Christian Brueckner: To be or not to be

There is no evidence to support a break-in, a burglary or an abduction.

When that situation changes, then and only then, can consideration be given to outside involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

As it stands the original investigation led to the parents of Madeleine McCann, nothing has changed in that respect.

Suspects have come and gone ....

well that has taken a long time to get to the daily mail, it is the letter from september 2020, well must have been the epidemic of bird flu that reached the carrier pigeons. 

sonia p, already had it, and it has made well before that a fair bit of airmiles. 

it has a bit more context in the letter itself, because that letter starts out with the case of the americain lady, he get starting with a story about what he thinks is fiddling with evidence, in that case, 14 hairs found, only two with dna, and that one for the victim and one as to be said of cb. 

so from there on, he tells to a missus and mister, that they, the bka will not have that same chance in the case of madeleine mccann, because they and nobody else had hairs of madeleine to spare. 

for the really doubtfull people out there, the last sentence of the letter is a question cb asks with the name dillinger in it. 

there are already many letters going around, jutta from the sat doc has some, mwt from the doc we have not seen has some, i have made a promise to my carrier pigeon, not to publicize the letter on a forum. 

it was this letter and something that seeped out from Goncalo Amaral about books found in the search of the boxfactory, and this letter is the only other, but not proof of course, that such a book can exist, and books are an important part of this case by now, we have a former coordination officer of the pj who had to clear up a lot of small things, fully understandable, because the misrepresentation by so called press and media, and the biological parents and friends of a missing child it was already clear, we only had heard half of a story.

then we had the book of some not uk inhabitants, that was given access a standard uk citizen or national can not get access too! also what was seen as very nasty of a portuguese former officer of the law, a former police officer from northern ireland and the uk escaped that same harassment when he made the report that is said written by himself, or his collegue to read to this pair of so called prize winning authors. he did not stop there with showing it of, he did it again to a national tv broadcaster and even to netflix. 

the next toaster of the week was written by a spanish immigrant with his own free paper, that still not have seen a chance to tell the same story twice in the same words. 

so the next book to expect, in this case is that of christian b., it is not finished, or written, but there is a promise of the true story. i knew it!  i'm  for getting her version of the truth by the penn of the biological mother of the missing child. 

so to be prepared, keep room on your bookshelf for at least a 1000 pages. 

there are many more books out about this case, but most are not very well known, translated , or easy to get. the strange thing is that a search in the uk police library only found a copy of vanished,the thruth about the disappearance of madeleine mccann.  written by danny collins. so what is wrong with that one?

i have sometimes the same feeling as verdi, maybe a bigger one even, it looks more like a script for a new typical british comedy. a cross between dad's army, hello hello and yes, minister. 

but it looks to be still the reality of a rehash of old brew and scraps on the sunday table. wednesday, or thursday, questioned, not questioned, alibi, or no alibi. a bit of old old paper, some old pictures. all nice and cheap, and easy to get. 

articles like this reminds me of the reason, i never wanted to be a schoolteacher, because you would have each week to look over about 30 slightly versions of the same dictation, and most would get at least a bit of an idea what you did read out, but always those stupid mistakes in them.

They're confusing Brueckner's alleged letters as they confuse everything about Brueckner.

Me >>>

Here's a little snippet by way of explanation - if you care to believe..

Madeleine McCann prime suspect reveals his 'alibi' during explosive TV interview

Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner has given British former detective Mark Williams-Thomas an 'alibi' for the night the toddler disappeared as part of a new documentary

ByRyan MerrifieldReporter

08:41, 23 Apr 2022Updated09:06, 23 Apr 2022

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has allegedly given an alibi as part of a new documentary.

Christian Brueckner is said to have told British investigator Mark Williams-Thomas that he can prove he was elsewhere on the night the toddler was snatched in 2007.

It comes after the 44-year-old German paedophile was officially named as a suspect in Portugal for the very first time, his lawyers confirmed on Thursday.

Brueckner being named as a suspect is linked to the upcoming 15th anniversary of the abduction.

In Portugal, there is a strict 15-year limit for bringing a murder charge.

The move allows the current investigation to continue further.

The new documentary, Madeleine McCann: Prime Suspect, by US network AMC Crime, will air on May 3.

For nearly two years Brueckner has maintained a stony silence with police.

But instead, has chosen to speak to Mr Williams-Thomas from his cell at a high security prison in Oldenburg, northwest Germany, where he is serving out a rape sentence.

