Maddy, nieuwe verhoren van de Tapas 7.

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Op dinsdag 22 april 2008 08:47 schreef Suko het volgende:
En Joana Morais meldt hierover:

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Kan zijn dat de vertraging komt vanwege een aantal gevonden DNA-sporen die mogelijk ook Low Copy Number betreffen (zie eerdere post) en zou het langer kunnen duren maar vreemd is het toch wel....

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Madeleine McCann: Ecuador, National Treasures And Tabloid Bingo
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

THE GUARDIAN: “Time’s running out to preserve our treasures”

The children?

Transferring text, audio and images to a PC often unearths forgotten gems from the archives. But will we be able to save them all.

Oh:

Sarah Niblock, head of journalism at Brunel University, frequently uses news archives as a teaching tool. “Because we try to encourage students to reflect on practice, it’s important to be able to show them the trajectory that a story has taken, the evolution of that story. For instance, we’ve recently had the culmination of many long heated debates over the coverage of the Madeleine McCann situation. To be able to look back at the coverage, compare and contrast, ask questions about it - and to be able to do that at the push of a button … archives are tremendous for that.”

THE BIRMINGHAM POST: “Does the Ecuador tragedy mean we need to better protect our children?”

A coach crash that kills five British backpackers. What has this to do with Madeleine McCann. Surely, she was not in Ecuador?

One can only imagine what the parents of those poor young women killed on a gap year trip to Ecuador are going through.

Not in the Mail - there you can almost taste the pain.

Most people my age will remember running around freely when they were kids and getting up to all sorts of mischief with their mates.

Strange then that now we are parents we don’t afford our own children the same freedom and trust. We feel guilty if we let them on a bike without a crash helmet on.

Why this is so? Maybe it’s got something to do with the mass media where stories such as the abduction of Madeleine McCann are played over and over again in minute detail.

Dead backpackers. A missing child. Compare and contrast. It’s tabloid bingo…



Madeleine McCann - selling papers

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Op woensdag 23 april 2008 08:40 schreef Suko het volgende:
Maar goed, 24 Horas heeft alweer een artikel over de vertraging wat betreft het bewijsmateriaal (vertaling Li):

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Aan de andere kant, het komt de McCanns wél goed uit dat bepaalde stukken nog niet zijn vrijgegeven. Mogelijk berust dit artikel zelfs op spin en dat het publiek wordt wijsgemaakt dat er (nog) niks te bewijzen valt....

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Zoals Coldwater, die vanaf het begin met de kwestie bezig is en kennelijk contacten heeft, stelt: "I shouldn't worry - 24horas is not quite up to speed. Everything is progressing just fine. Obviously there will be some who don't wish to believe that - however, the process is moving forward. It would also appear that 'others' are important to the case. These 'others' will likely be charged as well."

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Ik denk dat je gelijk hebt/krijgt Kahaarin.

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Member of the Tapas Nine attacks Madeleine police for 'outrageous' media smears

A friend of Kate and Gerry McCann, who was with them the night their daughter Madeleine disappeared, has launched a furious attack on the Portuguese police.

Rachael Oldfield, a member of Tapas Seven, accused detectives of 'outrageous' leaks of case information to the media.

She said officers were guilty of 'double standards' for insisting the group obey strict secrecy laws.


^{Tapas Nine: (Clockwise from top left) Fiona Payne, Jane Tanner, Russell O' Brien and Rachael Oldfield, who has accused the PJ of 'outrageous' leaks to the media}

She told the BBC: 'They leaked information and these rumours that have flown around for the past year - it is outrageous. We have all felt very angry about it.

'We were asked to comply with the Portuguese judicial secrecy laws (under) which we were made to understand that we could face two years in prison for speaking out.

'So, as a group, we have not said anything from day one. There have been all these rumours flying around and leaks from sources close to the PJ (Policia Judiciaria), which we haven't been able to refute.

