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Key Maddie witness thrown into doubt

The testimony of a key witness who helped jail the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance for a prior rape is now in question.

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November 28, 2023 - 2:25AM



The key witness who helped jail the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case for an unrelated rape is being investigated for possible perjury.

Convicted sexual predator Christian Brueckner was named by police in 2020 as the prime suspect in the disappearance of the three-year-old who vanished 16 years ago while on a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal. He is yet to be formally charged in relation to the matter.

Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year sentence, for the brutal rape of an elderly woman in Portugal, at a high-security prison known as the “Alcatraz of the North” in the German city of Oldenburg. In 1994 he served a two-year sentence for performing sex acts in front of a child and child abuse.

He could face a trial as early as February next year for a string of heinous alleged crimes including three rapes and two sex attacks on children.

Two of the alleged rapes are said to have taken place at his former residence outside Praia da Luz, where Madeleine disappeared.

German authorities have indicated a trial related to Madeleine’s case could take place shortly after Brueckner’s upcoming trial, English language Spanish newspaper The Olive Press reports.

Helge Busching was a key witness in the trial that helped jail Bruckner for rape in 2019 but his testimony is now being examined for possible perjury which could come as a major blow to investigators on the McCann case.

Brunswick prosecutor’s office have said that are investigating Busching for “false testimony” after they received a complaint from Brueckner’s lawyer Freidrich Fulscher last week, The Daily Mail reports.

He claimed he and another man called Manfred Seyferth had found a video camera in Brueckner’s house showing him raping and sexually assaulting two women and this was used to jail him.

Busching also told investigators that Brueckner said it was “odd that she didn’t scream” when they discussed Madeleine’s disappearance one year after she was taken.

According to the outlet, Mr Fulscher would only say, “as a witness, this man is completely unbelievable”, but confirmed he had filed the complaint and asked for a retrial in the rape case which saw Brueckner jailed for seven years.

German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters last month told BBC current affairs program Panorama that online messages sent between Brueckner and another paedophile

were recently discovered on one of Brueckner’s computers.

In those messages, the suspect detailed his desires to abduct and kill a little girl – and “document it”.

It’s claimed he then spoke of “destroying evidence” to which the paedophile replied: “mm”.

Of the exchange, Mr Wolters said: “It could be a hint”.

“Of course, it’s important to us. It could be piece for the big puzzle.”

While “MM” are Madeleine McCann’s initials, it’s unclear exactly what the suspect was referring to in the message.

The suspect’s extensive online chat history is known to contain disturbing messages pointing to his paedophile fantasies.

He allegedly discussed kidnapping and sexually abusing a child in a chatroom exchange in September 2013, and claimed he would make a lot of films if he were to capture a “little one”.

“I can only say that we have only one suspect at the moment,” Mr Wolters said.

It was also revealed in the program that Portuguese police apologised to Madeleine’s parents for the way they handled their daughter’s disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann were made “arguidos” – or suspects – in the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.

Both were questioned by Portuguese detectives, who believed they had staged an abduction and concealed their daughter’s body.

Kate McCann has said she was offered a deal to admit covering up her daughter’s death in exchange for a shorter sentence.

The couple’s arguido status was lifted in 2008, but they remained under suspicion in Portugal for years.

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/key-maddie-witness-thrown-into-doubt/news-story/2c481bc6d388636617cb3539d3dd77c9

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.au, are they not around half a day in front of us, an hour less for you than i have at least. it is nearing 7 overhere. 
they even have different times only there.

i think this one was from general main time, we are plus 2 at the moment.

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dinsdag 28 november 2023 (GMT+11)
Tijd in Canberra Australian Capital Territory, Australië

05:49		Kingston (GMT+12)
04:19		Adelaide (GMT+10:30)
01:49		Perth (GMT+8)
00:49		Christmaseiland (GMT+7)

so they are just working very early, or very late. you are just still wake enough!

Wahey .... what have we got here..

Christian Brueckner will face justice at last over attacks on women and children: Madeleine McCann suspect's rape trial court date FINALLY revealed by German prosecutors

By Jon Clarke In Braunschweig

Published: 18:20, 28 November 2023 | Updated: 18:54, 28 November 2023

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner will finally go on trial on February 16 next year.

