Christian Brueckner: To be or not to be

EXCLUSIVE: GROUND ZERO – THE ‘DRUIDIC’ CIRCLE HIDEAWAY OF MADELEINE MCCANN SUSPECT CHRISTIAN BRUECKNER

so now we have Druids involved, alongside Freemasons, Catenians, Knights Templar, and the rest of the "secret societies" Clarke so enjoys in his Boys' Own Paper / Famous Five world of make-believe.
And of course it has to be 'hideaway' despite being on open view in an area of natural beauty frequented by millions over the 14 years . . . having picnics, with children and playful young adults moving small stones around to make patterns, cairns and other shapes, making fire pits for their picnics, and then in the bushes in the evenings discarding items of female undergarment ... Has Clarke no experience, or no imagination ?

Is there any evidence anywhere, at all, for the Druids’ having made or used stone circles ?
SURELY (please G*d !!!! ) Clarke does not follow the drivelling nonsense of Druids and Stonehenge. . .  separated by ONLY 2,500 years !

AN invented connection from the writings of John Aubrey in the 1670s, followed by the invention in the 1700s of the “Ancient Druidic Order”, and the entire nonsense exposed and exploded ever since, most notably by Kendrick in 1927 . . .

On second thoughts, it is right up Clarke’s tabloid street.  
He is writing for people even more stupid and gullible than he.

and it is Exclusive, as all Olive Press reports are, despite coming two weeks after the story and all the stupid and irrelevant details had been splashed across the Press and the TV news bulletins of the entire WORLD.

Exclusive obviously means about the same as "Literally" in Clarke's world.  Just a filler word, with no meaning at all.  Just looks good on paper

It would be no surprise if  he introduced human sacrifice, or the discovery of a long calendar.

PeterMac wrote:EXCLUSIVE: GROUND ZERO – THE ‘DRUIDIC’ CIRCLE HIDEAWAY OF MADELEINE MCCANN SUSPECT CHRISTIAN BRUECKNER

so now we have Druids involved, alongside Freemasons, Catenians, Knights Templar, and the rest of the "secret societies" Clarke so enjoys in his Boys' Own Paper / Famous Five world of make-believe.
And of course it has to be 'hideaway' despite being on open view in an area of natural beauty frequented by millions over the 14 years . . . having picnics, with children and playful young adults moving small stones around to make patterns, cairns and other shapes, making fire pits for their picnics, and then in the bushes in the evenings discarding items of female undergarment ... Has Clarke no experience, or no imagination ?

Is there any evidence anywhere, at all, for the Druids’ having made or used stone circles ?
SURELY (please G*d !!!! ) Clarke does not follow the drivelling nonsense of Druids and Stonehenge. . .  separated by ONLY 2,500 years !

AN invented connection from the writings of John Aubrey in the 1670s, followed by the invention in the 1700s of the “Ancient Druidic Order”, and the entire nonsense exposed and exploded ever since, most notably by Kendrick in 1927 . . .

On second thoughts, it is right up Clarke’s tabloid street.  
He is writing for people even more stupid and gullible than he.

and it is Exclusive, as all Olive Press reports are, despite coming two weeks after the story and all the stupid and irrelevant details had been splashed across the Press and the TV news bulletins of the entire WORLD.

Exclusive obviously means about the same as "Literally" in Clarke's world.  Just a filler word, with no meaning at all.  Just looks good on paper

So now even druids are involved? it's getting weirder and weirder. What's next? The Illuminati, lizard people, aliens? They're really trying the best they can to distract from the two actual suspects, don't they.

It's a day in the life of any so called journalists who roam the dizzy world of tabloidism - the gutter press.

Clarke is no exception, just another who makes a living selling trash.

The years of Madeleine McCann coverage is testament to that.

My dander's really getting up today, what in the name of sanity is the press and media up to by regurgitating long debunked myths about the Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann? Why do they continue to fly in the face of fact and evidence to pave the way for more deception in support of the only two prime suspects?

The Independent Daily..

Madeleine McCann case: Timeline of the missing child’s disappearance

Kate and Gerry McCann’s eldest daughter vanished from Portuguese holiday resort 16 years ago but emergence of new suspect has brought fresh hope of answers and closure

Joe Sommerlad
7 hours ago

Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old girl from Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing from the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz on the Algarve on 3 May 2007, a case still unsolved and still the subject of intense interest among the public and press.

