo compelling.

There's a argument it's not CB with the lifting of the arrest warrant because there is no urgent suspicion.Starts again tomorrow doesnt it, interesting to hear who witnesses might be.

 

[Davieson]

I really don't know the significance of the lifting of the arrest warrant but it certainly upset the prosecution to the extent that they made claims against the impartiality of the judges, so it cannot just be a legal technicality.
IMO

 

[RichardKimble]

I really don't know the significance of the lifting of the arrest warrant but it certainly upset the prosecution to the extent that they made claims against the impartiality of the judges, so it cannot just be a legal technicality.
IMO

Well yes considering he still remains in jail, just what the concerns are, is it the verdict won't be announced any time soon after the trial completion? No doubt CB is a dangerous character but he can't be kept in jail just because of that, maybe they don't monitor after release.

 

[Mex]

I really don't know the significance of the lifting of the arrest warrant but it certainly upset the prosecution to the extent that they made claims against the impartiality of the judges, so it cannot just be a legal technicality.
IMO

As far as I can make out it is not "just be a legal technicality". Under normal circumstances the successful defence argument for the lifting of the arrest warrant would have enabled CB the freedom to walk the streets between trial dates as the innocent man the law deems him to be.
Only the fact that he is still serving time for aggravated rape standing in his way; notwithstanding the fact that CB was declared too dangerous for parole due in halfway through his sentence.
A decision ratified on appeal by the European Court.

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The 45-year-old paedophile is currently serving a seven-year jail term for raping a pensioner in Praia da Luz, ...

He became eligible for parole after serving half of his sentence, with time spent on remand taken into account.

But the panel were thought to judge him at high risk of reoffending.

They concluded his “social prognosis” meant he had to stay behind bars in the northern German city of Kiel.

Maddie McCann No.1 suspect ruled too dangerous to be freed as parole denied

Brueckner became eligible for parole after serving half of his sentence, with time spent on remand taken into account

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Mex]

Well yes considering he still remains in jail, just what the concerns are, is it the verdict won't be announced any time soon after the trial completion? No doubt CB is a dangerous character but he can't be kept in jail just because of that, maybe they don't monitor after release.

CB is a flight risk as can be seen from his extraditions from Portugal and Italy under European Arrest Warrants.

He is also a serial offender and career criminal who is accused of being a domestic violence perpetrator.

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While in Braunschweig, CB ran a kiosk selling drinks and snacks. He was accused of assaulting the woman he lived with, NF, who was not the mother of his victim.

During a raid on his flat, police seized a laptop and other devices on which they found the photographs.

Analysis of the images allowed the officers to identify the scene of the attack and the girl, who had moved to another part of Germany with her mother.

By then, however, CB had fled to the Algarve in Portugal, where he had been living intermittently since the mid-1990s.

German authorities issued an EU-wide arrest warrant, but it was four years before officers in Portugal seized him after responding to reports that he had exposed himself to children at a park about 40 miles from Praia da Luz.

CB, who is referred to as ‘Christian B’ by German justice officials, was extradited back to Germany, convicted and given a 15-month jail term in March 2017.

Christian Brueckner was jailed for abusing ex-girlfriend's daughter

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was jailed for sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Mex]

There's a argument it's not CB with the lifting of the arrest warrant because there is no urgent suspicion.Starts again tomorrow doesnt it, interesting to hear who witnesses might be.

How flawed might the decision be to lift arrest warrants on the reasoning that the evidence is not quite good enough to meet the defence team's opinion when much of the evidence has not yet been heard?

Most decidedly odd; but here we are.

Trial against Christian B. continues normally​

Christian B., however, will not be released immediately. He remains in prison because of a 2019 conviction for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005. "Of course, he remains in custody, only in this current trial has the arrest warrant been lifted," explained court spokeswoman Lisa Rust. "The proceedings are still ongoing, the next hearing on Friday will take place as usual and continue normally."

The defense of the sex offender, who has several previous convictions, had requested that the arrest warrant against Christian B. be lifted in the current proceedings. According to the course of the evidence so far, the arrest warrant could no longer stand, defense attorney Friedrich Fülscher had said as a reason. The chamber lifted the arrest warrant because, from its point of view, there was no urgent suspicion of a crime, the court announced.

