Christian Brueckner: To be or not to be

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.

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.


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


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


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.

Video here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13123947/Madeleine-McCann-suspect-Christian-Brueckner-scrapped-van-cars-Germany.html


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


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


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?

ROAD TO JUSTICE Madeleine McCann cops ‘deluged with new tip-offs’ about Christian Brueckner as they ‘break through case brick wall’
Investigators are hoping the new evidence will help them crack the case
Aliki Kraterou
Published: 10:07, 26 Feb 2024Updated: 10:07, 26 Feb 2024

GERMAN cops leading the probe into Madeleine McCann have been inundated with new tip-offs and evidence that could be "vital."

Investigators are optimistic they are finally able to crack the case after "hitting a brick wall" due to the new information they've received following Christian Brueckner's court appearance.



The paedophile, 47, appeared before court last week facing the charges of three rapes and two sex assaults.

Despite being named as the prime suspect in Maddie's disappearance in 2020 he has not been charged.

But now a source close to the case told The Sun Online that detectives in Germany have received new leads and clues which they “hope could prove vital”.

And cops hope his appearance in court will continue to generate even more information in the days ahead.

The source said: "New information has been coming in ever since Brueckner appeared in court last week.

"It’s a massive boost for German detectives because their investigation had really hit a bit of a brick wall.

"So they are really pleased about this, and really hope this will give fresh impetus to the investigation into what happened to Madeleine.

"They remain convinced Christian Brueckner was either involved in Maddie’s disappearance or knows about how Maddie vanished.

"Having his face on TV screens, and in newspapers across the world, has generated fresh calls, tip-offs and leads which they will look into and which they hope could prove vital."

Sun Online understands at least one of the leads is linked to fresh information about where Christian Brueckner was living in Portugal around the time three-year-old Maddie went missing.

"The timeline of where Christian Brueckner was and when during that period is still far from clear," the source added.

"He was living a nomadic lifestyle. He was a drifter going from here to there and he would have come into contact with a lot of people.

"The police are convinced many of them may not yet have come forward.

"The publicity around this case could prompt someone who knows something into doing just that. This is what the German cops are now hoping for."

Last week a court in Braunschweig heard how an alleged rape victim was terrified the twisted sex offender would behead her.

The court also heard how he tied Hazel Behan’s legs to table legs and raped her, before quipping: “You are afraid of me aren’t you?”

The prosecution said the German used a rape drug to incapacitate his victims as he trapped them and held them prisoner.

Meanwhile, a shocking claim that Brueckner was wiretapped while in prison could be a major blow to the trial.

A former employee of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) sensationally claimed that Brueckner's cell was equipped with bugging devices and said she had photos to prove it.

The monster's lawyers have requested for the witness to be heard in the trial.

If the allegation is confirmed it would be a massive hit to Brueckner's trial as conversations between him and his lawyers could also have been tapped.

The German is currently serving a seven-year prison term for rape and drug trafficking

It comes as The Sun revealed how vehicles owned by Brueckner in Portugal were taken to Germany and scrapped.

Previously it emerged that Brueckner has blown “tens of thousands” transforming his appearance since the toddler vanished.

German detectives probing the convicted rapist are convinced his current identity may be “an illusion” - and that he most likely looked totally different at the time Madeleine vanished.

The cops also believe this is a “key area” that Portuguese officers failed to drill down on at the height of the search for Maddie.

A source close to the investigation told Sun Online: “The Christian Brueckner of today is not the same person he was back in 2007 when Maddie disappeared.

“German detectives are convinced he looks very, very different and has blown tens of thousands of pounds changing the way he looks.

“For a long time, Christian Brueckner was a prolific drug dealer who earned a lot of money and lived a very nice lifestyle. He had the means to have surgery and to make changes to the way he looked.

“Officers think there’s every chance the way he looks now is an illusion to the man he was 10, 15 years ago.

"They’ve always been concerned that this is a key area cops in the Algarve failed to properly grip or investigate fully from day one.

"So it’s an area they will be focusing on a lot more in the months ahead.”