Follow all the latest updates on The Independent’s live blog

Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, posted a statement on the Find Madeleine website on 3 May 2023 marking the latest anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance, reiterating their hopes of being reunited with her one day and posting a poem, “The Contradiction” by Clare Pollard, to express their feelings.

“Today marks the 16th anniversary of Madeleine’s abduction. Still missing... still very much missed,” they wrote.

“The police investigation continues, and we await a breakthrough. Thank you to everyone for your support- it really helps.”

Here is a reminder of the events of the case.

The story began when the McCanns – affluent doctors Kate and Gerry, their three-year-old daughter Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings – joined a group of seven family friends and their five children on holiday at the Ocean Club in the village of Praia da Luz on the southwestern tip of Portugal on 28 April 2007.

After a pleasant spring break by the sea, the adults in the party went out for dinner at the resort’s open-air tapas bar on 3 May, gathering at 8.30pm. The children were left behind sleeping in their respective apartments with the doors unlocked and a rota system in place among the parents to ensure that someone returned every half-hour to check on them.

When Kate McCann took her turn and returned to her apartment at 10pm, she raced back to the restaurant screaming “Madeleine’s gone! Someone’s taken her!” The police were quickly called and 60 staff and fellow guests searched the complex, calling out the girl’s name in vain until daybreak the following morning.

Border police and airport staff were put on alert and hundreds of volunteers joined the efforts to find the missing girl over the coming days, the case fast becoming a sensation.

The Portuguese authorities would later attract criticism over their conduct in the crucial earliest hours of the investigation when the trail might still have been warm, accused of making rudimentary mistakes like failing to conduct a house-by-house search of every local residence or interview all of the other guests at the resort, acting slowly to erect roadblocks and potentially compromising forensic evidence at the crime scene.

The police initially stated that they believed Madeleine was still alive and had been abducted from the room by a stranger as the parents described their “anguish and despair” over her vanishing, a worst fear realised for any parent.

On 26 May, police issued a description of a suspicious man seen on the night of the girl’s disappearance. The individual in question was spotted by Jane Tanner, one of the McCanns’ dining companions, who said she had seen a Mediterranean man with dark hair and beige trousers carrying a child close to the apartment when she went to check in on her own children. Scotland Yard would later come to dismiss the sighting as a red herring.

The search continued as the summer progressed amid a wild media circus and with huge fundraising activities underway, the McCanns setting up Madeleine’s Fund on 15 May to raise cash to support further investigation and keep the profile of the case high, attracting generous donations from celebrities like Richard Branson, Simon Cowell, JK Rowling and Coleen Rooney. By 30 May, the case was such a cause celebre that they were being flown out to meet the Pope at the Vatican in Sir Phillip Green’s Learjet.

A local man, Robert Murat, subsequently became its first suspect and had his house and car searched, his swimming pool drained and his electronic devices confiscated but no evidence was found to link him to Madeleine and the matter was soon dropped.

By June, the Portuguese police admitted that they had failed to protect potentially useful evidence at the scene as frustration with the lack of developments grew and the media began to question whether the McCanns themselves had been involved in the matter.

Lurid tabloid allegations suggested the couple and their friends might have been swingers and that the McCanns, as physicians, might have been in the habit of sedating their children, while others claimed inconsistencies in their version of events.

The intensity of the hostility towards the parents would later be described by Roy Greenslade of The Guardian as “no journalistic accident, but a sustained campaign of vitriol against a grief-stricken family”, singling out The Daily Express and Daily Star for particular condemnation.

In July, assistance offered by former South African police officer Danie Krugel – who claimed his handheld “matter orientation system” could help to find Madeleine – was rubbished, while British police sent over two springer spaniel sniffer dogs to search for DNA.

Relations with the local authorities would ultimately sour as the latter came to resent British intrusion into a Portuguese inquiry, according to Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan’s book Looking for Madeleine (2014).

By August, Madeleine has been missing for 100 days and police admitted for the first time that she may never be found. They also told the McCanns that they were no longer considering the matter an abduction case but, rather, a murder inquiry.

The McCanns themselves were interviewed as “arguidos” (suspects) by Portuguese police in September, with the parents told that the dogs had discovered DNA evidence from the missing girl in the boot of their holiday rental car, lines of inquiry that had already been leaked to the British press. They vehemently denied having any part in her disappearance.

