Maddy, nieuwe verhoren van de Tapas 7.

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Op donderdag 1 mei 2008 11:27 schreef Suko het volgende:
McCanns talk to BBC, 01 May 2008

Click link here to watch

01 May 2008

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Madeleine McCann: No Change, A Tourist Site And Entertainment
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann



THE GUARDIAN: “Last night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change”

It’s difficult to keep the visuals stimulating, too. We saw the McCanns at home in Leicestershire; Kate and Jerry talking on the sofa. But you can’t have two hours of sofa, so we joined them in a lot of taxis - in Portugal, London, Washington. And there were plenty of lingering tree shots - leafless, winter trees (this is a sad story, after all). And a flying heron … eh, what’s that about? Maybe the heron is an aguido, too. Does Sir Trevor know?

DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine holiday apartment becomes ’sick tourist attraction’ one year on from her disappearance”

Coachloads of journalists arrive every day. It’s sick.

DAILY MIRROR: “Tourists posing for pictures at McCann tragedy spots”

Pensioner Pamela Fenn, who lives above the McCanns’ holiday apartment, said: “It’s sick.
“They stand outside and then have photographs taken with their children.”

A source close to the McCanns said yesterday: “It’s disgraceful.”

It’s not as if the disappearance of a missing child is entertaining.

The floodlights at Premiership club Everton will be switched on this Saturday to mark the anniversary in a campaign called Light The Way Home.

LIVERPOOL ECHO: “Madeleine McCann: Family prepare for first anniversary of her disappearance”

People around the world are being urged to light a candle, shine a torch or turn on a porch lamp on Saturday night as a gesture of support for Madeleine’s family and friends.

A lighter held in the air?

Robert Murat, the third arguido in the case, is intending to maintain a low profile and will probably stay away from Praia da Luz on Saturday.

He said: “The anniversary is for a little girl who went missing - Madeleine.
“The anniversary is not about us, the McCanns, the PJ (Portuguese detectives) or anything else but a little girl going missing.”

THE TIMES: “Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change; Escape from Alcatraz: The True Story”

Stefanie Marsh: Why must television do compassion? Why, when faced with a captive audience, a prime-time slot and a story that could, if they’d let it, tell itself, must television turn to mush and mutate into a series of treacly Hallmark bereavement cards?…

At one point Gerry McCann admits that his “wife is carrying on in a quasi-real existence”. What she is really doing is falling apart, but too much gloop from the director turned the McCanns’ terrible situation into a guilt trip that made me want to watch The Apprentice instead.

THE INDEPENDENT: “Last Night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change ITV1″

“You can’t always blame the parents,” says Thomas Stucliffe:

They still get a lot of letters, the McCanns, sorting them out into boxes marked “well-wishers”, “ideas”, “psychics” and “nutty”. Incredibly, they also need a box marked “nasty” for messages such as the one that Gerry read out at the beginning of the film. “How can you use money given by poor people in good faith to pay your mortgage on your mansion? You fucking thieving bastards. Your brat is dead because of your drunken arrogance. Shame on you. I curse you and your family to suffer forever. Cursed Christmas. If you had any shame, you would accept full responsibility for your daughter’s disappearance and give all the money back. You are scum.” This heart-warming expression of support had been written inside a Christmas card. The Daily Express, by contrast, chose to print its hate mail on its own front page, confident that there were enough readers out there who would prefer infanticide to unresolved mystery – or to no McCann story at all. And all the time, the McCanns themselves live a life horribly suspended between what might have been and what could happen next, between “if only” and “maybe”.

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Maddie: Special report part 3By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

Published: 30 Apr 2008

A TEARFUL Kate McCann talks tonight about how she is tormented by "if onlys" over the disappearance of Maddie.

An emotional Kate, 40, reveals for the first time how she and husband Gerry had planned to have a family dinner on the night their daughter vanished.

But a last-minute change of plan led them to leave her and her twin sister and brother alone in their holiday apartment in Portugal.

In an extraordinary ITV1 documentary, made to mark the anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance, Kate and husband Gerry, 39, speak as never before about that fateful night.

HER face crumpled in despair, tears streaming down, Kate McCann lays bare her utter grief at being separated from her daughter.

Speaking as never before, Kate says she cannot believe it has been a year since Maddie went missing.

And she tells how seeing the little girl’s best friend in their home village makes her think about how much Maddie must have changed in those long 12 months.

Her voice close to breaking, she says: "I see Madeleine’s best friend from time to time.

"I can’t help but wonder what Madeleine would be like.

"Would she be that much taller? Is her hair as long as that? Would she be writing her name too?"

Always referring to Maddie, who is five in May, in the present tense, she describes her as "very loving. She’s a very bright little girl.

"I had days when I’d go to a cafe with Madeleine and we’d go shopping together and she’d say, ‘Oh mummy, I like that top,’ or ‘Oh, I love your earrings, mummy’.

