Christian Brueckner: To be or not to be

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Silentscope wrote:According to Fülscher, the biggest challenge for the defender team is "to fight against the effect of the media pre-condemnation. The size and amount of reporting in this case are unique. English media besieged me, offered me high five-figure sums for information and quoted me again and again, even though I never talked to them."

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Does this not count as "Conspiracy to pervert the course of Justice" or its equivalent in German law ?

It also raises a serious question about whether H. Wolters has ever actually talked to Clarke.     
What Clarke has reported would surely have been a serious breach of any professional code of conduct.
Do we believe that a Staatsanwalt would be so negligent ?

So then, either that photo of Wolters and Clarke-Kent is fake or Wolters is up to neck in it.

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Clarke told us about this alleged trip to Germany. He claimed have found a scissors in a vehicle owned by Brueckner. He did say though, that the Germans were not interested.

crusader wrote:That photo ^^^ looks suspect to me, there is a white something or other to the right of Clarke and 2 white lines on his left arm.
Or it could be a mask.

Looks like he has a sheet of rumpled paper attached to his arm by elastic bands.

To wipe his snivelling nose?

He may be a larger man than Wolters but does Clarke-Kent look slightly out of proportion there?

Definitely a strange picture - Wolters is shorter than Clarke, but his knees are higher.

It looks like a mask round his arm.

crusader wrote:Could be because he's nearer to the camera.

That would cause him to appear bigger but is that the case here? He looks to out of proportion even allowing for that. The are both by the sign so how much closer to the camera could he be?

Why would Wolter allow Clark in, find time to speak to him and then have a photograph taken with him? If this really happened, what was Wolters up to? Surely this is highly irregular?

crusader wrote:According to Clarkes book, he met Hans Walters in June 2021, in Braunschweig, in his office, they had a nearly 3 hour face to face interview.

I would love to ask Wolters if he could confirm this. If it is true, then I would like to ask him why he did that.

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Nobody wanted an Autograph from JC then?

A former BKA employee is making serious allegations in the case of the suspect who allegedly killed Maddie McCann. This could jeopardise the trial against him.

It is a motion with explosive force. One that nobody expected to hear this Friday in the courtroom of the district court in Braunschweig. A former employee of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) claims that the suspect's custody cells in the Maddie McCann case were equipped with bugging technology. She is said to have told Christian B.'s lawyers this and also provided photos to prove it. The lawyers therefore requested this morning that the witness be heard in the trial.

During the alleged wiretapping measures, telephone conversations between the alleged murderer Christian B. and his lawyers could apparently also have been tapped. In the motion, they therefore question whether it is even possible to conduct a trial in accordance with the rule of law.

The trial was adjourned on Friday following the arraignment and the lawyers' motion.

The former BKA employee is said to have sent an email to defence lawyer Friedrich Fülscher. In it, she wrote that she had been responsible for wiretapping measures in the BKA's "Operativtechnik Audio (OE33-3)" department. In this function, she had been involved in preparations for the installation of bugging technology in Christian B.'s cell. According to the application, two BKA officers had told her that they had a personal score to settle with Christian B. and that she was therefore sure that they were up to something.

The fact that the witness actually worked for the BKA can be seen from an employer's reference, which is said to be attached to the application. It describes her work at the BKA as she stated.

Were there bugging measures?

Maddie McCann, an almost four-year-old British girl, disappeared without a trace from a holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007 and has been missing ever since. The German Christian B., who lived there at the time, is considered the main suspect. So far, however, there is no concrete evidence of a crime. Christian B. is on trial at Braunschweig District Court for five other offences that he allegedly committed in Portugal between December 2000 and June 2017. The charges relate to alleged rape and sexual abuse. B. has already been sentenced to seven years in prison in one trial, but a retrial is currently underway.

In order to obtain information about the offences he is accused of, the BKA officers apparently resorted to wiretapping. The application filed by B.'s lawyers also includes photos showing parts of the wiretapping equipment.

Additional cables can be seen leading away from the telephone socket in the cell. B.'s lawyer writes that the images originate from a chat between the witness and the BKA officers. They had had questions for the witness and had therefore sent the pictures to her.