The former detective said the prisoner agreed to talk to him in person before the prison authorities blocked them from meeting.

He told The Sun : "We have since been in contact at length in ­writing and he has explained his position to me in detail.

"He has told me exactly where he was on the night Madeleine disappeared — and that he was not where the police say he was. He also insists that he is entirely innocent.

"My inquiries have unearthed evidence which is pretty explosive, but I’m not saying whether I believe what he told me. That’s for viewers to judge."

Police traced a mobile phone Brueckner had been using to a mast 200 yards from the McCann's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.

However, Mr Williams-Thomas claims in the documentary the phone could have been up to 22 miles away when it received a half-hour call as the mast covered a large signal cell.

On Friday, Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann said they still hold out hope their daughter - just three when she vanished - is still alive.

In a statement they said: “We welcome the news that the Portuguese authorities have declared a German man an arguido.

“This reflects progress in the investigation. Even though the possibility may be slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and we will be reunited with her.”

The family had been holidaying at the Ocean Club resort when Madeleine disappeared from her room on May 3, 2007.

She was asleep next to younger twin siblings Sean and Amelie.

Brueckner was told about his new status in his cell.

He also still faces charges for the rape of Irish national Hazel Behan in Portugal in 2004.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-prime-suspect-reveals-26778566

Madeleine McCann’s parents to hold prayer service marking 15 years since her disappearance
Does anyone know what this "means".

Is it a Requiem, a service of Remembrance of the dead ?
Is it a prayer for her safe return ? – which I suspect we have realised after 15 years and the intervention of the Pope - is unlikely to "work" in any conventional causative sense.
Is it to raise 'awareness' , as so many of the early stunts were labelled ?
Is it to raise money . . ?   

Qui Bono ?

Who benefits ?

The new documentary, Madeleine McCann: Prime Suspect, by US network AMC Crime, will air on May 3.

Still no up-date from Mark Williams-Thomas.

Then again, he does like to be shrouded with by air of mystery, maybe this is just a way of keeping his captive audience in suspenders.

@sandancer wrote:
what language ? Does " the prisoner " speak and write good enough English to tell his story ? Does MWT speak and write German ?


Christian Brückner writes in English.


Who is Anastasia Meckesy 34 Chris? 
Another Sun invention?

None of this has any bearing on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Christian Brueckner's life past and present is totally irrelevant without evidence.

Evidence they do not have.

Unevidenced Hearsay which includes,
"Knew what happened'
"PROBABLY Handed over"
"If she were alive they would have found her"

so in fact she, and probably he, has absolutely NO idea what happened.

And since we are on the subject 
Clarke KNOWS what happened
MW-T KNOWS what happened
GM and KM KNOW what happened (I was there KM)
HCW KNOWS what happened
Pam G KNOWS what happened
But crucially not one of them can actually spell it out. Actually explain WHAT, or WHEN, or HOW,
They all make the mistake of concentrating on WHO.
"find a scapegoat and then make the evidence fit" ?  

Those whose job it is to investigate what happened have some clear evidence of what MIGHT have happened
but not sufficient for them to be able to say they KNOW what happened.

That is a big difference

PeterMac wrote:Unevidenced Hearsay which includes,
"Knew what happened'
"PROBABLY Handed over"
"If she were alive they would have found her"

so in fact she, and probably he, has absolutely NO idea what happened.

And since we are on the subject 
Clarke KNOWS what happened
MW-T KNOWS what happened
GM and KM KNOW what happened (I was there KM)
HCW KNOWS what happened
Pam G KNOWS what happened
But crucially not one of them can actually spell it out. Actually explain WHAT, or WHEN, or HOW,
They all make the mistake of concentrating on WHO.
"find a scapegoat and then make the evidence fit" ?  

Those whose job it is to investigate what happened have some clear evidence of what MIGHT have happened
but not sufficient for them to be able to say they KNOW what happened.

That is a big difference

To be fair to Pam G, she was the first to KNOW what happened.
She KNOWS that Madeleine is in Morocco.

She's got crystals and things you know  

Quite why Clarke went to Germany must be a mystery to her.
BUT she's very happy that Clarke has got a suspect, any suspect, nonetheless.

Having searched for Anastasia Meckesy on Instagram, Facebook, the German telefonbuch gives no hits under that name.
Not even a Bundesweite (Nationwide) search gives one name.
A reverse Image search on Google is also negative.

