Category Archive for : ‘PORTUGAL’

June 15, 2020
Lee Brown
NY POST

The imprisoned rapist who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann is refusing to cooperate with investigators, his attorney says.

Christian Brückner — who is behind bars in Germany for raping an American tourist — is being eyed over the missing youngster, who is feared dead after being abducted from a Portuguese resort in 2007.

The 43-year-old inmate is also being eyed over a series of other attacks around Praia da Luz, according to the Times of London.

German prosecutors and London’s Scotland Yard are following up hundreds of “pieces

New York Post/Lukas I. Alpert

Authorities in Portugal are searching for 3 year old Madeleine McCann, a British girl kidnappedfrom the apartment villa in the southern Algarve region where her family was staying on May 3. Thegirl was taken from the bedroom where she was sleeping Thursday night while her parents dinednearby with friends.

Spanish police yesterday arrested an Italian man and a Portuguese woman in the disappearance.Word of the arrests comes amid reports that Portuguese police had been pursuing a tip thatMadeleine had been abducted by a convicted sex offender known

New York Post

Carlos Cruz, Portugal’s best-known TV personality, and six others have been charged withsexually abusing orphans. The trial began yesterday. Cruz, known as Mr. Television, faces fivecharges of sexual abuse and one of a homosexual act with an adolescent. One of the defendants is awoman and they are accused of molesting children at Lisbon’s Casa Pia orphanage. The other suspectsinclude an ex-ambassador and a former Casa Pia deputy warden. An ex-Casa Pia driver faces more than300 charges of procuring the children for the accused.

(Portugal)