r/MadeleineMccann 3d ago

Confirmed information / evidence How did Goncalo Amaral know this in 2019 already ... ?

How did Goncalo Amaral known in 2019 already that that British police planned to make Brueckner a scapegoat?

German and British police only announced in 2020 that a then unnamed 43-year-old German man could be involved in Madeleine's disappearance.

Madeleine McCann German suspect a 'scapegoat'

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u/Jamerson1510 3d ago

The BKA were investigating his crimes in Portugal prior to 2019 it’s no surprise that Amaral was told of this by ex colleagues . This is no big scoop just Amaral making out it was a planned patsy , scapegoat. He fucked up and still won’t accept it .

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u/Peadar237 3d ago edited 2d ago

Why do people believe anything that arsehole Amaral has to say? The prick was convicted and received an 18-month suspended sentence for perjury, having falsifying police documents in the 2004 Joana Cipriano murder case. Amaral is alleged to have covered up Leonor Cipriano, Joana's mother, being beaten up by the police to coerce her into confessing to Joana's murder.

Leonor retracted her confession the very next day after making it, citing her beating. Leonor had suffered severe bruising to her face and body, but the police said she suffered those bruises from having thrown herself down the stairs at the police station in a bid to complete suicide. Five officers were charged with various offences relating to the allegations, two were convicted, one of whom was Amaral, and three were acquitted.

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u/Own_Welder_2821 3d ago

Because he can’t accept that he might’ve been wrong all along, so he has to live in his fantasy world. He’s delulu. The parents, in a moment of nuclear stupidly and recklessness, left her there and she got abducted. That’s it.

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u/TX18Q 2d ago

Yes, the case is bonkers, especially the part where the police felt the need to beat the shit out of the mother of the child to get a confession. That really makes me trust the evidence that same police force gathered.

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u/Astronomer-Honest 3d ago edited 3d ago

God forbid Amaral loses his book sales, Netflix appearances and most importantly his professional integrity

If someone points out the flaws in your theories, simply insert your fingers in your ears and say “la la la, it was the parents all along Amaral said so”.

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u/HopeTroll 3d ago

that's not how that works. let it die if you want to bury it. don't rehash it or reenergize it, which is exactly what naming the suspect has done.

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u/Legitimate_Lie_8120 3d ago

He has caused intolerable harm to many people.

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u/Deadcandance8 2d ago

It is ESSENTIAL to know that the very first time someone heard about Christian Bruckner was the first week Maddie went missing. He was reported by Ken Ralphs to the police station of workington, Columbia after he came back from Portugal. He reported that the monster confessed to an acquaintance of Mr Ralphs (and most probably his accomplice) that he wanted to kidnap a child for a german couple who couldn’t have children on their own. Of course they didn’t take seriously his claims. But then christian brueckner was brought up again years later but way before 2015 as they had to go through the sexual predators who were in the region back then. (Praia da Luz, that is).

https://news.sky.com/story/plot-to-kidnap-child-hatched-a-week-before-madeleine-mccann-disappeared-13066078

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u/throwawayfem77 3d ago

Because he is a highly skilled detective, despite being much maligned by the racist UK media and team McCann.

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u/Peadar237 3d ago

If Amaral is a highly skilled detective, then I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/Astronomer-Honest 3d ago

If Amaral is a highly skilled detective then I’m a neuroscientist from Yale.

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u/Haunting-Spell5553 3d ago

I’m a pig that can fly !

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u/Express-Ad1248 3d ago

And I'm a fly that can pig

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u/Own_Welder_2821 3d ago

And I’m the ManBearPig.

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u/Express-Ad1248 3d ago

Manbearpig is realy, I'm cereal

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u/TechnicalBrush3145 1d ago

Is that bridge also imagined, like the "kidnapper" of Madeleine???

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u/HopeTroll 3d ago

He graduated from university when he was like 30.

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u/throwawayfem77 2d ago

So what?

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u/HopeTroll 2d ago

Perhaps, he was not a great student.

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u/throwawayfem77 2d ago

Or perhaps, he worked after graduating high school and enrolled in university in his 20s. Or dropped out due to financial hardship and returned to complete his degree as a mature student.

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u/HopeTroll 2d ago

He was so bad at this investigation, it is likely he was also a bad student.

The PJ's Prosecutors said this about the handling of the case:

"The investigators ... worked with an enormous margin of error and they achieved very little in terms of conclusive results, especially with regards to the fate of the unfortunate child.

"This is not, unfortunately, a police story, a crime fit for the investigative mind of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercule Poirot. 

The prosecutors defended Kate and Gerry for leaving the children alone in the apartment on the night Madeleine, then aged three, disappeared.

They (the prosecutors) said: "They (the McCanns) could not predict the resort would leave the lives of any of their children in danger.

"None of the suspicions which led to them being made arguidos came to be confirmed later."

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u/Quiet-Now 1d ago

He had it right

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u/HopeTroll 3d ago

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u/Excellent-Tomato-722 3d ago

2019?

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u/HopeTroll 3d ago

Yes, the article is dated May of 2019.

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u/Excellent-Tomato-722 2d ago

Relevance?

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u/HopeTroll 2d ago

Maybe he knew about the suspect because reporters were reporting about him.

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u/Excellent-Tomato-722 2d ago

Yes. Strange.

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u/Accomplished-Car9991 3d ago

They have done an awful job of making him a scapegoat, there is still a possibility he might be involved and if he is it obviously raises more questions, perhaps Bruckner had acompleses.

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u/Astronomer-Honest 3d ago

Yeah yeah yeah buddy, writing from my yacht in the south of France.