She allegedly met Brückner in his Kiosk in Braunschweig back in 2013.

She appears to be another Sun invention like the Witness from Cambodia, one Christian Post.

Another “Ghost in the machine” ?

The Photo the Sun produces as “Anastasia” is a jpg File on a French Image hosting service.

https://servimg.com/view/20253809/206

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They have obviously learned since using Nuray Oezgen’s Facebook pictures from 2013…

Not entirely sure where to stick this, apart from the obvious..

 

but it mentions    you know who, Christian Brueckner, so here it is..

Psychic claims Madeleine McCann is buried 13 miles from where she disappeared

The German clairvoyant has claimed the youngster who vanished from her family’s rented holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined with pals was killed by a paedo-criminal.

By Jerry Lawton

   22:34, 25 APR 2022Updated13:53, 26 APR 2022

A clairvoyant said to have solved four missing person cases this year claims Madeleine McCann is buried in the Algarve.

Michael Schneider has revealed what he says are metre-precise map coordinates where he believes the remains of the Brit girl will be found.

The German psychic has claimed the youngster who vanished from her family’s rented holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined with pals in a nearby tapas bar was killed by a paedo criminal.

He said the then-three-year-old - who will have been missing for 15 years on May 3 - is buried in scrubland a 20-minute drive from the resort.


Clairvoyant Michael Schneider claims Madeleine McCann can be found here (Image: Google/Triangle News)


Any more tea vicar?                                                    It was like dining in the garden

  where did that come from  

Aerial photos show the remote spot is forested and surrounded by farmland with hardly any houses nearby.

Last week police quizzed convicted German paedophile Christian Brueckner over Madeleine’s disappearance inside the jail where he is serving a seven-year sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same Algarve resort.

Brueckner, 44, who has been named an arguido or formal suspect, refused to answer any questions though he has previously denied any involvement.


Michael Schneider (pictured) claims Madeleine McCann’s remains are buried 13 miles away from the holiday resort where she went missing (Image: Michael Schneider/Triangle News)

Hello, it's me again    and I haven't budged since the last time you saw me - still waiting to be rescued

Michael said: "I think and have had the clear intuition that Maddie is dead and that she was killed by a paedo-criminal person. I see Maddie buried and I can always give metre-precise coordinates.

"But thank God I don't get any pictures, only if someone is buried or in the water, in a basement, in a cave or lying free.’’

The clairvoyant has tried to help police solve the case previously giving a location for her remains six miles from the spot where she was last seen.

He now claims to have found the precise place near the village of Odiaxere. Michael said he finds missing people by looking at a photo of them and asking God if they are living or dead.


This map shows distance from missing Madeleine McCann last known location to coordinates the psychic claims she can be found (Image: Google/Triangle News)

Then he runs his finger over an atlas or Google Maps until he is guided to the spot where the missing person is.

"I've solved four missing person cases this year alone and found one missing dog alive,’’ he said.

"I asked myself again about the Maddie case with a time interval.’’ He said he now had the very exact coordinates.

It is not the first time Odiaxere has been named as a possible location where the youngster may be.

Two months after she vanished Portuguese police probed an anonymous letter published in a Dutch newspaper which claimed Madeleine was buried under rocks in the village.

According to reports Michael led police to the body of woman in a tree in Germany and helped locate the remains of murdered couple in Italy.

Portuguese prosecutors made Christian Brueckner an "arguido" on Thursday, but did not formally reveal his name.

Posting on the Official Find Madeleine Campaign Facebook page, Kate and Gerry McCann wrote: "We welcome the news that the Portuguese authorities have declared a German man an 'arguido' in relation to the disappearance of our beloved daughter Madeleine.

"This reflects progress in the investigation, being conducted by the Portuguese, German and British authorities.

"It is important to note the 'arguido' has not yet been charged with any specific crime related to Madeleine's disappearance.

"Even though the possibility may be slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and we will be reunited with her."

