Christian Brueckner: To be or not to be

Funny the two key witnesses in this comparatively recent exposé, Seyferth and Busching, only found a video camera and a gun when raiding Brueckner's former home.

What happened to the hundreds of passports, the watches and jewelry and other named paraffinalia?

Maybe someone else got there first.

Would you believe - and it's very hard to believe, folk out there across social media take it all seriously. They really think Brueckner to be guilty of everything written in the press - worse still, they believe what's written in the Olive Press !?!

Like it's the gospel according to Saint Jon.

How on earth would an insignificant little twerp living in the lawless hills of Spain be the font of knowledge as regards the disappearance of a little British girl holidaying in Portugal?

Oh don't tell me, I know - he's been investigating the case since the beginning hasn't he, wearing his investigative journalist jesters hat.

Minor problem there, he appears to have overlooked all the evidence harvested during the official investigation conducted by the Portuguese judiciary.

None so blind as they say .

So the story is growing legs, it's now reached the Sunday World - whatever or whoever or whyever that might be, a remnant of the News of the World perhaps  ?

sick rapist | Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner set to face trial for series of sex attacks

The Madeleine trial will follow “soon afterwards”, reportedly.

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Yesterday at 19:04

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeline McCann is set to go on trial early in the new year for a series of sex attacks on women and children.

According to the Spanish based Olive Press newspaper, paedophile Christian Brueckner (46) is likely to appear next February at Braunschweig High Court for involvement in numerous offences.

The German national has been charged with five crimes, including three alleged rapes and two sex attacks on children.

The newspaper reports that sources have indicated a trial for the disappearance of Maddie will then begin “soon after.”

“It’s good news and we are working on the exact dates now,” a detective in Wiesbaden, is reported to have said.

Last month, Bruckner begged friends to support him in court if he has to stand trial, it was claimed.

The convicted rapist reportedly wrote letters appealing to pals to talk about him as a "good guy" in a bid to clear his name.

In one letter, Brueckner who is serving a sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Portugal, complained that prosecutors were making him out to be a “monster”.

One of Brueckner's former friends who is still in touch with those who knew him in the Algarve told the Mirror that it had freaked them out to receive the letters.

“I know of two people who got the messages from Chris,” this man said. “It really freaked them out. They hadn't heard from him in years and then these letters suddenly arrived in the post from Germany.

“He was asking them to speak in his defence, about what a good guy he is. He said the German police and prosecutors have it in for him.”

Police in Portugal have maintained that the man who kidnapped Madeleine broke in through the window of the apartment and either left through a door with her or climbed back out the window.

The German suspect had lived in a warehouse outside Praia da Luz for several years but moved into a campervan just before Madeleine vanished.

Last year, he was named as the key suspect in the disappearance and murder of Madeleine, who vanished from her family's holiday apartment in the Algarve resort just a few days before her fourth birthday.

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According to the Spanish based Olive superman Press newspaper, paedophile Christian Brueckner (46) is likely to appear next February at Braunschweig High Court for involvement in numerous offences.

The newspaper reports that sources have indicated a trial for the disappearance of Maddie will then begin “soon after.”
“It’s good news and we are working on the exact dates now,” a detective in Wiesbaden, is reported to have said.

'Likely to appear before a court next February and a trial for the disappearance of Maddie will begin soon after' hardly constitutes ' exact dates to work on' - does it?

EXCLUSIVE : Witnesses are called for multi-sex offences trial against Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner : German paedophile, 46, is expected in the dock within months

By Jon Clarke

October 27, 2023

THE witnesses for the prosecution of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner have been summoned for his upcoming multi-sex offences trial.

The Olive Press can reveal a significant number of police, both from Germany and Portugal, will appear on the stand against the German sex offender.

They will be joined by over a dozen victims and witnesses to the five charges he is facing at Braunschweig court at ‘the end of February’.

The list includes former acquaintances of Brueckner’s, Helge Busching and Manfred Seyferth, as well as ‘many police’.

“Quite a number are actually coming from Portugal, as well as from here in Germany,” a German police source told the Olive Press.

“It includes the police officer who arrested Brueckner in Portugal, as well as others involved in investigating him there.”

He added: “The officers will only be identified by their numbers, not by name.