Despite being listed as suspects (a designation that would linger until the following July), the McCanns were allowed to return to Britain on 9 September. A day later, chief inspector Tavares de Almeida of the Policia Judiciaria in Portimao signed a nine-page report concluding that Madeleine McCann had died in their apartment as a result of an accident, that the tapas dinner and rota checks on the McCann children had been part of a planned cover-up, that the family’s friends had helped to mislead the police and that the McCanns had concealed the body and then faked an abduction. A public prosecutor subsequently applied for the confiscation of Kate McCann’s diary and Gerry McCann’s laptop plus the group’s phone records.

On 2 October, chief inspector Goncalo Amaral was removed from the case and transferred after alleging that the British police were only interested in pursuing leads favourable to the McCanns. He would later publish a book, Maddie: The Truth of the Lie, the following summer, resulting in a lengthy libel battle with the McCanns that would run back and forth through the courts until March 2017.

Back in Britain, Gerry McCann issued a video that November in which he speculated that his family had been watched by a “predator” during their stay at Praia da Luz. His wife had come to believe that a potential perpetrator could have seen a note in the resort’s guest book visible to all in reception noting their dining arrangements on the evening of Madeleine’s disappearance. The couple followed up on 20 January 2008 by releasing a sketch of a “creepy man” they said other holidaymakers had said they had seen loitering at the Ocean Club.

In April, a month before the one-year anniversary of the fateful night, Portuguese police travelled to Leicestershire to conduct further interviews with the McCanns’ friends.

Then, on 21 July, Portugal’s attorney general, Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro, announced that there was no evidence to link either the McCanns or Robert Murat to the disappearance and closed the case, unsolved.

With the trail cold and no closure in sight, the McCanns continued to publicise their cause, issuing computer-generated images of how Madeleine might look now that she had aged on 3 November 2009 and condemning the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files – detailing possible sightings of their daughter – to British newspapers in March 2010.

The McCanns published a book of their own about their ordeal in May 2011, entitled simply Madeleine, which was serialised in The Sun as the newspaper led a campaign calling on British prime minister David Cameron to launch a new inquiry. He did so.

Commenced by then-home secretary Theresa May, the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Grange would be led by commander Simon Foy and comprise a team of three detective inspectors, five detective sergeants, 19 detective constables and six civilian staff.

It began to yield results in 2013, with Scotland Yard formally announcing a new investigation in July and saying in October it had identified 41 potential suspects. That same month, BBC Crimewatch released an e-fit image of a man of particular interest who had been seen in Praia da Luz with a child matching Madeleine’s description in May 2007.

Detectives arrived in Portugal in January 2014 promising new arrests and finally searched the village in June, interviewing four people the following month but without unearthing new information. The quartet would be definitively ruled out in April 2017, before the UK government said it would continue to fund the investigation until 2020, having already admitted it had cost £10m in its first four years of operation.

That investment had enabled detectives to have tens of thousands of documents translated, investigate over 8,000 potential sightings, take 1,338 statements, collect 1,027 exhibits and investigate 650 sex offenders and 60 persons of interest, all without definitively establishing the truth.

The Madeline McCann case lay dormant before suddenly exploding into life in June 2020 when German media revealed that Christian Brueckner, a 43-year-old prisoner with a track record of child abuse and drug trafficking, had been identified as a new suspect by the public prosecutor of the German city of Braunschweig.

He had reportedly been living in a Volkswagen camper van in the Algarve at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance and one woman has since come forward to suggest she saw a girl that might have been Madeleine speaking German in a supermarket in Portugal in 2017.

German investigators classified their probe into his movements as a murder inquiry, saying they were working on the assumption that Madeleine is dead and reporting in July 2021 that they had found an abandoned cellar beneath his former allotment near Hanover where she could, theoretically, have been held captive.

Hans Christian Wolters, the prosecutor leading the investigation into Brueckner, has said he was “very confident” the inmate is responsible for kidnapping her.

“If you knew the evidence we had you would come to the same conclusion as I do but I can’t give you details because we don’t want the accused to know what we have on him – these are tactical considerations,” he told the BBC.

It was subsequently revealed that Madeleine’s Fund still had £773,629 to spend as of 31 March 2020, meaning the McCanns can continue to bankroll a private investigation to find their daughter long after the police hunt is finally drawn to a close, should they choose to.

Brueckner was formally made a “arguido” in relation to the case on 21 April 2022.

