Maddy, nieuwe verhoren van de Tapas 7.

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PJ wants McCanns Bank Transactions
The objective of the investigators is to identify which purchases they did before and after the disappearance of the girl. The Judiciary Police intends to have access to the bank transactions of Madeleine’s parents and of the seven friends who accompanied them on holidays to the Algarve. This request was also in the Rogatory Letter .

The Rogatory Letter Saga

The Home Office in October 2007 raised some questions to Eurojust and the Letter was sent back to the Portugal, to the Public Prosecution Service.

The rogatory letter was then sent, a second time back to the Home Office, on the 7th January 2008 by the Public Prosecutor José Cunha de Magalhães e Menezes, the responsible for the administration of the inquest through the EU body, Eurojust.

In February 2008 the Public Prosecutor of the Portimão's court, Magalhães e Menezes as well as the team that conducted the investigations concerning Madeleine McCann were losing their patience with the delay of the British authorities in giving green light to the execution of the rogatory letter. "This is reaching unacceptable proportions. In a case like this, if there was cooperation, the rogatory letter would be fulfilled in less than a month. This is going on since October last year with the English returning the letter and making mere bureaucratic demands. We already sent a new rogatory more than two weeks ago and the only thing we have is the silence of the police and diplomatic authorities" and "Like this is difficult to make an investigation", concluded the source connected to the process.

The Forensics Delay

Almost at the end of April 2008 the Judiciary Police is still waiting the final report of the analyses of the biological evidences which were sent to the Forensic Science Service [FSS], a laboratory in Birmingham, England on August 2007. The same laboratory which was supposed to do DNA analyses in less than 36 hours. The remaining analyses done by the Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal [INML] - National Institute of Legal Medicine were completed after 1 month.

The first results of the FSS analyses to the evidences taken from the McCanns' apartment in Praia da Luz, their hire car and other parts of the Mark Warner holiday complex, were inconclusive. A senior source close to the investigation reportedly said: "There is no reason to change the direction of the investigation and everything that has emerged indicates that it is focusing where it should. "This is a very complex case and forensics are rarely conclusive on their own, but the new material adds to the existing picture that has been built up by police and fills in a few more pieces of the jigsaw." Sources added that the tests raised more questions into the explanations offered by the McCanns for the original results, thought to have shown traces of Madeleine's blood in the family apartment and of her bodily fluids in the McCanns' hire car.

Almost a year after Maddie's disappearance, many questions remain without an answer, in a process in which the secrecy of justice was extended for a second time.

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McCanns' spokesman surprised about the possibility that the couple may be accused of neglect
Maddie's parents indignant over accusations from the Judiciaria

The McCanns are indignant. Maddie's parents do not understand why, according to what 24 Horas reported yesterday, it is only now that the Public Ministry assumes that there is enough evidence to condemn them to ten years in prison for exposure and neglect. The formal accusation is to take place in July, pressuposing that Maddie died an accidental death in the apartment and that her cadaver was then concealed. Apart from that, the authorities believe that Gerry and Kate left the little girl exposed to a sequestration situation, just like their twin children, when they abandoned them inside the apartment while they dined with friends on the evening of the disappearance.

"We are not going to comment on that matter because we have not received any official information from the Portuguese authorities", Clarence Mitchell said to 24 Horas yesterday. The McCann family's spokesman said that Gerry and Kate were "suprised" when they heard about the possible accusation.

"They found it strange that that matter became public only now. Why was that not discussed a few months ago?", Clarence Mitchell questioned, and did not comment further.

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"The McCanns' lawyers have really been trying to stop the reconstruction. Because of the difficulties they (McCanns and lawyers)
are causing, Eurojust have stepped in and the case is now a joint investigation (Leicestershire Police and the PJ).

The minimum charge is neglect. (This is to stop the McCann team in their tracks), but more charges will follow.

As I said before, the CCTV from the bar in the Ocean Club revealed the real time lines and who left the tables. [Juxtapose
also said this.]

The maximum charge will be manslaughter.

The fund is revealing to the PJ and Leicestershire Police - money laundering via Metodo3 is one definite, but there are others

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The PJ is still waiting the for the transactions made with credit cards

Phone calls analysed with magnifying glass Only now the PJ received the list of the phone calls made by Maddie's parents and friends. The registers of three persons are still missing.

"Drop by drop". This is the way how a responsible connected to the investigations on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann describes the way that the data of the phone calls made by the parents and friends on that day arrive to the PJ. The registers were asked more than six months ago to the British but only now they begin to arrive. "The British authorities already send us several invoices of phone calls made by the group, included the McCanns, but there are still some registers missing", said the same source. We discovered that the missing data are from three friends of the McCanns and that is the reason why the complete analysis cannot be made. "Everything is being duly analysed but the crossing of the data means that we have to get the missing calls. Without them is impossible to reach any conclusion because two of the persons involved in the process are fundamental to the investigation", the source explained.
An investigator that was connected to the case in its initial phase said that "since the first hour the investigations came up against bureaucratic problems".

"An investigation in a case like this must be quick. But when we tried to obtain evidence we were confronted with incredible bureaucracy. An urgent rogatory letter took more than five months to be authorised", he added.
To cross phone data is now a team task directed by the director Guilhermino Encarnação and by the coordinator Paulo Rebelo.

Police and banks in silence

But apart from the phone calls the public prosecutor Magalhães e Menezes still waits the register of the bank transactions made by all people that dinned in the Tapas Bar. The objective is to know where the arguidos and the main witnesses were in the day the child disappeared.