One of Christian B.'s lawyers, Philipp Marquort from Kiel, is shocked by the police's actions: "The defence still has no knowledge of this process, apart from the information from the witness." He finds it adventurous that such important information is not disclosed to the court, "but also to the defence by the public prosecutor's office". He believes his client's fundamental rights have been violated. "We cannot yet say whether the surveillance was legal or illegal. However, the client only spoke to his defence lawyers on the phone. Monitoring the defence lawyers' conversations is illegal."

But how credible is the witness? According to B.'s lawyers, she showed them her work certificate. According to this, she had always shown great commitment and identified with her tasks. 

The reference was signed by a head of unit at the BKA, and a BKA stamp was also said to be on it.

Source: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/id_100349430/fall-maddie-verdaechtiger-wurde-laut-ex-bka-mitarbeiterin-in-zelle-abgehoert.html

From: KAI FELDHAUS - BILD

Braunschweig - The defense lawyers for Christian Brückner (47) filed four motions on the second day of the rape trial. 
One motion could make things uncomfortable for the public prosecutor's office and the BKA.

The man who allegedly abducted and murdered little Madeleine McCann (then 3) in 2007 is currently on trial for three rapes and two cases of sexual abuse of children. After the indictment was read out, Brückner's defense team requested that three more witnesses be called in addition to the 40 previously scheduled.

One of them, according to defence lawyer Dr. Friedrich Fülscher (39), was a former operations technician from the Federal Criminal Police Office. She had contacted the defense lawyers by e-mail.

In her letter, the technician claims to have bugged Brückner's cell in Kiel prison in order to gather incriminating material against him. The telephone used by the suspect to speak to his lawyers had also been tapped. The ex-policewoman also claimed that BKA colleagues had said at a briefing that they had "a personal score to settle" with the Maddie suspect and therefore had "something else planned for him." The most serious accusation in the email to the defense lawyers: Former colleagues had even manipulated evidence in order to influence proceedings

Fülscher did not mention the names of the BKA investigators mentioned in the e-mail. A piquant fact: several Federal Criminal Police Office officers involved in the case are to be heard as witnesses in the course of the proceedings.

Fülscher also requested that senior public prosecutor Vanessa Beyse be heard as a witness because she had assigned an undercover investigator to Brückner in Wolfenbüttel prison. According to the defense attorney, both measures were unsuccessful - but the public prosecutor's office had not informed him of either.

As a third additional witness, Brückner's defence lawyer Dr. Dennis Bock (45) requested that an expert witness be called. This expert had considerable doubts about a BKA report that attributed a hair found at the scene of the 2004 rape in Praia da Luz to the accused. Brückner was sentenced to seven years in prison for this crime in 2019, which he is currently serving in Sehnde Prison.

The public prosecutor's office initially refused to comment on whether the defendant's cell was really bugged. The court presided over by Dr. Uta Inse Engemann will decide on the motions in the coming days of the trial.

The trial will continue on March 1.

Source: https://www.bild.de/regional/niedersachsen/regional/verwanzte-das-bka-die-zelle-des-maddie-verdaechtigen-87263328.bild.html

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner 'took van and two cars he owned back to his native Germany where he had them scrapped after three-year-old girl vanished'

Sources claim Brueckner took vehicles to a scrapyard close to his German lair

By MATTHEW LODGE

PUBLISHED: 19:00, 25 February 2024 | UPDATED: 19:00, 25 February 2024

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner took vehicles he owned from Portugal to Germany where he had them scrapped after she vanished, it is claimed.

The paedophile, who was living in the Algarve when the three-year-old disappeared in 2007, took one van and two cars back to his home country where he disposed of them.

Among them was a white Mercedes Sprinter van which was similar to one police say he owned in Portugal, with photos obtained by The Sun showing it parked in woodland in East Germany.

The exact date the vehicles were moved back to Germany is not known, with sources claiming he would often visit a scrapyard that was close to his secret hideout where he was found to have horrific images and videos.

The owners of the scrapyard, which has since closed down, claimed it was not a secret that Brueckner had used the site but police still had not contacted them about him.