“Some of them have been working in witness protection and have to be carefully protected.”

The German paedophile is facing three rape charges and two child molestation offences, including one that took place just a month before Maddie, three, vanished from her holiday apartment in May 2007.

The sexual assault of the nine-year-old German girl took place on a beach, just outside Praia da Luz, where Brueckner lived on-and-off for a decade.

Both the girl, her sister and her parents will give evidence at Braunschweig High Court having had a very good look at the attacker during the broad daylight attack.

Prosecutors revealed that the attacker first asked her name in English, ‘then grabbed her by the arm, pulling her to the sand, starting to masturbate’.

Luckily, she was saved by her brother, who called their parents for help and the naked man ran off towards a car park, where his van was likely parked.

The pair, plus their parents, were both later able to identify Brueckner from photos.

Meanwhile, the parents of four other young victims, who were exposed to by Brueckner in a play park, also on the Algarve, are summoned to attend the trial.

They will be flown in alongside the brave WPC who instigated a citizen’s arrest on the German, while off duty that night.

Finally, Irish rape victim Hazel Behan, 40, will be giving evidence, as well as two witnesses connected to her savage four-hour assault on the Algarve in 2004.

One of them saw Brueckner climb into her flat in Portimao to film the sick attack on the mother-of-three.

The other, a hotel worker, claims he saw blonde-haired Brueckner fleeing at dawn and was able to identify him as he had taken off his mask.

“His testimony is very credible,” the police source added.

Behan told the Olive Press, earlier this month: “I’m sure it was Brueckner who spoke to men in English with a German accent.

“It was a terrifying four hour ordeal in which he beat and raped me, all on camera. He held a huge knife and knew my name.

“He must have followed me across a footbridge where I lived and then climbed up to my window.”

She added: “I’m looking forward to finally facing him in court.”

It can also be revealed that Brueckner’s defence team has so far not submitted any witnesses on behalf of their client.

So far, the team, led by Friedrich Fulscher has only added one new lawyer.

Attorney Philipp Marquort, a criminal lawyer from Kiel, will be joining Friedrich Fulscher, also based in the northern German city.

Another well known senior lawyer Johann Schwenn has allegedly withdrawn his accreditation for the trial.

The Hamburg lawyer, who had his office vandalised after announcing he was working for Brueckner, has previously spoken on his behalf to the German media.

“His accreditation for Brueckner has been withdrawn,” said the police source. “Meanwhile the new, less experienced, Marquort has been added.”

The trial, which is expected to last for between ‘four and six weeks’, will begin at the end of February and run into March.

Fulscher confirmed to Bild newspaper last week that he had been told to consult his diary for specific start dates but ‘doesn’t expect’ the trial to begin before March.

He blamed this on ‘other priority cases’.

Meanwhile two documentaries on the sex offender are set to show on British and Australian TV over the next few weeks.

The first, a special investigation by the BBC’s Panorama team will screen on Monday (October 30), while an hour’s documentary by the experienced 60 Minutes team at Channel Nine in Sydney will air in December, it can be revealed.

My Search for Madeleine, by Jon Clarke, is available on Amazon

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A couple of questions about the size of the Video-camera he was allegedly carrying should sort out one or two of the "witnesses".

This was the MINI version in 1995.
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And so say a yaysayer.

Do you even know what the German Accreditation System is? Do you even know what the acknowledged general definition of the word 'accreditation' is?

Jon Clarke did not say anything about police officers in the court room not being named but referred to by their rank number, certainly didn't mention anything about uniforms, the press article was quoting from another source..

“Quite a number are actually coming from Portugal, as well as from here in Germany,” a German police source told the Olive Press.

“It includes the police officer who arrested Brueckner in Portugal, as well as others involved in investigating him there.”

He added: “The officers will only be identified by their numbers, not by name.

“Some of them have been working in witness protection and have to be carefully protected.”

I'm given to understand German police on duty are not obliged to display their officer's number on their uniform for their own protection, although they are issued with a number

UK police constables display their official number on the uniform epaulette - it is quite usual for them to quote their number or use it in addition to their name, as no doubt the same/similar system is used in Portugal in line with policing within Europe - and beyond!

