NOT GUILTY Germany/Portugal - Christian Brueckner, 27 @ time of 1st crime (2004), charged with sexual assault crimes, Praia de Rocha, Portugal. #6

[frank-cole]

Not sure, but I think reinstatement of the arrest warrant is part of the current appeal submitted by the prosecutors.

The reference is to the summing up during the trial not to the wording of the appeal SNIP
After the acquittal in the trial for several serious sexual offences against Christian B., who is also a suspect in the MM case, the public prosecutor's office has appealed.
This was announced by the judicial authority on Wednesday. The case now goes to the Federal Court of Justice, which reviews the verdict for legal errors.
Last week, the Braunschweig Regional Court acquitted the sex offender, who has several previous convictions, of three rapes and two cases of child sexual abuse. There is not enough evidence for a conviction, said the presiding judge UE.
The public prosecutor's office had demanded 15 years in prison with subsequent preventive detention for the 47-year-old, the defense acquittal.

"Maddie"-Verdächtiger: Staatsanwaltschaft legt Revision ein

Christian B. war vom Landgericht Braunschweig freigesprochen worden. Ihm waren mehrere Sexualstraftaten vorgeworfen worden.

www.ndr.de

The intention of the premature release of pointers detailing CB's identity is in part having the intended effect of throwing a spanner into the work of the investigators working on his crimes. My opinion.
Note the difference in the conduct of the rape trial of 2019 prior to CB's notoriety becoming known and that of the rape trial post identification in 2024 which took four years to get off the ground.
Then concentrated during trial and judged as though it was the MM trial despite five indictments - not one of which remotely made reference to MM.
It began with efference to MM and ended with the judge's comments on MM.
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Regarding the Sky broadcast. It seems to be a very much 'stand alone' item which has not been picked up by any other outlet.

It stands out that none of the 3 LEA’s have dropped the case.

I think when assessing this it’s worth looking at what’s changed between the newest comments & the time before. In that chunk of time they lost a court case & mounted appeals. Those are some heavy new factors

 

[UK Girl]

From your article :“Jim Gamble, former head of the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre, said he had expected the prosecutor to charge Christian B soon.“

He HAD but HCW is now suggesting that CB may be released in Sept which shows that would not be happening in the next 8 or 9 months if at all. Weirdly HCW or even papers like OP have not suggested that Sky are wrong

 

[RichardKimble]

Unimportant, it shows they never had the intention to charge him beginning of 2025.
That’s what Gamble obviously thought

It's all a matter of opinion in the end, after 4 1/2 yrs I'd venture those of us who say no charges are closer than those that hope/ insist there will be.Imo CB won't be charged not least because there was no abduction.

 

[Mex]

It's all a matter of opinion in the end, after 4 1/2 yrs I'd venture those of us who say no charges are closer than those that hope/ insist there will be.Imo CB won't be charged not least because there was no abduction.

And therein lies the rub, Richard; it isn’t really any longer a matter of opinion, it is now more than one active case with one prime suspect under investigation regarding all.

That is more than a game changer as far as the law enforcers are concerned and it took a long, long time for law enforcement to reach a stage many thought could never happen.

Now is not the time to lose heart and take the eye off the ball when there is a known realistic suspect in the frame and law enforcement know exactly his whereabouts should it be appropriate to make the decision to add to his rap sheet.

I don’t think you should despair that the German legal system might fail to proceed should the evidential criteria allow. The time taken to do that will depend on whatever course of action the Appeal Court judges allow. So just a waiting game but no need to despair.
My opinion

 

[onemoremiletogo]

No prospect of charges on MM and CB will be free in eight months.
IMO HCW may be reversing the pressure on others...

 

[RichardKimble]

And therein lies the rub, Richard; it isn’t really any longer a matter of opinion, it is now more than one active case with one prime suspect under investigation regarding all.

That is more than a game changer as far as the law enforcers are concerned and it took a long, long time for law enforcement to reach a stage many thought could never happen.

Now is not the time to lose heart and take the eye off the ball when there is a known realistic suspect in the frame and law enforcement know exactly his whereabouts should it be appropriate to make the decision to add to his rap sheet.

I don’t think you should despair that the German legal system might fail to proceed should the evidential criteria allow. The time taken to do that will depend on whatever course of action the Appeal Court judges allow. So just a waiting game but no need to despair.
My opinion

Far from despair, many of us called it out way back when CBs name came up.

 

[frank-cole]

And therein lies the rub, Richard; it isn’t really any longer a matter of opinion, it is now more than one active case with one prime suspect under investigation regarding all.

That is more than a game changer as far as the law enforcers are concerned and it took a long, long time for law enforcement to reach a stage many thought could never happen.

Now is not the time to lose heart and take the eye off the ball when there is a known realistic suspect in the frame and law enforcement know exactly his whereabouts should it be appropriate to make the decision to add to his rap sheet.

I don’t think you should despair that the German legal system might fail to proceed should the evidential criteria allow. The time taken to do that will depend on whatever course of action the Appeal Court judges allow. So just a waiting game but no need to despair.
My

And therein lies the rub, Richard; it isn’t really any longer a matter of opinion, it is now more than one active case with one prime suspect under investigation regarding all.

That is more than a game changer as far as the law enforcers are concerned and it took a long, long time for law enforcement to reach a stage many thought could never happen.

Now is not the time to lose heart and take the eye off the ball when there is a known realistic suspect in the frame and law enforcement know exactly his whereabouts should it be appropriate to make the decision to add to his rap sheet.