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/german-psychic-makes-huge-madeleine-26795565#

Silentscope wrote:The Photo the Sun produces as “Anastasia” is a jpg File on a French Image hosting service.

https://servimg.com/view/20253809/206

d36cc110.jpg

They have obviously learned since using Nuray Oezgen’s Facebook pictures from 2013…

Oh the one who found God after breaking up with Bruckner & became a born again  

Michael Schneider again, but when SAT1 flew him out there in January 2014, nothing was found in the place he indicated. No one has been back there since…

https://youtu.be/ZYZEzOwyhdY 

Nuray Oezgen is Turkish heritage, and is therefore unlikely to be a born again Christian, as she is most probably Moslem. She resides in Oberhausen.

https://www.facebook.com/nuray.oezgen

Silentscope wrote:Michael Schneider again, but when SAT1 flew him out there in January 2014, nothing was found in the place he indicated. No one has been back there since…

https://youtu.be/ZYZEzOwyhdY 

Nuray Oezgen is Turkish heritage, and is therefore unlikely to be a born again Christian, as she is most probably Moslem. She resides in Oberhausen.

https://www.facebook.com/nuray.oezgen

I’ve not said she’s born again Christian, any person who were atheist and then became religious are called born again Christian, Muslim or Jewish etc. But I remember seeing one either in Hijab or Burqa, unless of course that has been shopped.  I don’t know if it was me I’d have shut my social media accounts & gone quiet.

not that lunatic again, he did not find anyone, just read outside his musings and , it did happened a bit different. 

and that letter had nothing to do with madeleine, if it was a child named lyndsey, or karen, or claudia, or jojo, the letter writing idiot would have done the same, it was about him, a bit like this imposter, in the end it is all about the route into money for them. 

at least the one from eindhoven had to enjoy sometime behind bars. he was just a criminal!

if you ever have a week to spare, try to find as many as possible psychic, and consorts views on this case, the result i can already tell you, madeleine mccann is stil as missing as she was before. at least there is so much variability in all their stories, one could even be right, or almost, but you can get that far by just tipping a coin of two. 

and before he was as shure as he is now. still he is now more shure, pure time wasting idiot. 
germany must be full of bodies for him to get aquinted with , there is quite a list of missing people, much closer, maybe better wifi also. just leave the rest of the world alone.

I doubt if Michael Schneider is even aware of the regurgitation of his claims.

There are no new Posts on his own Website about it.

https://seher--michaelschneider-business-site.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

the article states things about his first being-sure-she-is-here-place, and a fresh being shure here-she-is-place. 

i do not have the idea this message was send in a telepathic way from m. to this reporter? or a dream?

so i think we can expect he knows what he himself had send in any way or manner to that reporter. 

but herrrrr ms is busy at the moment with the war and making people of switzerland mad. and he has a lot of migraines because of all the missing people bodies in his head. 

so the first guess was wrong, the one he got a crew to do the climbing down in a sort of ravine, had then search for 5 hours, and the result was 1 old mattress. the only optimistic thing of that video, was the music behind that.

I suspect that some Reporters are using SEO to comb the Web for any link to known ‘Catchwords’ , nothing to do with Telepathy.

They then make up a Story and fit in elements of Truth to make it more ‘Tellable’ or ‘Believable’.

Nuray Oezgen, for example is befriended with a ‘Holger Wahnsinn’, but he is listed as Divorced. As far as I know, Brückner has never married.

This is how I think she was linked.

but herr ms, is the one we are talking about, not the overcrowded hen house inhabitants of cb!

ms must halve said somewhere he has a fresh mindfuck were a body must be. even tabloids are not there yet in fully fabricating a story like this. 

let's at least keep the different aspects a bit on their own. the link between a supposed place of burying of a body is already pretty soft, the only connection to cb is the word pedo-criminal. 

that supposed facebook account of cb is very old news. and facebook is not the real world of course. besides fakenews, you have a lot of fake names and fake accounts. 

but when there is a piece written about ms and his new place of body to find stuff, it is very unlikely ms did not have any knowledge about that. tabloids are indeed pretty good in fantasies, but this would be even beyond them. 

well if i was a superieur 5 star body finder, i would of course also think twice to put a story on my pr website, about the mistakes i made. but herrr body finder has nothing to link him to cb's hen house.

Chief suspect in disappearance of Madeleine McCann 'has NOT provided German police with an alibi'

• Christian Brueckner, 44, was officially designated as a suspect on Friday
  
  
• He reportedly exercised his right to remain silent when formally questioned
  
  
• However, he allegedly told a documentary he can prove he was elsewhere
  
  
• German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said he was 'not aware of any alibi' 
  
  
• Madeleine McCann vanished from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007
  
  

By STEPHEN WYNN-DAVIES FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 23:45, 26 April 2022 | UPDATED: 23:48, 26 April 2022

The chief suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 'has not provided German police with an alibi', a German prosecutor has said.