"She’s good company, she’s like my — you know, she’s like a little buddy to me."

In tonight’s ITV1 documentary, Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change, the McCanns are seen sitting down to a happy family meal while three-year-old twins Sean and Amelie chatter away excitedly.

Later, Kate tells how, when she first returned home from Portugal, she couldn’t bear "everyday things".

She says: "I didn’t cook a meal — just couldn’t do it. I resented things like that because it was taking me away from Madeleine.

"How can I hang up washing when my daughter’s not here?"

Poignantly, she adds: "With three kids, there’s always lots of washing," and says that having to get up to deal with the twins helps her cope with Maddie being missing.

She points out: "They need a happy normal life."

Talking about life without Maddie, who he describes as "endless joy", dad Gerry says it is "a purgatory-type existence. We are kind of between something real and never finding out." He adds sadly: "Our little girl wasn’t even four and is now nearly five. She’s the victim and people should not forget that."

Much of tonight’s documentary was filmed at the McCanns’ home in Rothley, Leicestershire.

Poignantly, as the TV programme shows, there are reminders of Madeleine everywhere.

Photos of her are plastered on the fridge, drawings she did at nursery are stuck to kitchen units and her name is spelt out in wooden letters on a mantelpiece.

The twins are seen noisily playing in a playroom which is littered with Maddie’s things, including a toy kitchen and pink pram.

Their gleeful laughter fills the house, and, watching them play, Kate smiles at the memory of Maddie joining in the fun.

Kate says: "She was great with Sean and Amelie.

"Even when they were born, you know she just stepped into the role really well, considering she was only 20 months when they were born, and she wanted to be involved and help. As they got a little bit older, because the age difference was so close, they just played so well together."

Her voice trailing away as she wipes away tears, Kate adds: "And it was lovely seeing them together and that’s one thing that I struggle with — imagining how they would be now."

Talking about the night when Maddie went missing Kate tells for the first time how she and husband Gerry had planned to dine with the children.

She says: "We were all going to go up to the Millennium restaurant again. That was with the kids, which is what we did the first night.

"It didn’t open till half past six in the evening and our kids usually go to bed around seven, so they were really tired."

Talking about why they had changed their minds, she says that, on the first visit, "we ended up trying to carry three of them between two and we decided we couldn’t do that, really.

"It was just because the walk was so long and we didn’t have a buggy and the kids were tired by that time."

So, instead, the McCanns decided to dine at a tapas bar just across from their holiday apartment. They left the kids alone, checking on them every 20 minutes.

Talking about the much-criticised decision to leave her children alone, Kate says: "I think if there’d even been one second when someone had said, ‘Do you think it’s going to be OK?’, it wouldn’t have happened.

"I mean, there’s absolutely no way, if I’d have had the slightest inkling that there was risk involved there, that I’d have done it."

Gerry adds: "It was so close. It didn’t feel that different to dining out in the back garden."

Kate now admits that she is tormented by the fact they left their children alone.

And she also feels guilty that they did not question Maddie further about a curious remark she made on the morning of the day she went missing.

She says the little girl had asked her, "Mummy, where were you last night when me and Sean were crying?"

The McCanns are convinced now that their daughter may have been woken up by an intruder for her to have said what she did the next morning.

Wringing her hands, Kate says: "You know, I’ve persecuted myself over and over again about that statement because you think, why didn’t I kind of just hold her and say, ‘What do you mean? What do you mean you woke up?’

"I do go back and it does upset you and you think, why didn’t I say, ‘Why did you cry?’ — and why didn’t we go back to the Millennium?"

Breaking down in tears, she adds: "Then, as Gerry said, there is the guilt you feel for not being there and giving someone that opportunity.

"But then I just have to kind of reel myself in and think, ‘I know how much I love Madeleine and I have no doubt that Madeleine knows how much I love her’."

It was Kate’s turn to check on the children — at around 10pm — when she discovered that Maddie had vanished.

She breaks down again as she recalls that moment, adding: "I just remember saying, ‘Not Madeleine, not Madeleine, not Madeleine’ — and I remember saying that over and over again."

Kate admits she "just feared the worst at the beginning".

She says: "It was really cold. I knew what pyjamas she had on and I just thought she’s going to be freezing.

"And it was dark, and every minute seemed like an hour and, obviously, we were up all night and just waited for that first bit of light about six o’clock in the morning."

Gerry says: "Then we just went out searching, the two of us, at daylight. We were saying over and over again, ‘Just let her be found, let her be found’.

"It felt like you’re in the middle of a horror movie, really, a nightmare."

At times during the documentary the couple’s tears turn to anger at the way the Portuguese police have handled their daughter’s disappearance.

Talking about the moment she learnt she and Gerry had been made arguidos — official suspects — Kate says: "As soon as I realised the story, or theory, was that Madeleine was dead and that we’d been involved somehow, it just hit home.