The source added there’s a chance they could even re-issue photo e-fits and wanted posters if they think it will help drum up fresh information about what happened to Maddie.

The British tot vanished on May 3, 2007, from her parents' holiday home in Praia da Luz.

It's also been claimed that Brueckner had surgery to remove a birthmark on his left thigh after an alleged rape.

Brueckner, 47, had it erased to avoid being identified after the knife-point attack on student Hazel Behan who had told police where it was located, prosecutors allege.

Officers found scarring in the spot described by Irish Hazel, then a holiday rep, and, in a key breakthrough, spotted the birthmark on an earlier scan of Brueckner, who is serving seven years for rape.

The evidence against the German paedophile has been presented to judges.

Brueckner was previously said to have spent cash having his jaw reset and four "rabbit" teeth straightened four months after Maddie vanished in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve in 2007.

Soon after, a police sketch showed a man with buck teeth seen near the McCanns' holiday flat.

Pictures and video here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26182477/madeleine-mccann-cops-new-tip-offs-christian-brueckner/

What a load of garbage.

I think I can see where this is going. They manipulate the public into believing that Brueckner is guilty but then he gets off on the grounds of his cell being wire tapped.

Would someone remember any details, like a tattoo, if they had been given rape drug?

How much further can this vile farce  go? Will somebody remember that he was dressed in drag, reading fairy tales in the creche?

The latest nonsense from Jon Clarke-Kent

A FORMER friend of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has told a court how he found two violent porn movies made by him at his Portugal home.

Manfred Seyferth, 68, told Braunschweig court how he and a mutual friend Helge Busching discovered the films at his rented home just outside Praia da Luz on the Algarve.

The German pensioner, a petty thief who also ran bars, said they had also found a gun when they broke into the home, after Brueckner, 47, was sent to prison in Portugal, in April 2006


He said in one film Brueckner was masked but he recognised his voice, while in the other he removed a mask to show his face.

Seyferth, from Ludenschied, in Germany, recalled: “Helge watched the video and said there was a woman and a girl on the tape and they were being abused.”

He continued: “There was an old woman on a table. She was blonde, in her Sixties and she was being hit on her breast by something, it looked like a ruler. She cried out ‘help’ in Italian.

“There was also a young girl as well.”

He said she was about 14 or 15 and that she was tied to a wooden post at Brueckner’s farmhouse, which is just 800 metres from the Ocean Club, where Madeleine McCann went missing in May, 2007.

He said the accused had ‘danced’ around his victim before forcing her to perform oral sex on him. “She said this is rape,” he continued to the court. Then he added after she was sick, he told her: “You’ve puked on my carpet! You never forget things like that.”

He explained how disgusted he was and told Busching to throw the camera away and only realised many years later that he had not done it, although they are now currently missing.

Wearing a green jumper and cleanly shaved, Seyferth described Brueckner as a ‘burglar’ who was both ‘arrogant’, ‘big headed’ and ‘a psycho’.

He said they named him ‘Oberkellner’ (or ‘head waiter’) as he ‘always wore a tie and looked smart’ and worked as a ‘waiter’ at hotels on the Algarve.

When asked by judge Ute Christina Englemann to give more details, he said: “Just that he did that and that he worked as a waiter in hotels.”

“Did he say anything about his burglaries?” she asked. “No, I did not concern myself with it.”

Seyferth had first met Brueckner when he and his friend Michael Tatschl, another witness who will give evidence next month, travelled down from Orgiva, near Granada, for a few weeks on the Algarve.

They made money from petty crime and selling small ashtrays to tourists ‘made out of cola cans’. They also stole solar panels, which they would later take back to Spain.

“That’s what you can live on in Portugal?” asked the judge, to which he replied: “You can live from it.”

It was around 2005 and Brueckner had invited them back to his home in Praia da Luz to help them when they ran out of gas.

He had large vats of stolen fuel at the home and said they were welcome to park up their van and stay in his garden.

Seyferth told the court he spent weeks living in a caravan in the garden of Brueckner’s home and previously described him as an excellent burglar, who could climb into any home.