"Although that request was made informally to the British police more than seven months ago and officially requested afterwards in the rogatory letter ( five months ago) the truth is that we did not have yet any reply", said to the 24 Horas a police source. Officially Encarnação and Paulo Rebelo are laconic about the case. None of them say anything because the process "is in secret of justice".

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Op dinsdag 22 april 2008 12:55 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
>knip<

Ik hoop eigenlijk dat de PJ in alle stilte alle bewijs verzamelt en dan ineens met een afsluiting komt van deze zaak, dus gewoon een gag-order handhaaft totdat ze er daar uit zijn.
Ik denk dus dat er geen vertragig is maar echt totale stilte voor de storm, misschien is het wel een geval van de wens is de vader van de gedachte hoor.

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Gonçalo Amaral former coordinator of the Department of Criminal Investigation of the PJ of Portimão, goes into retirement. The request for retirement was presented a month ago and was accepted last week by the National Directory of the PJ. The JN knows that one of the motives for this decision were more than 38 years in the force and the wish to recuperate his "freedom of expression". The former coordinator was the head of the investigations in the case of the British girl Madeleine McCann and was removed due to declarations given to the "Diário de Notícias" with critics to the British police. Jornal de Notícias

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Gonçalo Amaral sends thanks to all his supporters and says we will very soon know the 'Truth about the Lie', EXCLUSIVE to this site, 23 April 2008
Message from Gonçalo Amaral

As you can understand, I can't do any comment about the investigation on the "McCann Case"... (I have omitted the next part, in the interests of privacy but this did not in any way compromise the judicial secrecy laws)

Looking towards my freedom of speech, I asked for my retirement last month. All the insults, false accusations and lie's from the past year are now being brought to court from my lawyers (the very last one is from Daily Mail, yesterday).

I would like to say thank you to the thousands of persons that every day, for the last year, are supporting me all over the world. I would like to answer all the phone calls, emails and letters, but is not possible...there are so many! As you can imagine, most of the days are not that easy, and these messages have been a great support not only for me, but also for my family. Once again, thank you all!

You're allowed do display this message on you site, and I thank you for that. One last thing:

*Soon, very soon the world will know the "Truth about the Lie" and "we will gain truth and justice for a little girl who has no voice", dead on the evening of May 3rd at apartment 5A, Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal"*

Best regards,
Gonçalo Amaral Bron

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Op donderdag 24 april 2008 16:46 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Hey de nieuwe MIS-mod, gefeliciteerd!

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Message to Alipio Ribeiro, head of the PJ:

Congratulations, Mr. Ribeiro. We know now that it's official: Goncalo Amaral is taking early retirement. He won't be around to embarrass you any more.

Of course, neither will he be around to perform the impressive feats of narcotics interdiction he's been doing for the past 28 years, to work inhuman hours at the expence of his own family life trying to find missing children like Joana Cipriano and Madeleine McCann, or to stand up virtually alone for months, with no support from you, against the slanders of the British press. He won't be there to literally beg the parents of the next child who goes missing in the Algarve not to put out an ill-advised wanted poster that he believes could make her a liability to anyone who has her and mark her for death. He won't be there to do whatever he feels is necessary to find a missing child even if the parents DO have impressive and powerful friends who can pressure the Portuguese government.

We have read in the papers in the past two days that Chief Inspector Amaral is considering an offer to go into security working for a private company. His lawyers are also looking at libel suits against the British press. He will probably make far, far more money in the next few years than he ever made as a policeman. But I think he didn't want to go. I think he would have been willing to continue to work for a copper's pay and put up with a copper's hours if he had enjoyed a little support from you. He didn't get it. That is YOUR loss, and the PJ's.

Who's next, Mr. Ribeiro? Guilhermino Encarnacao? Luis Neves? God help us (and you), Paulo Rebelo?

When are you going to REALLY apologise for your incredible statement that the public prosecutor may have been "hasty" in making the McCanns arguidos? When are you going to stop mouthing platitudes about all avenues of investigation being open in the Madeleine McCann case? That is laughable. The investigation thus far has ruled out the possibility that Madeleine was abducted, and you know it. The reason this case hasn't already been solved is because, under political pressure, the PJ kept investigating that angle for so long.

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHAT THE BRITISH THINK AND STAND UP FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN IN YOUR ORGANISATION, AND FOR PORTUGAL?

We're waiting. But in the meantime, congratulations anyway. You got what you wanted. I hope you enjoy living with it/

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Jon Gaunt - Sun columnist
Published: Today

IS it just me or are the McCanns getting on your nerves too?

I have enormous sympathy for them losing a child but I am getting fed up of them blaming everyone else for their misfortune.

I heard about the McCanns’ latest trip around Europe while on holiday and although I think the amber alert system is a good idea, when I need tips on childcare from the McCanns I’ll ask.

Now, in a new TV documentary, Kate says that she wanted a baby monitor but the resort didn’t have one. So instead she, Gerry and the Tapas Seven made the bizarre decision to eat out every night and leave three young children home alone.

I’m sorry, in any language that’s child neglect. So instead of touring Europe proposing amber alert systems, I would like them to clearly just send out one message to all parents: NEVER EVER MAKE OUR MISTAKE AND LEAVE YOUR CHILDREN ALONE IN A STRANGE HOTEL ROOM.

And, by the way, I’m not being heartless, just honest.

Smears

I am also fed up to the back teeth of the smears and counter smears from both camps, so why don’t the McCanns and the Tapas Seven just shut up, get on the plane, return to Portugal and do the police reconstruction? At the same time, why don’t the Portuguese plods stop spinning and start analysing and either charge them formally or remove their official suspect status?

It’s nearly a year since little Madeleine went missing and the focus needs to return to her, not the other characters in this sorry saga.