LEICESTERSHIRE POLICE FORCE

Witness Statement by Caroline Burrows

Occupation: Police Officer

This statement, consisting of two pages, each signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief

Date: 23 April 2008
Signature:

I am police inspector 4186 Caroline Burrows of the Leicestershire police, currently based in the criminal unit.

The second image you use to illustrate the Portuguese police uniform is of a male model taken from a police uniform trading company, it is not a serving officer on duty.

As you were ....

crusader wrote:Do we know exactly which video camera CB was using?

I doubt it, the camera was thrown into a reservoir, or dumped somewhere, or buried, or given away with the sale of a camper van - depending on which version of the truth you care to believe, or disbelieve.

On the other hand, the story is nothing but fabrication delivered by a couple or three felons of ill repute - disposable nappies.

Camcorders were on sale early 2000s, I think some models were more compact and user friendly.

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Oh for crying out loud give it a rest.

You surfed your way here on the crest of the Brueckner wave, weedled your way into bed with who you consider to be 'senior' members of this forum and bought any semblance of acceptance with private contact and yaysaying.

Clearly from your posts you don't know anything about the case of Madeleine McCann, nor anything else about anything by all appearances.  You post utter nonsense, you cite obscure sources to bolster your rubbish and above all else you know nothing about how a forum such as CMOMM operates.

I'm seldom if ever wrong - that's why I'm here.

Now go away and stop wasting my time.

Is this the clue to unlock Madeleine McCann mystery? German prosecutors say sick online messages between suspect Christian and another paedophile about 'MM' could be a 'hint' as to what happened

By John James
Published:  09:46, 31 October 2023   |  Updated:  12:55, 31 October 2023

A German prosecutor leading the Madeleine McCann investigation has revealed that sick online messages between suspect Christian Brueckner and another paedophile 'could be a hint' as to what happened to the toddler.

Convicted sexual predator Brueckner has been named as the prime suspect in the 16-year long case due to his activities in Portugal at the time but is yet to be formally charged.

The three-year-old disappeared during a family holiday in the Algarve in May 2007, sparking a nationwide hunt - but 16 years later and the truth of what happened to her has still not been unearthed.

However, Hans Christian Wolters, a public prosecutor in Braunschweig has told BBC's Panorama that it is their opinion that Madeleine was killed in Portugal by Brueckner.

He told the programme: 'I can only say that we have only have one suspect at the moment. [She died] in Portugal and we think maybe we know where it happened.'

Mr Wolters also described how an online exchange between Brueckner and another paedophile could be a 'hint' as to what happened due to the use of the letters 'mm' - which they say could be a cryptic reference to Madeleine McCann.

The online chat, which was found on one of Brueckner's computers shows a brief conversation with a paedophile.

In the chat, Brueckener details explicitly his desires to abduct and kill a little girl and 'document it.'

He then speaks about 'destroying evidence' to which the paedophile replies: 'mm'.

Commenting on the vile exchange, Mr Wolters said: 'It could be a hint.

'Of course, it's important for us. It could be piece for the big puzzle.'

Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison term in a high-security prison locally dubbed 'Alcatraz of the North' in Oldenburg, near the historic northern city of Bremen.

Earlier this month it was reported that the suspect could face trial as early as February next year for a string of heinous crimes, which include three shocking rapes and two sex attacks on children.

He is said to have filmed two of the rapes he is being tried for which are said to have taken place at his former residence outside Praia da Luz - the same area where Madeleine disappeared.  

The trial is expected to span over a month and is likely to take place at Braunschweig High Court.

German prosecutors have not yet formally charged Brueckner with the abduction and killing of Maddie but authorities in Germany have indicated the McCann trial could take place closely on the heels of his upcoming trial, The Olive Press reported.

He is currently serving his sentence for the brutal rape of an American pensioner in Portugal in 2005, but he now faces charges of rape of a young Irish woman, Hazel Behan, in the Algarve in June 2004.

Behan endured a harrowing ordeal when a blond-haired German intruder with blue eyes broke into her apartment.

The vicious assailant raped her at knifepoint and filmed the vicious four-hour attack.

Two witnesses reported seeing a man resembling Brueckner enter and exit the apartment in Portimao at dawn, with one hotel worker claiming he saw the German expat without his mask.