'We would have loved to have spoken out really and just put the record straight, but believed that the investigation would be the best way of finding Madeleine if we co-operated with the police and complied by their rules and regulations.'

Her comments were made in the documentary Searching for Madeleine, which is due to be broadcast tonight on Radio 4.

Madeleine went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 last year.


^{Leaks: Kate and Gerry McCann with a picture of their missing daughter Madeleine. The couple have already accused the Portuguese police of 'blatant' attempts to smear them}

Although the McCanns remain arguidos - suspects - in their daughter's disappearance, they deny any wrongdoing.

Mrs Oldfield said: 'Anyone with an ounce of common sense would be able to see they couldn't have done it.'

Earlier this month, the McCanns accused Portuguese police of a 'blatant' attempt to smear them after transcripts from police interviews with the couple were leaked through journalist Nacho Abad, of Spanish television programme Ana Rosa Quintana.

On the day the couple, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were in Brussels to launch a bid for a Europe-wide missing-child alert system, it emerged that Madeleine had asked her mother the night before she disappeared: "Mum, why didn't you come when we were crying last night?".


Missing: Madeleine McCann disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment last May

Kate McCann told police of the conversation in her first interview after her daughter went missing.

She added: "Gerry and I talked about it for several minutes and decided to watch over the children more carefully at night."

On May 2, Mrs Oldfield was in the next-door flat - on the other side of Madeleine's wall - all evening and heard no crying.

The Tapas Seven - Mrs Oldfield and her husband Matthew, Jane Tanner, her partner Dr Russell O'Brien, David Payne, his wife Fiona, and her mother Dianne Webster - took it in turns to make regular, 20-minute checks on the children during the night.

After the leak, the McCanns urged the Portuguese Justice Ministry to launch an internal investigation into the disclosures.

At the time, the family's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Kate and Gerry have been subjected to leaks and smears from day one and I'm afraid this has all the hallmarks of yet another poor attempt to influence the headlines on the very day that they are seeking to achieve some good in Europe."

His comments prompted an angry response from Portuguese police who said the claims were "baseless".

A spokesman for the PJ said: "The Policia Judiciaria regrets the baseless intervention of the spokesman above all at a moment when significant moves were being made in the investigation."

From within Portugal, the police are coming under pressure to make public the case files which, under judicial secrecy laws, currently remain closed.

Antonio Marinho e Pinto, President of the Portuguese Order of Lawyers, told the BBC: "There are strong reasons to fear that judicial secrecy is being used... to conceal the fact that the police have gone down a blind alley and don't have a way out."

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Op donderdag 24 april 2008 11:28 schreef Suko het volgende:
Dat artikel over die listening-service (die er er niet was omdat de apartementen buiten de hekken gebouwd zijn, wel een oppasservice (zelf halen/brengen) en Nanniy's, in de prijs inbegrepen, wilde ze niet) staat er nog wel in de DM, is alleen verplaatst > hier dus. Maar weet je, ik reageer daar niet eens meer op. Er is zoveel rubbish nu aan de gang, was al te verwachten. Ook de BBC heeft dat verhaal over die lekken. Iets wat nu wel bekend is dat die lek van onlangs in Spaanse hoek moet worden gezocht, wie zouden dat nou zijn???? Eén van de vele bronnen. Ik zeg maar zo en ik citeer mijn grootmoeder, hoe groter het verhaal. hoe groter de leugen. Clarence Mitchell & Co...drop dead!

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> The REAL Madeleine McCann Story < filmpje + Reminder: Blood clue puts McCann parents in crosshairs.

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Op donderdag 24 april 2008 15:59 schreef Tmaatje het volgende:
Handige link !

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Madeleine McCann: Rachel Oldfield
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann



BBC Radio: Rachael Oldfield, who was with Kate and Gerry McCann in Portugal, is on the radio. Says she:

“We were made to understand we could face two years in prison for speaking out, so as a group we’ve not said anything from day one.

But people did talk? And there was a spokesperson?

