Brueckner is a nasty piece of work and unfit to be released into society I agree but his connection with Madeleine's disappearance is extremely tenuous and in my view hangs by a very thin thread. It will indeed be interesting to see what develops in the weeks and months ahead.
I agree with every word of that post, John.
I have posted a cite on one of the threads to the effect that Scotland Yard have been on Brueckner's case since the tenth anniversary.
They developed that line of inquiry from information passed to them routinely by the German police. Who were already interested in him regarding the case of five year old Inga, who vanished in 2015.
The Portuguese police have also been on his case since the tenth anniversary.
"... after the suspect had made a "disturbing comment" in a bar in Germany, as they were watching TV news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine going missing.
Since that time, the official said Portuguese police have been making house-to-house enquiries speaking to those that knew him between 1996 and 2007.
Christian B was later extradited from Portugal to Germany on drugs charges."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52935728Making him a person of interest and worthy of investigation by three national police forces. That he is still of interest to all three and indeed the prime suspect three years down the line speaks volumes for me.
If he is guilty of abducting Madeleine he has had thirteen years to erase evidence which given his wandering lifestyle would have been difficult for the police to make sense of even at the time of Madeleine's disappearance in 2007.
Bearing in mind that Amaral told us Brueckner was eliminated from the inquiry at that time (2007)
although he omitted to say why. But the present police will have access to that information.
I too think it will take months before we hear much more from official sources. For example it will be necessary to sort through and collate the added information arising from the recent appeals for information.