In the Panorama documentary, a woman said Brueckner was part of a 'rebellious gang' when he was a teenager.

The woman said she knew Brueckner as a teenager when he was running in a gang in Würzburg in Germany.

She said: 'They were very rebellious and destroyed a lot of stuff. They were always out and about, escaping through windows and gone.'

She also revealed that she was afraid of what Brueckner might do if he found out she had spoken to the press, despite the fact he is currently serving a seven-year sentence for the brutal rape of an American pensioner in Portugal in 2005.

The woman said: 'I was thinking about how the older lady got raped and read about it. I thought about when he wanted to take his revenge, who knows what will go on in his head. It may well be he goes looking for me.'

Throughout the documentary, other people who had encounters with Brueckner over the years since Maddie's disappearance also gave testimonies about his violent and aggressive nature.

One woman, who manages a bar that Brueckner frequented sometime after May 2007, said he sometimes had 'fits of rage' with other people in the bar.

Brigitte Szegedi, bar manager at the Madame-Eck bar in Braunschweig, said she saw Brueckner 'almost every day' and he would often get into fights with men.

She said: 'I saw it only after he had drank a bit too much, but only with men, not with women.'

Another man, who worked at a shop that Brueckner previously owned, said he confronted him with a knife after demanding he return his freezer to him.

The man, who was not named, told the BBC: 'He came with a gang demanding his freezer back. He was brandishing a knife in the corridor.

'He had this long knife and wanted to stab me. He was drunk or on drugs. His eyes glistened like mad and he was filled with rage.'

The man added that Brueckner's girlfriend, who was a teenager at the time while he was in his late 30s, said the German national had strangled her.

He said: 'I met her at the bus stop and asked her where she had got those strangulation marks from and she told me he strangled her and beat her.

'She was scared stiff of him she told me a lot of things. She was really scared of him.'

When asked if he thought Breuckner was capable of the crimes he is accused of, the man replied: 'Yeah because he is so aggressive and after I saw how he strangled his girlfriend and that, yes he is capable.

'In the beginning he is sweet but once you get to know him he is a psychopath. He has several faces. This man is highly highly dangerous.'

A third man, Oliver Sternard, who employed Brueckner as an odd-job man in the Algarve in Portugal, said Brueckner broke his nose after he found out that he had been hiding alcoholm in his warehouse.  

Mr Sternard said: 'When I went in to my workshop I found out that he was hiding alcohol.' He later confronted Brueckner and he became violent. 'He said don't call me a liar in German. He was very aggressive. There was a fight, he hit me.'

He added that Brueckner broke his nose and was taken away by police but was later released.

Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison term in a high-security prison locally dubbed 'Alcatraz of the North' in Oldenburg, near the historic northern city of Bremen.

Mr Sternard added: 'He should stay in prison as long as possible. He is dangerous so he should keep away from society.'

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Screenshot of the Waily Snails video of alleged darknet conversation between Brueckner and anonymous alleged paedophile..

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This was reported in June 2020..

German paedophile 'wrote about Madeleine McCann abduction in web chat room'

A former detective says investigators had in the past probed a German paedophile's chatroom activities before police announced a new prime suspect in the missing Madeleine McCann case.

A detective investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance previously made claims a 'German paedophile' wrote about her case on an Internet chat room.

The man, who was not identified in reports, is alleged to have discussed the abduction of the British toddler on a web forum after she vanished from a Portugese resort.

Madeleine has not been seen since disappearing from the holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, on the Algarve coast in 2007.

News last night that investigators had confirmed a key suspect is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the case in recent years.

They described the suspect as a German paedophile and he has been named in local media as 'Christian B'.

Police officially revealed the convicted sex offender is now the key suspect, but no forces involved in the long-running investigation have named him.

German state prosecutor Christian Hoppe confirmed the suspect is a paedophile who has been convicted of sexual abuse against children as well as other sex crimes.

Mr Hoppe, from Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), told the country's ZDF television channel the 43-year-old is serving a prison sentence for a sex crime and has two previous convictions for "sexual contact with girls".

The suspect is reported to have been living in a campervan in Praia de Luz around the time Maddie vanished.

The Times reports a chatroom clue allegedly concerning a German man had previously emerged in the missing persons inquiry.