On 19 September, the McCanns lost their libel case against Mr Amaral, the former chief inspector who had investigated the disappearance, before the European Court of Human Rights.

The couple had attempted to argue that Mr Amaral was responsible for damaging their reputation and breaching their rights to respect for their private life and to be presumed innocent after taking exception to his book and associated media appearances in which he had repeatedly suggested they were responsible for the vanishing.

Their complaint also argued that Portugal’s Supreme Court had failed to allow them proper redress over the alleged libel by Mr Amaral after judges threw out their earlier claim in 2017.

The verdict left the McCanns with three months to appeal against the decision.

In February 2023, a Polish woman called Julia Faustyna made headlines by claiming she was Madeleine, using the Instagram name @iammadeleinemccann.

Ms Faustyna, 21, did not provide any supporting evidence but sought DNA tests to prove her origins. The results ultimately revealed that she was entirely of Polish origin, with no British heritage, disproving her claims for good.

In April 2023, a court in Braunschweig dropped a rape charge against Brueckner, unrelated to the Madeleine McCann case, concluding it did not have jurisdiction.

Police in Germany continue to claim they have “concrete evidence” that Madeleine is dead but this has still not been confirmed and their investigation is ongoing, with Brueckner still not charged in the McCann case.

Like her parents, Madeleine’s sister Amelie, now 18, observed the 16th anniversary of her disappearance in May 2023.

Speaking publicly for the first time at a prayer meeting in Rothley, she said: “It’s nice that everyone is here together but it’s a sad occasion.”

Amelie McCann reportedly joined in with chants including “Never never give up”, “leave no stone unturned”, “don’t forget about me” and “still missing, still missed”.

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There is another Druid circle on the end of the Praia da Rocha Cliffs

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Reference to a Druid circle has no significance but a third rate journalist sensationalizing a nothing to turn it into a something - they all do it, if they didn't they wouldn't last five minutes on the circuit.

How else to attract the readers attention if not for sensationalism.

Anyone familiar with the camping (in the pure sense of the word) culture will understand the peculiarities of the campers, like marking out an area where they pitch, or other practices seemingly strange to the outsider.

A whisper, someone told someone, Brueckner visited the reservoir to cleanse himself - what does that even mean? He used the reservoir to wash himself and his clothes? Nothing unusual there it you have no running water!

Similar stories have been circulating the press for years, they are all built on nothing.

is there a reason why the infamous cb. could have been, or not, somewhere around that do arade dam, why does it has a meaning in this case. 

i love the secret place by our dear jon, so secret, he took his former land lady to get stones for her garden, yes the family p. let him stay at their terrains with the vw camper van, some stories told by lady p. go even as far as the vw camper van was theirs, not from cb, but a little bit later on that scenario did not fit in the storytellers goals, so sir p. bought the vw camper van of cb in any time given, but somewhere within a period of 5 years. 
know about this secret layer of cb. 

we already know this do arade dam got a role in this case, because a former lawyer, now supposed to be a stay at home daddy, had a dream in the days after madeleine her case hits the news, he even had first a visit to a never named spiritual organisation. 

but even the former lawyer was not told the name of the reservoir, his vision only told dark murky water, and after waking up he used his common form to deduct it must have been all about the do arade dam. 
of course the lad had enough insight to understand, calling in his vision in the dream would end nowhere, his dream would just end up in the largest box of other visions. i still find it a bit of a mystery all the visionairs and dreamers equals the media attention a case got. so much media attention means simply you need a very big box to dispose of them. okay you still take a glimp at them, there are at least some people who pretend they have it from a dream and are in reality witnesses, but there is madness between giving it the normal way. 
my personal experience with the box is been a 100% time waisting exercise.

so in the real world, there is never been any connection between madeleine mccann and the do arde dam, so who cares who camped out on the banks of the reservoir in any given year, at any given time. 

our dear jon tries only to tell us, he was the reliable tip-off to get the germans out there, he has a little bit of concurrence, because remember miss silicon the fia johansson, that one is telling her affaire with the julia some time earlier this year, has resulted in people calling out to her, the fia, with what they know, and she advised not one, but even two people to call their tip-offs in.
but she could not get that in another free news outlet in time, and that she had a vision madeleine must still be alive, but she saw a chance to give the non existing abductor a german nationality, just in time.

both the in competition entities do hardly realize they have a very restricted part of the public that keep an eye out on their adventures. the majority of them have certainly a bit of a problem with believing one of them. 

