JANUARY 9TH, 2022 - 2:31 PM
NEW DOCUMENTARY FROM ENGLAND RAISES QUESTIONS
Does the Maddie suspect have an alibi?
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Source: BILD
articleby: KAI FELDHAUS AND CELAL CAKARpublished on
January 9th, 2022 - 2:25 pm
Praia da Luz - Are the investigations against Christian Brückner (45) over? A British TV documentary claims: The Maddie suspect should have an alibi for the night of the crime!
It has been known since June 2020 that the BKA and the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office consider the convicted pedophile to be the man who kidnapped little Maddie McCann (then 3) on May 3, 2007 from an apartment in the Algarve and killed her.
A new documentary from Great Britain claims that Christian Brückner had an alibi for the night of the crime
But the makers of the show, which is to be broadcast in England at the end of January, claim Brückner was "30 minutes away from the crime scene" at the time of the crime.
What's behind it?
BILD knows: There is a woman who claims to have spent almost every evening with Brückner around the time of the crime in May 2007. The police have already interrogated her. She couldn't remember whether the two were together on the evening of the crime, said the German. However, the suspect showed no change in behavior after Maddie's disappearance on May 3.
Even more: In the days after Maddie's disappearance, both even got into a police checkpoint, where officers were looking for Maddie. Here, too, Brückner did not behave conspicuously.
Maddie McCann disappeared from an apartment in Portugal on May 3, 2007
A pound of the German investigators against the suspect was always that a cell phone number assigned to Christian Brückner was dialed into a radio cell near the crime scene at the time of the crime. The TV documentary sowed doubts: The cell phone could have been used on the evening of the crime by another German who so far only appeared as a witness.
Is the witness credible?
Profiler and bestselling author Axel Petermann (69 "On behalf of the dead" ) knows the Maddie McCann case. He worked for the criminal police in Bremen for almost four decades, including more than 35 years as a homicide investigator.
Profiler Axel Petermann does not yet take the statements of Brückner's friends as an alibi
Profiler Axel Petermann does not yet take the statements of Brückner's friends as an alibi
Photo: picture alliance / Frank May
He to BILD: “How well can Brückner's acquaintances assess him? Can the witness determine the 'zero line' at Brückner in normal situations in order to notice changes in stressful situations: What was his choice of words, his voice, his body language - is the witness even able to recognize a change in behavior? Why were there evenings when you didn't always seem to see each other? "
And with regard to the police control: “Brückner may have reacted coolly in the control situation because he is generally a 'cool down' guy and was not specifically checked when Christian Brückner was checked. Of course you get nervous in such a situation, but many more people are checked during such a check. But if Brückner had nothing with him that could establish a connection between him and the crime, then that could also be why he stayed calm. For me, the statement made by Brückner's friends is not yet to be seen as an alibi. "
Brückner's lawyer Friedrich Fülscher could not be reached for a statement.
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Is that it?