Dear Sadie, Some of us have some difficulty with your explanation and find it all much more simple. This doesn't make you wrong. But you do complicate the whole thing.
There are different ways of looking at things Elli - and it is right that the different possibilities should be mentioned IMO
You must remember that Scotland Yard are noticeably not agreeing with the German view and I think that may well be based upon my research, and reasoned belief that Madeleine was alive and well in 2012 - but we shall see.
I hate to be part of the madding crowd especially in cases such as this, and think it only right that my alternative lateral thinking should be mentioned. I realise that maybe nobody follows my route, but it is there, and maybe some day soon, eyes will be opened.
I think that it is quite possible that CB was involved in an abduction of Madeleine, but I would hate for him to take the rap so that the barstewards that wholesale organise abductions and trafficking get off scot free.
No matter how elite they are, they must be stopped.
I would also hate for him to go down for murder if Madeleine is still alive.
I believe in Justice and that he should go down solely for what he has done. I think that there must be something big that he has done because of his boast to his friends on May 2nd about big money coming his way. It seems highly likely that he was commissioned to take Madeleine.
And because of the date he made that boast and other things, like everyone else, I think that it is likely he is involved ….. but I don't know and neither does anyone on here unless physically involved.
Anyhow, we must wait and see. May CB get his just deserts; No more, No less