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To me, this is now a 50/50 case. It seems like they will reach a verdict next Tuesday 08.10.2024.
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Fülscher has the final word
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https://www.20min.ch/story/christian-brueckner-maddie-verdaechtiger-soll-fuer-15-jahre-ins-gefaengnis-103196006
It seems the Bild and OE 24 have 'churned it' further.
From OE24:
Lindemann had previously explained why she considers the accused guilty of two rapes and two cases of sexual abuse. At the start of the trial, the 47-year-old was accused of three rapes and two cases of sexual abuse of children, which he allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. During the trial, she found it unique how much mistrust was shown towards the investigating authorities, said the senior public prosecutor.
“You sometimes had the impression that officials were sitting in the dock,” said Lindemann. With regard to the five individual charges, she said: “You have to take the trouble to look at the evidence that incriminates the defendant as a whole.” Among other things, she considers Christian B. guilty of raping a 70 to 80-year-old woman in her vacation apartment and filming it. A witness who stated that he had seen the crime on a video and recognized the accused gave a “comprehensible account”. However, the victim could never be identified and the whereabouts of the video are unclear.
The same applies to the second alleged rape, for which another witness was important from the point of view of the public prosecutor's office. The prosecution was “shocked” by the chamber's questioning of this witness. In the end, he was so exhausted that he only suspected the rape of a juvenile in court. This was of course not enough and should lead to an acquittal of this charge, Lindemann found.
In summary, the senior public prosecutor demanded a total prison sentence of 13 years for the two suspected rapes and one suspected sexual abuse of a child. The remaining last case of abuse could not be embedded there for formal legal reasons, she said. Lindemann is therefore requesting a further two years in prison for this.
The defense attorneys are expected to make their closing statement next Monday. The verdict could be handed down on Tuesday.
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Source: https://www.oe24.at/welt/anklage-fordert-15-jahre-fuer-maddie-verdaechtigen/608233597
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Where is Kai on this?
Lindemann: „Es ist ein außergewöhnliches Verfahren. Aber anders als das Gericht bin ich mir sicher, dass er es in allen Fällen war!“ So hätten die Opfer ihren Peiniger mit stechenden blauen Augen, einem schmierigen Grinsen und einem Überbiss wie ein Pferd beschrieben. „Eindeutig Brückner!“
Lindemann: “It is an extraordinary procedure. But unlike the court, I am certain that it was him in all cases!” The victims described their tormentor as having piercing blue eyes, a greasy grin and an overbite like a horse. “Definitely Brückner!”
Whatever 'definite' is will be heard on Tuesday, hopefully!
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The prosecutor has given his opinion, and it's up to the judge to make the decision.EaglesEye_ wrote:I read this morning that the main event of yesterdays hearing was that the prosecutor asked the judge for 15 years in Jail and that the prosecutor had seen enough already to sentence him.
To me, this is now a 50/50 case. It seems like they will reach a verdict next Tuesday 08.10.2024.
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Justice for Maddie wrote:I hope he is never released again.
So you believe all that has been told about CB ? Starting with the alleged rape of DM, that an expert doctor proved to be false ?
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Qoute the Sun
And he scored nearly 100% on a test where just over 60% suggests the subject is a psychopath.
However, that would not stop him being freed when cleared at his current trial - as is expected to happen.
Dr Christian Riedemann said Brueckner refused to cooperate with the respected psychiatrist while behind bars.
Instead, he based his conclusions on prison files and evidence heard during the ongoing trial.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30710423/madeleine-mccann-suspect-more-victims-dangerous-criminals/
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Martin Brunt having to choose his words carefully
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Madeleine McCann prime suspect acquitted of separate rape charges
Convicted paedophile and rapist believed to be linked to McCann’s 2007 disappearance acquitted by controversial German judge
Rob Hyde
08 October 2024 9:10am BST
Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner, the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, has been acquitted of horrific sex offences by a controversial German judge.
Brückner, 47, is who German investigators believe killed McCann, then 3, after abducting her from her parent’s holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.
However, he has never been charged in relation to McCann’s disappearance.
Instead, he was on trial at Brunswick Regional Court for various non-related offences that took place in Portugal between December 2000 and June 2017. These include charges of rape and masturbating in front of children.
On Tuesday, Uta Inse Engemann, the presiding judge, said evidence against Brückner was “insufficient” and acquitted him of all charges.
“We as judges have sworn an oath. And it is to serve the truth only.
“We take this very seriously,” Ms Engemann said as she delivered the verdict of a full acquittal.
“But we cannot wrap people in cotton wool.”
“This oath means that we don’t have to cater to the views of the media and the defence and the prosecution or the table of regulars-in-a-pub.”
“We have to balance all the evidence presented to us.”
She said Brückner’s case was impacted by speculation in the press.
“Everyone had heard about him in the Maddie McCann case. And they all knew that Brückner since 2020 was always named by the public prosecution office.”
“When in the media, a person is here described as a sex monster and a pervert, then it influences the witness.”
