The "number 1 suspect" Christian B

That's what I think. Okay, none of us knows how we would behave if we found ourselves genuinely dealing with a missing child but I think we can be sure that we wouldn't set up a limited company in record time to raise funds, make long-term plans to keep the story in the news and sue anyone who doesn't think we're being honest about what happened.

Yes, all of that and much besides still stands, even if this is indeed the guy.

Normally I'd be more prepared to dismiss it if it were Scotland Yard guff but the involvement of a third, hopefully more sober country's police force tells me that this has a bit more legs.

Somebody asked " Why now ? ".  IMO Brexit. The talks for the separation are in full flow, and as most suspect, if there is a cover up lots of very influential people are involved. All well and good when we were all in this together, but what better way to disrupt a Country (UK) and bring in a bit of leverage to get the UK to accept a deal, or else. Strange that the Germans have made this a murder enquiry with very little evidence, and by making it a murder enquiry that would most probably infer that they will be investigating the whole debacle. Re-interviewing witnesses (Tapas, Parents, re-constructions, etc. etc. going deeper into the influential people that were involved, the handling of the fund and where the money was spent, per 'haps even getting hold of Maddie's medical records. And why they used the investigators that they did?
By stating that it is a murder enquiry they should be able to dig very deep with an Independent enquiry unhindered by interference from the UK. There would be many shaky legs in the hierarchy who would quickly cave in to a deal put forward from Europe, knowing that the Germans are very meticulous and strive for perfection. NO STONE UNTURNED. Just in my opinion, but a very strong lever for the EU.

Yes, I agree with this and have stated on many occasions my belief that this case has some bearing on our relationship with the EU. However what actually happened to Maddie could well be something depressingly prosaic. It was the reaction that was extraordinary.

This guy's drugs background is key. Did he know Murat? Freud? Was he in Sagres on 30/04/2007?

Portuguese cops 'ruled out Madeleine McCann prime suspect' months after she disappeared



German national Christian Brueckner, 43, is now the main focus of the investigation and has a lurid criminal history – with convictions for child sex offences, drug dealing and burglary



more here....



https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/portuguese-cops-ruled-out-madeleine-22142913

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8391315/Police-link-jailed-paedophile-abduction-girl-aged-five-2015.html?ito=push-notification&ci=17581&si=1151714

I don't remember hearing of the "German Maddie" before.

Mark Williams-Thomas



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Breaking: can confirm however that there is a Diogo Silva with the nunber given by police that works in a cafe in Praia da Luz. Have to say I am really confused why police did not find this out and if they did , why they did not release this info to protect him #MadeleineMcCann

candyfloss wrote:






Mark Williams-Thomas



@mwilliamsthomas

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Breaking: can confirm however that there is a Diogo Silva with the nunber given by police that works in a cafe in Praia da Luz. Have to say I am really confused why police did not find this out and if they did , why they did not release this info to protect him #MadeleineMcCann

So he's saying that he thinks it's a reissued number (that does happen) but it just happens to have been reissued to a cafe employee in Praia da Luz. If that's the case it would be the most bizarre coincidence yet in this case and that really is saying something.

Here's MWT's latest tweet



Mark Williams-Thomas





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Am at odds at the moment to make sense of this . Either Diogo Silva is a totally innocent man or a key witness. Ether way why did neither of the 3 police forces find this out and give the appropriate warning when they gave out Silva's number . #MadeleineMcCann

Maybe nobody thought to just ring it

You just couldn't make all this up!

Kate and Gerry must be so happy - they are on the front pages of all EU papers....and they are the good guys as their daughter may well have been murdered (according to the German and Uk police) by this very dodgy german

Now linked to another missing child.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8394293/Madeleine-McCann-prime-suspects-parents-revealed.html?ito=push-notification&ci=17640&si=1151714

The story mentions his adoptive father being "unable to discipline" him after he (dad) had an accident. I wonder if the discipline was dreadful physical abuse. If so, no wonder the boy had problems - not that I am suggesting it excuses his crimes. 

It's strange to see the word murder being used in this context as there is still in my opinion no evidence of that.

"Today neighbours of the couple in the village of Bergthei, where he grew up told of their shock that Brueckner has been linked to the murder of four-year-old Madeleine in 2007".  

It appears to be open season on this guy. Lucky for him he's in prison.

If half of what's being reported is true then he's managed to fall through a lot of cracks.

unreorganised wrote:It appears to be open season on this guy. Lucky for him he's in prison.

If half of what's being reported is true then he's managed to fall through a lot of cracks.

  Apparently he may be coming out in a few days.... which seems very odd considering he is supposed to have committed rape.

Rape conviction

But there is also an ongoing case against him for rape. In December 2019, he was sentenced to seven years by a court in Braunschweig for raping a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005.

That took place in Praia da Luz, only one-and-a-half years before Madeleine went missing in the same resort in 2007. He allegedly tied the woman up and gagged her, raped her in her bedroom and forced her to hand over cash.
The rape conviction is, however, currently under review in the German courts, German n-tv news reports. There was a legal challenge over extradition technicalities in the case.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52937626

Presumably if he is released, he will be re-arrested for questioning about the three missing children?

Freedom wrote:Presumably if he is released, he will be re-arrested for questioning about the three missing children?

So is this going to let the McCanns and their friends off scot-free? Or could it possibly implicate them and/or their friends as part of a wider ring? Given that I am of the opinion that they know what happened (or at least Gerry knows) and played some part in it, I sincerely hope it is the latter. Is is just possible that in the panic and the mess of a last-minute botched abduction a third party or several were called in to do the dirty work? Or perhaps had already had some involvement and then played a part in removal/disposal/hiding of a body?

Kate McCann: "The bastards have taken her".

Or, as others have suggested, are German police 'squeezing' the investigation? The McCanns and their friends from the very start suggested that Madeleine could have been abducted by a paedophile ring.

In any event, it's a (not particularly welcome) distraction from all the coronavirus madness. The sight and sounds of Boris reading out the statistics of the infected and the dead, putting them in no context apart from whether the figures are up or down, is one of the most stupid and depressing things I have ever witnessed. What on earth is the point of this? They are not put in proper context and there is no denominator to compare the death rate or infections as a percentage of the population (very small and on current figures, fractional).


ETA: Could it possibly be the long-running dreaded paedophile scandal? This case has always had a thousand red flags around it. Another global virus, it would seem - only this one attacks children.

It is, though, very curious as to why this latest development is happening NOW and has even knocked the coronovirus (non) news off the front pages.

Which is quite something. IMO!

poster wrote:

So is this going to let the McCanns and their friends off scot-free? Or could it possibly implicate them and/or their friends as part of a wider ring?

Gary Hagland apparently told an esteemed McCann researcher that one of the party was a cocaine user.

Put it this way; do you think they took it with them in their hand luggage?

That's a blast from the past. I'm going to re-read the topic.

https://maddiemccannmystery.forumotion.co.uk/t1831-the-enigmatic-gary-hagland?highlight=gary+hagland

unreorganised wrote:

poster wrote:

So is this going to let the McCanns and their friends off scot-free? Or could it possibly implicate them and/or their friends as part of a wider ring?

Gary Hagland apparently told an esteemed McCann researcher that one of the party was a cocaine user.

Put it this way; do you think they took it with them in their hand luggage?

He could be an important witness.

I can't help thinking that now would be a very unfortunate time for Herr B. to be murdered by a fellow inmate, or accidentally commit suicide.

Yes, I was just thinking the very same thing myself.

Any Irish friends here? Martin Smith?

An interesting development! We have at least two Irish members.

No surprise that Martin Smith doesn't recognise him.