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Stop the carnival

This column has pretty much steered clear of the Madeleine McCann story. The fact is, no one knows what happened to her - except those who took her or covered up her disappearance.

But she's been gone a year and we must fear the worst.

I've always been uneasy about the media carnival, but figured if that's what got her parents through the night, what business was it of mine.

However, one year on, there's something distasteful about the continuing round of claim and counter-claim, blame and counter-blame.

Gerry and Kate McCann should be left alone with their demons, with our sympathy, and not live out their guilt in public any longer. The police and the private detectives should be left to get on with their job. The Tapas Seven, the McCanns' PR man, the professional ghouls should all keep their theories to themselves.

It's time Team Maddie was wound up.

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Investigation: Explosive data reported by inspector Gonçalo Amaral

Rui Pando Gomes, Friday April 25, 2008
(Thanks to 'Li' from the3arguidos forum for translation)

The inspector of the Criminal Police, Gonçalo Amaral, that coordinated the team who investigated Maddie's disappearance has already a title for a book about the case: "Truth of the Lie", ‘Verdade da Mentira’.

The CM discovered that the book is almost finished and contains explosive elements about the investigation concerning the disappearance of the British girl in Praia da Luz, Algarve, the 3rd of May last year.Apart from important data about what happened in that night in the Ocean Club, the "several manoeuvres of counter information" around the big media case of the last years will be revealed.

"It won't be something speculative but factual, with reports of someone who lived the case one hundred per cent", referred to the CM Paulo Santo, the defence lawyer of the PJ's inspector who is in the process of retirement. The lawyer of Gonçalo Amaral, hired to defend his image after the controversy regarding his removal from the coordination of Maddie's case, confirmed to the CM that there is already a publisher interested in the book.

"The fact that the retirement process is not yet fulfilled and the secrecy of justice that are in place at this moment stipulate the publishing of the book" said the lawyer of Gonçalo Amaral. The book will try to put an end to Maddie's case.

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er moeten konten schoon worden geluld

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Kate and Gerry want assurances to return to Portugal.They are the lawyers of the couple who began the first contacts at the highest level to obtain some sort of immunity that could allow Kate and Gerry McCann to travel to Praia da Luz, Portugal, without being worried.

The approach of lawyers was followed by the intervention of British diplomacy in Portugal. According to a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Office) informal contacts were made with the Portuguese authorities to find out the real intentions of the Prosecutor and the Judicial Police (PJ), especially for what concerns the reconstruction of the events of May 3, 2007, the day of the disappearance of Maddie, as requested by the investigators.

Gerry and Kate McCann had certainty, after their return to the United Kingdom last September, that their status arguidos be abandoned before the end of 2007 but neither their lawyers nor the media pressure exerted by their relatives were able to change the normal court of justice in Portugal. Bron

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What really happened on the night of May 3rd, in Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann disappeared, will be one of the more "explosive" passages in the book that PJ Inspector Gonçalo Amaral is to write and wants, later, turned into a documentary.

The contents have already been examined by a publisher, who also proposed publication in English. According to CM's source close to Gonçalo Amaral, "There is no definite date for publication," but, apparently, it will only be after the lifting of the secrecy currently covering the investigation which is still ongoing at the Public Prosecution Service in Portimao.

It is the intention to reconstruct the celebrated case on film, as a documentary, and already there are producers interested. "It will clear up all the lies that have been created and call into question the institutions that investigated and are linked to the case," CM discovered from the same source, who has already got hold of passages from the future publication.

DETAILS

SECRECY

The publication of the controversial book should only happen after the lifting of the secrecy restrictions on the case. "The intention is to restore the truth of what happened that night and not to cause problems for the author," explained the 'CM' source close to Gonçalo Amaral.

REFORM

Despite being about to go into retirement, with 38 years of service - 26 in the police, 8 in military service and a 20% subsidy - Gonçalo Amaral is in danger of receiving disciplinary action for the publication of the book. Even in retirement, the inspector must comply with police disciplinary regulations. Bron

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'True Lies' of Maddie parents

THE disgraced cop who led the search for Maddie McCann has written a money-spinning book – pointing the finger at her parents. Goncalo Amaral, 48, who was booted off the case after five months, refuses to believe Gerry and Kate McCann had nothing to do with the tot’s disappearance.

He authorised their status as suspects, but was removed after allegedly enjoying boozy lunch breaks while leading the hunt in Portugal. Amaral’s book True Lies accuses Maddie's parents of dumping her body at sea after accidentally killing her. He says British police were too close to the couple and did not follow up leads he suggested.

His lawyer Paulo Santos said of the book: "It’s not speculative, but factual." But the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "We are not surprised at this. "It is sad that people feel the need to make money out of Madeleine."

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Three points to note from this report:

1) The Telegraph article on Clarence Mitchell (see below) states that 'Offers are coming in for book, broadcast, and lecture circuit opportunities when he returns to "ordinary life"'.

Given Mitchell's assertion that "It is sad that people feel the need to make money out of Madeleine", one hopes that these offers were dismissed out of hand - if they related to Madeleine. Indeed, it would seem highly unlikely anyone would be interested in Mitchell's views on anything outside of the Madeleine case.

2) It is worth remembering, in terms of making 'money out of Madeleine', that section 1.1.3 of the objects of Madeleine's Fund states that money collected can be used 'To provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine’s family'.

This object enabled mortgage payments to be made on the McCanns house in Rothley. The boundaries of this object are, in fact, so vague as to be able to include any kind of payment to the McCanns within it.

3) No details have yet been revealed of the contents of Mr Amaral's book. The revelation that the McCanns dumped Madeleine's body 'at sea after accidentally killing her' appears to relate to 'Madeleine's Star', a book already written and published by Paulo Pereira Cristóvão.

