«The chances that Brückner will be released soon are zero»
‘Christian Brückner claims that he should not have been convicted in Braunschweig because he was extradited from Portugal to Germany because of child abuse and not because of the rape. The public prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters says to 20 minutes that Brückner refers to the so-called «specialty principle». The suspect has already served the punishment for sexual abuse to which he was sentenced by the Braunschweig Regional Court in 2017.
The first prosecutor Wolters corrects against 20 minutes: "Even if the European Court of Justice finds a formal error, it is repairable." In other words: According to Wolters, the chances that Brückner could soon be released are “at zero”. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg also has no power to release anyone.’
‘«Die Chancen, dass Brückner bald freikommt, stehen bei null»
Yes, and i stated that before.
IMO we should not misinterprete HCW's statements acording to put a line under the investigations. IMO they investigate since 2017/2018 according the known convicted (!) suspect. No need to hurry, no need to fight for an arrest warrant. C.B.'s lawyer just tries to push a little bit pressure into, because his hands are tied, as long as C.B. hasn't been charged or even interrogated by L.E.. For so long he is NOT able to take a look into the files. Not even one sheet!!!!
So HCW can also be understood to mean, L.E. should be soon to hand over the finished investigation to the prosecuters, so they are able to charge him by appealing a german penalty-court, or not. That already starts with an interrogation to finish the investigation. At this point, they have to let the lawyers take a look into the files, to assure an correct defence.
In germany the L.E. investigates a suspect in 1. step, then they hand over all info to the prosecuters (2. Step - HCW, but they can and do work together in some cases), and in the 3. Step the prosecuters check the files and decide, wether they call a court by charging the suspect for a trial.
In Step 4, the judges are in charge for the trial and take over.
The problem in this case is, we have a worldwide known suspect. Even if he get's a trial in the next months, lawyers will argument, he never had a chance for a fair trial, due to public sentencing. Even if he may be guilty at the end. Like the boys in the Bulger case in U.K.. A good prosecuter knows, when it's time to tie the knot.