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Madeleine McCann Suspect Investigated Over Link to Death of Mutilated Teen Carola Titze
Madeleine McCann Suspect Walked Into Police Trap Dirty, Unshaven and Clutching Bible
Police in Belgium, Germany and Portugal are now investigating whether Christian Brueckner was involved in the deaths of Carola Titze, 16, René Hasse, six, Inga Gehricke, five, and Madeleine McCann, three
Daily Mirror UK, 7 JUN 2020
Police in Belgium are investigating whether Christian Brueckner is linked to the killing of Carola Titze
Madeleine McCann murder suspect Christian Brueckner is now being investigated in connection with four child disappearances, according to reports.
Police in Belgium are trying to establish whether there was a link between the 43-year-old paedophile and the death of Carola Titze, who was just 16 when she was killed.
Since he was named as a suspect in Madeleine's 2007 disappearance, he has also reportedly been linked with the disappearance of René Hasse, six, in the Algarve in 1996, and that of five-year-old Inga Gehricke in 2015.
Carola's mutilated body was found in sand dunes in De Haan, West Flanders, where she was on holiday with her family.
In the days before she was killed, she had been to a disco with a mystery German man, who has never been located.
Commenting on the latest investigation into Madeleine's alleged killing, De Haan's mayor Wilfried Vandaele told VRT: "A shockwave went through our community when the body of Carola Titze was found in woodland in the dunes in 1996.
"Of course, we too want the perpetrator to be found at long last.
"Let's hope the German investigation can provide greater clarity."
Carola died weeks after René disappeared while he was on holiday at the Amoreiras beach in the Algarve - less than 30 miles from Praia da Luz - in 1996.
That case, too, is being reopened in light of the alleged breakthrough in the Madeleine investigation.
René was last seen running towards the sea, and only his clothes have been found since.
Prosecutors are also reportedly taking a fresh look at the abduction of five-year-old Inga Gehricke, who disappeared in Diakoniewerk Wilhelmshof in Saxony-Anhalt in 2015.
Police raided Brueckner's home in February the following year hoping to find evidence linking him to Inga.
Although they were unable to prove his involvement at the time, they did discover a large number of child abuse images on a USB stick.
Birte Iliev, a spokesman from the Stendal Public Prosecutor's Office, confirmed that the case has been reopened.
He said: "It is now being examined whether there is any new evidence in connection with the murder suspect in Braunschweig."
Brueckner is serving a seven year sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz, close to where Madeleine vanished.
It has been reported that a tip linking Brueckner, 43, with Madeleine's disappearance was not acted on for seven years.
Police in Braunschweig, Germany, received a tip about about Brueckner in 2013 and sent it on to the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, according to reports.
But local reports say the tip was ignored.
Der Spiegel reported: "One person did submit a tip about Brueckner but the resulting report from police in Braunschweig to the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation was apparently not acted upon, much to the consternation of the local investigators."
Madeleine was abducted from a room in the Ocean Club holiday complex in the area on May 3 2007.
Brueckner is known to have been living in Praia da Luz between 1995 and 2007.
Hans Christian Wolters, a spokesman for the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office, said: "In connection with the disappearance of the three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann on May 3 2007 from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz, in Portugal, the Braunschweig prosecution is investigating against a 43-year-old German on suspicion of murder.
"We are assuming that the girl is dead.
"With the suspect, we are talking about a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls and he's already serving a long sentence."
He said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, where he worked jobs in the gastronomy business, but funded his lifestyle by committing crimes, including thefts in hotel complexes and apartments, as well as drug dealing.
He added: "The Braunschweig prosecution is now concerned because before going abroad he last had his residence in Braunschweig."
Madeleine McCann Suspect Walked Into Police Trap Dirty, Unshaven and Clutching Bible
EXCLUSIVE: Christian Brueckner was seized by armed officers in Milan while on the run from his home country Germany. The arrest took place in 2018 and was Brueckner’s last moment of freedom
Daily Mirror UK, 7 JUN 2020
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner walked into a police trap clutching a BIBLE.
The convicted paedophile was seized by armed officers in Milan while on the run from his home country Germany.
The bizarre arrest took place in 2018 and was 43-year-old Brueckner’s last moment of freedom.
Italian officers today told how the man suspected of kidnapping three-year-old Madeleine from a holiday flat in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007 cut a “pathetic figure”.