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Op zondag 27 april 2008 12:35 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Inderdaad, mooi verwoord, dat heb ik geloof ik ook al eens geroepen. Wel ja joh, dat hebben we al tig keer geschreven en daar komen nog tig keren bij...imo kan dan niet genoeg benadrukt worden! [..]

Ook dit is natuurlijk allemaal gespeculeer en gespin, dat mes snijdt 2 kanten op, blijft moeilijk om tussen alle gezeur de juiste nieuwsfeiten te zoeken. Maar op de een of ander manier sluiten die Portugese berichten meer aan bij mij dan dat geouweneel van de Britse pers. Overigens zijn er op het 3arguidoforum Britse posters die voor het merendeel de kant van Portugal (PJ) kiezen, hoe pijnlijk ze dat soms zelf ook vinden. [..]

http://news.scotsman.com/(...)e-year-on.4024359.jp
Even terugblikken met 'The Scotsman', daar hebben ze hetzelfde euvel ontdekt als wij geloof ik.

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The couple could make up to £1million in a deal for a tell-all memoir about Madeleine's disappearance and their eight months as police suspects. Several publishers have approached them amid intense interest in the year-long case, sparking the possibility of a bidding frenzy for the book.

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'It has the potential to be of enormous interest with buyers across the market, from the literary middle class audience who think "This could have been us" to the mass market who buy books in supermarkets and have been devouring this story for a year.'

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News of the couple's book comes just days after it emerged that disgraced Portuguese police officer Goncalo Amaral plans to publish his own book about the case.Mr Amaral, who was sacked from the Portuguese inquiry after criticising the British police, is penning a book called The Truth of the Lie which may be turned into a documentary.

Mr Mitchell criticised Mr Amaral and said it was an attempt to make money out of the situation. Police inspector Paulo Cristovao has written a fictional account of the investigation called The Star of Madeleine, which has become a best-seller in Portugal.

Mr Mitchell said: "A number of books are being published in Portugal and the UK. Kate and Gerry want the public to know the real truth."

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KATE: It's not about us, you know, we were bobbing back and forwards several times and I wanted to see the kids so.. you know, it's not about us. You know, I think that the problem is it's a predator basically who's been watching us, which gives you the shivers anyway, and broken into the apartment and taken Madeleine out of her bed.

Gerry McCann says he went at just after 9 to check on his children. He says that their bedroom door was more open than usual so he goes in. Gerry McCann has told Panorama he remembers looking down at Madeleine. He spent a moment thinking how beautiful she looked and how lucky he was. He says this was the last time he saw his daughter. He closes the bedroom door and leaves through these unlocked patio doors.

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b]El Mundo article by Anibal Malvar shown to have been lifted from the pages of "A Estrela de Madeleine" by Paulo Pereira Cristovão. [/b]

^{This report has been adapted from an article by Joana Morais}
Monday 28 April, 2008

Yesterday, a controversial article was published in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, which many considered to have ridiculed the Portuguese police. The article also contained quotes attributed to Gonçalo Amaral which were picked up and reported by the Daily Mail today.

The journalist Anibal Malvar quoted a conversation between two Portuguese inspectors: João Tavares and Francisco Meireles, in which they described the "Portuguese cops" virtue of "improvisation".

Malvar affirms that this conversation was heard when they met on the 23rd of April 2008: 'The Journalist parks the car in the same place where Tavares and Meireles waited for him'.

However, the two inspectors Malvar quotes, João Tavares and Francisco Meireles, are fictional characters from a book entitled 'A Estrela de Madeleine', by Paulo Pereira Cristóvão. The words he reports hearing are actually sentences that the characters speak in the novel.

The following section of Malvar's article, in Spanish, is a word-for-word copy of Chapter 9, page 63 of Paulo Cristóvão's book:

«No podemos perder nunca nuestra intuición de policías, cojones. Tenemos que seguir siendo mañosos... no somos noruegos, ni finlandeses, cojones. Somos portugas, y la bofia portuga se revuelve, improvisa, se fía de la intuición, se ayuda de los CSI, eso es cierto, pero también podemos andar por ahí como angelitos con batitas blancas, debidamente esterilizados, engominados y comiendo hojitas de lechuga porque son más saludables. La malta fuma, le gusta comer y beber unas copas».(...)

Malvar then goes on to report what he heard from João Tavares:

«La pequeña, infelizmente para nosotros y sobre todo para ella, ya no está en el mundo de los vivos. Incluso, si alguien la tuviera en su poder, ¿la iba a mantener viva sabiendo que es la niña más buscada del mundo? Yo creo que no. La publicidad desmesurada que le dieron [los padres, desde la primera noche] a su rostro y su iris especial fueron su condenación. El resto es palabrería, compañero. Murió y que Dios cuide de ella, porque era una inocente que cayó en un mundo de bestias puras». Lo dice Joao Tavares.

The section above translates as: 'The little Girl, unfortunately for us and specially for her, is not in the world of the living anymore. Actually, if someone had her would they keep her alive knowing she is the most sought after girl in the world? I don't think so. The huge publicity given by the parents, since the first night, to her face and eye in particular was her condemnation. The rest is words, mate. She died and may God take care of her, because she was an innocent girl who fell in a world of pure beasts. Said João Tavares.'

This particular section, above, seems to be a mix of comments made by Carlos Anjos and Moita Flores, which do not appear in the book 'A Estrela de Madeleine', however the journalist affirms that he is listening to João Tavares - a fictional character!

Excerpt from the Book "A Estrela de Madeleine" by Paulo Pereira Cristovão:

The science and the cunning
Chapter 9, Page 63

'… speaks João Tavares, the inspector who is the chief of Francisco Meireles: "We can not lose our intuition as cops. We have to be wilful… we are not Norwegian nor Finns.