“And there have been all these rumours flying around and leaks from sources close to the PJ [the Policia Judiciaria - Portuguese police].”

Asked to characterise police actions, she replied: “Well, double standards. They leaked information and these rumours which have flown around for the past year…

“We would have loved to have put the record straight.”

What of Robert Murat?

Separately, a senior figure in Portugal with direct knowledge of the investigation has told a BBC Radio 4 documentary there is only a slim chance of murder or manslaughter charges being filed against Kate and Gerry McCann or Robert Murat, the third arguido.

LEICESTER MERCURY: “‘LIGHT A CANDLE FOR MADDY’”

The Helping to Find Madeleine group, which is affiliated to her parents’ official organisation, has called its campaign Lighting the Way Home.

Member Maxine Harris, of Market Harborough, said: “Just light a candle or leave an outside light on - that is what we would like people to do.

Like for Elijah. Is it energy efficient?

“We are concerned with keeping Madeleine’s profile high and making sure people don’t forget her.”

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McCanns given no update on Madeleine hunt

Madeleine McCann's parents have so little contact with Portuguese detectives they can not be sure if police are still looking for her, her father said yesterday.
Gerry McCann said he and his wife Kate were receiving no information on the progress of the investigation and had been given no explanation as to why files are still being kept secret.

_{Volgens mij hebben ze zelf een heel groot onderzoeksteam, als die nu eens gaan doen waar ze voor betaald worden, Metodo3 had toch beweerd dat ze met kerst thuis zou zijn?}

Rachael Oldfield, one of the couple's close friends and a key ADVERTISEMENTwitness in the case, described the situation as "astounding".

Interviewed for the documentary Searching for Madeleine which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 last night, Mrs Oldfield said the couple have had no direct contact with Portuguese detective Paulo Rebelo, the man heading the inquiry.

_{Nee natuurlijk niet, ze zijn verdachten.}

And she accused the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) of "outrageous" leaking and "double standards" over Portugal's strict secrecy laws.

Kate and Gerry McCann were declared "arguidos" – or formal suspects – in the case in September although they deny any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.

Their status makes any contact with the police far less likely but they have received no information on whether it is to be lifted.

"I think it's safe to say we're getting very little information," Mr McCann told the programme.

"We haven't had any communication in terms of what's been done in the investigation."

Asked by interviewer Steve Kingstone whether he is convinced the police are still trying to find his daughter, Mr McCann replies: "I don't know because we don't have that information.

"Obviously we'd like to know. We'd like to know why the files are still secret almost a year on with a change in the penal code.

"We would like to know what is being done to find Madeleine.

"We'd like know who has been eliminated from the inquiry and on what grounds and what leads are still being followed.

"We've always said we want to leave no stone unturned and to do that we need to know which stones have already been overturned."

Mrs Oldfield, a member of the so-called "Tapas Seven" – the friends who were dining with the McCanns in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the night of May 3 last year when Madeleine disappeared – also launched a furious attack on police in the programme.

"They leaked information and these rumours that have flown around for the past year – it is outrageous," she said.

"We were asked to comply with the Portuguese judicial secrecy laws (under) which we were made to understand that we could face two years in prison for speaking out.

"So, as a group, we have not said anything from day one.

"There have been all these rumours flying around and leaks from sources close to the PJ which we haven't been able to refute.

"We would have loved to have spoken out really and just put the record straight, but believed that the investigation would be the best way of finding Madeleine if we co-operated with the police and complied by their rules and regulations."

Her comments echo sentiments expressed by the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell earlier this month.

He accused police of a "blatant" attempt to smear them after transcripts from police interviews with the couple were leaked to foreign media, something the PJ expressly denied.

Mrs Oldfield also made a staunch defence of the couple against any suggestion they might have been involved in their daughter's disappearance.

She said: "I was there on the night – it was agonising.