"They haven’t been looking for Madeleine. I was angry, you know. And I thought she deserves so much better than that, and I thought I’m not going to sit here and allow this.

"I felt almost invincible at that point. I just thought my children deserve that — Madeleine deserves that.

"Someone has to be fighting for Madeleine.

"When I was going in to become an arguido I felt angry. I wasn’t scared. I felt like I was going to fight the world, to be honest.

"My daughter was worth more than all that and I would do whatever it took to fight for justice and truth."

For Kate and Gerry the picture of a happy three-year-old clutching a bundle of tennis balls evokes a carefree time before they became household names.

Speaking in the documentary about the now-famous photograph, Kate says: "Gerry loves that photo.

"As part of the kids’ club, they did mini-tennis and she really enjoyed it."

Gerry smiles and adds: "One of the tasks was to gather all the balls up and she’d obviously managed to get three in and she turned round to Kate and she’s like, ‘Look, I’ve got them all’."

He also speaks about the moment the last known picture of Madeleine was taken.

It shows her sitting alongside her father and her younger brother Sean, dangling their feet in the swimming pool, just seven hours before her disappearance.

Gerry says: "She was a little person becoming independent and a piece of just endless joy."

Apart from the twins, the couple have been kept going in recent months by their involvement in the US-style Amber Alert system to keep children safe.

They have recently been to Brussels to ask the European Parliament to adopt a similar scheme across Europe.

At one stage in the documentary they are seen meeting Ed Smart in America.

His daughter Elizabeth was found alive eight months after she was abducted.

He tells the McCanns firmly: "Miracles do happen."

As the first anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance dawns, Kate admits that she cannot imagine living with never knowing what happened to her daughter.

And she says firmly that she and Gerry will never give up searching for her.

At one stage she is seen reading a story in The Sun about a sighting of Maddie in France.

She says: "There’s always that little bit of hope — thinking, ‘Where is she?’ and ‘Is it ever going to be one of those sightings that’s the real thing?’ "

Her voice trembling, Kate says at the end of the documentary: "She’s out there. We’ve just got to find her.

"It doesn’t feel like a year since I saw Madeleine.

"She’s just so much, very much still there and she doesn’t seem so far away.

"It feels like she’s still with me in some way and I’ve never felt like I won’t see her again."

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The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann have expressed their frustration with Portuguese police investigating their daughter's disappearance.



Speaking to the BBC before the imminent anniversary of Madeleine's abduction on May 3rd last year, the McCanns underlined their determination to continue appealing for information about their daughter.

"We'll never give up on Madeleine. I want Madeleine back. We need to find Madeleine. That's what keeps us going," Kate McCann explained.

She and her husband remain official suspects in the case but have expressed concern over the lack of contact between Portuguese police and themselves.

"We'd very much like to know exactly what has been done, what hasn't been done, who's been eliminated and on what grounds," Gerry McCann said.

"I think the key thing is… a horrific crime against a young child," Mrs McCann added.

"I think we need to focus on that. Madeleine is still missing and a hideous crime has been committed. And that person is still out there."

The McCanns dismissed speculation that their daughter may have disappeared without being abducted, but said they were unable to reveal further details because of "judicial secrecy" rules.

"We know more than a lot of people than are actually standing up there giving opinions," Mrs McCann added.

"We know more facts and a lot of people are just speculating."

Madeleine disappeared from the apartment where the McCanns were staying on a family holiday in the resort of Praia da Luz in the Algarve.

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Op donderdag 1 mei 2008 12:53 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Mogge...middag Kahaarin. Nee, link werkt bij mij ook niet, moet je waarschijnlijk die stomme player van de BBC installeren > is alleen voor de UK, zal wel snel op Youtube te zien zijn, als ik (of iemand anders) het zie meld ik 't wel ff. Jeeeeeez, ik ben het ook wel goed zat eigenlijk en wat te denken van morgenochtend, Ned tijd 10.00u:
Missing Live
Fri 2 May, 9:15 am - 10:00 am 45mins BBC1
Series following the work of the police and the charity Missing People as they search for just some of the 200,000 people who disappear every year. Presented by Louise Minchin and Rav Wilding. "

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http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/ dikke maatjes van de McConns. Ze zijn trouwens op zoek naar een PR-manager en een Director of Fundraising & Marketing... Bizz is booming Oja, Richard Branson is één van de Vice Patrons.

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Er is zoveel te melden maar nu even niet... Of er moeten nieuwe ontwikkelingen komen, ik vrees van niet. (ergens kan het ook een enorrme hoax zijn, heb er al wat over gelezen, gek genoeg zijn die topics woei/weg, heb het wel bewaard, mogelijk donder ik dat verhaal nog eens hier in dit topic.... )

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En de PJ heeft hopelijk ook een wider agenda, mét bewijzen, reken maar dat ook alles in Portugal wordt bekeken en in het dossier wordt toegevoegd. Het wachten is op antwoorden van de McConns, dát is wat de PJ denkt Kahaarin.