We are Portuguese and the Portuguese cops improvise, count on intuition, use the help of the CSI's, sure, because it is not possible to do everything without them, but we cannot ‘walk’ down here like little angels in little white lab coats, properly sterilized, in a stiff manner and eating leaves of lettuce at lunch because it is healthier and because the foreigners think that is better, do you understand? We smoke, we like to eat and to drink. And so what?

"We are good police officers and whoever wants to compare results with us will lose."'

Gonçalo Amaral's alleged interviews

Also, in this El Mundo article, Malvar reuses and adds some words to an alleged 'interview' with Gonçalo Amaral. However, Malvar's interview was originally published back in September 2007, and he has pasted it into the new article giving the impression that Mr Amaral is still following the investigation. Mr Amaral is forbidden to comment by the Portuguese secrecy code of Justice.

In this 'new' interview, Malvar also affirms he was the first to get an interview with Gonçalo Amaral. Malvar adds that in order to get that interview he promised to keep Gonçalo Amaral as an anonymous source, but now, because he is going to retire, he considers that fact is no longer relevant.

However, an ethical journalist must honour an agreement not to use the name of a source unless the source explicitly agrees to release him from any promise of confidentiality. A reporter should never assume that a change in the interviewee's circumstances justifies release of their name, as Malvar has done in saying that it is alright for him to use Amaral's name because Amaral is about to retire from the PJ.

The right to keep professional secrecy is a right of a journalist, but it is also an obligation which guarantess the confidentiality of the sources of information.

Aníbal Malvar also appears to have added a few more words to Gonçalo Amaral's statement.

Paulo Santos, Amaral's lawyer said today to Lusa News Agency: "Those statements are a complete lie. Gonçalo Amaral never told the journalist anything. They seem to be citations that were collected from the book about Maddie, which was written by former PJ inspector Paulo Cristóvão", he referred.

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Facts: Silence
The Tapas friends until now didn't give any answer to the PJ. Therefore it will be difficult to do the re-enactment of the night when the girl disappeared, as requested by Magalhães e Menezes, the Public Prosecutor who directs the process. Source: 24Horas [even our tabloids are better than any former respectable UK Newspaper!!]
Translation by Li

For more media spins go the the UK Tabloids or watch Sky News: "In an era where media consolidation is occurring at an all-too rapid pace it's essential to look for alternative news sources that are free from corporate bias.”

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Gonçalo Amaral's book generates great expectations

José Manuel Oliveira

The book "Truth of the lie", that Gonçalo Amaral, ex coordinator of the investigations in Madeleine's case is going to launch is already creating a huge expectation in Portugal and in England.

Gonaçalo Amaral always believed that Madeleine died in the flat in an accidental way although the hypothesis was denied initially. Who, how and why were his doubts. Madeleine's body was hidden and thrown to the sea and probably no longer exists, this was the way to destroy the evidences of what happened in that awful night, almost a year ago. In his book, Gonçalo Amaral will insist in that thesis, describing the situations that occurred, particularly with the girl's mother, arguida in this process,as well as the father and subjected to Term of Identity and Residence. It's known that the PJ investigators admitted to arrest Kate McCann after two long days of interrogations on the 6th and 7th September last year and present her to the criminal judge of Portimão's court.

For Gonçalo Amaral, Truth of the Lie will be a way, above all, of "defending his image" as a criminal investigator. "He was compelled to retire, situation that will occur within three months, leaving the PJ with his reputation tarnished. And, for the time being he will be unemployed", regretted to the DN sources close to Gonçalo Amaral, in Algarve. His lawyer, Paulo Santos, that works with him in the preparation and publishing of the book, was Amaral's colleague during more than 30 years in the PJ, in Lisbon. Diário de Notícias - 29/4/2008

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Op dinsdag 29 april 2008 12:54 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Slimme zet, nu weten we zeker dat de Britse pers gedeeltelijk uit papegaaien bestaat!
[..] <knip>

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Op dinsdag 29 april 2008 20:52 schreef Tmaatje het volgende:
Misschien hoort het niet helemaal hier thuis, maar toch het geeft te denken...
Ook de bron is niet echt OK...

Ontvoeringspoging Portugal

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* JANE MOORE (Sun): “Silence is not an option for the McCanns”
“Just suppose little Madeleine is trapped in a cellar somewhere, hidden from view while her warped captor conducts a seemingly normal life upstairs.”

Like Elisabeth Frtizl? It’s Tabloid Bingo. Eye down…

* ALLISON PEARSON (Mail): “The McCann campaign must NOT go on for ever”

Since May 3 last year, how many parents have mentally run the “Maddie safety test|” before daring to turn away from their children even for a moment? That may be her lasting legacy and our greatest burden.

Still, my small boy is not satisfied. “Maddie” is the big story of his childhood, bigger even than Harry Potter and infinitely more disturbing.

Harry Potter is Madeleine McCann? It’s all just stories. Any others?

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* En ik voeg er zelf aan toe, uit The Times, de McCanns wilde wel met de kids samen eten maar: They rejected the idea only because the children were tired and they did not have a buggy, they said.

* En ook uit The Times, eerste bidden dan 'zoeken': "Kate and Gerry McCann tell today how they prayed through the dark, cold night that Madeleine went missing before going out on a desperate dawn search through the deserted streets of Praia da Luz."

En zo zijn de kranten loaded met verhalen van de McCanns zelf, de ouders en andere desperado's al of niet familie...

