Germany/Portugal - Christian Brueckner, 27 @ time of 1st crime (2004), charged with sexual assault crimes, Praia de Rocha, Portugal. #5
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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?
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Yes, I do recall that too - in October the decisions on some of those motions.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.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.
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.
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The differences are equally compelling IMO.
RichardKimble
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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.
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.
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RichardKimble
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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.
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
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.
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.
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RichardKimble
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IMO a argument needs to from a German perspective ie once freed from his present sentence is he monitored ? not the British msm sensationalism.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
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.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.
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.
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
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