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Op donderdag 1 mei 2008 19:21 schreef Suko het volgende:
Tip: morgenavond, dus vrijdagvond 2 mei, op RTL4, de door hen zelf gemaakte docu:
Madeleine McCann: Een jaar verder 22.25u - 00.25u
"Waarin de ouders van de sinds 3 mei 2007 vermiste Britse peuter Madeleine McCann worden gevolgd. Sinds de toen driejarige Maddie McCann spoorloos verdween uit het vakantieappartement in het Portugese Praia da Luz, hebben ouders Gerry en Kate onafgebroken aandacht gevraagd voor deze zaak, waarin ze zelf ook verdachten werden. Hoe controversieel de feiten ook zijn, het allerbelangrijkst is dat Maddie, inmiddels een jaar na dato, nog altijd wordt vermist en moet worden gevonden."

Ik zag het net op Boulevard, onderwerp werd natuurlijk kritiekloos behandeld maar dat is niet zo verwonderlijk, het leeft niet zo erg hier dus achtergronden zijn vrijwel onbekend. Zakdoeken bij de hand want het wordt héél erg zielig. Ik geloof gerust dat met name Kate het moeilijk had en nog heeft maar ik geloof ook dat ze wetenschap hebben wat er met Madeleine is gebeurd en inmiddels doorgewinterde mediarakkers zijn geworden...zet argusogen op!

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Het échte nieuws/info is te lezen op o.a. het Three Arguidos Forum + Joana Morais + mccannfiles.

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Op donderdag 1 mei 2008 20:17 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Yeah, wederom schone konten halen....

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Maar goed, belofte maakt schuld, hier is in twee delen op youtube het BBC-breakfast interview van vanmorgen:
Deel 1: Kate and Gerry McCann interviewed - BBC Breakfast May 1 2008
Deel 2: Kate and Gerry McCann interviewed - BBC Breakfast May 1 2008

Gevonden op dit forum met nog meer links.

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Op vrijdag 2 mei 2008 17:53 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Ik vond het werelds, dat verlies van Labour! Nee helaas, en dat spoor zal misschien nooit worden gevonden. De Mccanns gaan morgen niet naar de kerkdienst in Praia da Luz, broer John Mccann gaat: "They will be accompanied by Michael Wright, Kate's cousin. After the ceremony, in front of the church, familiar with Kate and Gerry have planned to speak to the media by reading a statement prepared by the head of the campaign, Clarence Mitchell."

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Nee, De McCanns zijn veel te bang voor de PJ en de Luzjes aldaar, die hebben de buik allang al vol van dit mediacircus. Overigens hebben de McCanns deze dagen al 18 interviews gegeven, de US is nu aan de beurt, en dat nog buiten de optredens elke morgen in het programma Missing People van de BBC. Volgende week ook nog te zien, ik weet niet of ze daar dan weer zijn. Bron

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En verder kunnen mensen nu naar een anoniem emailafres mailen, de McCanns maakten dat vanmorgen bekend, zij doen het voorkomen alsof dat hetzelfde is als naar naar het nieuwe tel. nummer bellen, Metodo 3 dus. Maar pas op, als men mailt via de mail van de eigen provider dan is ook het ip-nummer bekend, je voelt 't al, zoals op 3arguido dit terecht aan de orde komt: "the email address is anonymous@findmadeleine.com BUT it doesn't mean your email is anonymous - your email address headers etc will be on record! it does appear to suggest that it's like an anonymous phone call but it's NOT." + "Do not let them collect your email address, particularly if it is one provided by your ISP."

Het advies is natuurlijk de politie te bellen zoals elk weldenkend mens zou doen: Leicester police; 0116 222 2222
Scotland Yard; 0207 230 1212

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Die enge supportgroep HTFM van de McCanns houden Fora en bloggers al geruime tijd behoorlijk bezig, alweer een voorbeeld is op het 3arguidoforum te lezen.

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Op vrijdag 2 mei 2008 19:40 schreef Loohcs het volgende:
Was net ook een stukje bij één vandaag met onze eigen Jaap Jongbloed. Er werd niet aan de ouders getwijfeld en het leek wel of Jaap z'n tekst aan 't oplezen was, want hij keek regelmatig met een schuin oog naar een papier op z'n bureau.

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Madeleine McCann: Een jaar verderDocumentaire

waarin de ouders van de sinds 3 mei 2007 vermiste Britse peuter Madeleine McCann worden gevolgd. Sinds de toen driejarige Maddie McCann spoorloos verdween uit het vakantieappartement in het Portugese Praia da Luz, hebben ouders Gerry en Kate onafgebroken aandacht gevraagd voor deze zaak, waarin ze zelf ook verdachten werden. Hoe controversieel de feiten ook zijn, het allerbelangrijkst is dat Maddie, inmiddels een jaar na dato, nog altijd wordt vermist en moet worden gevonden.