The German prosecutor has confirmed it will be a Friday morning start for the multiple sex crimes trial of the German paedophile.

Expected to last for 'up to three months', it will be presided over by a 'panel of four to five judges', it can be revealed.

Taking place at Braunschweig High Court, Brueckner's lawyer has 'accepted' the start date, despite filing a claim against one of the key witnesses, Helge Busching, last week.

'It's set to begin on February 16, a Friday and a half day, but there should be enough time to hear all the charges,' revealed prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters.

'Everyone is available that day and assuming there are not too many holdups from Christian's lawyer, Mr Fulscher, we will hear his reply to the charges.'

He continued: 'The first witnesses will be brought in the following week.

'There will be four to five judges, two of them lay judges, normal people who are brought in for such cases.'

Brueckner, 46, will be tried over five sex crimes, three involving minors.

They include three rapes, one of Irish girl, Hazel Behan, who was just 20 when she was viciously attacked during a four-hour ordeal in Portugal.

Two other rapes are understood to have been filmed at the small farmhouse he rented just outside Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann was snatched in May 2007.

The victims were a young teenage girl and an elderly woman in her late 50s or 60s, both of whom were tied to a post in the living room.

He is also facing the sexual assault of a young German girl, 10, on a beach near Praia da Luz, a month before Madeleine went missing.

During the broad-daylight attack on Zalema beach, the naked attacker firstly spoke in English, then German, before clambering away up a steep slope in full sight of the girl's parents.

A further sexual assault on four children also took place in Portugal in 2017.

During the midsummer attack in Sao Bartolomeo de Messines, Brueckner allegedly flashed and masturbated in front of the kids as they played at midnight in a playpark.

An off-duty female officer was fortunately nearby and was able to detain him before discovering there was a European arrest warrant out for Brueckner.

The following year he was tried and found guilty of the horrific, sadistic rape of an American pensioner, also in Praia da Luz, in 2005.

He is currently serving seven years for the offence, in which one of his hairs was found in the 72-year-old's bedroom.

Meanwhile, he brushed off the official complaint issued to the court last week by Brueckner's lawyer over key witness, Helge Busching, a former acquaintance of the German sex offender, to whom he allegedly confessed the Maddie abduction to in 2008.

'It will not be a problem at all, don't worry. I spoke to Helge yesterday and it's only an attempt to paint him in a bad picture,' said Wolters.

'We understand the issue and he will be fine.'

He also confirmed that the investigation 'very much continues' into the Maddie case and he expects a trial date for the abduction to be 'set soon'.

'It's certainly ongoing and I'm heavily involved, but the focus right now is on the trial in February,' he added.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12801307/Madeleine-McCann-suspects-rape-trial-court-date-FINALLY-revealed-German-prosecutors-Christian-Brueckner-face-justice-attacks-women-children.html

During the midsummer attack in Sao Bartolomeo de Messines, Brueckner allegedly flashed and masturbated in front of the kids as they played at midnight in a playpark.

There is something very wrong here - isn't this perverting the course of justice,  or are journalists exonerated from prosecution under such circumstances?

This is the playground as reported by Jon Clarke of the Olive Press..



Midnight?

The story is another one heavily weighted with variations on a theme. The video I recently referenced showed a mother speaking of the incident, the Olive Press report that did the general rounds of tabloidosity spoke of a man (a father?) attacking Breuckner before the off-duty officer cuffed him.

Nah, I don't buy it.

How long can one hack get away with such apparent deception, not as though it's only a news headline, an EXCLUSIVE, Jon Clarke is blatantly deeply involved in this Brueckner affair, he can't deny his interference because it's been so well documented .... by himself!

well there is at least a german news outlet called faz.net who has contact with the defense team, a little bit of checking and some of the official already published text shows, our dear jon, already introduces us to a case that is not on the list at all. the case of the adult woman, tied to the pole in the finca in praia da lyz, that is the case of the italian lady in the date range of ms, as told by him in one of the many documentaries, never made it to this list. but the hb version of a lady about 70 in a holiday let is on the list of the 5 cases.

d.amn, verdi, it is your fault i get to see this just as a remake of rene, rene, know in the netherlands as hallo,hallo. i am no longer able when i read the stuff to expect any moment a specific painting and some onions must be present.

about why hb is to explain himself in his own episode of the law is in the next bit.

this is the original, in german;

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/maddie-mccann-anwalt-von-christian-b-zeigt-zeugen-an-19342903.html

i copied a part of it and used deepl for translating it;

Where are the tapes in question?