While the suspect has not been named, an investigator on the case had previously said the focus of the inquiry was on a German paedophile.

Goncalo Amaral, the head of the original Portuguese police investigation into the toddler's disappearance, said last year that detectives had looked into an Internet chatroom exchange.

According to the newspaper, Mr Amaral claimed that a German paedophile suspect had been ruled out of the inquiry in 2008.

The former detective described the man as later having been jailed in Germany for child sexual offences.

"Many years later, it appears that in an Internet chatroom there is a conversation between that person and another person where they talk about Madeleine," he said.

The prime suspect police revealed they are looking into last night is described as white with short blond hair, possibly fair, and about 6ft tall with a slim build at the time Maddie vanished on May 3, 2007.

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British detectives have not named the suspect either.

The Metropolitan Police would say only that a 43-year-old German prisoner is now the prime suspect.

In 2013, Scotland Yard had said that a blond man had been sighted near the apartment where Maddie was taken from, where she was staying with parents Kate and Gerry McCann.

Yesterday evening detectives said the e-fit of the man that was released at the time had 'not been ruled out'.

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Another even more obscure report names the darknet scum bag..

The conversations were held under the pseudonym of ‘madness-der-holger’ and in them he revealed that he wanted “capture something small and use it for days, that’s it”.

He also assured that if he got that “little one”, he would make many movies. In response, his interlocutor told him: “Oh yeah. Evidence is destroyed after”.

madness-der-holgar doesn't look much like CB to me, as portrayed in the Snail Mail

Do they think we are all to believe this carp?

Quit while you're ahead GB News - it's fast becoming embarrassing..

German prosecutor ‘more sure than ever’ Christian Brueckner murdered Madeleine McCann - ‘No alibi’

By Georgia Pearce

Published: 01/11/2023 - 11:23 Updated: 01/11/2023 - 11:28

Hans Christian Wolters claimed German police are 'more sure now' that Christian Brueckner murdered Madeleine

German Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters has claimed that the police "are more sure than ever" that Christian Brueckner is the man responsible for the murder of Madeleine McCann.

McCann was just three when she went missing from her Praia Da Luz holiday apartment in May 2007, and the case into her disappearance has not yet been solved.

German national Christian Brueckner, 46, was made a formal suspect by German prosecutors in 2022.

Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison term in Germany for drug trafficking and the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005.

Speaking in a new BBC Panorama documentary, 'Prime Suspect: Who Took Madeleine McCann?', Wolters said Brueckner is currently their "one suspect" in the case.

He confirmed the German police's belief that Madeleine was killed in Portugal, stating they are "sure" it is what happened to her.

When pressed by the investigative journalist, Wolters also revealed that they may know the exact location in Portugal where the murder of madeleine took place.

In connection with Brueckner, Wolters said as part of their five-year investigation into the suspect, they say Brueckner "has no alibi".

Speaking to the journalist, Wolters stated: "I can only say that we checked everything and we found no alibi."

He was asked again by the journalist: "And as far as you can see, there is no alibi?"

Wolters confirmed: "Yes, I'm sure."

When asked if they are "more sure now that he's the murderer", Wolters replied "yes, of course".

In response to Wolters' claims made in the program, Brueckner's lawyer Friedrich Fulscher has hit back at German police.

Fulscher told the BBC: "The public prosecutor's office keeps putting itself in the public eye and saying we have the right person here and that my client is the murderer of Madeleine McCann.

"And he repeats this like a mantra and thus shapes public opinion.

"And this public opinion will become a huge problem, because I am of the opinion that Christian Brueckner can probably no longer expect a fair trial in this country."

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'More sure than ever' ?  What in the name of Keystone Cops is that supposed to mean?



Wotcha got, show us yer evidence - I dare yer ....

