Yup. The Hat. That's the one. Meanwhile, Brueckner went entirely unnoticed. I really can't get my head round that.
It is evident that Amaral knew all about Brueckner being on police radar right from the word go. So in effect Brueckner was never 'new' in Madeleine's disappearance. He was there right from the beginning. And Amaral knew all about him.
The Portuguese prosecutors said,
The non involvement of the arguidos parents of Madeleine in any penally relevant action seems to result from the objective circumstances of them- not being inside the apartment when she disappeared
- from the normal behaviour that they adopted until said disappearance
- and afterwards
- as can be amply concluded from the witness statements
- from the telephone communications analysis
- and also from the forensics' conclusions
- namely the Reports from the FSS
- and from the National Institute for Legal Medicine
- To this can be added that, in reality, none of the indications that led to their constitution as arguidos was later confirmed or consolidated.
- If not, let us see:
the information concerning a previous alert of the media before the polices was not confirmed - the traces that were marked by the dogs were not ratified in laboratory
- and the initial indications from the above transcribed email, better clarified at a later date, ended up being revealed as innocuous.
Amaral knew all of that.
Yet he has continued his vendetta against Kate and Gerry McCann ever since 2007 and even now as he defends Brueckner in the media as he interferes with the German investigation of Madeleine's case.
Amaral also knew that Brueckner had been on police radar during his watch. He also knew that no-one on his team had interviewed him. We know this because he told us so while at the same time continuing to publicise his slurs against Gerry McCann.
All those years when he knew about Brueckner and never once thought to tip the wink about him. Very strange.