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A white Mercedes Sprinter van 9 (pictured), similar to one police say Christian Brueckner had while living in Portugal, was stored by the Madeleine McCann suspect on the site of a derelict factory in Germany

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Brueckner is currently on trial in Germany accused of multiple rapes and sexual assaults in the Algarve between 2000 and 2017. Pictured: The convicted rapist in court on February 16

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Brueckner is the chief suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (pictured), who vanished in Praia da Luz in 2007




Brueckner is currently on trial for a catalogue of offences  on Portugal's Algarve coast between 2000 and 2017 which are unrelated to Madeleine's disappearance.

These include the rape of an Irish holiday rep, a woman aged between 70 and 80, and an unknown girl aged around 14, as well as the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl. Brueckner denies all the charges against him.


The paedophile had bought an abandoned factory in the former East German settlement of Neuwegersleben, with sources saying he was known to store vehicles there.

The scrapyard where he is said to have disposed of his vehicles was located in Helmstedt, a 25 minute drive away from the site.

A source told the The Sun that the 47-year-old's white van was 'well-known locally' and used the large rear section to have 'hook-ups' with women who he met online.

They added: 'He told me he regularly took old vehicles to the scrapyard in Helmstedt but of course no one thought anything of it at the time.'

Brueckner, who lived in a trailer on the factory site, was found to have disturbing videos and images on a memory card when it was searched by police in 2016.

The owner of the scrapyard told The Sun: 'German law requires that you keep all records for at least ten years.

'But the thing is, none of the police divisions came round to ask us anything, which you could say is surprising.'

Brueckner has been named as the chief suspect in the vanishing of Madeleine, who vanished from Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007.

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Brueckner (pictured) was hiding his face as he arrived in a van with a police escort and was swept inside for the start of the hearing and escorted into the courtroom flanked by guards and wearing handcuffs last week

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Wearing the same jacket as last week, a white shirt and khaki trousers Brueckner (left) shook hands with all legal team and winked at his own lawyers on Friday

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Madeleine McCann (pictured) went missing on May 3, 2007, during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal

He has not been charged over her disappearance and has denied having anything to do with it.

Brueckner is currently serving a seven year sentence for raping an elderly US woman on the Algarve in 2005 and was jailed in 2019.

He is currently on trial in Germany for a catalogue of sexual offences in Portugal over the course of more than a decade, with two former friends who gave evidence in that helped convict him before set to testify at his new trial.

The victims include holiday rep Hazel Behan, another woman aged between 70 and 80, and an unknown girl of around 14, as well as a 10-year-old girl who is said to have been assaulted on a beach close to where Madeleine disappeared and another child.

The alleged attacks took place just minutes from where then three-year-old Madeleine vanished from the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007 where she was staying with parents Kate and Gerry and her siblings.

However, the case is perilously close to collapsing after Brueckner's legal team claimed his phone calls had been 'illegally' wiretapped by Germany's answer to the FBI - alleging that they had unlawfully listened in to conversations with his lawyers.

During a hearing on Friday on the unrelated rape and sexual assault charges, Brueckner's legal team said they had been contacted by a former German federal police officer who claimed she had been involved in 'illegally' wiretapping his phone.

The allegation could put the case in serious doubt.  

The woman, who was not named, provided photographs of the bugging equipment which was used, she says, to listen in on conversations between Brueckner and his lawyers, which is illegal.

According to the application filed the woman claimed that two colleagues were 'out to get Brueckner' and were 'willing to resort to any means'.

Mr Marquort said: 'The defence still has no knowledge of this process, apart from the information from the witness.

'We cannot yet say whether the surveillance was legal or illegal. However, the client only spoke to his defence lawyers on the phone. Monitoring the defence lawyers' conversations is illegal.'

The full horror of Brueckner's sex crime allegations were also revealed in court last week.

Shocking details of how Brueckner's alleged victim Hazel Behan, who said she was attacked in 2004 while working in the Algarve as a tour guide, feared she would be 'beheaded' by her attacker were read out in court.

The other two rapes he is accused of against an unknown woman aged between 70 and 80 years old and a girl of 14 were also described in horrific details, with the prosecutor saying Brueckner 'hit the [older] woman's body and face with at least 20 lashes' using a whip and made the teenager vomit while orally raping her.

Surely if this were true, they would have the details of the vehicles and there would be a log of the vehicles being transferred from Portugal to Germany?