The issue is that Helge B. is said to have made different statements about where he left the video cassettes allegedly showing the rapes. In court in 2019, Helge B. testified that he had left the cassettes in a camper on the property of a German in Portugal. He had already told this version to British investigators in 2018. Investigators in Portugal were then tasked with searching the property. However, according to the investigation files, the owner stated at the time that he did not remember Helge B., but that it was possible that he and many other Germans had been on his farm in 2006. At no time, however, had a mobile home been left at his place.

At the end of 2022, Helge B. suddenly presented a new version to the investigators through a legal representative: he had hidden the recordings in question in a finca in Portugal before his departure, which he had been living in at the time, and there was a possibility that they could still be found there. He had already told British investigators this, but was no longer able to identify the finca, according to a letter from his defence counsel, which is available to F.A.Z. On 11 January 2023, Helge B. was questioned again by the Federal Criminal Police Office. In a transcript of the interrogation, which is available to the F.A.Z., it can be read that Helge B. broke off the interrogation after he was informed that he was at risk of being prosecuted for making false statements on oath because of his statements about the finca. In the summer of this year, Helge B. then presented the version with the camper again in an interview with the "Bild" newspaper: "When I left Portugal later, I left the videos in my camper."

and it is in the duty of a lawyer to represent the position of his client, it is not okay to call this in a negativ light. the court has rules enough and both sides have only to abide these. not a silly idea of only one of the sides. people are easily talked into a kind of belief it is personal, well the only one for who it is personal is the defendant, the prosecution officer, the lawyer and the judges are in court no person or personality, they are their to represent a function. the names are only important to check if all 3 parties have the correct representations of these functions. after the court clerck has checked the names they are no longer of importance. 

and usually day 1 is mostly a so called pro forma seating, where is made clear what the charges are, after that it is up to the judge or judges and the house rules of the court if it already find time for a first reaction of both sides in court. the prosecution has a equal position to the defendant and his defense team. 

about the lay judges, there is a piece written in english about how that came together, and their position, they are not jury, but part of the team of judges;

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/92695/what-is-the-idea-behind-german-courts-having-both-professional-judges-and-lay-ju#:~:text=The%20lay%20judges%20in%20Germany,full%20power%20of%20the%20court.

more about the roles in the german courtsystems you can find in this pieces, it also gives under what rules a lay judge can be part of a team of judges;

https://e-justice.europa.eu/29/EN/types_of_legal_professions?GERMANY&member=1

in these 5 cases, the list is already up somewhere in this topic, it is not clear how many would have public and media access, because 2 cases have minors for sure, and the case of the girl on the pole has a unknown age, but could be under 16 too, but judges can usually ask to leave the public seats when to offensiv material can be shown too. usually in germany there is a media moment at the start, so every one who wants can choose to hide his/her face, usually by a empty folder, but a sturdy leitz ordner band is quite a favorite one too. 

they always showed some footage and the first few sentences of the head of judges on german tv. brisant a daily all kind of news program showed them, so you usually only saw shots of folders and leitz ordners. and was hardly able to hear the words spoken by the judge, after that all got kicked out to the public seats or just outside the courtrooms. they are not known for live streaming of court cases. 

the german media looks not to be in a hurry, court dates are usually only fact when they start, until then it is must be seen as preliminary. it has even a bigger chance dear jon has got that date just from one of the witnesses he has on a retainer. because when you have to get people from abroad in, you have to make earlier arrangements for their stay. 

and the fresh charges to hb could indeed make it needed the date will get a later time, or part of the cases hb is a witness in can be set aside after there is a court verdict about that. and the mostly english media can use that as a spectacle by the defense team, but it is their job. you would not even need a lawyer if only the musings of the prosecution would count. 

none of the larger german tabloids have it on the front page, 2 of the 3 big ones do have an instruction in how to sharpen the knives. so probably it looks not be that interesting on this moment for germans. 

and they have a lot of snow, and more under way. so i hope our dear jon has not to stand in the cold too long at the door in braunzweig to take his favorite seat in the officer of the prosecution head of press liaison officer, for the next exclusive.

