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Madeleine McCann - new suspect

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KatherineJaneway · 03/06/2020 19:24

A 43-year-old German prisoner who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52914016]

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Sonotech · 05/06/2020 15:46

Why are you a conspiracy theorist if you dont fully believe the parents are the innocent party?

The only innocent party in this was Madeline. She was left alone and she vanished.

Too many fuck ups by the police, too many inconsistencies within statements. I do t think we will ever find our what happened to that poor child. She is the only innocent party here.

Iadoremylabrador · 05/06/2020 15:53

Jane Tanna, one of the tapas group, saw a man walk across the road in front of her carrying a child across the road ahead of her (left to right). He was walking away from the McCann's apartment. He was later ruled out (announced on Crimewatch by the lead investigator) as a man came forward saying it was him that was carrying his daughter from the night crèche back to his apartment. The only issue was with this was that he would have been walking back from the night creche which was on the right and going to the left side of the road. But he'd kept his daughters pyjamas and still had the same clothes that matched JTs description so this sighting was ruled out.

The other sighting was by Mr Smith and his family (they were Irish) of a man carrying a child like how Gerry had carried one of the twins off the plane. Mr Smith later said he was 80 % sure it was Gerry McCann but then later changed his statement to say it wasn't. Also it couldn't have been GM because this would have been at the time the alarm was raised.

knittingaddict · 05/06/2020 15:55

No, you're a conspiracy theorist if you believe the McCanns sold their child to Hilary Clinton's paedophile ring (assuming that's what the link was to).

I'll have to click on the bloody link now.

BlancheDuBlah · 05/06/2020 15:58

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knittingaddict · 05/06/2020 15:58

Soubriquet can't even see what it's about. Interpretation please?

Sonotech · 05/06/2020 16:08

Soubriquet I’ve reported this post as the link takes you to a disturbing facebook page. Not cool at all

knittingaddict · 05/06/2020 16:18

Does it? I did click on it, but I deleted my FB page years ago and couldn't make see enough detail to confirm what I thought it would be about.

CoronaIsShit · 05/06/2020 16:23

Wasn’t that the basic conclusion of the initial Portuguese police investigation led by Amaral Blanche. He wrote a book on it.

GiantKitten · 05/06/2020 16:30

The details here about the Skype chat, the missing German child, & the lack of proper investigation are chilling.

There was children’s clothing in his accommodation but nobody thought that worth pursuing Hmm

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/05/madeleine-mccann-suspect-christian-bruckner-being-investigated-over-second-missing-girl

Madeleine McCann - new suspect
Madeleine McCann - new suspect
NameChange84 · 05/06/2020 16:37

That is an absolutely vomit inducing article.

What a complete and utter psychopath. Evil personified.

GiantKitten · 05/06/2020 16:38

@Smallsteps88

Why was this man extradited to Germany for crimes he committed in Portugal? OR have I got that wrong?

He was extradited from Italy in connection with something else, and then charged & convicted with the Portugal rape.
EU law apparently says you should only be charged with the crime you were extradited for in the first place, which is what the appeal is about, & might let him be freed.
(To answer your question though - I don’t know!)

Smallsteps88 · 05/06/2020 16:41

Thanks giantkitten so the German judicial system might have messed up in charging him for the Portugal crimes whilst he was extradited for different crimes?

esmereldaP · 05/06/2020 16:41

Jesus wept. That's a heart sinking article. WTAF they found little girls clothing inside his house and just figured oh well?! They closed the investigation after only 4 weeks of looking for that poor German child? WHAT!?

GiantKitten · 05/06/2020 16:45

And that was 5 years ago.

I’m surprised to find German police can be so casual. I hope to god there haven’t been any others, as yet unconnected to him, while he was free Angry

Paperchainpopp · 05/06/2020 16:47

I’m surprised they are still working on the case. I feel sorry for Madeleine but the parents Confused I feel they shouldn't have left her alone in the first place not to mention the other kids

lemmathelemmin · 05/06/2020 16:49

Have a feeling that the truth about her disappearance will remain a mystery forever.

knittingaddict · 05/06/2020 16:49

I feel they shouldn't have left her alone in the first place

Yeh, we know. Hmm

Smallsteps88 · 05/06/2020 17:00

There seems to be a whole load of oversights not just in Madeleine’s disappearance but in other investigations too. Is it just a learned culture or is it a financial restraints thing? Why wouldn’t they follow up on finding children’s clothes on the home of a man they were investigating for child abduction? It makes no sense.

CoronaIsShit · 05/06/2020 17:06

Interestingly the Portuguese chief detective who was later thrown off the case and discredited gave an interview for an Australian podcast in April 2019 saying a German suspect, who had been investigated and his ‘caravan’ taken to Germany for forensic testing in 2008, would be used as a ‘scapegoat’ to wind up the investigation. Not mentioned in the MS media but quite a few reports on it.

How very odd!

esmereldaP · 05/06/2020 17:07

Or they're corrupt...to close a case after 4 weeks when you find child's clothing in the home of a known pedophile isn't just incompetence

Papatron · 05/06/2020 17:09

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CoronaIsShit · 05/06/2020 17:10

Sorry it was reported to MSM, well The Sun.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/11781188/madeleine-mccann-german-paedophile/amp/

GiantKitten · 05/06/2020 17:11

Maybe the “scapegoat” would have been identified a lot sooner if he’d done his job properly Angry

SouthWestmom · 05/06/2020 17:14

Interesting choice of word there 'a piss up' Loaded, and probably incorrect. They went for dinner. Not ever read any reports indicating they were drunks as skunks. Nice to embellish things though, to window dress your own theory.

CoronaIsShit · 05/06/2020 17:15

According to what I’ve read, he was investigated. His van was forensically tested in Germany and nothing was found at the time Giant.

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