maybe lady p. did like the stone circle very much and made one herself in her garden in barrocal. or is she more the cairn type, or would she have been more in the stones that fit nicely in your hand, when you want to trow them at nasty types telling you what you can not do. the other scrapyard people in this episode are at least experiences in trowing things if they do not like you calling. 

it would also be quite unique, when someone of a police force, even a german one, or a cps call someone who have their income from a scrapyard reliable. 

andre is also a still common boys name, in the uk mostly spelled as andrew, so maybe it was never meant to be a circle, but an approach to make a lover's heart. 
andre or andré is used as a name in france, portugal and the netherlands. overhere it became a bit more populair when there was a populair singer with that name.

There is certainly no link to Madeleine between Druid circles, Camper circles or even Crop circles unless you are Jon Clarke.

 The only connection is the very vague one of certain people going round circles. It's very tiresome now.

It's poetic licence, all writers do it - otherwise they would never sell their product.

The basic structure of any writing is setting the scene - the beginning, then the meaty stuffing slowly leading into the grande finale - the end!

Journalists are as guilty of embellishment as the novelist, perhaps ethically they shouldn't be but nonetheless they are.  Ask Harry Sussex - he knows, he was there.

Sometimes that poeticism takes on a whole new life of it's own, social media is no different - just look at the number of crazy theories spread abroad in connection with Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

Talking of which..

'She didn't scream': Madeleine McCann prime suspect made chilling confession to friend shortly after toddler's disappearance

Revelations about a secret confession made by the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance have shocked the public.

Amy Landsey
Digital Reporter

June 5, 2023 - 2:40PM

Brueckner allegedly made the alarming comment to a former friend, Helge Buschling, who eventually went to the authorities in 2017 with concerns about the 45-year-old’s potential connection to the case.

In recently seen letters penned by Brueckner from jail, he defends his remarks while proclaiming his innocence in Madeleine's disappearance.

He branded the ongoing police investigation against him as baseless and dismissed Buschling’s witness statement which implicated him in the three-year-old’s unsolved disappearance.

In one of the letters, he recounts being at a Spanish “hippy festival” in 2008 with Buschling and two other friends, when the conversation quickly turned to Portugal.

Brueckner claims Buschling hashed up details of this conversation when acting as a witness against him in 2017 and directly quoted him in the letter.

The letter read: "Manfred, Christian and I then started talking about Portugal. It was then Christian made a comment about the missing girl.

"Christian asked me if I was still going to Portugal, I replied; 'I'm no longer going to Portugal because there are too many problems there.

"'Portugal has too many police for me on account of the missing child. 'It is indeed strange that she disappeared without a trace.'

"Christian replied:' 'Yes, she did not scream'."

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So from a comment allegedly said by a third party (ten times removed), a known felon, becomes the flavour of the day across the tabloid express.

'She didn't scream': Madeleine McCann prime suspect made chilling confession to friend shortly after toddler's disappearance

Thus the seed is sown!

Buscher:  Portugal has too many police for me on account of the missing child.  It is indeed strange that she disappeared without a trace.

Brueckner:  Yes, she did not scream.

The alleged conversation doesn't even flow .... 'it is indeed strange that she disappeared without a trace' - 'yes, she did not scream'.

?  

Then there is the never ending trail following the camper van..

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Little Westie would be mighty proud if he was aware of his notoriety, alas he has no brain - as many tales surround him as the enigmatic video camera/s containing such vital evidence, pivotal evidence that could make or break the case of Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

Of course I jest.

Whatever, according to 'a source' close to 'another source', the German authorities are in the process of analyzing soil samples collected at the reservoir location, to compare with soil samples found somewhere about the person of Westie some long while ago - allegedly. So another shaggy dog's tale begins - how the German pundits can determine the life and times of Westie, I'm at a loss to understand. Perhaps that detail is yet another ace up Wolter's sleeve , don't think he knows either.

Here is a small part of Westie's journey towards stardom courtesy of another McCann diehard - Andy 'read between the' Lines ..

'I bought a campervan from Madeleine McCann suspect and police have now seized it'

EXCLUSIVE: Peter W bought a Volkswagen T3 Westfalia campervan from Christian Brueckner in 2015 - but police have now seized it and taken it back to Germany for forensic tests

ByAndy LinesChief reporter

20:00, 11 Jan 2021

Buying a van used by the Madeleine McCann prime suspect has turned into a nightmare, said its owner.