* 'Hoogtepunt' voor morgen, nadat ze deze dagen al op tig zenders waren te zien/horen, hoe laat weet ik niet maar de show start 07.00u: Breakfast Show BBC 1 - Thursday May 1st - KM & GM to be interviewed - just announced that they will be interviewed on the Breakfast show tomorrow. Asking for questions to be emailed in.breakfasttv@bbc.co.uk

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Op woensdag 30 april 2008 19:01 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Wat niet betekend dat het nu niet ter zake doet of dat Tmaatjes inbreng niet wordt gewaardeerd.

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Op woensdag 30 april 2008 19:03 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Natuurlijk, misscchien heeft Gerry haar wel verstopt.
<knip< Of voor een maandje of zo, want de PJ denkt wel dat haar lichaampje was 'verstopt' (Gerry heeft 's nachts wel lopen scharrelen rond die kerk iin PDL) en mogelijk na een paar weken voorgoed 'kwijt gemaakt'...

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Op woensdag 30 april 2008 19:08 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
Ow wat sjijn sje toch sielug!
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL3092730720080430?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
Heel natuurlijke reactie, je oudste is weg en je maakt je daar druk om.

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"Silliness is not a crime" Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, former PJ inspector, received yesterday a phone call from the journalist of "El Mundo" asking him if two of the policemen of his book "The star of Maddie", João Tavares e Francisco Meireles, were true or fiction. The Spanish journalist used these names in his article with some sensational sayings. Example "We smoke, we like to eat and to drink". Cristóvão said to him that they were fictional. "Although he publishes passages of my book I don't have how to sue him because being silly is not a crime" he said to 24 Horas." Bron

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Malvar says he subscribes to "Amaral's thesis" concerning the case, and does not see in the exposure of the ex inspector any deontological fault although he did not speak with him. As to Tavares and Meireles he does his mea culpa "I wanted to defend the Portuguese police and used a literary reference, to which I gave all credibility. It was an editing mistake. I apologise for writing the article badly".

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McCann want to ban "The truth lies"
The announcement of the publication of the book "The truth lies", signed by the inspector of the Judicial Police (PJ) Gonçalo Amaral, former head of the investigation in the disappearance of Madeleine, worried Kate and Gerry McCann who asked their lawyers to prohibit any publication.

Regardless of the idiom of publication, the couple McCann, according to a close, is ready to initiate prosecution against the inspector if his book reveals some details of events surrounding the disappearance of Maddie.

In Portugal, the couple's lawyers have already addressed the question whether the inspector would have or not, the right to publish a book revealing details of an investigation he himself directed and which it must keep a certain reserve despite his announcement to leave the framework of the PJ.

Informal contacts were made with the National Directorate of the Judicial Police to find out the possible limitations that would have Gonçalo Amaral.

Gonçalo Amaral, coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Judicial Police (PJ) in Portimão at the time of the disappearance of Maddie, was responsible for investigations that led to that Kate and Gerry McCann are formed arguidos, suspects d Having simulated the abduction of their daughter and concealment of his body.

Ecarté the investigation in October 2007 by the National Director of the PJ, officially a consequence of an article in the Diario de Noticias, signed by José Manuel Oliveira, giving statements criticizing the work of the British police, the inspector Gonçalo Amaral continued to benefit from the unconditional trust of his colleagues but also the Civil Servants' Trade Union Association of Criminal Investigation (ASFIC).

The arrival of the inspector Paulo Rebelo led to a revision of the dossier but the line of investigation has never changed because all tracks and indices followed by Gonçalo Amaral maintained its value.

After his departure from the Judicial Police, Gonçalo Amaral account initiate prosecution against several British media that a default to find a loophole in his career, had chosen to treat the inspector drunk, wholesale, and so on.

3 books: Maddie, the investigation and machine McCann

If the book "The truth of lies" - even without publication date-determined does not agree personal Gonçalo Amaral about the disappearance of Madeleine, however, it allows readers to understand the work of the Portuguese police and British who led McCann to be formed as arguidos.

According to António Paulo Santos lawyer who represents the inspector, in "The truth lies", Gonçalo Amaral did not give his personal opinion about the disappearance of Madeleine.

"The book is the story of someone who lived in the investigation of the Interior, but also all the facts that surround it. It interprets the facts and evidence," said the lawyer, stressing that the subject book, scheduled in Portuguese and English, is not Maddie but rather the investigation into his disappearance.

In English, it is the turn of Kate and Gerry McCann to announce they are negotiating the publication of a book that tells their experience after the disappearance of their daughter. According to several sources, an advance of more than one million and two hundred thousand euros was proposed to the couple for their story.

According to their responsible communication, the book signed by the McCann tells their version of history. "L’unique livre officiel", souligne Clarence Mitchell. "The only official book," says Clarence Mitchell.

No date has yet been given for the release of the book, but according to estimates by experts from several publishing, it might become, the United Kingdom, a financial success without previous.

The machine McCann told a french

A third book, this time in french, will provide a different vision of the case McCann. Cosigné by several journalists and edited from Belgium, the book tells how and why the media machine has been put in place even before the start of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Scheduled for June, it demonstrates how British diplomacy to influence the conduct of investigations, including through the provision of McCann means of the state, but it also explains what was the role of each stakeholder.

Other confidential documents and transcripts of recordings of telephone calls will illustrate the story. Bron sosmaddie.dhblogs.be (Google vertaling)

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Op woensdag 30 april 2008 20:17 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Dat herkauwen en uitkauwen is begonnen toen Clarrie zich er mee ging bemoeien, evenals al die mooie sightings, analyses en tearjerk verhalen, hij heeft zeker meegeholpen de hype levendig te houden, alle vermiste kinderen uit de verre omgeving waren natuurlijk gelinkt aan de Maddy zaak en alle ouders konden rekenen op sympathie en medeleven van de McCanns, dat wil zeggen totdat hun verhalen uitgemolken waren, dan konden ze niet eens meer op berichten in de pers rekenen want alles stond vol met Maddy verhalen.

