That's a Portuguese lawyer who wouldn't represent him in Germany anyway, I would think.
Which is why I have said there is no significance to the fact he is not representing Brueckner.
What is significant though is his assessment of his former client ~
Mr Vieira represented career criminal Christian B in 2006, when he spent eight months in jail in Portugal for petrol theft.
And the lawyer said that he believed the suspect may have admitted his guilt to that charge to stop police searching a farmhouse near Praia da Luz.
That meant the country’s authorities were not aware he lived there when Madeleine – who disappeared in May 2007 – later went missing from the family’s holiday apartment in the town.Which in reality meant that the authorities missed the opportunity of recovering proof of his criminality from the belongings (or one should say other folks' belongings, from the proceeds of theft secreted there).
Still as the saying goes "no loss what a friend gets" his friends following instructions to make his dwelling look as if it had been ransacked cleared it for him. Ultimately aided and abetted by concerned neighbours who completed the clean up.
Amaral didn't bother too much about tracking down sex offences which had taken place in the near vicinity of the Ocean Club resort. Neither did he do anything about checking linkage with the other missing child case only seven miles away and that is certainly a case he knew all about.