A car dealer identified only as Peter W has spoken for the first time about getting caught up in the investigation.

He said: “I got involved in something I had never thought of and I don’t wish on anyone”.

In 2015, Peter W, of Regensburg, southern Germany, paid suspect Christian Brueckner £5,000 for his yellow and white Volkswagen T3 Westfalia campervan in the Algarve, Portugal.

Police seized it from Peter W’s scrapyard and shipped it to Germany for forensic tests.

Experts are examining it for clues into three-year-old Madeleine’s disappearance from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007.

Today the Mirror revealed police are launching a big push for the “missing piece of the jigsaw” in a bid to finally solve the case.

Police named Brueckner as the prime suspect in Madeleine’s case after mobile phone records put him in Praia da Luz on the night she was snatched.

Brueckner, serving seven years for rape in the area in 2005, denies involvement with Madeleine’s disappearance.

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" She didn't scream " isn't a confession , it's a remark .

Strictly speaking it's "hearsay", which is alike to a rumor. In other words, in a court of law it's worthless.

Exactly - even if he did say those few words.

Here's another one to feast the upon ..

Madeleine McCann prime suspect told ex-lover he 'knows what happened to little Maddie': Christian Brueckner, 44, made sinister claim six years after three-year-old vanished during family holiday at Portuguese resort in 2007

Madeleine McCann vanished during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007, aged 3
Christian Brueckner, 44, was officially designated as a suspect on Friday
Brueckner is a convicted rapist and paedophile and has long been suspected
Now his former lover has said he admitted he 'knew what happened to Maddie'
But an upcoming Channel 5 documentary is expected to reveal Brueckner has several alibis

By David Averre For Mailonline

Published: 17:12, 24 April 2022 | Updated: 23:51, 24 April 2022

A convicted paedophile and rapist named as a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann allegedly told his former lover he 'knows what happened to little Maddie'.

Christian Brueckner, 44, was officially designated as a suspect, or 'arguido' by Portuguese authorities on Friday, and was for the first time formally questioned about events on May 3, 2007, when the three-year-old British girl vanished from her bedroom at a resort on the Algarve as her parents ate tapas with friends at a nearby restaurant.

Brueckner, who is already behind bars in his native Germany for an array of grisly crimes, exercised his right to remain silent throughout the questioning, according to sources with knowledge of the prison interview.

But one of Brueckner's former lovers, 34-year-old Anastasia Meckesy, today 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.'

Meanwhile, 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.'

Image Stan Laurel

Image Gerry and Kate McCann

Image Madeleine McCann - allegedly

Meckesy said she shared a sexual relationship with Brueckner which she initially enjoyed but later became controlling and violent.

She alleged Brueckner forced her to go to swingers clubs and dress up like a schoolgirl, and became aggressive when she complained.

Meckesy went on to say she got the impression Brueckner 'hated women', and alleged the convicted paedophile told her that Maddie 'was ''probably handed over'' to someone after being taken and, if she were still alive today, they would have found her by now'.

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 and charged.

Only then 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, a new Channel 5 documentary is expected to say that despite his horrendous record, Brueckner has several alibis for his whereabouts on the night Maddie was snatched.

Four witnesses have shared their stories with Channel 5 for its upcoming documentary entitled 'Madeleine McCann: Investigating The Prime Suspect', which will air on May 3.

A Channel 5 insider told The Mirror: 'Christian Brueckner has provided a very detailed alibi for the days leading up to and after Madeleine's disappearance.

'That has been checked out by our team and fully examined. We've spoken to four people who have gone on the record to independently, in different ways, support his alibi. They have got nothing to benefit from supporting him and, in fact, a couple of those people really don't like him but they have still backed his account.'

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.

