Repeating what he was told?
'I have been told by colleagues, who are retired like me, that they had come knocking on the door. That person was not at home.' Amaral said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8450247/Portuguese-police-tried-quiz-Madeleine-McCann-suspect-Christian-Brueckner-vanished.html
He was all over the airwaves at the time pushing his interpretation of events as he sought to undermine the German investigation into Bruekner.
He knew what he was about ... the emergence of the German prime suspect made mincemeat of his well publicised theories. I don't think he is coping well with that particularly with his career as a pundit on all things Madeleine likely to take a savage hit.
José Alberto Carvalho: Very well. Gonçalo Amaral, at the time, one can now understand, and I wanted to ask you this: Christian Brueckner was one of the people who came to be identified as one of the people of interest for the investigation at the time, as far as it was reported there were 6… 600 people or over time it was accumulated 600 people time who could be of interest for the investigation…
Gonçalo Amaral: A lot of diligences within the process, surveys were done...
JAC: Was Christian Brueckner one of those 600 people or not?GA: Only rereading the whole process finding...
JAC: You have no memory of that?GA: I have been told that yes, that there went there knocking on the door, colleagues who are retired like me and who said that the person was not at home. But there were hundreds...
JAC: But, that is, but it must have been...GA: They were in the hundreds, as, and not only of that type of typology but above all paedophiles...
JAC: But note one thing Gonçalo Amaral, the, the question that is here... but the question that is here is...GA: It could have been theft, we also...
JAC: We know that he served a sentence...GA: …did a survey of burglars, namely burglary in apartments, and apparently this man was not in the list of apartment burglaries, he will have stolen…
JAC: Fuel...GA: Yes, fuel.
JAC: Yes, but now what is known about... apparently what is known about this man is truly worrying, about... from various points of view...GA: It's like I say, an almost perfect suspect...
JAC: But, but... but it is known that he has a long record of sexual crimes...
GA: Hmmm, hmmm.
JAC: …that in contrary to seem to be other such criminals, who do not have a particular fixation on a certain age, there are, there are apparently random behaviours, moreover he is sentenced for the rape of an American tourist…GA: What I heard...
JAC: …75 years old at, at… the rape happened…GA: Yes...
JAC: …at Praia da Luz…GA: Yes, yes...
JAC: You know also... anyway, I would like to... that is, what I would like to understand is if he was investigated and if... why did the interest in him disappear, or if he was never taken seriously, with the information that was there at the time?GA: You know... the, the information there was about paedophiles was only that they were paedophiles and people who were close to the village and as José Alberto said, they are in the hundreds and it is not possible to investigate each one in detail. Going further, I remember that, for example, we reached Albufeira… Albufeira [60Km East of PdL] and Tavira [120 km East of PdL] and so on, and investigations cannot be done that way…
JAC: Gonçalo Amaral, but wait, this rape of this American tourist...
GA:… and note, and note, what if…
JAC: ...was two years before Madeleine's disappearance...GA: …what if… say again?
JAC: The rape of the 72 year old American tourist, I said 75…
GA: When was it communicated in terms to the PJ?
JAC: When was it?GA: I don't know (shrugs)...
JAC: No... I don't know...GA: I didn’t know of it at the time.
JAC: There was no… no, if… the lady filed a complaint…GA: We, for example, I can tell you...
JAC: ...the lady made a complaint...GA: Where?
JAC: (…)GA: When?
AC: (…)GA: Yes, in terms of the PJ, in terms of knowing... and if we are looking for a paedophile...
JAC: Because this man...GA: …or are we looking for a, a, a rapist of adults?
JAC: No, no, no... of course...GA: I remind you...
JAC: ...but it happened two, two years earlier and he, he is now being held in a German prison, exactly serving a sentence, for this crime... this is the crime that led him to, now, to prison. And then it was possible...GA: And he was identified much later...
JAC: He was identified in 2018...
AC: (…)
GA: Yes, in terms of the PJ, in terms of knowing... and if we are looking for a paedophile...
JAC: Because this man...GA: …or are we looking for a, a, a rapist of adults?
JAC: No, no, no... of course...GA: I remind you...
JAC: ...but it happened two, two years earlier and he, he is now being held in a German prison, exactly serving a sentence, for this crime... this is the crime that led him to, now, to prison. And then it was possible...
GA: And he was identified much later...
JAC: He was identified in 2018...
GA: Well ... there it is, so in 2007 he wasn't identified.
JAC: …based on 2 evidences… based on two essential evidences….
GA: In 2007 he was not identified.
JAC: ...but there is hair that was found on the victim's bed...
GA: Yes...
JAC: …victim of the rape that was preserved and that now has allowed to update and make a match, make the…
GA: Yes. But that's another investigation, not the…
JAC: Certainly.GA: ...Maddie case, it's another investigation ...
JAC: But it turns out that this man, who stayed in the Algarve and in that region for some time, it is how this is explained)… this is how, how I try to understand, the photographs that were released by the German police about the houses, the places , vehicles, etc ... and I would also like to hear you about this, about, about these... this exercise from the German police which is to appeal to the memory of someone with some details very... I don't know if they are subtle, no... but, anyway, with some details and, and… do the photographs tell you something, for example, be it of the houses or of the vehicles that the German police revealed?GA: I think the appeal serves what it serves, because for example the motorhome was removed, it was taken from Portugal to Germany to be examined, so from there...
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