Natuurlijk hadden ze snel genoeg door dat dit niet licht werd bevonden in Portugal, de verontwaardiging was uit de eerste krantenartikelen te scheppen, en terecht, maar dat nu wordt beweerd dat Kate daar aan gedacht heeft ondanks de paniek en stress vlak na de verdwijning, dat klopt imho niet, ik denk dat een raadsman/adviseur/medewerker van de Britse ambassade oid daar aan heeft gedacht.
Vandaar ook die snelle aftocht naar GB, eerst hadden ze geroepen dat ze in PDL zouden blijven tot ze was gevonden en opeens kwam de mededeling dat ze weer thuis waren met de tweeling, iets klopt er niet met de beweringen dan.

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Op woensdag 30 april 2008 21:35 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Tja, dat vroegen we ons ook al een paar topics terug af, het gaat helemaal niet meer om dat kleine lieverdje maar om een grote ego show van haar ouders en CM.......

@Suko: Ik ga denk ik niet eens kijken, slecht voor m'n bloeddruk.

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THE REGION’S coastline will be lit up this weekend to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

On Saturday night, people of all ages are being encouraged to gather along the four mile seafront between Rhyl and Prestatyn with their torches, lanterns and candles from 9.30pm to 10pm as part of a national Lighting the Way Home day for Madeleine.

Bring the kids - make a night of it…

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Metodo3 hired for another 6 months TV3
TV3 is a Catalan TV channel but it also can be seen by anyone with Digital+ or Imagenio (TV3i). It transmits in Catalan, not in Spanish.

TV3 - 30/04/2008
^{(Thanks to 'Anna' from the3arguidos for translation)}

Programme:

16.25-18.35 El Club - includes the following: "The private detective Francisco Marco will visit us to discuss his new book 'El control de la empresa' a handbook about business crisis management"

Interview parts relevant to Madeleine:

Francisco Marco introduced as a 35 year old lawyer and private investigator.

Q: Do you continue to affirm categorically that Madeleine is still alive?

A: Affirm categorically? I have to think so categorically. If ‘one’ wants to look for a person ‘one’ has to continue thinking that that person is still alive. When ‘one’ arrives at one’s office, talks to that person’s family, has daily meetings about the case ‘one’ has to think that the person is still alive. If not it’s very difficult to do one’s job properly.

Q: But do you have any proof that she is still alive?

A: We have proof and from the beginning it has been filtered that there are ‘materials’ which indicate that she is still alive.

Q: I remember an interview you gave to La Vanguardia (a Barcelona newspaper) in which you promised to buy (name of reporter) dinner if Madeleine hadn’t been found by April 30. That’s tomorrow.

A: Tomorrow, that’s right.

Q: It will be difficult I suppose thatby tomorrow…..

A: Very difficult.

Q: Where is Madeleine being looked for at this point in time?

A: She has been looked for all over the world. A lot of Maddies have appeared in many places and we have been following up all these sightings one by one and place by place, in more than 25 to 30 countries.

Q: You say that she has been stolen (robar), not kidnapped (segrestar). What is the difference exactly between stealing (robar) and kidnapping (segrestar)?

A: It’s just a legal difference but not exactly between those two terms. Kidnapped (segrestar) means simply taking away someone’s freedom whereas kidnapped (raptar) has a more sexual connotation. (Note both verbs translate as kidnapped in English)

Q: But no-one has asked for any ransom for her.

A: Because it’s not a kidnapping for money.

Short break – Francisco Marco reintroduced as one of the best private investigators in Europe at the present time.

Q: How is it that the parents came to you being British themselves and this happening in Portugal?

A: That is quite understandable. We are on the Iberian peninsula, it’s very difficult to investigate in Portugal as Portuguese legislation does not allow investigations to take place in parallel with police investigations. There was a lot of talk of North Africa, especially at the beginning, and they had to find someone who could coordinate all this. We are one of the biggest agencies in Europe, our staff are bilingual and can work anywhere in the world.

Q: Did you accept their request immediately? Did you not have to think about it?

A: Yes, a lot. The owner of our agency (female) had over 10 hours of interviews with the parents, and once we had investigated certain documentation and were sure that the parents were not involved then we accepted the case.

Q: Had you followed this case much during the 6 months before they came to you?

A: We had followed it like anyone else did last summer. It was difficult not to with the coverage. I have always said that one of the problems of this case is that the yellow press got hold of it and the whole case ‘went wild’.

Q: Have you spoken personally to the parents?

A: Yes

Q. And do you believe they are innocent or do you have to believe it?

A: Absolutely, absolutely

Q: Why?

A: For many reasons that I cannot tell and also from personal conviction after speaking five minutes with the mother and seeing how they treat their other children. But I also have a lot of documentation which indicate trails and move the parents far away from suspicion.

Q: When you accepted the case did you set a date to resolve it?

A: No. Initially we had a contract for 6 months and just two weeks ago it was renewed for another 6 months.

They then talk about the Austrian case, 23 years, the possibility that Madeleine's case could go unresolved for as long and to generalise about the disappearance of children.

Q: But what is not ‘usual’ is that the parents of a missing child go as far as contacting the Pope and involving famous people like David Beckham etc. Do you think this media strategy was a good idea or if you had been involved at the beginning would you have advised them not to go down that road?

