Madeleine McCann: German Prisoner Identified as Suspect, #41

[Davieson]

it doesn't really say much, does it? No Intel, no sources nothing. It beggars belief why reporters write such pieces where they say nothing, not even a recap of events unfolding. How many Wells did they drain, how many acres did they search, where did they use the georadar, what was the initial plan, and how many derelict buildings did they search - and what exactly did they do there? Just scoped the area after they cleared it? Sorry but this is no reporting!

You must remember that all reporters were kept at arms length and were not permitted to observer the details of the search, therefore unless they were going to make stuff up, they could only give a general view of the activity.
I'm sure that if police had wanted the finer details to be disclosed, they would have allowed reporters to get much closer to the action.

 

[C.greek]

You must remember that all reporters were kept at arms length and were not permitted to observer the details of the search, therefore unless they were going to make stuff up, they could only give a general view of the activity.
I'm sure that if police had wanted the finer details to be disclosed, they would have allowed reporters to get much closer to the action.

So what's the point of reporting now beyond the original 'reporting' where they were just saying what they could see from afar?! The independent is becoming worse than the others.. anyways, the point is no data no reason to be pessimistic or optimistic

 

[Davieson]

Its what newspapers and television do. That's how they make their money.
Even if there's nothing new to report, they still need to file reports , or they get accused of not reporting things.

 

[tedtink]

Search for Maddie McCann ended – this is what happens next​

Between Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon, investigators, including approximately 25 officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), were deployed in the area surrounding the village of Atalaia. In the approximately 50-hectare cordoned-off search area not far from the tranquil Algarve resort of Praia da Luz, a box had been removed from the ruins of a house in recent days, but its contents were not revealed, as the newspaper "Correio da Manhã" reported...............................

https://www.rtl.de/news/vermisste-maddie-mccann-neue-suchaktion-in-portugal-beendet-das-fanden-die-ermittler-id4399707.html

 

[Trivento]

I feel like I have read the same article in half a dozen different publications already in the last 48 hours.

Indeed .. the majority of these reports are often just reproductions of one original report .

 

[C.greek]

Thomas said: “These pieces of evidence must be somewhere. And of course, Christian’s either buried or preserved everything. I know what I am talking about. When I lived with him, he never ever let anyone in his bedroom.
“But I knew that he secretly kept all sorts of weird things and conserved them, because I could see down into his balcony. He used to have loads of preserving jars filled with what seemed to be organs or intestines".
Thomas added: “I was sure that he was killing local animals and dismembering them and putting their organs into these jars, because there was no other way to make sense of it. We knew what provisions were bought for us by the home, and they never bought us organs or intestines or anything like that.”

Thomas and Brueckner lived in the same German children’s home, a flat-sharing community run by an evangelical welfare charity, when they were both teenagers between 1992 and 1995.

'I lived with Maddie McCann prime suspect – I'm sure he left evidence somewhere'

Thomas Hertel, the former flatmate of Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner, says 'pieces of evidence must be somewhere' as the convicted paedophile 'kept all sorts of things'

www.mirror.co.uk

Lovely bloke. Dismembered animals! I am sure it was his biology project.

 

[Trivento]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2065685/madeleine-mccann-case-detective-evidence

Above link is a reproduction of the OP article ..

One difference I noticed in this report is that it says some materials have gone to Germany , whereas other articles indicated nothing going to Germany .

 

[Davieson]

Another Talking Head, though for all we know he might be talking out of another orifice.

 

[Versus]

There's evidence she is missing, nothing else.

I disagree but believe any expounding on why I disagree is likely to be off topic so will leave it there.

 

[frank-cole]

it doesn't really say much, does it? No Intel, no sources nothing. It beggars belief why reporters write such pieces where they say nothing, not even a recap of events unfolding. How many Wells did they drain, how many acres did they search, where did they use the georadar, what was the initial plan, and how many derelict buildings did they search - and what exactly did they do there? Just scoped the area after they cleared it? Sorry but this is no reporting!

It’s an easy headline I guess. There have been multiple similar headlines over the years.

I think concrete details on what will happen next will only come post appeal decisions, if he doesn’t get more time for the other prison event

 

[RichardKimble]

You wouldn’t be saying that there was no evidence of a robbery if instead of a child it had been passports and jewelry taken from the unlocked ground floor apartment with a window found open that had been left closed.

Crime scene photos tell a different story.

 

[RichardKimble]

I feel like I have read the same article in half a dozen different publications already in the last 48 hours.

I guess these articles swirl around.

 

[frank-cole]

Thomas said: “These pieces of evidence must be somewhere. And of course, Christian’s either buried or preserved everything. I know what I am talking about. When I lived with him, he never ever let anyone in his bedroom.
“But I knew that he secretly kept all sorts of weird things and conserved them, because I could see down into his balcony. He used to have loads of preserving jars filled with what seemed to be organs or intestines".
Thomas added: “I was sure that he was killing local animals and dismembering them and putting their organs into these jars, because there was no other way to make sense of it. We knew what provisions were bought for us by the home, and they never bought us organs or intestines or anything like that.”

Thomas and Brueckner lived in the same German children’s home, a flat-sharing community run by an evangelical welfare charity, when they were both teenagers between 1992 and 1995.

'I lived with Maddie McCann prime suspect – I'm sure he left evidence somewhere'

Thomas Hertel, the former flatmate of Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner, says 'pieces of evidence must be somewhere' as the convicted paedophile 'kept all sorts of things'

www.mirror.co.uk

Lovely bloke. Dismembered animals! I am sure it was his biology project.