"There was just no way that they were involved in anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance." _{Bla-bla-bla-boohoo, ik ben er klaar mee, genoeg geweest!}

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Op vrijdag 25 april 2008 13:23 schreef milagro het volgende:

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schone konten

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Clarence Mitchell, master of the Madeleine McCann media circus



The first anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be marked next week with a two-hour television documentary which is the highlight of a carefully stage-managed publicity offensive.

The fly-on-the wall documentary on ITV1 of Gerry and Kate McCann has been organised by Clarence Mitchell, their official spokesman. The Portuguese press first referred to him as the "man in the shadows" when he took the job full-time in Praia da Luz in September.

The newspapers were reporting the (as usual) private views of the Portuguese police that Mitchell, 47, had been sent in by Gordon Brown, no less - when he was Chancellor - to spy on the investigation, which had been portrayed in Britain as amateur and cack-handed.

But the Portuguese media were wrong on both counts. Mitchell would have had at best only a nodding acquaintance with junior ministers, let alone Mr Brown. As director of media monitoring at the Central Office of Information, he was a back room boy but has never been in the shadows of the police operation.

The former BBC television reporter has loved being centre stage before the cameras in an investigation that has transfixed the world's media. "He is on the TV much more than he ever was when he worked for the BBC," said one former colleague.

So much so that photographers regularly have to shout at Mitchell to get out of the way when they are taking pictures of the McCanns. He remains at his fixed point by their shoulder even during photo-shoots, bucking the trend of media minders who avoid being photographed at all costs.

Mitchell has become such a familiar figure in his open-necked pink shirts that he is recognised in the street and is stopped so often on the forecourts of petrol stations that he now jokes it is because he has forgotten to pay his bill.

After almost 30 years as a journalist, he knows what makes a story and has been extraordinarily successful in maintaining a strong interest in Madeleine.

When interest has faltered he has invariably constructed a story or recruited a big name - even the American First Lady, Laura Bush, is on-side - to a campaign driven by parents who accepted early on that the media was a necessary partner.

Nevertheless, the documentary next Wednesday has provoked controversy because ITV1 has scheduled it against the BBC's The Apprentice as part of its ratings war.

The move has led to the accusation that Mitchell has allowed the parents to be exploited by a commercial broadcaster.

The fact that Mentorn, the production company making the programme, has given £10,000 to the Find Madeleine fund has not diminished the fuss: the money will be more than recouped from syndication.

ITV1, with the help of Mitchell, has kept other media organisations from the McCanns during the five weeks of the access deal with Mentorn.

The company has secured unseen footage of Mrs McCann, 40, her husband, 39, and their three-year-old twins behind the door of their home in Rothley, Leics.

It includes Mrs McCann breaking down in tears as she recalls the night Madeleine went missing. But Mitchell will be undeterred by the barbs, believing the two-hour documentary the best way to ensure that the search for Madeleine goes global again. This is what he is paid to do.

He always wanted to be a journalist and after O-levels at Friern Barnet School, Finchley, where he was head boy, he joined the Barnet & Potters Bar Times and then a BBC training scheme.

In a varied career he covered the Soham murders and, for two years from 2003, the Iraq war.

He was also on the royal beat when he was known - not very imaginatively - as "Clarence House".

But it was as a presenter on various BBC news programmes that he hoped to make his career after years on the road. His spell doing hourly bulletins on News 24 is best remembered for him sleeping through a 3am slot, which had to be filled by a somewhat dishevelled producer.

He became close to the McCanns after being sent twice by the Foreign Office to look after them when there were 40 camera crews outside their Portuguese apartment.

As a father of three children, aged two to 11, he has gone through the same agonies as many other parents who feared it could have happened to them.

His £70,000 salary, equivalent to what he earned in the Civil Service, is being paid by the double-glazing magnate Brian Kennedy, who has bankrolled much of the McCann campaign.

Surrendering his Civil Service pension will be compensated by the future benefits of his role in helping to make Madeleine's the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history.

Offers are coming in for book, broadcast, and lecture circuit opportunities when he returns to "ordinary life" - and even Mohamed Fayed is rumoured to be interested in hiring him.