They had nicknamed him ‘the Climber’ and he admitted he had even watched him climb up to second floor apartments from outside.

It was Seyferth (and Busching’s) evidence in 2019 that helped put Brueckner in prison for the 2005 rape of American pensioner Diana Menkes, also in Praia da Luz.

DNA of Brueckner’s from a hair was found by police on Menkes bed.

In that case, Menkes, 72, was forced to endure a violent late-night rape, also on video, that involved being hit with a stick and being tied up.

During cross-examination of the witness, which went on for over three hours, the defence accused Seyferth of having memory loss and continually changing his statement.

In particular, they highlighted that he had made money from press interviews and previously said the older woman was ‘around 40’, but now she was in her 60s.

They asked if he was suffering from ‘Alzheimers or some other form of memory loss’, to which he said: “Not to my knowledge.”

They also demanded to know how often he had spoken to his fellow witness Helge Busching and how recently, suggesting collusion over evidence.

Seyferth replied ‘yesterday’ to which they demanded to see his phone.

When it was discovered he had actually spoken to Busching four times over the previous 24 hours, twice that morning, the Judge ordered his phone be seized so the BKA police could analyse it.

It was eventually given back, with Seyferth insisting: “I didn’t know there was anything forbidden about me talking to him.”

As the court was winding up for the day, out came a perhaps much more sinister claim which could backfire on the defence.

It came when Seyferth claimed his Facebook site had been hacked by Brueckner’s lead lawyer Friedrich Fulscher.

He told the court he believed he had done this to track down Busching, who was in a witness protection programme. “I checked my Facebook account in the evening and saw that Helge answered me about something I had not even asked him.

The judge and prosecutor were particularly interested, but Seyferth was unable to shed more light on the claim.

There is no doubt that this possible crime will be carefully checked.

The day finally wound up at 3.10pm and the trial will not continue again until March 14.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/03/02/__trashed-38/

Silentscope wrote:Bridge day fun from the Daily Mail,

The chief suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann worked at the same Algarve resort that she vanished from in 2007, it has been claimed to MailOnline.

According to British expat Ken Ralphs - who knew Christian Brueckner at the time through acquaintances - the German criminal, 47, was working cash-in-hand at the Ocean Club tapas bar frequented by Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine's parents.

Mr Ralphs maintains that Brueckner plotted with another man to abduct a young girl to then sell her to a couple unable to have children of their own.

The 59-year-old believes the pair went through with their plan and kidnapped Madeleine from her family's hotel room on that fateful night in May 2007, while Kate and Gerry were in the Ocean Club restaurant with their group of friends who later became known in the press as 'The Tapas Seven'.

However, speaking to MailOnline, Mr Ralphs said he suspects Brueckner and his co-conspirators lost their nerve when they saw the extensive media coverage of the case, which highlighted her distinctive eyes - making her impossible to sell.

The Brit - who left the UK in 2004, returning intermittently - says he went to police in both the UK and in Portugal in the immediate aftermath of Madeleine's disappearance, and again when Brueckner was officially named a suspect in 2020.

In both countries, he says he told police about Brueckner's alleged plot, and that the drifter had been working at the Ocean Club restaurant - something that was also reported in the past by a German documentary in 2020.

Since then, Mr Ralphs says, he has received conflicting accounts from police in both countries over whether the information he provided was passed on or investigated

And it goes on, and on, and on….
Cash in hand? Convenient-no Records.
No one Interviewed in the Files mentions Brückner working there.
No response from the Ocean Club.
Previous Stories say he was a Pool Cleaner / Handyman.
No name Witnesses who do not want to admit knowing Ralphs.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Unless you are on ‘Team McCann’.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13117359/Christian-Brueckner-worked-Ocean-Club-restaurant-Brit-claims-Madeleine-McCann.html

He who lies needs a very good memory? Lacking here!

Yes, cash in hand, very convenient.

If he was working at the Tapas bar why haven't any of the tapas 9, the other guests or O C staff come forward with anything?