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indeed a remark, with an origine in the media, that got tannerman out of the closet of jane tanner. 

the taken child, the poor child in a pyjama with uncovered feet, in the cold of the night, that lay silently in the arms of a eggman, o, no, faceless tannerman, o, no, in the hand of the tannerman with the moustache, not looking as a tourist, but in nothing alike a certain german. 

i said it well before, how many times people of all kinds and makings would not have remarked that aspect, that she did not cried out, the girl who would give such people her twopence as said by her direct family. 

and it was that together with the ever sleeping twins during all of it, that got into the they must have been sedated, to choose for your self the parents, or a third party. 

the result is still out there at an almost daily basis,;because they were sedated it was easy to get her out. 

vested by the paint brushes of the media. 

the tales of jane tanner do not tell about any sounds made. just a silent child. i was almost forgotten it started even as a bundle, than a bundle with feet and then a uncovered child with maybe pink pyjama's. and maybe even some print on it. 

the rest of the conversation that allegedly happened has only logic in it. the disappearance of madeleine would have made praia da luz the most safe environment of portugal for weeks, and it is when something like this happen, that gives a lot of police boots on the grounds, that the local criminals get in a frenzy to get out what they know, the sooner it is solved, the sooner they can do their things again. only through the informal route usually. 

the gang around cb had no roots anywhere, so they could choose to just get away and stay away. both are not a declaration of guilt in the case at hand. 
just like remarks , and there are many in this case are made. every year of the 16 forgone, you do not have a lot of trouble to find these remarks during april to end of june on each day of that period. 

and because it is in the public knowledge , it can not be used as criminal knowledge. it is not that only the perp knows she made no noise, did not cry or did not shout, we all know, because the media told us exactly that. and it is actually something that makes a lot of minds suspicious about the people who did know the child. 

there are many more oneliners that are used on a regulair base. 

normally it would be seen as hear say, but it can be used in court, or as a ground to start off an investigation, most tip-offs are used to start an investigation. it would not been seen as a true form of evidence, but it can be used as assisting other circumstantial evidence. 

i did not see or read anything that could really count as a confession of cb to a third party. but if you want to use it, it is possible, you have no need to be sure someone did something in your case, only a reasonable concept of could have done something in that case to start the investigation on. 
there is no court case yet, only an investigation. 
it is the next part, looking in what is told versus what you could find out about facts and circumstances that in the end leads to the evidence hard enough to nail them in court. 
only hearsay is never enough to get them through court itself. it can serve the explanation in how you got to that person. 

still what we see happening is a well known recipe to miscarriages of justice, instead of starting with the case and all facts and circumstances and the evidence thereof you get to a person, this investigation started with a person, cb, and linking him to a existing case, not worked by that police force.  

they are even pretty lucky the pj kept their investigation quite open in the first 3 months, if they really had done what the media say they did, only hunted the parents down, it would be much harder to fit an other party in. still there are very few entry points for a unknown third party. 
redwood took tannerman out of it, brought smith man back in, but even that sighting has no glue to stick it to 5a directly.  

i have no problem that the bka did start looking into cb, only how they did and do that. and the way of presentation of the german cps is unheard of, and off line. well the one and only true boss of every investigation is the cps. he can not escape the weight on his shoulders.

helge b. is only known by one picture by an interview from greece, and in a bit of video, that is hard to find and some pictures they found on his then still active facebook account, but all from years after 2007. he surfaced only in 2027 when he contacted grange with his storytelling. 

in the video he is wearing a french police jacket or lookalike and mwt told about it in his docu, but it never founds it way onto you tube or something alike. most about him is known by the tales of the rest of the gang.

i do think the complete gang is quite shy of putting pictures out from that time in history, if there have been even made, i do think they would not like the locals memory refreshed by it. 

i do not know why the media put the black bar over his eyes on pictures, the usually restrict that when they write about a criminal in active state. the most used citation of helge b. is only he and cb knows what really happened, and that always gets my bucket full of question marks out. 

i can see in cb a guy that likes to tell big stories, put himself where he never was part of even, some often smaller criminals see it as a way to get to a higher status in their peer group. still these snippets that are to be the alleged sayings of cb, are not exactly fit the meaning of an confession. 

type madeleine mccann into any social media and you will find the same outings. even from a lot of people who never had an age to do such thing in may 2007, but are only now old enough to make comments. most because they find it boring. not because they truly know something.

this article has one of the oldest pictures with a bar over his eyes of helge busching, about his fights in italy in 2011. it is of course in italian, look at the first picture in the row of 4 just under the text. 

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there is another news item, but that has no longer kept its format and that means it is not to know if they had pictures of hb in it, this one is about the theft of the 20 euro's.

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the picture of helge b. with water in the background was from to vima a paper from greece, but also from after 2017, but no longer to find online. 

this is a link to an article from 2017, without a picture of hb. in an expat english website. about the article in to vima in 2017 when hb contacted grange. still seconfd hand information, but nice to see the data. and even strange because it did not got the media in a frenzy in 2017.

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