I don't know if Amaral had information about Brueckner's appearance at any time during his residency in the Algarve and elsewhere.
Nor do I know what information regarding Brueckner if any, Amaral was privy to. Although I do find it pretty alarming when you post the suggestion that Amaral- knew about Brueckner at the time of Madeleine's disappearance
- to the extent of Amaral knowing what Brueckner looked like
- but did absolutely nothing about conducting a process of investigating known paedophiles for elimination purposes - preferring instead to investigate the mother of the missing child in the midst of a propaganda war fomented by Amaral
According to a translation supplied by Textusa an interviewer did ask the pertinent question and got short shrift when Amaral's response rather suggests he wasn't really bothered ~
JAC: You know also... anyway, I would like to... that is, what I would like to understand is if he was investigated and if... why did the interest in him disappear, or if he was never taken seriously, with the information that was there at the time?
GA: You know... the, the information there was about paedophiles was only that they were paedophiles and people who were close to the village and as José Alberto said, they are in the hundreds and it is not possible to investigate each one in detail. Going further, I remember that, for example, we reached Albufeira… Albufeira [60Km East of PdL] and Tavira [120 km East of PdL] and so on, and investigations cannot be done that way…
Interesting that.
In the midst of a missing child case a senior investigating officer dismisses investigating paedophiles and years later gives misleading information about a suspect already convicted and serving time for child abuse amongst other offences.
I think that information requires to be given some very serious contemplation indeed.
Sigh. You know there's quite a difference between being a paedophile (having a decades old conviction for child molestation) & being a child abductor.
Right?
Were the PJ supposed to be kicking down the doors of everyone who'd ever touched a child, been to prison, served their sentence then never offended again, just on the off chance the might have found their way to the Ocean Club on May 3rd?
The impression I get here is that the answer would be 'YES', & as Amaral explains, investigations
can't be conducted that way.
Probable cause is needed.
But no, of course, Brueckner touched a couple of girls in his native Germany ten years prior, so obviously the police should have been tracking him down & kneeling on his neck the very moment Maddie disappeared. Even though there was absolutely nothing to suggest that he in particular, could be responsible for her disappearance.