Madeleine McCann: German Prisoner Identified as Suspect, #35

[Pixie Child]

Those holes look extremely precise. They've pinpointed "something" in those spots and left the rest completely untouched. Interesting.

I wonder if they dug where the dogs marked. I bet those dogs are trained to sniff cremated remains.

 

[mrjitty]

I think you need to make some allowances for the fact that English is not his mother tongue, not to mention the fact that the media is not always brilliant at reporting exactly what someone had said. I think he’s doing a reasonable job telling us as much as he is able to. He seems competent, earnest and intelligent to me.

I do agree there is some cultural aspect to it. The English are the masters of taking a long time to say nothing in eloquent terms - as often noted in German circles

I find, when speaking his native German, HCW is very much a typical bureaucrat, and his latest televised briefings were pretty much what you would expect. i also agree with the german media he has quite an earnest demeanour.

 

[Malleux]

I wonder if they dug where the dogs marked. I bet those dogs are trained to sniff cremated remains.

Yes, dogs will generally either be trained and conditioned to pick up on a specific scents or to track a scent they are given to trace. In this instance, you'd think it would have to be the former. Remains would be a good shout but dogs can be trained to pick up on all sorts of things including media devices etc too.

 

[SuperdadV8]

I wonder if they dug where the dogs marked. I bet those dogs are trained to sniff cremated remains.

Well, although i had a different opinion at first, they really could have been looking for data carriers and similar stuff.

Nachrichten aus Schleswig-Holstein

www.ndr.de

"Gradually, the tasks became more difficult - mobile phones, SIM cards, USB sticks. Joker finds almost all of them now, even if not right away. After Joker had internalized the smell of an external memory card, he should find a model from another supplier. At first without success. Häusler thought they would now have to teach him every model from every manufacturer. "That's too many, that would be impossible," she says. But Joker quickly understood that he had to show his display behavior even with similar smells - and was rewarded for it. He saves newly learned scents immediately and can call up the knowledge later."

 

[Pixie Child]

Well, although i had a different opinion at first, they really could have been looking for data carriers and similar stuff.

Nachrichten aus Schleswig-Holstein

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"Gradually, the tasks became more difficult - mobile phones, SIM cards, USB sticks. Joker finds almost all of them now, even if not right away. After Joker had internalized the smell of an external memory card, he should find a model from another supplier. At first without success. Häusler thought they would now have to teach him every model from every manufacturer. "That's too many, that would be impossible," she says. But Joker quickly understood that he had to show his display behavior even with similar smells - and was rewarded for it. He saves newly learned scents immediately and can call up the knowledge later."

Yep, they may have had both types of sniffer dogs.

But ‘vernichten’ would cover this.

 

[SuperdadV8]

Well, although i had a different opinion at first, they really could have been looking for data carriers and similar stuff.

Nachrichten aus Schleswig-Holstein

www.ndr.de

"Gradually, the tasks became more difficult - mobile phones, SIM cards, USB sticks. Joker finds almost all of them now, even if not right away. After Joker had internalized the smell of an external memory card, he should find a model from another supplier. At first without success. Häusler thought they would now have to teach him every model from every manufacturer. "That's too many, that would be impossible," she says. But Joker quickly understood that he had to show his display behavior even with similar smells - and was rewarded for it. He saves newly learned scents immediately and can call up the knowledge later."

It could be that simple!!!

The prosecutors just may have the need to link material that's already known to CB himself, to avoid the possible strategy, he could say that he just downloaded that vile crap from the darkweb.

By the way, that strategy used to work well for "masked man" Martin N. in the past.

We had discussed that possibility on one of the first pages of this thread....

 

[Consider Dudley]

Yes, dogs will generally either be trained and conditioned to pick up on a specific scents or to track a scent they are given to trace. In this instance, you'd think it would have to be the former. Remains would be a good shout but dogs can be trained to pick up on all sorts of things including media devices etc too.

True, but I can think of no good reason why they wouldn’t have employed dogs trained to locate human remains as well

 

[mrjitty]

<modsnip: quoted post was removed> I'd love to know who told Olive Press they expected to find 2-3 bodies ...

I actually doubt that was HCW.

 

[Malleux]

I do agree there is some cultural aspect to it. The English are the masters of taking a long time to say nothing in eloquent terms - as often noted in German circles

I find, when speaking his native German, HCW is very much a typical bureaucrat, and his latest televised briefings were pretty much what you would expect. i also agree with the german media he has quite an earnest demeanour.

