I don't pay much attention to the case against Brueckner tbh. Because there isn't one.
Ignorance is bliss eh?
I wouldn’t read the following either if I were you. Posted as a little reminder about Spam’s hero:
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner’s emails ‘relevant to disappearance’
Defence lawyers for the prime suspect in the case said information from his computer hard-drive was seized without permission
April 03 2024, 10.20pm
Tito Stampa, an investigator from the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, said while giving evidence in an unrelated case that police had located three separate Hotmail accounts belonging to Christian Brueckner.
The BKA was handed Christian Brueckner’s hard-drive by an unnamed female witness in Portugal.
Brueckner is on trial in Braunschweig, accused of carrying out sex attacks on women and children in Portugal, where he was living when Madeleine vanished in 2007.
• Who is Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner?
The 47-year-old has denied involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance from the southern resort of Praia da Luz. Four years ago he was named as the prime suspect in the case, although he has not been charged.
Friedrich Fülscher, Brueckner’s lawyer, said the hard-drive seized in Portugal should be dismissed as evidence heard in court
Friedrich Fülscher, Brueckner’s lawyer, said the hard-drive seized in Portugal should be dismissed as evidence heard in court
JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/DPA/ALAMY LIVE NEWS
Friedrich Fülscher, Brueckner’s lawyer, said: “This is simply not allowed. The German police can’t simply go and secure evidence in another country without any authorisation.
“The Portuguese authorities were not even informed … It is as if the German police just went to England and started carrying out a police investigation there and then seizing evidence and flying it back to Germany. It’s outrageous.”
Stampa said that in 2017 the BKA had applied to Microsoft Ireland for permission to securely access the Hotmail accounts, which it was granted in 2018.
However, the investigators found the inboxes’ contents had been completely deleted for the first half of 2007, including May, the time when Madeleine disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday. In the outboxes they discovered that Brueckner had sent obscene photos and various versions of two stories depicting abduction and abuse.
The prosecution said that detectives found a copy of one of the stories on a USB stick during a police search in 2016 on Brueckner’s dilapidated box factory site in Neuwegersleben, east Germany.
Madeleine McCann went missing while on holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal
Madeleine McCann went missing while on holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal
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The defence has consistently tried to prevent the details of the Portugal hard-drive from being heard in court, arguing that it was seized without permission. They also argue that prosecutors cannot prove that Brueckner was the author of the stories.
Brueckner is in a high-security prison in Oldenburg, near Bremen, serving a seven-year sentence for the rape of a woman in Portugal in 2005.
His trial involves allegations that he raped a woman in June 2004 in Praia da Rocha, and later raped and abused a teenage girl and an elderly woman at his house in Praia da Luz between December 2000 and June 2006.
He is also accused of exposing himself and masturbating in front of children on at least two occasions while in Portugal and, separately, insulting prison officers in Germany.
The trial continues.