The trial was a fiercely-contested battleground.
The courtroom saw angry verbal skirmishes over 35 days of proceedings between prosecutors and the defence, led by Friedrich Fülscher, along with shouted interruptions by Ms Engemann.
Ute Lindemann, the chief public prosecutor, demanded a total of 15 years in prison for Brückner last week, and for him to be placed under preventive detention, whereby prisoners deemed to pose a danger to society are not released even if they have served their sentence.
Mr Fülscher, Brückner’s defence attorney, tried to dismantle the prosecution’s case in his terse closing plea on Monday, and showed solidarity with the judge, whom the prosecution accused of bias in favour of Brückner.
He said: “Last week, you attacked the professional judge, my colleagues and myself, polemically and personally for long bouts.
“You made it clear out from the outset that your closing statement was addressed to the public and not to the chamber.”
“You were particularly concerned with maximising damage to professional judges. Almost without exception, your criticism was unjustified and of a rarely low level. My colleagues and I will not stoop to this level today, rather devote ourselves to the actual purpose of these proceedings.”
Judge draws gender controversy
Ms Engemann, who was born in the federal state of Lower Saxony during the 1960s, studied law at the University of Göttingen before starting her first judicial role at Brunswick Regional Court in 1993.
Her career took a controversial turn between 2005 and 2010 because of her association with Vaternotruf, a fathers’ rights organisation based in Berlin.
Vaternotruf was known for its outspoken advocacy of fathers involved in custodial disputes, often criticising what it perceived as systemic biases against men within family courts
Ms Engemann drew fierce criticism from feminist organisations and legal professionals, who raised profound concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
She then officially distanced herself from the Vaternotruf organisation but the issue has continued to raise questions about her neutrality.
By 2015, her career focus shifted to criminal cases, and she presided over a violent crime trial in Brunswick in 2017.
Brückner’s case went to trial early this year, with Ms Engemann triggering controversy by ruling in July that the evidence against him was so “insufficient” that the arrest warrant would be lifted.
It provoked particular concern that she made this announcement before the prosecution had finished giving its evidence.
As a result, the prosecution moved to have Ms Engemann removed on the basis that she was allegedly biased.
A prosecution motion for prejudice was filed at the 28th hearing and claimed that by making the previous announcement, she had hinted at a preconceived intent to acquit Brückner.
The prosecution now has the ability to appeal Ms Engemann’s verdict by taking it to Germany’s supreme court, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.
If this court rules in their favour, there will be a retrial using a different judge. Ms Lindemann already stated her intention to “take it to Karlsruhe.”
Meanwhile, Brückner still needs to serve the end of the sentence he was handed in 2019 for the brutal rape of Diana Menkes, a US national, in Portugal in 2005.
In court on Monday, Mr Fülscher said: “We are sitting here today to decide on the freedom and the fate of a human being. Mr Brückner, is accused of committing five serious offences, but the court of the main trial tells a completely different story than the public prosecution office has presented here.”
Alluding to Nazi Germany, he continued: “Our constitutional state is first and foremost that the respective offence and not the offender is at the centre of the proceedings.”
“We no longer lock people up here because they have character deficits. That time is long gone in our history, thank God.”
Mr Fülscher began by criticising what he saw as inconsistent testimonies given by witnesses.
These included former petty criminals Manfred Seyfurth and Helge Busching, who claim to have seen videos of Brückner committing rape after breaking into his house in Portugal while he was in prison for stealing diesel.
Mr Fülscher attacked Busching as a “busybody and a liar” and accused him of lying about owning a Facebook account and showing a video of a rape to a British barlady who later refuted it.
He also hit out at Busching over his description of the rapes. In particular, Mr Fülscher said Büsching’s testimony gave three contradictory accounts of the offences.
Similarly, he said Seyfurth’s testimony, in which he also claimed to have seen video of the rapes, was “of the lowest level” and “lacked a minimum degree of consistency.”
‘Highest category of danger’
A report provided by Dr Christian Riedeman, the forensic psychiatrist, painted a grim picture of Brückner.
Ms Riedemann testified that Brückner falls into the “highest category of danger”, describing him as a serious threat to society.
She also revealed that he wrote disturbing stories with graphic descriptions and drawings detailing the rape of women and children.
This revelation further fueled the prosecution’s narrative of Brückner as a dangerous and calculating individual.
Yet, despite the damning psychological profile, the defence suggested there were several discrepancies between the alleged crimes in the current trial and Brückner’s previous convictions.
They argued that his modus operandi was different because of how he interacted with the victims and the language used during the attacks. The defence maintained doubt on whether he is the perpetrator in all the cases being brought before the court.
But throughout the trial, Brückner sat impassively – appearing gaunt and detached – and did not make any official statement before the court.
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“When in the media, a person is here described as a sex monster and a pervert, then it influences the witness.”
So use of the media in this manner backfired then...