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they must have made a scrapbook well over 3 years back, nothing new in it all. 

nothing new, the bbc is still not able to check their sources, when it is about this case, the rest is just nicking and picking from each other and other old crap. that stennard guy had ended up before with a broken nose, after something with cb and some scheep. 

and it is always very silly to be afraid because you are talking to the media, in a manner you must be recognizable for half the world. why are these types doing that, there is nowhere an obligation to talk to the media. even if they found out you once knew a guy, what is wrong with no comment, bye bye. 

what happened with all the old girlfriends of cb, he was still writing letters and postcards , who still found him okay. 

and so stupid, that guy who first have to ask how  the young girlfriend of another moment in time of cb had gotten strangulation marks, is just one sentence later witness of seeing it happen. i do hope they did find real witnesses not this bunch. 

the even revived hcw again, or that must have been already 3 years old footage of the beeb.

i think i feel lucky i forgot to look for a free to air beeb, i no longer make use of cable tv or some other form of programmed tv version. it always end up somewhere for free. are we sure it was indeed a new broadcast, or just a new approach of refitting old work of others. so we got a tsunami of other nicking and picking paper filling monkey's earning their weeks pay of peanuts.

The Brueckner saga gets more ridiculous by the day, the more I read the more I'm convinced the entire affair is a theatrical production.

The conclusion of this report by example..

"He should stay in prison as long as possible. He is dangerous so he should keep away from society," he warned.

Dangerous because he sold dope, because he burgled, because he nicked diesel, because he broke someone's nose, because he's got a temper? There doesn't appear to be any evidence to support the many allegations made against his name, allegations of child abuse, murder, rape and other serious accusations.

Then there has been talk of solitary confinement for his own protection and that of fellow inmates - because he raped an elderly woman, allegedly? Really?

If there was ever a case that should be written off as mentally unstable this is it - if indeed the name Brueckner is guilty as accused.

A few so called witnesses appearing in documentaries and/or press and media reports is far from convincing, so where is the evidence of all the crimes he is said to have committed. Is the law so dumb they let a serial offender slip through the net time and time again? Charged but never served a prison sentence until locked-up for the crime of rape built on flimsy mocked-up evidence.

I gather from this and the words said to have come from the mouth of Wolters, the German authorities have a penchant for building cases, could be interpreted as creating evidence to fit, on shifting sands it would appear - one gust of wind and the whole lot comes crashing down.

I don't buy it.

Oooops, so busy flapping me gills I forgot the press article..

Madeleine McCann cops probe cryptic 'MM' message sent to German suspect which 'could be part of the puzzle'

31 October 2023, 11:01

By Will Taylor

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German prosecutors believe a potentially cryptic message sent by Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner "could be a piece for the big puzzle".

Investigators believe messages sent between Brueckner and another paedophile could be important as they try to build a case.

Hans Christian Wolters, the public prosecutor in Braunschweig, has reiterated that the imprisoned sex criminal remains the prime suspect.

However, he has not been formally charged over Madeleine's disappearance in the Algarve, Portugal, in May 2007.

Brueckner was in Portugal at the time the three-year-old vanished.

Read more: Portuguese police apologise to the McCanns over their handling of Madeleine's disappearance in 2007

Speaking to the BBC's Panorama, Wolters said: "I can only say that we have only have one suspect at the moment.

"[She died] in Portugal and we think maybe we know where it happened."

The Met still considers Madeleine to be a missing person case.

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Wolters revealed investigators have been looking into messages sent between Brueckner and a paedophile.

Brueckner says he wants to abduct and kill a girl then destroy the evidence.

The other paedophile replies with "mm", though it is unclear if this could potentially refer to Madeleine or if it is simply a sign of agreement.

"It could be a hint," Wolters said.

Read more: Child rape trial against Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner can go ahead, German court rules

"Of course, it's important for us. It could be piece for the big puzzle."

Brueckner is in jail in Oldenburg, in northern Germany, for raping an American pensioner in Portugal in 2005. He is serving a seven year sentence.

He is now charged with the rape of an Irish woman in the Algarve a year earlier. He could also face a trial over two sex attacks against children.

In the documentary, he is described as being part of a "rebellious gang" as a teen, with one woman saying she if afraid of him looking for her now she has spoken to the press about him. She knew him as a teenager.

Another described how he would sometimes fly into "fits of rage" at a bar after meeting him after Madeleine's disappearance and he would get into fights with men "almost every day".

One man, Oliver Sternard, said Brueckner broke his nose after he found out the German was hiding alcohol in his workshop in the Algarve.

"He should stay in prison as long as possible. He is dangerous so he should keep away from society," he warned.

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