RTL 4, 22:25 uur

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Madeleine McCann has become an icon for missing children, her parents said Friday on the eve of the anniversary of the British toddler's disappearance from a Portuguese holiday resort.


<sup>A faded photograph of Madeleine McCann on a church notice board near where she disappeared.

Gerry and Kate McCann have kept Madeleine's disappearence in the public eye.</sup>

"Madeleine does seem to have become iconic of missing children," Kate McCann told CNN in an interview as the couple launched a fresh appeal for information about Madeleine's whereabouts and vowed never to give up the search until she is found.

"We believe there is a very good chance Madeleine is out there," Gerry McCann said. "There is certainly no evidence to suggest otherwise and we are doing our best to find her. At the moment we've got a few pieces of a jigsaw and a huge gap and what we are trying to do is build that information."

The couple also reiterated their support for the introduction of a Europe-wide alert procedure for missing children similar to the "Amber alert" system in the United States, which advocates credit with cutting rates of child abduction.

"We are interested in making a world safer for children," Gerry McCann said. "This is something that could be implemented and it will save lives."

Madeleine, then age 3, disappeared from the family's holiday villa at the beach resort of Praia da Luz on the evening of May 3, 2007, as her parents dined in a nearby restaurant.

Police later released sketches of a scruffy, mustachioed man who witnesses claimed to have seen carrying a young girl matching Madeleine's description.

CAMPAIGN HOTLINE
UK: 0845 838 4699
International: +44 845 838 4699 "The chances of Madeleine being found are at least as good if not better than in those first few days," Kate McCann said. "We know she's been abducted by a man. Other than that we just don't know anything. There's a whole range of scenarios in which she could still be alive."

Since September the McCanns themselves have been considered formal suspects -- or "arguidos" -- under Portuguese law in the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

The couple was stunned and dismayed by the development, Kate McCann said.

"Our reaction was disbelief, first of all, and then devastation because suddenly they were looking at us -- and if they were looking at us then who was looking for Madeleine? Who was looking for my little girl? It was devastating," she said.

The couple's naming as formal suspects prompted a hostile backlash in some British newspapers. Gerry McCann reiterated that they have never been accused of having any involvement in their daughter's apparent abduction.

"Anyone can smear you and anyone can be smeared," he said. "But we have never been accused of anything and we are trying to look forward. What we are saying is that Madeleine is out there and we want to find her."

The couple, from Rothley, Leicestershire, describe the night of Madeleine's disappearance as a parent's "worst nightmare" and the "most horrific situation imaginable."

"Every parent can imagine it but they will probably never feel that desperation," said Gerry McCann. "Any parent knows that fleeting feeling in a park or in a supermarket: Where's my child? And then there's that terrible realization."

The McCanns say they are now trying to lead an "ordinary family life" amid the campaign to find Madeleine, and say their 3-year-old twins' routine of swimming lessons and nursery classes has proved a welcome distraction from the search.

The pair are still too young to comprehend their sister's disappearance and still include her in their games, Kate McCann says.

"They do lots of role playing with toys in which they still include Madeleine," said Kate McCann. "If she walked through the door, I think they would be like: 'Madeleine's back, let's go to the park!'"

But the couple admit that a normal life is impossible while Madeleine remains missing.

"The concept of saying, let's go out and have a nice meal even a year down the line that doesn't hold any appeal or enjoyment," said Gerry McCann. "We need to know everything and we will never give up."

"You have moments when you are exhausted and you think you can't do this anymore but it's a second, a moment," Kate McCann said. "Because you never give up. Who would give up on their own child?"

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Op vrijdag 2 mei 2008 21:51 schreef Suko het volgende:
Indeed Kahaarin vooral als je bedenkt dat ze geen reden hebben dat Madeleine iets ergs is aangedaan, zoals je zelf denken, maar wel dat Oostenrijks drama erbij halen. Het is van 2-en één, of ze is er niet erg aan toe, of in een kelder, ergens....Wat ziiten ze toch ongelofelijk uit hun nek te kakelen!

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Maar goed, ik las net een merkwaardig artikel:


Vreemd, terwijl andere bronnen melden dat de DNA-resultaten nog steeds niet openbaar cq bekend zijn, of toch wel??? Ex-copper Beachy denkt (waar bovenstaand artikel ook vandaan komt): "We are not dealing with contamination of the samples, but the possibility, mostly academic, that someone with an identical genetic profile combined with all the others," affirmed a source within the process to CM."If Correia da Manha is reporting the state of the evidence correctly, this is a misunderstanding of the science. Unless Madeleine has an unknown identical twin somewhere, there is no one else on earth with a genetic profile identical to hers."