Not the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies - surely !

Here's another even more unlikely story from Jon Boy for your delectation ..

Christian Brueckner's Irish 'rape victim' will be under police protection ahead of his sex assault trial and 'not even her husband will be allowed near her' as she prepares to face the Madeleine McCann suspect in court

By Jon Clarke In Braunschweig and Arthur Parashar

Published: 07:06, 29 November 2023 | Updated: 10:29, 29 November 2023

An Irish woman who was allegedly raped by Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner will be kept under police protection ahead of his sex assault trial next year, MailOnline can reveal.

German prosecutors confirmed last night that Brueckner, 46, will finally go on trial on February 16 for five sex crimes, three of which involve minors.

One of three victims that Brueckner is accused of raping is Irish national Hazel Behan, who was just 20 when she was viciously attacked by 'a German man with piercing blue eyes' in Portugal during a four-hour ordeal in 2004.

Ms Behan, now 40, has revealed that she was given Brueckner's trial date last week when two German detectives visited her to go through the 'fine details'. She said she was told the trial could last 'for three months'.

The alleged victim, who was raped at knifepoint, was informed that she will be 'carefully guarded' amid fears for her safety in the lead up to the trial - with police advising that not even her husband will be able to come with her to court.

'They came over to Dublin and we spent a day going through all the logistics,' she said.

'They are well advanced and extremely organised and are taking no chances with my safety.

'Nobody will be allowed to get near me. Not even my husband can come with me.'

She added: 'I can't wait to finally look my attacker in the eyes and see him face justice.'

It comes after a childhood friend of Brueckner last month opened up over fears that the paedophile would come back to take revenge on her after she revealed she knew him as a teenager when he was part of a gang in Wurzburg, Germany.

In the case of Ms Behan, in Portimao in 2004, the potential evidence was illegally destroyed, with no explanation, within two years of the alleged offence.

German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said: 'We expect Hazel to be giving her evidence for a couple of days and then it will be the turn of the other victims and witnesses.

'The court will have translators in various languages and will be fully prepared.

'An official press release with all the details will be issued shortly.'

Brueckner is charged with five offences between 2000 and 2017 when he was travelling between his native Germany and Portugal.

Along with the alleged attack of Ms Behan, he will be tried for two other rapes he filmed at his former residence outside Praia da Luz, the same area where Madeleine McCann disappeared.

These cases involve the brutal sexual assault of an unidentified teenager and an older woman in her sixties.

Brueckner also faces two additional charges related to child sex offences, including the assault of a ten-year-old German girl on a beach near Praia da Luz, just a month before Madeleine's disappearance.

The assailant was witnessed by the girl's brother, and her parents have identified him as Brueckner.

The fifth charge Brueckner faces relates to allegedly exposing himself to four young children in a playground in Sao Bartolomeu de Messines, on the Algarve, in 2017.

An off-duty female officer was fortunately nearby and was able to detain him before discovering there was a European arrest warrant out for Brueckner.

The following year he was tried and found guilty of the rape of an American pensioner, also in Praia da Luz, in 2005.

He is serving seven years for the offence, in which one of his hairs was found in the 72-year-old's bedroom.

The paedophile is also the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. He is accused by detectives of killing Madeleine - who disappeared during a family holiday in the Algarve in May 2007 - but has not been formally charged.

Brueckner's trial will take place at Braunschweig High Court and is expected to last for 'up to three months'. It will be presided over by a 'panel of four to five judges', it can be revealed.

Brueckner's lawyer has 'accepted' the start date, despite filing a claim against one of the key witnesses, Helge Busching, last week.

Prosecutor Wolters brushed off the official complaint over Busching - a former acquaintance of the German sex offender, to whom he allegedly confessed the Maddie abduction to in 2008.

'It will not be a problem at all, don't worry. I spoke to Helge yesterday and it's only an attempt to paint him in a bad picture,' said Wolters.

'We understand the issue and he will be fine.'

Revealing the trial date yesterday, Wolters said: 'It's set to begin on February 16, a Friday and a half day, but there should be enough time to hear all the charges,' revealed prosecutor Wolters.