Lieutenant Andrea Papa, part of the city’s elite murder squad, said:
“When we arrested him we could see the surprise on his face – he was really worried.
“He seemed like someone who lived on the streets. He was unshaved and his clothes were dirty. He smelled bad.
The bizarre arrest took place in 2018 and was 43-year-old Brueckner’s last moment of freedom
“He was in jeans, trainers and a military jacket. He had no phone or money, just a Bible and a business card with his lawyer’s number.
“He seemed pathetic. We even felt sorry for him and gave him a bottle of water.”
Now Colonel Michele Miulli, commander of the crime-hardened squad who usually deal with Mafia horrors, says it has “touched their soul” to learn Brueckner is being linked to the McCann case.
Police pounced on the German – who also has two convictions for abusing young girls – after a fake appointment which was set up for him to collect a fresh passport at the German consulate in Milan.
Brueckner had first turned up there on September 19 asking for new ID documents.
He said he had just arrived from Switzerland and they were stolen from him while he was asleep on a train.
But German officials realised he was a fugitive after picking up a drug conviction. So they prepared an international arrest warrant and asked Italian police to seize him.
“We agreed a time with the consulate and set our trap on September 28, said Lt Papa.
“We had a description of him as blond and tall and we waited out of sight near the entrance.
“At first he didn’t want to come with us but then he saw there were six of us so he didn’t resist. He looked like a homeless person."
Brueckner did not speak Italian so he asked police in English what he was being arrested for.
Then he asked to ring his lawyer in Germany. The German was at first told he could fight extradition and serve his sentence in Italy – so he asked his captors if the prison in Milan was nicer than German prisons.
“It’s really old and overcrowded but we don’t like to upset arrestees so we just said, ‘You’ll see, you can decide,’..... to keep him calm,” recalled Lt Papa.
“We are used to arresting serious criminals and usually know their background because we have studied them in the run up to the arrest.
“But in this case he was a complete unknown. When we heard the news about the McCann case this week we were very struck, more surprised than he was when he was arrested.
“We all remembered him because we hardly ever arrest Germans. It doesn’t usually happen that you arrest someone for something small like drugs and it turns out that they have done something massively evil.
“We never thought children were involved. He was very humble. Nothing about him would make you think he was such a serious criminal.”
A few hours after his arrest, Brueckner was on his way to the city’s notorious San Vittore jail to await extradition proceedings which took place a few weeks later.
Last year, back in Germany, he was found guilty of raping a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005 and given seven years. He is appealing over the conviction and is currently behind bars for a drug trafficking conviction.
He claims his extradition to Germany was unlawful because it related to the drug charge rather than the rape.
Col Michele Miulli is stunned by McCann case link
Meanwhile Col Miulli, commander of the Carabinieri investigative unit that planned his arrest, said news that Brueckner was linked to such a world famous child abduction case had stunned officers involved in his capture.
“Most of them are parents,” he said. “We investigate some of the most serious crimes, but when you hear that children were involved it touches your soul. Anyone who touches children is evil, inhuman.
“They need care and protection. So it gives us a small gratification that he was caught, but also we felt a lot of bitterness and sadness because we remember the story of Maddie from years ago and the suffering of the parents. It is a story that is too sad and ugly to give us much satisfaction.”
He said Brueckner’s activity in Italy before his arrest was now also under scrutiny with police searching databases to find out when he entered Italy and whether he had been stopped by law enforcement here.
Col Miulli said: “We believe he was not here long as he had no documents or money. It is complicated as there aren’t traces of when he entered Italy because the border is open, and he was never stopped by police. He had no phone and gave no address to the consulate.
“If we get any information that he spent time in Italy, a contact or address, phone number, or if the German police ask us to interview a potential witness we will investigate further.”
Madeleine McCann Police Receive Almost 400 Tip-Offs After New Suspect Announced
Scotland Yard say hundreds of people have come forward following the announcement that Christian Brueckner is a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Information continues to pour into Scotland Yard’s Maddie squad Operation Grange.
Daily Mirror UK, 7 JUN 2020
A force spokesperson said today: "We have now received just short of 400 pieces of information. We are pleased with the amount of calls and emails coming in and we are assessing them and prioritising them."
German prosecutors believe Madeleine is dead and are investigating paedophile Brueckner, 43, on suspicion of her murder.
But British officers are still treating it as a missing persons case.
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