Afijn, houdt de spanning er in zullen we maar zeggen... Of heeft Clarence Mitchell z'n jatjes in deze krant kunnen zetten.... Oja, 'low copy number' wat betreft DNA is nu wel officeel geaccepteerd in de UK, eerdere post.

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Op zaterdag 3 mei 2008 11:42 schreef livelink het volgende:
Alweer een jaar geleden. Ik vind het echt ongelooflijk dat er nog steeds niet duidelijk is wat er met Maddy is gebeurd. Al dat onderzoek en zoveel vage aanwijzingen en dan niks concreet weten te krijgen. Wat is dat toch frustrerend.
Ik blijf toch de ouders verdenken, althans ik vermoed dat zij weten waar Maddy is en wat er met haar is gebeurd. Maar ik begin zo langzamerhand het gevoel te krijgen dat wij er nooit achter zullen komen.
Hetzelfde eigenlijk als met Nathalee Holloway. Maar ik hoop dat jij gelijk hebt met je rotsvaste overtuiging, Kahaarin.

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Madeleine McCann: That was the week that was
Well thank God that week is now over. An obscene blitz by the fawning British media enlisted to scramble to the aid of the MDF - McCann Defence Force. All that was missing was Kenneth Moore driving along in an old MG with a pipe in his mouth, telling us what a frightfully fine family the McCanns are.

"Poor Kate" and "Frail Kate" bombarded targets such as logic, common sense - and the vision to see that Kate changes expression as quickly as a camera shutter. One second she's in tears then "click" and she's as beaming and confident as a cup final winner.

Of course there was the now compulsory shot at the Portuguese police, and the customary hijacking of other people's tragedy by using the case of the poor Austrian girl as a shred of hope.

Hope? Who for Kate? For you or for Madeleine?

Personally I would be scared to death at the thought of my daughter being locked up with a deranged sex offender. I certainly would not be so bloody gleeful at the prospect as Kate appeared to be. But of course this whole circus long ago ceased being about Madeleine - it's all about Rothley's finest - beaming examples of parental responsibility whose only sin is to have made a "marginal error" as one reporter described what most people call neglect.

At least one person knows what happened. At least one person knows where the little mite is. At least one person can answer the question so many caring, concerned people around the world want to know.

At least one person can give a little girl dignity, respect and peace.

Whoever knows - it's time. Time to speak.

Not only for Madeleine - but also for yourself.

Mike Hitchen, Mike Hitchen Consulting Publisher of
i On Global Trends and Sydney Irresistible

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Op zondag 4 mei 2008 13:54 schreef Suko het volgende:

Tuurlijk is dit terecht een well spoken comment, ondanks dattie door een rivaal als een nutter wordt omschreven, who cares anyway...

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En columnist, Rod Liddle van The Times schrijft ook van zich af:

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Ook uit The Times: ‘Pray like mad,’ begs tearful Kate McCann Toch wat zorgerlijk, nou weet ik opeens ook hoe die supporting lunatics van HTFM zijn ontstaan, pfffff. En Joana Morais vergelijkt dt Britse en Portugese pers in dit artikel: McCanns: The Uk Media Versus The Portuguese Media Game En dan een artikel op de site van Nigel, vertaling/translation Joana Morais:

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Ik weet niet wat ik ervan moet denken maar een beetje tegenslur moet kunnen.... By the way, docu gisteren op SBS6 was gewoon een verknipte HH van die docu op de BBC vorig jaar, wat een flutzender is het toch...!

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THE HERALD: “British children taken into custody in Portugal as parents too drunk”

Hotel staff in Vilamoura, in the Algarve, called police after Eamon McGuckin, 34, and his wife Antoinette, 32, collapsed while on holiday on Friday night. The couple, believed to be from Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, were taken to a health centre in nearby Loule while their children, one-year-old Adam, two-year-old Amy and Aaron, six, were taken to the Refugio Aboim Ascensao children’s home in Faro.

Allegedly, of course. It’s shocking. And worse:

The incident happened on the eve of the first anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who went missing from her family’s Algarve holiday flat while her parents dined nearby.

DAILY MAIL: “Three British children taken into care after parents ‘drank themselves into a stupor’ on Algarve holiday”

The manager of the Mourabel hotel in Vilamoura, where the family were staying, said: “Fortunately the children were safe - otherwise it might have been not one Maddie, but three Maddies.”