'Everyone is available that day and assuming there are not too many holdups from Christian's lawyer, Mr Fulscher, we will hear his reply to the charges.'

He continued: 'The first witnesses will be brought in the following week.

'There will be four to five judges, two of them lay judges, normal people who are brought in for such cases.'

Wolters also confirmed that the investigation 'very much continues' into the Maddie case and he expects a trial date for the abduction to be 'set soon'.

'It's certainly ongoing and I'm heavily involved, but the focus right now is on the trial in February,' he added.

Brueckner's lawyer, Friedrich Fulscher, has continually denied all the attacks and wants to see the Diana Menkes rape conviction re-opened.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12801765/Christian-Brueckners-Irish-rape-victim-police-protection-Madeleine-McCann.html

Jon the Klaxon wrote:One of three victims that Brueckner is accused of raping is Irish national Hazel Behan, who was just 20 when she was viciously attacked by 'a German man with piercing blue eyes' in Portugal during a four-hour ordeal in 2004.

Ms Behan, now 40, has revealed that she was given Brueckner's trial date last week when two German detectives visited her to go through the 'fine details'. She said she was told the trial could last 'for three months'.

The alleged victim, who was raped at knifepoint, was informed that she will be 'carefully guarded' amid fears for her safety in the lead up to the trial - with police advising that not even her husband will be able to come with her to court.

'They came over to Dublin and we spent a day going through all the logistics,' she said.

'They are well advanced and extremely organised and are taking no chances with my safety.

'Nobody will be allowed to get near me. Not even my husband can come with me.'

She added: 'I can't wait to finally look my attacker in the eyes and see him face justice.'

It comes after a childhood friend of Brueckner last month opened up over fears that the paedophile would come back to take revenge on her after she revealed she knew him as a teenager when he was part of a gang in Wurzburg, Germany.

Bit OTT ain't it - couldn't even begin to match Enid Blyton in terms of adolescent melodrama.

Jonathon wrote:'An official press release with all the details will be issued shortly.'

Well that should be interesting

What planet is this dude from - oh I know, Krypton.

Not even her husband is allowed to accompany her? Why?

Well, according to the gospel of St. Jon..

Jon Boy wrote:
It comes after a childhood friend of Brueckner last month opened up over fears that the paedophile would come back to take revenge on her after she revealed she knew him as a teenager when he was part of a gang in Wurzburg, Germany.

Apparently.

Good enough reason for police protection and isolation of said victim?

The bloke and his circle of like minded storytellers are a joke - only the reality is not so funny.

that no longer a leak, they just turned the tap fully open.

but what is special in protecting a witness, and access to the witness is usually restricted until testimony is given, what already was used in a kind of elastic manner in this case. i mean do we really have not seen all the possible witnesses for years, are there still left out? 

and of course in a country that needs so many criminal offences before they get them of the street, a procedure i would not react friendly too, to any prosecution that have a need of my story. if and it still is a very big if, cb had done all the crimes, he was only able too, because of failure to trust on a expert report, already their from the first case in a crime against a young child. 

the kind of reports made to not have to work from hindsight.

and to be honest, there is only just one loner as a suspect, something we are informed of by the press officer, so the real reason why there is protection is most likely from the media attention. 

i am more curious if der helge also will get protection, but that could maybe to keep him where they want him. 

o dear, victims get 10 years older in just the next version, come on jon, make another one, because it was about 70 in the court papers with the charges. almost right.

who knows, maybe our dear jon gets even a line in a court case after all, he did make quite an effort didn't he not. influencing and preparing of a witness. because he would not want to have to rectify a complete not bestselling book. 

i almost can see the cartoon, of dear jon sitting in a very drafty typical old family hotel in the city of braunzweig, at such a even traditional large fire place, putting his books page by page in the fire, to get at least some warmt of it, in stone cold wintery germany. and climate change is not expect before februari 16th.
i am usually not very content if my spelling mistakes, but i like this one, because it translate in english to brown silence and it fits perfectly with the felling i have with all these stories. 

last time i visited there was still a lot of wood and coal smoke in the air, it has very nice and even beautiful old fronts of houses, but behind it was usually not very up to date. i mean if the case of madeleine had all taken place there, i would immediately believed kate her version of the whooshing curtains, but most solved that with little sand bags over there. and of course it was never gone unnoticed because of all those steep wooden stairs. 

and lucky for him, he studied some things with maps, you will have to travel each time to the middle of the old city to get to hcw his desk. the courts are almost next to it. the other guy must be send with him, because he can use a watch. they have to get on time, when they have to get to their informant at the bka, of course there is a very nice botanical garden just north of hcw his desk. and the police station is opposite the court house. so no one would notice.