My counter argument is that they were Teddy bears & he was fixing them to bring joy to those in need….

One imagines he was sick very early on

 

[frank-cole]

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Well, building a profile of someone so evil that fantasised about abducting and murdering a young girl- one who is capable of committing heinous crimes and has been convicted for some- I think does bring us closer to finding out what happened to MM, as horrible as this realisation is. Jmo

IMO whether this goes to trial or whether it doesn’t & the prosecutors announce the findings of their investigation, the amount of coincidences that are both credible & sensible, will be convincing enough for the majority.

Lucy Letby was rightly convicted imo. I think when the prosecution announce their findings they’ll have stronger circumstantial evidence against CB than the prosecution had in the Letby case.

 

[Megnut]

Just like with the crimes for which CB was shockingly acquitted, LE isn't crossing him off and moving on to other pois. CB remains the prime suspect. Having enough evidence to prove it means there's just little evidence. It doesn't make him innocent. It doesn't make someone else guilty.

While there might be previous little evidence against CB, especially without being able to use anything from the factory, he remains the lead and sole POI. There's even less evidence that someone else could have done it.

And why would there be an abundance of evidence? He was a skilled thief. Gloves, no fingerprints, perhaps a stocking cap, no hairs, amount of time spent on site, minimal. Mode of escape, fast.

He's still #1.

JMO

 

[C.greek]

Just like with the crimes for which CB was shockingly acquitted, LE isn't crossing him off and moving on to other pois. CB remains the prime suspect. Having enough evidence to prove it means there's just little evidence. It doesn't make him innocent. It doesn't make someone else guilty.

While there might be previous little evidence against CB, especially without being able to use anything from the factory, he remains the lead and sole POI. There's even less evidence that someone else could have done it.

And why would there be an abundance of evidence? He was a skilled thief. Gloves, no fingerprints, perhaps a stocking cap, no hairs, amount of time spent on site, minimal. Mode of escape, fast.

He's still #1.

JMO

The problem is where can they get the evidence that will allow them to charge him. The fact remains : the BKA wouldn't be allowed to make such a public appeal without evidence or do such searches in Portugal on two occasions! So the point is - without a body- what other evidence could they use to charge?

CB is rightly the no1 suspect. There is no other viable narrative unfortunately. Jmo

 

[Versus]

Crime scene photos tell a different story.

Crime scene photos do not preclude CB from involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.

 

[frank-cole]

Just like with the crimes for which CB was shockingly acquitted, LE isn't crossing him off and moving on to other pois. CB remains the prime suspect. Having enough evidence to prove it means there's just little evidence. It doesn't make him innocent. It doesn't make someone else guilty.

While there might be previous little evidence against CB, especially without being able to use anything from the factory, he remains the lead and sole POI. There's even less evidence that someone else could have done it.

And why would there be an abundance of evidence? He was a skilled thief. Gloves, no fingerprints, perhaps a stocking cap, no hairs, amount of time spent on site, minimal. Mode of escape, fast.

He's still #1.

JMO

Yes - like it or not he’ll forever be linked with the case.

I know that a portion of the appeal file is a request for an explanation as to why a judge who had just moved out of youth courts would be assigned to such a high magnitude case. However requesting an explanation to the picking of the judge is not in any part linked with any of the 3 things they’ve appealed on.

There is evidence against OJ Simpson but he was acquitted. Not being convicted doesn’t magically mean he wasn’t responsible. The trick is - a 1 legged albino giraffe does not have an equal likelihood of being guilty just because CB was nor convicted.

 

[Mex]

Of course it doesn't, but that's not how the law works.
Actual evidence is required for a conviction, not just that someone thinks he could have done it, so he must have done it.
I've yet to see any evidence that there was an abduction by anyone.

Over the years since MM's disappearance many potential suspects have fallen under suspicion and been investigated.
Snip
Portuguese police said a review team had been working since March 2011 to look back through information from the original investigation - and this process had uncovered potential new lines of inquiry.

Madeleine McCann case: Portuguese police reopen inquiry

Portuguese police reopen their inquiry into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, saying there are "new lines of inquiry".

www.bbc.co.uk

Snip
Scotland Yard has identified several people who may be "of interest" in the case of MM, who was abducted in Portugal in 2007.
Investigators conducting a review have drawn up a list of people who could be properly explored if the Portuguese authorities re-opened the case.
Detective chief superintendent Hamish Campbell, head of Scotland Yard's homicide and serious crime command, said there were a "good number" of individuals who should be questioned.

Madeleine McCann case: Scotland Yard identifies new leads

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal, in 2007

www.theguardian.com

Once suspects had been checked out, if there was no supporting evidence to process them further they were eliminated from the inquiry.

CB went through that process. The fact that he remains a suspect simply means there is no evidence available to exonerate him.
He seems to be the only suspect who over the years was not cleared by the police but who remains under investigation.

There must be a valid reason for that.

 

[Trivento]

German police find emails 'linking chief suspect to Madeleine McCann disappearance'

Police for the first time claim they have evidence of Christian Brueckner’s involvement in the disappearance in 2007

www.standard.co.uk

From article of June 2024 ..

“ He had allegedly deleted all emails from that account in early 2007 close to the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.
Prosecutors received access to the emails after making an application to Microsoft in 2019. “

imo .. there’s probably some strong incriminating material in the recovered emails that only the Prosecutors / BKA know about .
Perhaps they are aware not able to charge from it yet , so not disclosing and seeking something firmer if possible .