A: I probably wouldn’t have entered into such huge media coverage – it just got out of hand. But I think it also got out of hand for the parents too…….they were in a foreign country, didn’t speak the language, so their first reaction when their child disappeared was to contact people and the media in England. Also there was a lack of news at that time, a lovely child had gone missing, the parents were media-attractive – maybe if the parents had been ugly the coverage wouldn’t have been as high.

Q: You mean that if the parents had been ugly they wouldn’t have had all this media coverage?

A: You should ask yourself that, not me.

Q: But you made the statement.

A: Yes but you are the media. It’s not the same to be showing images of a blonde lady and a child with light-coloured eyes as showing an ugly man in Austria. After 5 minutes your viewers would tire of looking at the ugly man.

They then return to talk about the case in Austria and other issues, including his new book (which happens to have an eye on the front cover!).

At the end of the interview:

Q: Do you believe that in these next six months you will find Madeleine McCann

A. I don’t believe anything about this case. It’s a strange case. To bet on a date would mean that the British press would immediately take this up so I cannot say. Bron

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why are you appealing for more information, is there more information? the whole world knows about madeleine

gm - people may not have come forward before

we had alot of emails some supporters some critical
why you felt it was ok to leave the children

km we have been persecuted enough about it
we dont need to keep going over it

gm - if we had any inkling it was unsafe wouldnt have done it, we cant change it,

kkm - whatever anyone says about us theres been a crime committed

maybe she went wondering?

km - i know my daughter i know what happened

gm - still under secrecy theres a number of issues we are as certain as anyone can be knowing the facts that we know

kate mccan is RATTLED
she was annoyed at one of the questions and rolled her eyes

alot of emails coming from children - this is all causing trouble for lots of people, we get children asking if they are going to be abducted

gm - there is an abductor out there
its commoner than people think
if youre in a locked apartment tho the chances are slim

prospect of going back with media watching doesnt appeal to us
how much info will that get us one year on
km - we will do anything to get back madeleine

what do you think the public thinks - referring to boxes of letters and nasty ones
can you understand why people are angry and where you went on the night

we do get letters like that - been shocking - we are not like that and dont know people like that -p its scary - whatever we do we get criticised.

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When 3A was just set up, someone PMed me at the Mirror Forum and asked me to come over here and "reason" with people about their strong feelings about the McCanns. I told that person that I didn't think it was the time for reason: I thought it was time for Hellfire and Damnation. I have had a good rant building for quite a while, so here it comes.

The British media - with very, very few exceptions, is nothing but a bunch of focking LAPDOGS, in my opinion. I would never have believed it possible that the media establishment in the UK, which so admirably kept the whole country's courage up during the Blitz, which as recently as the beginning of the war in Iraq was not afraid to, as the Quakers say, "speak truth to power", would roll over and grovel at the feet of two people who have been officially named by the cognizant investigating agency as suspects in the disappearance of a 3-year-old British child! And who also admit out of their own mouths that they regularly, for the better part of a week, left three children aged three and under in an unlocked apartment at night, in a foreign country, out of sight and sound. Ladies and gentlemen, where are your journalistic ethics, your training, your COMMON SENSE!

ITV allowed Kate McCann tonight to go on and on multiple times about how they would have taken the kiddies to the Millennium restaurant if ONLY they had had a buggy. There are pictures all over the internet of them pushing buggies whilst in Praia da Luz, at least one of which, it appears, was taken on 4 May. Didn't take them too long to find a way to get a buggy when they wanted one, did it, ITV? There is also a press report from a British paper that has been out there for months quoting a shopkeeper in Sagres, Portugal, where the McCanns took their children on a little getaway from PDL, who says they had a buggy when they were there on 30 April. I found it last night in about 30 seconds by googling "pictures of McCanns with baby buggy." How can ANY journo worth his salt not CHECK these things?????????????????????????? And more to the point, if you are going to give the McCanns two hours of airtime, not ask them a meaningful question about such an obvious inconsistency every now and then?

The newspapers are no better. Of course, we have dear old Anibal Malvar down in Spain saying he not only interviewed fictional PJ inspectors for El Mundo, he also watched them park their car, but the way things are going I should not be surprised to hear UK newspapers do that or worse any day. After all, some of them, uncritical as ever, re-ran Malvar's lies.

No one is willing to ask the hard questions. No one, in fact, is willing to ask ANY questions designed to elicit any real information, that I can see. Whilst you have the McCanns right there in front of you, why not ask them to clarify the changed stories about whether the apartment was locked or unlocked, about whether the shutters appeared to have been "jemmied" or not, about what Gerry saw when he checked on the children, what they did - hour by hour - on their last day with Madeleine on 3 May, whether or not Gerry saw Jane Tanner on her alleged trip past him at 9.15, how many dead people Kate would be called on to pronounce in an average month as a part-time locum GP, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc, etc. etc. They would probably say that the secrecy laws prevent it, but the secrecy laws do not seem to prevent them from saying anything else they want to say, and if came to that, it would be an easy enough matter to point out leaks to British news organisations that obviously came from Team McCann because they consist of things that only the tapas 9 would know, such as the report that a "friend of the McCanns" suddenly remembering that bundleman was not heading towards Baptista's market at all, but towards Murat's house. Any investigative journo worth his/her salt would have no trouble pointing out to them that it is laughable to claim that what they were doing on the afternoon of 3 May, say, is covered by the secrecy laws, but the only sighting of the alleged "abductor" is not.

I yet have hope that there will be justice for Madeleine, as this case is in the hands of the PJ. I have no hopes whatsoever that the honour and credibility of the British media will ever recover. As a matter of fact, I think we are lucky that we are not still in WWII: If we were, the Beeb would probably be opening with the first few notes of "Do It To Me One More Time" instead of Beethoven's Fifth!