Trial date for Madeleine McCann suspect is FINALLY revealed: Paedophile Christian Brueckner,...

By Jon Clarke

November 28, 2023

MADELEINE McCann suspect Christian Bruckner will finally go on trial on February 16 next year, it can be revealed.

German prosecutors have confirmed it will be a Friday morning start for the multiple sex crimes trial of the German paedophile.

Expected to last for ‘up to three months’, it will be presided over by a ‘panel of four to five judges’, it can be revealed.

Taking place at Braunschweig High Court, Brueckner’s lawyer has ‘accepted’ the start date, despite filing a claim against one of the key witnesses, Helge Busching, last week.

“It’s set to begin on February 16, a Friday and a half day, but there should be enough time to hear all the charges,” revealed prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters.


IN THE DOCK: Christian Brueckner will stand trial from February 16

FIGHTING BACK: Rape victim Hazel Behan previously told the Olive Press she was happy to see Brueckner in court. copyright Olive Press Spain

“Everyone is available that day and assuming there are not too many holdups from Christian’s lawyer, Mr Fulscher, we will hear his reply to the charges.”

He continued: “The first witnesses will be brought in the following week.

“There will be four to five judges, two of them lay judges, normal people who are brought in for such cases.”

Brueckner, 46, will be tried for five sex crimes, three involving minors.

They include three rapes, one of Irish woman, Hazel Behan, who was just 20 when she was viciously attacked during a four-hour ordeal in Portugal.

Two other rapes are understood to have been filmed at the small farmhouse he rented just outside Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann was snatched in May 2007.

The victims were a young teenage girl and an elderly woman in her late 50s or 60s, both of whom were tied to a post in the living room.

He is also facing the sexual assault of a young German girl, 10, on a beach near Praia da Luz, a month before Madeleine went missing.

During the broad-daylight attack on Zalema beach, the naked attacker firstly spoke in English, then German, before clambering away up a steep slope in full sight of the girl’s parents.

A further sexual assault on four children also took place in Portugal in 2017.

During the midsummer attack in Sao Bartolomeo de Messines, Brueckner allegedly flashed and masterbated in front of the kids as they played at midnight in a playpark.

An off-duty female officer was fortunately nearby and was able to detain him before discovering there was a European arrest warrant out for Brueckner.

The following year he was tried and found guilty of the horrific, sadistic rape of an American pensioner, also in Praia da Luz, in 2005.

He is currently serving seven years for the offence, in which one of his hairs was found in the 72-year-old’s bedroom.

In the case of Hazel Behan, in Portimao, in 2004, the evidence was illegally destroyed, for no explained reason, within two years.

“We expect Hazel to be giving her evidence for a couple of days and then it will be the turn of the other victims and witnesses,” added prosecutor Wolters today.

“The court will have translators in various languages and will be fully prepared.

“An official press release with all the details will be issued shortly.”

Meanwhile, he brushed off the official complaint issued to the court last week by Brueckner’s lawyer over key witness, Helge Busching, a former acquaintance of the German sex offender, to whom he allegedly confessed the Maddie abduction to in 2008.

“It will not be a problem at all, don’t worry. I spoke to Helge yesterday and it’s only an attempt to paint him in a bad picture,” said Wolters.

“We understand the issue and he will be fine.”

He also confirmed that the investigation ‘very much continues’ into the Maddie case and he expects a trial date for the abduction to be ‘set soon’.

“It’s certainly ongoing and I’m heavily involved, but the focus right now is on the trial in February,” he added.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/11/28/exclusive-trial-date-for-madeleine-mccann-suspect-is-finally-revealed-paedophile-christian-brueckner-46-will-face-multiple-rape-and-sexual-assault-charges-within-months/