Mitchell divides his time between his home in Bath, London, and Rothley and speaks to the McCanns every day. They are grateful to him for raising the profile of the search across Europe and North Africa, through visits to Morocco, Italy, Spain and Germany.

But the revelation that they were flying in a private jet was a bear trap that Mitchell should have spotted, and the couple flew home from a trip to Portugal on easyJet.

Mitchell was, as usual, only a few feet away from the couple when they met the Pope in St Peter's Square.

He was so overcome he reached out to grasp the papal hand and was rewarded with a blessing and a set of rosary beads from one of the priests in the Pontiff's retinue.

While calm in public, he has often blown up behind the scenes at reporters and is occasionally guilty of overdoing briefings.

In the last few weeks his public approach has changed, bluntly blaming the Portugese police for leaking statements from Mr and Mrs McCann that revealed Madeleine was left crying the night before she vanished.

Mitchell moved from the shadows to being branded a "manipulative liar" by the police and the row ensured once more that the McCanns returned to front pages across Europe. It was a job well done by the man at the centre of the story in his own right.

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Op vrijdag 25 april 2008 20:06 schreef Suko het volgende:
Er moeten konten schoon worden geluld...@ copyright Kahaarin Dat sluit mooi aan bij het artikel hieronder, daar moeten konten worden "geïmmuniseerd.''

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Daaruit blijt toch wel hoe bang ze zijn, en terecht eigenlijk, de schurken! Dat artikel uit de Telegraph over Clarence Mitchell zou je idd als enigszins ongunstig kunnen lezen, beetje typisch Engels, het lijkt een opsomming van zijn carrière maar je hebt aan het einde van het artikel 'n rare smaak in de bek...."Mitchell moved from the shadows to being branded a "manipulative liar" by the police and the row ensured once more that the McCanns returned to front pages across Europe. It was a job well done by the man at the centre of the story in his own right." Maar onderhand volkomen uitgekotst door het publiek, fora en bloggers en inmiddels schrijven een aantal columnisten ook met een andere pen.

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'Never give up hope of finding Madeleine'

A man whose daughter was missing for nine months has been lending support to Kate and Gerry McCann over the past year and yesterday urged them to "never give up".


^{Madeleine McCann}

Ed Smart, whose 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth was abducted at knifepoint from her bed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in June 2002, was found - along with her abductor - the following March after a sustained and high-profile campaign.

He has been in close contact with Madeleine McCann's parents since last July and they met in Washington last month to discuss the merits of Amber Alert, an alert system for missing children.

Their discussions have given the McCanns renewed hope that their daughter will be found.

Like the McCanns, Mr Smart was suspected of involvement in his daughter's disappearance and rumours circulated that she had been abused.

American police suspended their briefings with the Smarts and it was left to the Mormon family to release pictures of Elizabeth's possible abductor.

advertisementThe McCanns' relationship with Portuguese police has come under considerable strain over the past year, with minimum contact and alleged leaks by the police provoking a war of words. The couple, who have relied on their Catholic faith, employed their own artist to produce drawings of a potential suspect.

Yesterday, in the run-up to the one-year anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance from Praia da Luz, Mr Smart told The Daily Telegraph that Mr and Mrs McCann were doing everything right to try to find their eldest daughter. "I think they are doing amazingly well under the circumstances, they are very positive," he said.

"There is no question in my mind that they didn't have anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance.

"I tell them, keep Madeleine's face out there - it is so incredibly important because that awareness is going to help bring her home. That was the first and most important thing that they could do."

Mr Smart ensured that Elizabeth's picture was widely circulated and nine months after her abduction she was spotted by a member of the public with her captors - Brian Mitchell, a homeless man, and his wife Wanda Barzee. They were subsequently declared mentally unfit to stand trial.

Mr Smart has been angered by the criticism that the McCanns have employed the wrong strategy to find their daughter. "I do not believe they are putting Madeleine at risk, I completely disagree with that," he said. "Whoever says that is absolutely foolish - it is the only way she is going to be found.