Christian Brueckner, 44, was officially designated as a suspect, or 'arguido' by Portuguese authorities on Friday, in connection with the three-year-old British girl's disappearance on May 3, 2007, at a resort on the Algarve.

Brueckner, who is already behind bars in his native Germany for an array of grisly crimes, reportedly exercised his right to remain silent when formally questioned by German police about the events of that night.

However, Brueckner has allegedly told British investigator Mark Williams-Thomas in a new documentary about Madeleine's disappearance that he can prove he was elsewhere the night the toddler was kidnapped.

But German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters told The Sun: 'We're not aware of any alibi at all.

'He has not given any information so far — not even via his defence attorney.'

The Madeleine McCann: Prime Suspect documentary, created by US network AMC Crime, is due to air on Tuesday, May 3 - the fifteenth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.

Madeleine vanished from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 where she was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry and siblings.

Brueckner, who has been linked to four other child murders across Europe since 1996, was sensationally named by German prosecutors as the man 'responsible' for Madeleine's kidnap and murder in June 2020.

On Thursday, the child sex offender was handed a document in prison informing him he was being made an 'arguido' by Portuguese prosecutors.

Two days ago, one of Brueckner's former lovers, 34-year-old Anastasia Meckesy, declared the sex offender had confessed to her in 2013 that he knew what happened to Maddie almost 15 years ago.

'He said that he ''knows what happened to little Maddie from England'',' Meckesy told The Sun on Sunday.

She added: 'Christian is a human pig. That's how you should see him today. Today I know what he's accused of.'

Maddie's parents Gerry and Kate McCann said they welcomed the news that a German man has been declared 'an arguido in relation to the disappearance of our beloved daughter, Madeleine.

'This reflects progress in the investigation, being conducted by the Portuguese, German and British authorities. We are kept informed of developments by the Metropolitan Police,' they added.

'Even though the possibility may be slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and we will be reunited with her.'

On May 3, 2007, Maddie was staying with her family at the Ocean Club resort in the Portuguese Algarve's Praia da Luz, a few miles from a ramshackle property the German sex offender was renting at the time.

The three-year-old vanished from her ground-floor bedroom, while her younger twin siblings Sean and Amelie slept close by.

Over the ensuing days and weeks, Portuguese detectives presided over a chaotic investigation marred by a series of blunders that placed them under intense pressure to crack the case.

Madeleine's doctor parents, Kate and Gerry, were accused of neglect for having left their children unattended, checking on them every 20-30 minutes while they dined in the nearby tapas restaurant.

Brueckner first arrived on the Algarve in 1995, as an 18-year-old backpacker fresh out of prison, and worked in catering jobs in the seaside resorts of Lagos and Praia da Luz.

But he soon became involved in a criminal syndicate that trafficked drugs, and appears to have begun carrying out burglaries and other thefts in the tourist region.

Brueckner spent two months in Evora prison in 1999 for a minor offence, and nine months in 2006 after being caught stealing diesel from lorries on a garage forecourt.

In 2005 he carried out a depraved burglary during which he had bound, gagged, raped and tortured a 72-year-old American tourist in her villa in Praia da Luz.

The victim was 'grabbed by a very strong and tall man by the neck in the dark' before being blindfolded and whipped with a metal cane. She said afterwards that he had clearly enjoyed 'torturing' her.

That crime went unsolved until 2019, when, following a tip-off from a former friend, Brueckner was arrested, charged and jailed for seven years, a prison term he is currently serving.

Only once Brueckner was charged with that rape did police start investigating his potential links to 18 other burglaries of holiday apartments that had taken place on the Algarve in the early 2000s.

Several of these had involved the sexual assault of women and children, including nine cases of British girls aged six to 12. In most of the attacks, the 'tall, wiry' attacker seems to have carried out the sex crimes after stumbling upon his victims when he entered properties in search of valuables.

However, the new documentary is expected to say that despite his horrendous record, Brueckner has several alibis for his whereabouts on the night Maddie was snatched.

Brueckner's alleged link to the disappearance of Madeleine first became public in June 2020, when German prosecutors announced that they believed him 'responsible' for murdering her and said they had 'concrete evidence' the British child was dead.