Haftbefehl gegen Christian B. aufgehoben

Im Bezug auf die Vorwürfe gegen den 47-jährigen Deutschen zu fünf anderen schweren Straftaten gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung bestehe kein dringender Tatverdacht, teilte das Landgericht Braunschweig mit.

www.rtl.de

 

[RichardKimble]

CB is a flight risk as can be seen from his extraditions from Portugal and Italy under European Arrest Warrants.

He is also a serial offender and career criminal who is accused of being a domestic violence perpetrator.

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While in Braunschweig, CB ran a kiosk selling drinks and snacks. He was accused of assaulting the woman he lived with, NF, who was not the mother of his victim.

During a raid on his flat, police seized a laptop and other devices on which they found the photographs.

Analysis of the images allowed the officers to identify the scene of the attack and the girl, who had moved to another part of Germany with her mother.

By then, however, CB had fled to the Algarve in Portugal, where he had been living intermittently since the mid-1990s.

German authorities issued an EU-wide arrest warrant, but it was four years before officers in Portugal seized him after responding to reports that he had exposed himself to children at a park about 40 miles from Praia da Luz.

CB, who is referred to as ‘Christian B’ by German justice officials, was extradited back to Germany, convicted and given a 15-month jail term in March 2017.

Christian Brueckner was jailed for abusing ex-girlfriend's daughter

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was jailed for sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

IMO a argument needs to from a German perspective ie once freed from his present sentence is he monitored ? not the British msm sensationalism.

 

[Mex]

It has been suggested on this forum that the MO of DM and HaB was the same due to the filming aspect of the crime - that this is unusual.

Today on the BBC are two stories of horrific sex offenders committing and filming crimes. One is in France, the other Australia and Italy.

Australian childcare worker guilty of abusing dozens of girls

Ashley Paul Griffith confessed to 307 offences at childcare centres in Australia and Italy between 2003 and 2022.

www.bbc.com

Man accused of recruiting strangers to rape his wife

The men are accused of assaulting the woman, who was so heavily sedated she was not aware of the abuse, her lawyers say.

www.bbc.com

Evidence given at trial in Braunschweig expresses much the same opinion that the aggravated rape of DM and HB show striking similarities.

• August 5, 2024: The trial continues after a summer break. BKA chief profiler HD testifies. He talks about the similarities and differences between the rape of the 72-year-old American woman, for which B. was convicted, and the act against Hazel B.
• August 15, 2024: HD testifies again: With his analysis, he concludes that there are striking similarities in the rapes of the American and the Irish woman. The defense doubts his results.

The defendant CB. (front, left) stands next to his defense attorneys FF (center) and PM. CB. is accused of three cases of aggravated rape and two cases of sexual abuse of children in Portugal.

 

[Mex]

If I remember rightly, some decisions for some of the motions are due in October. I may be wrong - does anybody know if this is the case?

Looks likely we will find out if timings turn out as forecast.

There must be a plethora of unfinished business from the start of this trial beginning with the motion to dismiss the lay judge with the penchant for making very ill judged social media comment.
The suspect having exercised his right to silence appears to have left a vacuum which his defence team have assiduously filled by almost every witness for the prosecution, or perhaps actually all of them, facing some kind of slur or challenge of one kind or other.
The court appears to have knuckled under the relentless assault which is probably going to take up a great deal of court time as the clock ticks relentlessly towards whatever goal the defence has in mind. Bearing in mind the delays to first of all getting CB into a court in the first instance and now that he's in one - getting him out or at least reaching verdicts on his five separate indictments.
My opinion

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FF announced it after the first day of the trial: "It doesn't get any more boring," he said on Friday, February 16, after the hearing.
And Christian B.'s defense attorney did not promise too much.
A week later, on February 23, the defense team initially overwhelmed the court with motions.

For almost three hours, the defense attorneys FF, DB and PM justified pages of motions.

The defense was no longer able to present its last one in full. The presiding judge ended the trial day in the middle of it after FF asked for a ten-minute break.

