Is the above your explanation for why he’s being set up? It’s not a very good explanation is it?
Do I care what you think Id be long gone if i did VS....

Now going back to the phone The Germans seem desperate to show the phone belonged to CB.
IMO it could have belonged to anyone, a lot of calls were deleted from the famous 9 mobiles.
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Importance of cell phones and witnesses in the investigation
On the matter of the cell phones and the association of the cell phone numbers during the investigation at the time of the disappearance, Gonçalo Amaral has doubts about the origin of those numbers recently associated with the German suspect Christian Brueckner:
"Is anyone sure that this phone belongs to this man?” he questioned, underlining that "small details like this, is what makes the evidence".
The former PJ believes that if the German police knew that the phone number belonged to Brueckner, "they wouldn't need to seek for more information."