I found this a lot when using translation apps for Portuguese articles too. I would read quotes and the language used just seemed a bit strange, and the train of though illogical to me, until I realised it is just their way of saying things, in contrast to how we would communicate the same message across. It's the same when a foreign speaker tries to communicate in another language too, as many of those "ways" of speaking remain when trying to get their point across.

I've read the same articles translated by a proper Portuguese speaker and they adjust for the cultural/language barrier and it makes a lot more sense then. I can follow the logic of the conversation while recognising it is just a different way of communicating a point across to what I'm used to seeing in English. Sometimes things can appear to come across as abrupt or be seen as not the 'proper' thing to say in British culture when they are not meant that way.

 

[SuperdadV8]

True, but I can think of no good reason why they wouldn’t have employed dogs trained to locate human remains as well

Some reports told about four dogs at the site. So the officials might have covered the whole possible spectrum?

 

[Malleux]

I'd love to know who told Olive Press they expected to find 2-3 bodies ...

I actually doubt that was HCW.

I very much doubt it, but if those holes did turn out be some kind of graveyard.......

 

[mrjitty]

Journalists are on site if anyone wants to see. i think this rules out any bodies. Strange holes - i wonder what they were looking for.

I don't know what to make of all this.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661819093874356224

 

[Pixie Child]

Some reports told about four dogs at the site. So the officials might have covered the whole possible spectrum?

They look like GNR dog handlers. Maybe the ones in black are German.

 

[RichardKimble]

Expectations but they are not high.

“Of course there are some expectations, but they are not high,” prosecutor Christian Wolters told Reuters. It was important to show that the authorities were investigating the case, he added.

Madeleine McCann's quest ends with little chance of a breakthrough

Madeleine McCann's quest ends with little chance of a breakthrough

wtlocal.com

 

[C.greek]

Journalists are on site if anyone wants to see. i think this rules out any bodies. Strange holes - i wonder what they were looking for.

I don't know what to make of all this.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661819093874356224

The journalist said that the area where they have dug holes is where CB is thought to have hoarded things? Also it appear there were pyrrhes there. Sniffer dogs must have pinpointed the exact area where they dug. Shallow pits though!

 

[Malleux]

Expectations but they are not high.

“Of course there are some expectations, but they are not high,” prosecutor Christian Wolters told Reuters. It was important to show that the authorities were investigating the case, he added.

Madeleine McCann's quest ends with little chance of a breakthrough

Madeleine McCann's quest ends with little chance of a breakthrough

wtlocal.com

Yes, saw that comment. Just "Managing" expectations and media speculation IMO. Don't think we can read this as a sign of a weak expectation there will be a positive outcome when they haven't even analysed what they took away yet.

 

[RichardKimble]

Expectations but they are not high.

“Of course there are some expectations, but they are not high,” prosecutor Christian Wolters told Reuters. It was important to show that the authorities were investigating the case, he added.

Madeleine McCann's quest ends with little chance of a breakthrough

Madeleine McCann's quest ends with little chance of a breakthrough

wtlocal.com

sky have the same.

'Material collected' in Madeleine McCann reservoir search to be sent to Germany for testing

Police from Portugal, Germany and the UK spent three days searching a reservoir and surrounding scrubland for new evidence.

news.sky.com

German prosecutor Christian Wolters added: "Of course there is a certain expectation, but it is not high."

He said it was important to show that authorities were investigating the case.

 

[mrjitty]

The journalist said that the area where they have dug holes is where CB is thought to have hoarded things? Also it appear there were pyrrhes there. Sniffer dogs must have pinpointed the exact area where they dug. Shallow pits though!

Yes very odd.

 

[Malleux]

sky have the same.

'Material collected' in Madeleine McCann reservoir search to be sent to Germany for testing

Police from Portugal, Germany and the UK spent three days searching a reservoir and surrounding scrubland for new evidence.

news.sky.com

German prosecutor Christian Wolters added: "Of course there is a certain expectation, but it is not high."

He said it was important to show that authorities were investigating the case.

Exactly. Same quotes, two vastly different narratives in those two articles. Interpreting the meaning of quote without knowing the context of the question being asked is unwise. JMO

 

[Officer Dibble]

Police gives update after reservoir search in Madeleine McCann disappearance case

Large section of Barragem do Arade reservoir was cordoned off in May, about 30 miles from where three-year-old Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago

www.independent.co.uk

Update as of 4 minutes ago. Interesting...