Braunschweig: Wende im Prozess um Maddie-Verdächtigen! Neue Zeugin könnte alles verändern

Im Prozess um den Maddie-Verdächtigen Christian B. hat die Verteidigung in Braunschweig eine Zeugin ins Spiel gebracht, die alles verändern könnte.

www.news38.de

 

[Niner]

Thursday, Sept. 5th:
*Trial continues (Day 29) (@ 9am CET) – Germany/Portugal - Hazel Behan (20 @ time/now 40) (in her home, June 16, 2004, Praia de Rocha on the Algarve coast, 10 miles from Praia de Luz, Portimao, Portugal) - *Christian Stefan Brückner (Bruekner) (27 @ time of 1st crime (2004)/45/now 47) charged (Oct. 11, 2022) with sexual assault (suspect held a knife & brutally raped her. The accused then tied & gagged the woman to a table & raped her again. He then whipped the victim on the back with a whip he had brought with him & finally forcibly performed oral sex with the victim. The accused filmed large parts of the events with a video camera he had brought with him). Braunschweig Regional District Court
Germany/Portugal – *Charged (Oct. 11, 2022) & arrest warrant reinstated 11/18/22 - a 14 year old teenager (unknown victim) (on tape: assaulted/hit the naked girl with a whip. Said to have brutally forced the girl to have oral sex. The accused also videotaped this act). Took place between Dec. 28, 2000 to April 8, 2006 on the Praia da Luz, Algarve coast, Portugal.
Germany/Portugal - *Charged (Oct. 11, 2022) & arrest warrant reinstated 11/18/22 - an elderly woman 70-80 yrs old (unknown victim) a Tour Rep (tied up & raped the victim in her holiday apt. He then hit the victim several times with a whip. The accused is said to have recorded the entire event with a video camera). Took place around the same time (between Dec. 28, 2000 to April 8, 2006) on the Praia de Luz, Algarve coast, Portugal.
Germany/Portugal – *Charged (Oct. 11, 2022) & arrest warrant reinstated 11/18/22 - 10 year old German girl (Joana E.) (wearing only shoes & otherwise naked. He grabbed the child's wrist & began to perform masturbation movements on his naked penis). On Salema (Zalema) beach, near Praia de Luz, Portugal, April 7, 2007).
Germany/Portugal – *Charged (Oct. 11, 2022) & arrest warrant reinstated 11/18/22 – Ines VP (11 year old Portuguese girl) (pulled down his trousers & underpants & made masturbation movements on his naked penis in order to sexually arouse himself, until the frightened girl ran to her father for help. The suspect was arrested on the spot by the Portuguese police). Exposed himself in playpark, São Bartolomeu de Messines, June 11, 2017).
Trial began on February 16, 2024. (And continued on Feb. 23rd, Mar. 1st & 14th, Apr. 2nd, 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th, 24th & 26th, May 2nd, 15th, 166th, 17th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 28th, 29th & June 4th & 5th & 28th, July 5th, August 5th, 15th).
Next Trial dates: Sept 5, 6, 25, 26, 27, Oct. 2, 7, 8, 21 & Oct. 22, 2024.
Presiding Judge Dr. Engemann. Lead Prosecutor Ute Lindermann. Defense attorneys Dr. Friedrich Fülscher, Philipp Marquort, Dennis Bock & Atilla Aykac.
Brueckner is currently serving a 7 year sentence for the 2005 rape on a pensioner; was sentenced in 2019. Release in Spring or Summer of 2026.
Case info & charges & Brueckner info from June 1, 2020 thru Jan. 18, 2024 & Trial Day 1-27 (Feb. 16 thru Aug. 5) & thru July 25, 2024 reference post #932 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...imes-praia-de-rocha-portugal-4.714269/page-47
August 15, 2024 Thursday, Day 28: Witness: BKA chief profiler expert Harald Dern, head of the operational case analysis at the Federal criminal Police Office continues testimony. Proceedings before the 2nd Criminal Division in connection with five offenses against sexual self-determination - file number 2 KLs 213 Js 52790/18 (15/22) - continuation date of August 16, 2024 has been canceled. The next continuation date is scheduled for Thursday, September 5, 2024, 9am.
For more info see posts #935 & 938 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...imes-praia-de-rocha-portugal-4.714269/page-47