Satellite images appear to put Madeleine McCann suspect’s vehicle near Praia da Luz
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The Telegraph reports that satellite images taken shortly after Madeleine McCann’s disappearance appear to show the prime suspect’s camper van parked just a mile away from her hotel and are being examined by German police, as authorities appeal for more evidence from the public.
Heriberto Janosch González, a Spanish criminologist who works in computer science, was contacted by officers from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office just hours after he sent them a picture he uncovered this week from early June 2007 — just weeks after the young girl disappeared.
An undated handout photo made available by Federal Criminal Police Office shows a Volkswagen (VW) T3 Westfalia camper van which police mention in connection with the disappearance of missing girl Madeleine McCann, issued 03 June 2020. EPA-EFE/METROPOLITAN POLICE HANDOUT HANDOUT
The van, a distinctive white and yellow VW T3 Westfalia from the 1980s appears to be parked near a run-down farmhouse where the suspect lived until late 2006 and could offer clues as to where Christian Brückner went in the aftermath of Madeleine’s abduction.
In these last days Brückner has emerged as a new suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance with German authorities treating the case s a murder investigation.
In the months after Madeleine’s disappearance, the prime suspect turned up at a restaurant in a remote village 40 miles from Praia da Luz asking for a job.
The German paedophile has been convicted of raping a 72-year-old American tourist at a luxury beachfront villa in Praia da Luz in 2005, and has a long history of sexual assaults against women and children.
A handout photo made available by the Milan branch of Italy’s Carabinieri police force shows an undated photograph of 43-year-old German convict Christian Brueckner, whom investigators are treating as the main suspect in the as-yet-unsolved case of the 2007 disappearance of British child Madeleine McCann in Portugal EPA-EFE/CARABINIERI HANDOUT HANDOUT
On Tuesday, police in Germany announced they are reviewing the disappearance of yet another German girl in light of the new Madeleine suspect.
Police in Bayreuth, a small German town just outside of Nuremberg, confirmed that Brückner is “under investigation” in the case of Peggy Knobloch, who disappeared without trace on May 7, 2001 on her way home from school.
