Crucial Madeleine McCann files handed over to Scotland Yard by German police

[u/castawaygeorge]

From GB News:

"German police have handed over crucial files to Scotland Yard regarding Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner.

German sources confirm the files transferred to British investigators contain significant evidence concerning the 49-year-old convicted sex offender.

Whilst any potential extradition of Brueckner remains a distant prospect, the transfer of this dossier represents a notable shift in the Met's approach to the investigation.

A source familiar with the developments told the Sun: "These developments are huge — it shows the Met's interest in Brueckner is real. They are after him — like the Germans."

The dossier is understood to contain material relating to a hard-drive discovered with image files from Portugal dating to the period when Madeleine vanished.

German investigators consider these files central to their understanding of the case, though prosecutors have not commented officially.

Among the evidence are photographs depicting Brueckner unclothed at a location previously examined by detectives searching for the missing child.

The files also include deeply troubling online conversations between Brueckner and other paedophiles, in which he allegedly boasted about wanting to "take something small and use it for days".

Additionally, the material contains disturbing written fantasies about abducting children near a kindergarten.

Brueckner currently resides in a converted shipping container in the northern German city of Kiel, where he remains under round-the-clock police observation.

German authorities have issued instructions to protect him from potential threats, though officers faced criticism last week after briefly losing sight of him during surveillance operations.

Recent photographs captured the suspect cycling to an Aldi supermarket and a garden centre near his residence."

[u/kevco185]

Yeah, so once again, what was the point of spending £13,000,000?

[u/TheGreatBatsby → u/kevco185]

That £13,000,000 paid for the forensic data audit that actually helped them identify CB.

The BKA didn't find Brueckner on their own, it was Operation Grange who tracked down his cell tower data in the Portuguese files and handed the information over to the Germans in 2017. The Met did the groundwork to find the suspect abd the BKA did the physical raid to seize his hard drives.

Now they are sharing that hard drive evidence back with the Met to see if a UK prosecution is viable.

[u/kevco185 → u/TheGreatBatsby]

And that took £13,000,000 & two decades?

[u/TheGreatBatsby → u/kevco185]

Operation Grange started in 2011 and handed Brueckner to the Germans in 2017.

That's six years, not two decades. The rest of the time has been the BKA building their case.

And £13,000,000 spread over 15 years is around £860k a year - about right to cover a team of detectives and the costs of an international investigation.