Wandering Off Topic

[faithlilly]

Obviously if a child goes missing in mysterious circumstances that very last people you should spend time and money investigating are the local paedos. 

From the PJ Manual of Missing Children Investigation Top Tips: “Save time and money by knocking on local paedos’ doors and walking away before they even have a chance to come to the door, then cross them off as not relevant to the investigation.”

So Brueckner was in, what then?

[Wonderfulspam]

So Brueckner was in, what then?

Brueckner tells the police he's not interested in talking to police, shuts the door in their faces, the PJ are powerless to do anything about it, & Brueckner goes back into his basement & continues taking photos of Maddie.

[Vertigo Swirl]

So Brueckner was in, what then?

Who knows?  They could have asked to come in and look around his place of residence, camper van or wherever he was living at the time, found something linking him to Madeleine such as her pjs, even found her alive, shut away in a cupboard or under a bed, we will never know.  Of course he could have refused to allow them in which would have looked suspicious and they could have got a warrant to conduct a thorough search.  But is this all too much of a bother for the police do you think?

[faithlilly]

Brueckner tells the police he's not interested in talking to police, shuts the door in their faces, the PJ are powerless to do anything about it, & Brueckner goes back into his basement & continues taking photos of Maddie.

This ‘Brueckner wasn’t in so they just went away’ is such a red herring. Even if he was in there is very little that they could have done.

[faithlilly]

Who knows?  They could have asked to come in and look around his place of residence, camper van or wherever he was living at the time, found something linking him to Madeleine such as her pjs, even found her alive, shut away in a cupboard or under a bed, we will never know.  Of course he could have refused to allow them in which would have looked suspicious and they could have got a warrant to conduct a thorough search.  But is this all too much of a bother for the police do you think?

What is the Portuguese law with regard to entering individual’s houses?

[Wonderfulspam]

Who knows?  They could have asked to come in and look around his place of residence, camper van or wherever he was living at the time, found something linking him to Madeleine such as her pjs, even found her alive, shut away in a cupboard or under a bed, we will never know.  Of course he could have refused to allow them in which would have looked suspicious and they could have got a warrant to conduct a thorough search.  But is this all too much of a bother for the police do you think?

You think someone declining to allow police into their home would be sufficient grounds to convince a judge to issue a search warrant?
Seriously?

[Wonderfulspam]

What is the Portuguese law with regard to entering individual’s houses?

Apparently if you committed a crime in a foreign country 12 years prior then they should have reasonable grounds to smash your front door in every time a child goes missing.

[Vertigo Swirl]

What is the Portuguese law with regard to entering individual’s houses?

I have no idea,what the law is wrt to police entering known sex offenders homes, but I’d be surprised if there’s a law against the police asking nicely if they can come in for a look around with the owners’ permission

[Wonderfulspam]

I have no idea,what the law is wrt to police entering known sex offenders homes, but I’d be surprised if there’s a law against the police asking nicely if they can come in for a look around with the owners’ permission

The owner declines.
Next?

[Vertigo Swirl]

One thing I would have done as an investgator would have been to gather together mugshots of all known oaedophiles and sex offenders in the neighbourhood and show them to all the witnesses who claimed to have seen suspicious men in the days leading up to and on the day of Madeleine’s disappearance to see if there were any matches.   

[Wonderfulspam]

One thing I would have done as an investgator would have been to gather together mugshots of all known oaedophiles and sex offenders in the neighbourhood and show them to all the witnesses who claimed to have seen suspicious men in the days leading up to and on the day of Madeleine’s disappearance to see if there were any matches.

They'd have been there for months given the number of suspicious men seen lurking close to the McCanns apartment.

[Wonderfulspam]

This ‘Brueckner wasn’t in so they just went away’ is such a red herring. Even if he was in there is very little that they could have done.

It's just the tired old trope of blaming innocent paedophiles for Madeleine’s disappearance when there's absolutely no evidence paedos in particular were involved in her disappearance.

[faithlilly]

One thing I would have done as an investgator would have been to gather together mugshots of all known oaedophiles and sex offenders in the neighbourhood and show them to all the witnesses who claimed to have seen suspicious men in the days leading up to and on the day of Madeleine’s disappearance to see if there were any matches.

Let’s get back to Brueckner. After opening the door he refuses to let you look about. You have no evidence that anything is amiss. What then ( think Portuguese not British law)?

[Wonderfulspam]

Let’s get back to Brueckner. After opening the door he refuses to let you look about. You have no evidence that anything is amiss. What then ( think Portuguese not British law)?

Throw him to the ground & put a knee on his neck for 9 mins.
That's how they'd handle things in the states.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Let’s get back to Brueckner. After opening the door he refuses to let you look about. You have no evidence that anything is amiss. What then ( think Portuguese not British law)?

I have no idea.  Are you telling me the PJ have no powers to obtain a warrant to search a known paedophile’s premises when a child goes missing in the area?  If that’s the case then like I said at the outset, why even bother knocking on his door in the first place? BTW, didn’t you like my suggestion?  I suppose that’s not allowed in Portugal either.