In the aftermath, it emerged that police are investigating potential links to a string of other sex crimes, many involving children.

Late last year it was reported that Brueckner would be charged this year with three offences including the rape of an Irish woman in 2004 on the Algarve.

But suspicions that Brueckner was involved in Maddie's disappearance mounted in 2016, when police were investigating the disappearance of a five-year-old girl — Inga Gehricke, known as the 'German Maddie' — who had vanished during a family outing while walking in woods near Braunschweig.

Officers were carrying out a search of land near the scene which had been bought by Brueckner six years earlier.

They found numerous items of children's clothing, most of them 'small swimsuits', in a motorhome parked on the property.

They also discovered six memory sticks holding more than 8,000 files, mostly containing pictures and videos of child abuse.

Shortly after Madeleine vanished in 2007, with the case increasingly the subject of frenzied media attention, Brueckner suddenly left Portugal.

Local police failed to lock down the resort of Praia da Luz and set up road blocks, apparently assuming the little girl had merely wandered off, allowed him to leave without anyone noticing.

It was just one of the many blunders made by Portuguese detectives, who took 12 hours to alert Spanish border police about the missing child, and 48 hours to carry out a basic check of other guests staying at the resort.

Four days passed before they even issued a description of Madeleine.

Meanwhile, the McCanns' apartment was not taped off until 10am the day after her disappearance, by which time dozens of people had traipsed through the crime scene and contaminated potentially vital evidence, with ash from policemen's cigarettes later found to be one of the contaminants.

How the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann unfolded

2007
May 3: Gerry and Kate McCann leave their three children, including Maddie, asleep in their hotel apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal. When they return, they find Maddie missing from her bed
May 4: A friend of the McCanns reports of seeing a man carrying a child away in the night
May 14: Robert Mural, a property developer who lives a few yards from the hotel, is made a suspect by Portuguese police
May 30: The McCanns meet the Pope in Rome in a bid to bring worldwide attention to the search
August 11: Police in Portugal acknowledge for the first time in the investigation that Maddie might be dead
September 7: Spanish police make the McCanns official suspects in the disappearance. Two days later the family flies back to England

2008
July 21: Spanish police remove the McCanns and Mr Mural as official suspects as the case is shelved

2009
May 1: A computer-generated image of what Maddie could look like two years after she disappeared is released by the McCanns 

2011
May 12: A review into the disappearance is launched by Scotland Yard, following a plea from then-Home Secretary Theresa May 

2012
April 25: After a year of reviewing the case, Scotland Yard announce they belief that Maddie could be alive and call on police in Portugal to reopen the case, but it falls on deaf ears amid 'a lack of new evidence' 

2013
July 4: Scotland Yard opens new investigation and claim to have identified 38 'people of interest'
October 24: A review into the investigation is opened by Portuguese police and new lines of inquiry are discovered, forcing them to reopen the case

2014
January 29: British officers arrive in Portugal as a detailed investigation takes place. During the year, several locations are searched, including an area of scrubland near the resort 

2015
October 28: British police announce that team investigating Maddie's disappearance is reduced from 29 officers to just four, as it is also revealed that the investigation has cost £10million  

2017
March 11: Cash is once again pumped into keeping the investigation alive, with £85,000 granted to keep it running until September, when it is extended once again until April next year

2018
March 27: The Home Office reveals it has allocated further funds to Operation Grange. The new fund is believed to be as large as £150,000 
 
2019  
April: Controversial new Netflix documentary re-examining Maddie's kidnap is released
June 5: The Home Office gives the Metropolitan Police enough funding to investigate for another year
December 7: Paulo Pereira Cristovao, a long-time critic of Maddie's parents, was convicted of participating in the planning of two violent break-ins at properties in Lisbon and the nearby resort of Cascais. He is jailed for seven and a half years

2020
February 22: Scotland Yard detectives questioned a British expat about her German ex-boyfriend. Carol Hickman, 59, claims police entered her bar in Praia da Luz to ask questions about her former partner 

June 3: Police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner has been identified as a suspect in Madeleine's disappearance.

2022
April 21: Christian Brueckner, now 44, is made an 'arguido', a formal suspect, by Portuguese authorities.

Chief suspect in disappearance of Madeleine McCann 'has NOT provided German police with an alibi'  | Daily Mail Online

"Ve vant you to gif ein alibi for vier Tags after ze little maidchen disappeared."

How irrelevant is that ?