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Op maandag 5 mei 2008 12:57 schreef Suko het volgende:
Hoi Kahaarin. Ja, ik las dat vanmorgen ook. Kids zijn wel weer terug bij de ouders maar het is natuurlijk op z'n minst heel bedenkelijk. Valt me trouwens al een tijdje op hoeveel Engelsen naar de fles grijpen als je wat tv-series bekijkt of docu's. Naast de gebruikelijke cup of tea staat er altijd wel een fles van het een ander binnen handbereik. Zal wel mede komen door die pub-cultuur, ook tijdens de luchbreaks en na het avondmaal. Ik heb wel verhalen gelezen dat de McCanns en hun Tapasvriendjes best wel veel dronken, voor, tijdens en na het eten, bier en cocktails. En dat naast de huiswijn die bij de prijs was inbegrepen. Dit artikel op de site van Joana Marais vond ik intrigerend, komt oorspronkelijk uit de Daily Express maar is natuurlijk nu 'missing':

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Of het allemaal letterlijk zo weet ik niet maar de zinnen tussen aanhalingstekens zijn door hem verteld, de rest kan mogelijk zijn ingevuld zoals Tabloids wel meer doen. Om iets af te zwakken of erger te maken.

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Anyway, Murat, volgens Sky News, wil zeker meewerken qua reconstrucite, nou de McCanns nog: "Gerry and Kate McCann - who are still considered suspects, or 'aguidos' in the case - have not ruled out a return to Portugal. But the two doctors say they are worried about how helpful it would be for the police investigation given the huge media interest in the story. "It is under discussion. It is back to what additional information will help the search," Mr McCann added." En dat Kate het niet aan kan, zo vertelden ze onlangs op de BBC... Maar goed, Portugal wil dat ze komen: "Kate and Gerry McCann have been urged by Portugal's most senior detective to take part in a reconstruction of what happened on the night of their daughter's disappearance." Maar ook hier een smoes om niet komen: "The McCanns have said that they were considering the request but were concerned about taking part while they were still classified as official suspects." En nogmaals een oproep van Gerry McCann: ""Because the police won’t tell us this, we have been forced to compile all the evidence again ourselves. We are begging all witnesses to come forward, even if they have already spoken to police." Wat een foute man toch...dat mag helemaal niet, foei! The Times En verder veel geblaat in de kranten...

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No shame in not finding Madeleine McCann, Portuguese law chief says
May 5 2008 By Sam Marsden

PORTUGAL'S law chief yesterday claimed there was "no shame" in cops failing to solve the Madeleine McCann mystery.

Attorney-general Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro's comments appeared to pave the way for the year-old hunt for the missing four-year-old to be wound down.

In a newspaper interview, Monteiro defended the police inquiry team, pointing out that only one in five missing child cases worldwide is solved.

He said: "These kinds of crimes are extremely difficult. There are one million missing children per year throughout the world and not even 20 per cent are found."

Monteiro also hinted the police case files could remain secret for longer than expected.

Legal sources have suggested the official period of judicial secrecy - which runs out on May 15 - is likely to be extended.

Monteiro said: "We will analyse the state of the case and see whether it is necessary or not to request an extension."

He denied that the Madeleine case had become politicised, but said: "We have already spoken too much about Maddie."

His comments followed reports suggesting the inquiry had stalled and that no charges would be brought.

The Portuguese weekly Expresso said on Friday the police were preparing to exonerate Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, who remain formal suspects.

But yesterday, as Glasgow-born hospital consultant Gerry revealed they planned to slip out of the spotlight following the year's anniversary of her disappearance, a senior detective called on them to return to the Algarve to assist the inquiry.

Alipio Ribeiro, national director of the Policia Judiciaria, was apparently referring to a proposed reconstruction of the night Madeleine went missing, including all the key witnesses.

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said last night: "If they are close to closing the case, we still want them to keep searching for Madeleine."

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Op maandag 5 mei 2008 20:00 schreef Suko het volgende:
Inderdaad Kahaarin, ze hebben niks te eisen en wat die stilte betreft. Sky News meldt: "The couple believe the coverage is "unsustainable" and hope the attention will fade after Madeleine's fifth birthday on May 12." Hij (Gerry) even suggested that it might have led to Portuguese police naming him and his wife as arguidos, or formal suspects, in the case in early September."You look at where it's led for us, the problems it's created," he said."

Hoe krijgtie 't uit de bek want vanaf het begin was en is volgens mij nog steeds de opdracht, keeping Madeleine on the frontpages...dat heb ik tig keer gelezen van henzelf en uit hun omgeving, en nu is de publiciteit de schuld van hun arguido-status...ach ach, die komende stilte zal wel eens een andere betekenis kunnen hebben.

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Overigens kan dat een interessante theorie zijn van jouw wederhelft:

Heb het wel vaker gelezen, naast andere ook zeer plausibele theorieën. Maar een ontvoering...(met een week was al een website klaar/lintjes besteld/naam geregistreerd e.d. en met 10 dagen online), waarom dan dat oog van Madeleine (ge)misbruiken terwijl dat door de Portugese politie met klem is afgeraden, het betekende een zekere doodvonnis.

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Maar Kahaarin, de zaak is zo bizar dat het logisch is dat velen hierover gedachtengangen hebben, álles is mogelijk, en wie ben ik om de waarheid in pacht te hebben, ha ha, no way, dan was ik trouwens al stinkend rijk geworden!