"The moment that Elizabeth was abducted, the only way we were going to find her was to get as many people as possible out looking for her.


^{Ed Smart with his daughter, Elizabeth, 14, who was found nine months after being kidnapped}

"She and her captor were both seen and identified and it was that identification, that awareness, that meant she was brought home."

Mr Smart, who is heavily involved in child protection, said of the McCanns: "We have had a number of conversations and I just admire them very much. I really hope that in the near future they will be able to find Madeleine."

Talking about the May 3 anniversary, Mr Smart said: "It will be hard, it is just a very difficult thing to deal with.

"Big events, such as birthdays, are hard, very hard. You wonder what you can do as a parent and how you can change what has happened and find her. You just don't know what to do and even though you are doing everything you possibly can, it never seems enough. I certainly empathise with what they are going through. I certainly see a lot of myself, it takes you right back to that time."

Mr Smart said he had talked to a number of parents of missing children over the years and asked them if they think their child is still alive.Some said definitely yes, some weren't sure, while other were convinced they were dead.

"Gerry and especially Kate said, 'I do feel like she is out there'," he said.

"I think it is ridiculous that some of the stupid comments say she is not emotional enough. I have met her and talked to her on the phone.

"Kate is a wonderful mother and cares about her children and would do anything to bring Madeleine home."

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Op zaterdag 26 april 2008 22:58 schreef Suko het volgende:
Het is natuurlijk dieptriest dit verhaal. Maar er zijn natuurlijk verschillen. Elizabeth Smart is thuis ontvoerd, zij was toen 14jr. Madeleine McCann was nog geen 4jr, alleen met de twins van net 2jr. in een vreemde omgeving, avond aan avond. In een apartement wat niet was afgesloten en gelegen aan de openbare weg. Men willde geen oppas, geen 'vreemden' over de vloer, overdag maakte dat zeker niet uit, (waar de kids veelal werden gestald) waren dezelfde nanny's but never mind. Ook 's avonds naar de crèche brengen was kennelijk teveel moeite. Niets wijst op een ontvoering en de wisselende verklaringen in interviews en docu's duiden op betrokkenheid van de McCanns (en mogelijk anderen) wat betreft de vermissing/dood van Madeleine. Dáár gaat het om. Niet om ontvoeringen van tig andere veelal wat oudere kinderen. En wat weet die vader Smart eigenlijk van de achtergronden van dit drama. Alleen wat gesprekjes met de McCanns, nee...dan ben je goed ingelicht, not! Ik neem het hem niet kwalijk, genereert weer publiciteit, hij en z'n dochter ijveren voor een national sex offender registry bill en nog een aantal kwesties wat betreft ontvoerde en misbruikte kinderen. Maar als je je heel jonge kinderen gewoon alleen laat (up for the taking), je vervolgens niet direct de politie belt, zelf niet eens een poot uitsteekt om te zoeken, niet wenst mee te werken, integendeel, dan helpt daar echt geen Alert tegen. Ik zou bijna willlen stellen dat de McCanns schade hebben toegebracht in deze, ouders die weigeren kinderen bescherming (en nota bene zelf verdachten zijn) te bieden moeten verre van any Alert-campagnes blijven!

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Bedoelde artikelen zijn ook in dit topic geplaatst:
Post Kahaarin over Clarence Mitchell
En ik zei de gek: The key to a Mystery van Paulo Pereira Cristóvão Ook Charlotte geeft haar eigen visie wat betreft de reacties over Amaral's nog uit te komen boek: Anger as Portuguese police chief plans ‘Madeleine’ book En voor een zonnige zondag een (lang) artikel over Amaral in relatie tot de McCanns en z'n boek: NEWS ROUNDUP FROM PORTUGAL

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Madeleine – one year on


A YEAR ago this weekend, an ordinary middle class family from Leicestershire flew to Portugal for an early break in the sun. Six days into that holiday, their lives were torn apart by an event that would dominate much of the world's news for months.

