BRKG Madeleine McCann police search Hanover allotment in 'dramatic development'

[Melodi]

Madeleine McCann police search Hanover allotment in 'dramatic development'

The site is around 40 miles from the city of Braunschweig, where main suspect Christian B was last registered as living.

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Madeleine McCann police search Hanover allotment in 'dramatic development'

The site is around 40 miles from the city of Braunschweig, where main suspect Christian B was last registered as living.

Tom Gillespie
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Tuesday 28 July 2020 20:17, UK

Madeleine McCann police dig up Hanover allotment

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German police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are searching an allotment near Hanover.
Footage from the scene shows forensic officers and heavy machinery being used in the search.
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The site is around 40 miles from the city of Braunschweig, where main suspect Christian B was last registered as living.

Image:Around 100 police officers are said to be involved in the search
Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt said the search was a "dramatic development".
"The public prosecutor's office and the federal police have confirmed to local media and to our own reporter in Germany that this is connected to the Madeleine McCann investigation," Brunt said.

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He added: "Since this morning an area of trees has been cleared. Police are there, there are forensic officers there as part of this investigation. A mini excavator is being used to dig the land and there is some activity at least just off the side of the road there.

"It's not clear exactly what police are looking for, whether it's potential evidence directly linked to the disappearance of Madeleine or whether its something that's more connected to Christian B the suspect."
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German prosecutors have said in the past that they have concrete evidence Christian B was involved in Madeleine's disappearance.
The prosecutors also believe Madeleine is dead.

Maik Niemtschke, who lives in Hanover, told Sky News the search began at around 6:30am local time (5:30am UK time) and up to 100 police officers have been at the scene.
He said the main area of the search is on land where there is a bungalow, which is being used as a second home, and a garden shed.

How events unfolded in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Mr Niemtschke said the area is located between a road and a river.
He added that another area is being searched around 300 metres from the bungalow.

 

[WildDaisy]

I sure hope if she is dead, that they find her remains there so her family can finally have closure. But it was such a needless death. Unattended child while parents go party while on vacation.

 

[marymonde]

The entire story was strange, as was the McCann’s behaviour. That poor child.

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[marymonde]

I sure hope if she is dead, that they find her remains there so her family can finally have closure. But it was such a needless death. Unattended child while parents go party while on vacation.

They drugged all three of the children before they went to dinner.

 

[Melodi]

An update from the UK Daily mail, part of another of their long photo heavier articles that won't copy easily so best read at the link but I've put the important updates here:

EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine McCann kidnap suspect's secret CELLAR

Police discovered a basement in the foundations of a building near Hanover which neighbours say was demolished shortly after kidnapping suspect Christian Brueckner left.

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Madeleine McCann police find cellar on suspect's allotment: Basement is below foundations of building that was demolished shortly after Christian Brueckner stopped living on the site in 2007

• Christian Brueckner's former neighbour says the sex offender lived at the Hannover allotment during 2007
• Police have found a hidden cellar in the foundations of a long-demolished building at the vegetable garden
• Brueckner's neighbour Wolfgang Kossack said the buildings on the suspect's plot were demolished in 2008

By NICK FAGGE IN HANNOVER, GERMANY, FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 08:50, 29 July 2020 | UPDATED: 14:38, 29 July 2020

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Madeleine McCann investigators have found a hidden cellar at the German allotment where kidnapping suspect Christian Brueckner allegedly lived in 2007.
The basement was discovered in the foundations of a building which once stood on the allotment, where neighbours say the buildings on Brueckner's plot of land were demolished in late 2007 or 2008.
Police have been removing slabs of building materials in a two-day search of the vegetable garden, accompanied by specialist search dogs that look for dead bodies and computer equipment.
Wolfgang Kossack, 73, who owns the plot next to Brueckner's former allotment, told MailOnline that Brueckner had lived off-grid at the site in 2007 and talked about planning his return to southern Europe.
Mr Kossack said he only realised the link to Brueckner this week when police started digging up the allotment, saying: 'I remembered his face from the pictures in the news. And I remember his van and his dogs. I had completely forgotten about him up until then.'
Last month a former friend of Brueckner reportedly claimed the kidnap suspect told him he had a cellar at a different property which he wanted to line with metal sheets 'like Josef Fritzl's'.
Brueckner - who is currently in jail in northern Germany - is suspected of killing Madeleine after she vanished from her Praia da Luz holiday apartment in May 2007, the same year that Brueckner lived at the allotment.

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Slabs of building materials are removed from the allotment garden in Germany which is being dug up by investigators - where Christian Brueckner allegedly lived in the same year that Madeleine McCann vanished

 

[thompson]

Have investigators finally solved the Madeleine McCann case?

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Have investigators finally solved the Madeleine McCann case?

John Sexton
May 05, 2022 7:24 PM ET



If you’re old enough you probably remember when this case was a cable news sensation 15 years ago. British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in May of 2007 while on vacation with her parents in Portugal. Her parents were having dinner with friends while she and her younger siblings were sleeping in a nearby room. One of the times her mother went to check on the kids, she discovered Madeleine was gone.

Authorities in Portugal initially suggested the girl’s parents were responsible for her disappearance and then dropped the case for lack of evidence. The case has dragged on for years until in October of last year a German prosecutor claimed McCann had been murdered by a sex offender named Christian Brueckner.

Today, CNN reports that the German prosecutor has told a Portuguese TV station that he has “new evidence” that definitively connects Brueckner to the case.

Hans Christian Wolters, who is investigating the case, told Portuguese broadcaster CMTV on Tuesday that investigators had found “new evidence” that connects Brückner, who is a convicted rapist and child sex abuser, to the child’s disappearance. Brückner is yet to be charged.

“The investigation is still going, and I think we found some new facts, some new evidence, not forensic evidences, but some evidence,” Wolters told the broadcaster.

“We are sure he is the murderer of Madeleine McCann,” he said…

Brückner, who is 45, had previously said he had been with his then-girlfriend during the whole night on which Madeleine went missing, but Wolters told CMTV he had “no alibi.”

When asked if his team of investigators had found “something belonging to Maddie” in Brückner’s caravan, where he lived at the time, Wolters said he couldn’t comment on any details, but added: “I don’t want to deny it.”

Brückner is already in jail for a rape that took place in the same areas where McCann disappeared.

Convicted child abuser and drug trader Christian Brueckner, who is behind bars in Germany for raping a woman in the same area of the Algarve region of Portugal from where Madeleine went missing in 2007 when she was three years old, was formally identified as an official suspect last month…
Mr. Wolters, who was not immediately available for comment, said he could not provide details of the ongoing German investigation because the suspect was yet to be informed.
He has previously told Reuters that the naming of Mr. Brueckner as a suspect in the case by the Portuguese prosecutor was designed to interrupt Portugal’s 15-year statute of limitations.

Here’s a recent BBC report on the naming of the suspect by Portuguese authorities a couple of weeks ago. This includes a detailed run-down of the circumstantial case against Christian Brueckner.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63t8iW07zUc

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