New German suspect in Madeleine McCann mystery disappearance.

[Brietta]

According to Amaral the PT police ruled him out in 2008.

He had been sacked from the case before that just after Madeleine's parents were made arguidos so I doubt if his investigation had picked up on him and Amaral certainly was ruled by his own mindset.

[barrier]

Please don't be sillier about this than is absolutely necessary.  It is the German police who will have the responsibility of inditing him if there is enough evidence to charge him.  If he is charged he will go through due process in the German Courts.
That hasn't happened yet.

What jurisdiction will a German court have over a crime committed in Portugal ?

[barrier]

Sometimes he worked as a waiter.

He was a burglar.

He was an itinerant with easy access to vehicles and property in or near Pria da Luz ... where he was on the night Madeleine vanished.

What a profile!

Yet it appears that Amaral didn't manage to pick up on any of that and check it out at the time.

That's it then nailed on cert.

[Mr Gray]

What jurisdiction will a German court have over a crime committed in Portugal ?

It does seem strange but according to the report he was tried and convicted in Germany re the rape of a woman in portugal

[steve_trousers]

Was the victim German that would make sense

[Lace]

He may be the one who took Madeleine from her bed,  he was a burglar so knew how to get into the apartments.  I think IMO he passed her on to an accomplice [Smithman]  who was taking her to German mans  camper van.  IMO

[Mr Gray]

Was the victim German that would make sense

According to the report no... American. I think that for serious crimes abroad the fact that he is German means he can be tried in Germany

[Heriberto Janosch]

Sometimes he worked as a waiter.

He was a burglar.

He was an itinerant with easy access to vehicles and property in or near Pria da Luz ... where he was on the night Madeleine vanished.

What a profile!

Yet it appears that Amaral didn't manage to pick up on any of that and check it out at the time.

When I was interviewed by the BBC in 2017 I said: "What OG has to do to solve the case, is to locate the burglar(s) that was(were) active, close in space and time to Madeleine's abduction." But that part did not appeared in the TV programme.

Anyway, making an appeal is very dangerous. I think new witnesses testimonies can not be taken as proof. They have to get more solid evidence like photos and the like. Even OG is not totally sure if the phone number they published was of the 43 yo german.

[Carana]

Wow.  Someone Abducts a small child and then spends 30 minutes talking to the other person that helped.  I don't suppose we could know where he was at the time, could we?  And how Madeleine was.  Still asleep was she?

Someone phoned HIM for over half an hour (call ending 20:02) and the call placed him in PdL.

[Heriberto Janosch]

... and who went to some lengths to change the ownership details of his car the very next day?

Not sure he changed the ownership the next day. That was said by the media, not by the German police:

"The last know registration after the day of the offence was a city of Augsburg registration."

[Carana]

It was nice of Operation Grange to tip off Sky News and Martin Brunt so he could take a flight to Portugal at a time when only essential international travel should be undertaken so that he could do a report as Op Grange were going public with their latest suspect.

COVID-19 Exceptional Travel Advisory Notice - The Foreign & Commonwealth Office currently advises British nationals against all but essential international travel.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/portugal

Was he reporting from PdL?

[Brietta]

Was the victim German that would make sense

American

[Carana]

Doesn't sound much like a paedophile if he targeted older women.

He'd already been convicted for child sexual offences (and drug trafficking). Some people aren't that fussy.
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[Carana]

Not sure what you’re implying here. According to your narrative MM was alive at 7:30pm. We don’t know the significance of the call but I believe the German authorities are right to try to trace the recipient.

The recipient is the suspect.

[Brietta]

Someone phoned HIM for over half an hour (call ending 20:02) and the call placed him in PdL.

Half an hour is a long time to chat on a mobile to someone who knows how to enter properties.  In my opinion it might be an indication that Madeleine was targeted for someone else and the reason why SY hold on to the hope she may still be alive.