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Christian Brueckner: Madeleine McCann suspect cleared of other crimes
His acquittal in a German court may hinder attempts to charge Brueckner with the British girl’s abduction and murder in 2007
Rob Hyde, Braunschweig
Tuesday October 08 2024, 9.12am BST, The Times
The German paedophile who is the prime suspect in the abduction of the British toddler Madeleine McCann has been cleared of sex offences against five other girls and women in a significant setback for the investigators.
The acquittal means Christian Brueckner may be released from prison early next year and is also likely to raise hurdles to charging him with Madeleine’s kidnap and murder.
Prosecutors in Germany say they are convinced that Brueckner, 47, a prolific criminal with a record of rape and sexual abuse, took the three-year-old girl from her parents’ rented holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.
They have yet to level any charges against him in the McCann case and he has repeatedly denied any involvement.
Instead Brueckner, who is nearing the end of a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of an American pensioner, was tried for a range of unrelated offences he was alleged to have committed against various female victims in Portugal from 2000 to 2017.
They included masturbating in front of a ten-year-old German girl on a beach, sexually abusing a German teenager at his home in the Algarve and raping an Irish tour representative called Hazel Behan, who was 20 years old at the time.
However, after a string of apparent missteps by the prosecution, Brueckner was found not guilty on all counts by Braunschweig regional court on Tuesday.
The prosecutors had leant heavily on witness statements that were frequently muddled and on the purported existence of video tapes documenting the rape of two women who could not be identified.
Behan, 40, gave a lucid account of how she had been threatened at knifepoint, tied up and repeatedly raped by a masked intruder who had clambered into her apartment through the balcony. However, because of the mask, the court ruled there was insufficient evidence that Brueckner had been the culprit.
Voices raised at tense trial
The trial was a highly strung and at times disorderly affair punctuated by angry skirmishes between the prosecutors and Brueckner’s defence.
On occasions Uta Engemann, the presiding judge, whom the prosecutors had accused of bias towards the defence, felt obliged to shout to calm proceedings.
Even before the prosecution had finished stating its case, Engemann ruled the evidence against Brueckner was so “insufficient” that the warrant for his arrest — a technical measure to ensure he could be taken back into custody in the event of his release from prison — was to be lifted.
On Monday, the last day of the trial, Friedrich Fülscher, Brueckner’s chief defence lawyer, embarked on a tirade against the prosecutors, who he said had been seeking to inflict “maximum damage on professional judges”. He added: “Almost without exception, your criticism was unjustified and of an unusually low level.”
The botched prosecution was carried out by the team in Braunschweig that is leading the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
While the latest verdict has no direct legal bearing on the McCann case, it may complicate the efforts to bring Brueckner to trial for her abduction.
He will now be set free from prison in early 2025 unless a court issues an order for him to be taken into preventative custody, a mechanism in German law that is used to detain serial offenders believed to pose a significant danger to the public.
It will also embolden Brueckner’s defence lawyers and increase the pressure on the prosecutors to hold back on charging him until they can demonstrate that they have amassed an irrefutable body of evidence.
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So use of the media in this manner backfired then...
The McCanns use of the media was a major factor in their losing at the ECHR
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https://www.bild.de/news/maddie-verdaechtiger-christian-brueckner-freigesprochen-6704e750a527c45ced0ab07d
Der auch im Fall Maddie verdächtige Christian Brückner ist vom Landgericht Braunschweig vom Vorwurf mehrerer schwerer Sexualstraftaten freigesprochen worden. Der 47-jährige Deutsche bleibt aber im Gefängnis, weil er noch bis September 2025 eine Haftstrafe wegen Vergewaltigung absitzt.
several serious sexual crimes. The 47-year-old German remains in prison because he is serving a sentence for rape until September 2025.
Das Gericht um die Vorsitzende Dr. Uta Engemann befand Brückner in allen fünf Anklagepunkten für nicht schuldig. Brückner stand wegen drei Vergewaltigungen und zwei Fällen sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern vor Gericht.
Brückner was on trial for three counts of rape and two cases of sexual abuse of children.
Nach 38 Verhandlungstagen vor der Strafkammer sprachen die drei Berufsrichter und zwei Schöffen
den Angeklagten frei. Richterin Engemann sagte: „Wir sind nicht den Erwartungen der Stammtische verpflichtet.“
Die Kammer könne sich nicht nachsagen lassen, sie hätte sich keine Mühe gegeben.
After 38 days of proceedings before the criminal chamber, the three professional judges and two lay judges acquitted
the defendant. Judge Engemann said: “We are not obliged to meet the expectations of the regulars.” The chamber cannot
be said to have made no effort.
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But they are Shameless!
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Entsetzen im Gerichtssaal-Maddie-Verdächtiger im Vergewaltigungsprozess freigesprochen!
HORROR IN THE COURTROOM: Maddie suspect acquitted in rape trial!
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The Time being - to influence the Outcome of the ECHR Case McCann vs Portugal.
A Case the McCanns LOST.
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Sounds like a conspiracy story to me. Maybe Mariana Spring could "verify" it.
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