I don’t think you should despair that the German legal system might fail to proceed should the evidential criteria allow. The time taken to do that will depend on whatever course of action the Appeal Court judges allow. So just a waiting game but no need to despair.
My opinion

I made the comment the other day that for some - CB being removed from the equation is desired so that old business can resume. So I’m not at all surprised that HCW comment about no charges in the foreseeable future has led to back to the old conspiratorial comments about no abduction. I’m sure the McCann gossip clubs will be joyous & rife with that stuff at the moment.

IMO there are many indications of an abduction & many indications to show why all 3 LEA’s regard him as the sole prime suspect.

 

[Davieson]

I made the comment the other day that for some - CB being removed from the equation is desired so that old business can resume. So I’m not at all surprised that HCW comment about no charges in the foreseeable future has led to back to the old conspiratorial comments about no abduction. I’m sure the McCann gossip clubs will be joyous & rife with that stuff at the moment.

IMO there are many indications of an abduction & many indications to show why all 3 LEA’s regard him as the sole prime suspect.

Perhaps yiu would like to share them with us.

 

[RichardKimble]

Perhaps yiu would like to share them with us.

indeed from the PJ files, no one has surmounted this.

Despite all of this, it was not possible to obtain any piece of evidence that would allow for a medium man, under the light of the criteria of logics, of normality and of the general rules of experience, to formulate any lucid, sensate, serious and honest conclusion about the circumstances under which the child was removed from the apartment (whether dead or alive, whether killed in a neglectful homicide or an intended homicide, whether the victim of a targeted abduction or an opportunistic abduction), nor even to produce a consistent prognosis about her destiny and inclusively - the most dramatic - to establish whether she is still alive or if she is dead, as seems more likely.

P.J. POLICE FILES: LEGAL SUMMARY

 

[Trivento]

EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutor confirms appeal proceedings into Madeleine McCann suspect will be heard in Leipzig in March - Olive Press News Spain

THE Chief prosecutor against Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has told the Olive Press he has ‘a month’ to prepare an appeal against a recent

www.theolivepress.es

HCW has now received written judgement from recent trial and will be progressing appeal further ..

 

[Niner]

EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutor confirms appeal proceedings into Madeleine McCann suspect will be heard in Leipzig in March - Olive Press News Spain

THE Chief prosecutor against Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has told the Olive Press he has ‘a month’ to prepare an appeal against a recent

www.theolivepress.es

HCW has now received written judgement from recent trial and will be progressing appeal further ..

I noticed in the article -

“We now have one month to justify the appeal we have filed,” he explained. “The proceedings are therefore expected to arrive at the Federal Court of Justice in Leipzig in March 2025.”

Does that mean a hearing in March, or just a decision? And if hearing - anyone find a "date" in March for this? TIA!

 

[Davieson]

263 pages suggests quite a detailed report for the judges to submit to justify their decisions

 

[RichardKimble]

I noticed in the article -

“We now have one month to justify the appeal we have filed,” he explained. “The proceedings are therefore expected to arrive at the Federal Court of Justice in Leipzig in March 2025.”

Does that mean a hearing in March, or just a decision? And if hearing - anyone find a "date" in March for this? TIA!

Nothing here.

Nothing here.

https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/EN/Press/ImportantDates/importantDates_node.html;jsessionid=696ACF2315AB51300BEC439AF5AD156D.internet971

 

[RichardKimble]

263 pages suggests quite a detailed report for the judges to submit to justify their decisions

Very thorough, from what was said previously it has to picked apart from a legal perspective not just that the prosecution doesn't agree with it.

 

[Mex]

263 pages suggests quite a detailed report for the judges to submit to justify their decisions

It comes after he told Sky News ‘on a slow news day’ last week that ‘a charge in the Maddie case is not to be expected at this time.”

Followed up by the media around the world, it was therefore assumed that Brueckner, 48, could be freed ‘within weeks’ and certainly by September.

However, the Olive Press can reveal that police and prosecutors are ‘confident’ that the Federal court will order his re-arrest.

EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutor confirms appeal proceedings into Madeleine McCann suspect will be heard in Leipzig in March - Olive Press News Spain

THE Chief prosecutor against Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has told the Olive Press he has ‘a month’ to prepare an appeal against a recent

www.theolivepress.es

Probably just part of the legal process.

It seems evident that having justified the overturning of the ruling of the Braunschweig court the prosecutors must now make their case to the higher court for the trial to be heard again.
My opinion

 

[Niner]

Nothing here.

https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/EN/Press/ImportantDates/importantDates_node.html;jsessionid=696ACF2315AB51300BEC439AF5AD156D.internet971

Okay - thanks! I will book mark this page.

Is this the case # I will be looking for? Az. 2 KLs 213 Js 52790/18 (15/22)

 

[RichardKimble]

Okay - thanks! I will book mark this page.

Is this the case # I will be looking for? Az. 2 KLs 213 Js 52790/18 (15/22)

Not sure, but it's the one used in the court proceedings whether another number is allocated or the same is used I guess we'll find out.

 

[Hygge]

Okay - thanks! I will book mark this page.

Is this the case # I will be looking for? Az. 2 KLs 213 Js 52790/18 (15/22)

 

[Niner]

Well quote & reply are not working for me -

But THANKS @Hygge for the case #.

 

[frank-cole]

Perhaps yiu would like to share them with us.

Stranger abduction was always the only plausible scenario. Therefore it comes as no surprise that a stranger is the sole prime suspect. That’s why many sleuth (on this CB websleuths page) about CB being that stranger abductor.

Going around in circles about the PJ files & these claims about no abduction are things for conspiracy gossip clubs. Obviously they don’t hold water with the 3 LEA’s investigating CB & that’s why I’m glad the PJ apologised to the McCann’s. It’s one of the reasons I was …‘surprised’…. that it popped up in the rhetoric shortly after the sky news headline.