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann started as a dramatic international hunt for a lost child. But within days attention focused as much on the reasons for her loss as on where she could have gone. And as the weeks became months, without any sign oADVERTISEMENTf the four-year-old, it became a saga of recriminations and counter-recriminations involving Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) and an apparently insatiable press in Portugal and Britain. The internet spawned a myriad of lurid conspiracies. Rarely in recent history has a single event or crime dominated so many headlines, or so many conversations at school gates, in pubs and at dinner parties. Theory was piled upon theory, and opinion became a currency equal to fact, as the boundaries of common sense and taste were stretched. With the benefit of distance from the febrile days of last summer, it is clear the McCanns' advisers, the police and the media all made mistakes.

Meanwhile, one year on, we are no nearer knowing what happened to the little girl with the ready smile and distinctive right eye. Hers is a tragedy that few, if any, of us will ever be able to truly understand. All we can do is sympathise.

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Op zondag 27 april 2008 16:08 schreef Suko het volgende:

For the truth shall not be forgotten!

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Ik quote nogmaals een stukje uit jouw artikel want voor Schotse begrippen is dat best kritisch:


Ze vergeten wel even de ouders zelf te melden qua fouten, dat doe ik dan meer even...

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Voor de rest een ongelogelijk hoeveelheid crap in de bekende bladen, deels om weer gelden te genereren, deels om zelf weer in de publiciteit te komen, deels om hun onschuld te bewijzen, deels om het publiek te verwarren. Maar natuurlijk ook omdat ze bang zijn; bang voor boeken/docu's die straks uitkomen (Amaral en misschien ook Murat), bang misschien wat de resultaten zijn van de verhoren, bang voor de uitslag (volgens mij al bekend maar blijft nog ff in een la liggen) van het DNA-materiaal, bang dat het tij gaat keren > dat ze misschien voor lange lange tijd Arguido's blijven (als ze bv weigeren naar Portugal te gaan qua reconstructie) en kunnen dan niet zeggen/doen wat ze willen...maar eens zal de waarheid naar boven komen, zal misschien lang duren, maar ik geloof er wel in.

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McCanns: Madeleine 'Is Still Out There'
Updated:15:47, Sunday April 27, 2008

The parents of Madeleine McCann have again said they believe she is still alive almost a year after she went missing.


^{McCanns still holding out hope}

McCanns still holding out hopeThe youngster's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, told a television documentary that they felt more confident about their daughter being found alive after a trip to the US.

At the end of last month the McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, visited America to see how the country's Amber Alert system was used to track down missing children.

Mr McCann told the documentary: "We've spoken to a lot of people who said this is a country (America) that has more than two stereotypical kidnappings per week and of those only 40% to 50% end up being found dead and, most importantly of all, the younger the child, the less likelihood of serious harm.

"And these are people experienced in investigations saying 'I really believe she's out there', and I think, yes, there was a first time where I've thought, I really believe it."

Mr and Mrs McCann are still searching for Madeleine, who was three years old when she disappeared from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 last year.

During their visit to the US, the couple were filmed meeting Ed Smart, whose daughter Elizabeth was missing for nine months before being found alive and well.

Mr Smart campaigned to keep his daughter's case in the media until she was recognised in the street.

Madeleine missing since May 2007At the end of the trip, Mrs McCann said: "I feel more positive about the chances of Madeleine being out there and I feel more positive about the likelihood of being able to implement an Amber Alert system within Europe."

But while the couple have not given up hope of finding Madeleine, Mrs McCann said that some days remained "desperate".


^{Madeleine missing since May 2007}

In a conversation with Mr Smart filmed for the documentary, she said: "We're okay. Some good days and some desperate days still."

Mr McCann added: "We're bearing up really, still working away behind-the-scenes and keep plugging away and keep hoping for a breakthrough really."

:: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change, is to be broadcast on Wednesday at 8pm on ITV1.