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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2020 2:37:54 GMT
Serial sexual predator, pedophile, drug trafficker, thief and drifter Christian Brueckner, identified as the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case in June, is having quite the tough life in solitary confinement in a German prison cell in the town of Kiel in Lower Saxony, he has lamented, according to the Mirror. Suspected to have abducted three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her family’s hotel room in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, Brueckner, 43, spends all but one hour each day in his tiny prison cell. Going outside? Only allowed once a day. Mixing with other prisoners? That’s been nixed. It’s all apparently for his protection since European investigators pegged him as the one who snatched the famously missing little girl 13 years ago. The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case reportedly has a TV in his cell and stacks of legal pads sitting on his shelves. A sketch by Brueckner, obtained by newspaper Bild, shows a bed, desk and shelving unit in the tiny room, which are all fixed to the floor. The black-and-white sketch depicts trial records and mail on the shelves of the cell in which the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case passes 23 hours of each day. Since being extradited to his native Germany from Portugal in 2017, Brueckner has served a 15-month sentence for possessing child porn and sexually assaulting the five-year-old daughter of a friend in 2013. He has also been convicted of drug trafficking, and is in the middle of the sentence for that offence. In January, he’ll start a seven-year sentence stemming from his December 2019 conviction for raping a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005.
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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2020 20:31:21 GMT
MADELEINE McCann prime suspect Christian B's ex-girlfriend has reportedly been quizzed by police in a "gruelling" 12 hour interview. German cops told the 45-year-old British woman she will be a "crucial witness" if the paedophile goes to trial over the 2007 abduction of the three-year-old. Detectives flew to the Algarve and questioned her over her relationship with Christian B who is suspected to have kidnapped and murdered Madeleine, reports the Mirror. She reportedly works as a barmaid in the popular tourist region which includes the resort town of Praia Da Luz, where Madeleine was snatched from and Christian B lived around the same time. The woman is said to be living in fear and is too scared to reveal her identity. She claims he terrorised her while they were together and dreads one day he may be freed from prison. Cops are said to have assured her that Christian B will remain behind bars for a long time as the investigation continues into his alleged links to Madeleine. German police interrogated the woman for 12 hours and described her as an "important character witness". She was originally due to be flown to Germany to face questioning, but is reported to have refused to leave Portugal. The interview last month reportedly was the first time German cops have been allowed to work the case in Portugal. Other former colleagues from a Lagos bar where both she and Christian B worked were also reportedly interviewed by detectives. German proseuctors have consistently said they believe Madeleine is dead and they are sure the convicted paedophile is behind her abduction. However, no charges have been filed and fears grow that police may never be able to bring a case against him. A pal told The Mirror: "They wanted to know everything she knew about Christian and all about everything he did to her. "They said every little detail about him was useful to help analyse behaviour patterns." The source added: "They told her not to worry about him being released. They said he’s going to be inside for a very, very long time. " "It was grueling and upsetting for her. She was really upset but they reassured her, saying she was an important character witness." Christian B is said to have tormented his ex when they dated in 2004 and 2005 - two years before Madeleine vanished from her family's holiday flat at the Ocean Club.
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2020 21:20:51 GMT
A new suspect has emerged in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The focus on him is the latest in a series of twists and turns in one of the most high-profile missing person cases in recent history, which saw the three-year-old disappear from a holiday apartment in the Portuguese resort Praia da Luz in 2007. Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt has been on Christian B's trail in Portugal and Germany to find out more about him. Among the inmates of Kiel's high-security jail in northern Germany, there is one prisoner who has become the most notorious of all. He's isolated for his own protection and allowed to exercise, alone, for only one hour a day. With publication of his full name restricted under German privacy laws, he is only known as Christian B - but there can't be many who don't know exactly who he is. It's three months since the convicted paedophile, rapist and drug trafficker was identified as the latest suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, suspected of abducting and killing the little British girl who vanished 13 years ago during a family holiday in Portugal. The case against him is circumstantial - he is a convicted paedophile, he lived in the area, and on the night she disappeared, his mobile phone was in use nearby. The next day he changed the registration of one of his vehicles. As investigators continue to search for the vital evidence they need to charge him with Madeleine's abduction, Christian B is now the subject of three new investigations in Portugal. I've covered the Madeleine McCann mystery since she disappeared. Over the years I've reported on various suspects, all of them eventually ruled out, but I wanted to find out, have they got the right man this time? At his office near the reconstructed medieval town centre, Mr Wolters said: "We have found nothing in the past three months to make us think we've got the wrong suspect, but the evidence we have now is the same we had when we made our first appeal on 3 June. "We have had hundreds of calls - 400 to us and hundreds to Scotland Yard - but we haven't got the information we need to charge Christian B. But there are some clues that make us hopeful our investigation will be more successful," he added.
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2020 22:10:02 GMT
The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that the prime suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann can not get a separate conviction overturned. Christian B. was sentenced to seven years in jail in Germany over the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman in Portugal. He had argued the ruling was unlawful because he had been extradited back to Germany for a different matter. But the court found the conviction did not contravene EU law and was justified because Italian authorities, who had delivered the suspect to Germany, had given their consent for him to be prosecuted for the rape case. Christian B. is currently serving a separate sentence for drug trafficking in the northern German city of Kiel. That term was set to end on January 7, 2021. Thursday's court decision means he will have to remain in prison after that date to serve time for the rape conviction. The probe into McCann's disappearance 13 years ago focuses on the 43-year-old German. Prosecutors announced in June that they believed Christian B. had kidnapped and murdered the girl, after years of searching for a firm suspect.
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2020 5:05:47 GMT
The prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann on Thursday lost his bid to be freed from jail, with the European Court of Justice rejecting his appeal against a separate rape conviction.
German police investigating a suspect identified as Christian B. believe he killed Madeleine, whose disappearance in 2007 had sparked a huge international manhunt. In June, German prosecutors announced that they were investigating HIM in connection with the case, saying they have “concrete evidence” he had killed Madeleine. British police are however still treating her disappearance as a missing persons case.
The main suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, Christian B., who challenged his extradition to Germany has had his legal case thrown out by the court in Luxembourg on Thursday, meaning he will stay in prison and may face more prison time.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed the procedures for extraditions, which Germany had complied with, were in fact legal.
"The measure which requires deprivation of liberty taken against a person referred to in the first European Arrest Warrant based on a prior offence different from the one which justified his surrender under the second warrant is not contrary to the EU law if that person's departure from the member state that issued the first warrant was voluntary," said one of the judges at the Luxembourg-based court on Thursday.
In 2018, Christian B., a German citizen, was extradited from Italy to Germany on a European Arrest Warrant for a drugs offence. Later he was convicted of a separate crime, the rape of the 72-year-old American woman in Portugal, where the 3-year-old toddler Madeleine had vanished, and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
The Madeleine McCann case was revitalised in June when German authorities identified Christian B. as a new suspect in the case. The 43-year-old man is currently serving a prison sentence in Kiel.
Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment complex in the Portuguese town of Praia da Luz while her parents were eating dinner at a nearby tapas restaurant on May 3, 2007.
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