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^{(Overigens zijn de 3 kids van die Britse zuipende ouders in de Algarve toch 'in care.' "A County Londonderry couple on holiday in Portugal have had their three young children temporarily taken into care." BBC)}

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Madeleine McCann: The McGuckins, Middle-Class Drinks And
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

DAILY MIRROR: “Portugal booze parents’ court fear”

It’s Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin.

Bank manager Eamon, 35, passed out in the hotel reception while Antoinette, 36, vomited before falling unconscious.

A source close to the family said last night: “They are very ashamed. They want to go to court. They want to say to the judge that the children are safe with them.”

Significant:

Vilamoura is 45 miles from Praia da Luz, where four-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing while her parents were out with friends a year ago.

DAILY MAIL: “Shamed: The middle class parents who got so drunk on holiday their three children were taken into care”

Middle-class drinkers. Who knew of such a thing?

Mr McGuckin used to be manager of the Magherafelt branch of the Ulster Bank, a spokesman said. He left 18 months ago and is understood to now work for a mortgage company. His wife is a full-time mother.

British parents:

The incident has caused outrage in Portugal, where the year-long investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has already raised questions over standards of British parenting.

BELFAST NEWSLETTER: “Couple ‘will face NI social services’”

THE parents of three children taken into care because they apparently got so drunk on holiday they both passed out are likely to face a grilling by social services when they get home from Portugal.With the parallels to the tragic Madeleine McCann case already drawn, the case comes after Portuguese police faced great criticism over their handling of the missing four-year-old English girl.

The parents were said to have been lucky it wasn’t a case of “one Maddie but three Maddies”.

THE INDEPENDENT: “Holiday parents to appear before judge”

Mrs McGuckin has said she drank only three beers and has requested details of hospital blood tests because she was “very surprised” at her reaction, the source said.

The source added: “They were tired, they woke up at around 4am (to travel to Portugal), then there was the flight.

“Then it was too hot - they are very red, they got a lot of sun. All this together could be the reason.”

Drugged?

The incident happened just 45 miles from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment while her parents dined nearby.

THE SUN: “’Quiz kid killer on Maddie’”

Relatives of five-year-old Mari Luz Cortes claim convicted paedophile Santiago del Valle has committed other crimes. Her grandfather Juan Cortes said: “The authorities should investigate him fully because that way they may be able to discover what happened to Madeleine. We are sure he is hiding other secrets from the police.”

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS: “Man with a special Power”

It’s Joe Power.

If a medium is claiming knowledge of such a case, there is only one logical conclusion about Madeleine’s fate, I venture. But no, Power says his information does come from beyond the grave but ‘from relatives, from Madeleine’s family and people who work closely with me in the spirit world, spirit guides, that type of thing’.

He believes five people were connected with the disappearance of Madeleine. He says he passed his information on to police in Portugal early in the investigation.

How do you work Madeleine McCann into a news story?

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MCCANNS HOPING TO BE CLEARED

10:30 - 06 May 2008

Parents of missing Madeleine McCann hope speculation that Portuguese police are set to shelve their investigation will see the couple soon cleared.

Comments by Portugal's attorney-general, Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro, have been interpreted as preparing the way for the investigation into the disappearance of the Rothley toddler to be shelved - a year after she vanished from the holiday apartment, on May 3, 2007.

He told the newspaper Jornal de Noticias: "(If the investigation) results in failure, it is nothing which should shame the police...

"These kinds of crimes are extremely difficult to investigate."

Legal sources have suggested the official period of judicial secrecy in the investigation - which runs out on May 15 - is likely to be extended for three months until mid-August.

Mr Monteiro said: "(At that time) we will analyse the state of the case and see whether it is necessary or not to request an extension."

Gerry and Kate McCann's official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said they would welcome the end of the investigation if it meant the parents being cleared.

However, he said Portuguese police should not stop searching for the missing child.

He said: "If the attorney-general's comments are some sort of precursor to Gerry and Kate being eliminated from the enquiry and their arguido status being lifted, clearly we welcome them.

"We hope the attorney-general's comments will be followed by swift action.

"If, however, they are close to closing the case, we still want them to keep searching for Madeleine."

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Op dinsdag 6 mei 2008 19:59 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ah ja, die was ik nog vergeten...aliens, een boeman, poltergeisten, etc... Wat dat dronken Britse stel betreft, de kids mochten weer terug naar paps en mams, een plaatselijke rechtbank zou bepalen wát er verder moest gebeuren, maar het laatste nieuws (BBC) is dat ze dat niet hebben afgewacht en een McCann hebben gedaan...dwz, gevlucht naar de Uk! Ik denk dat in de UK men over het algemeen wel denkt dat de McCanns aan de zuip waren en bang dat de McCanns hun kids zouden worden afgenomen, naast dat ze formeel verdachten werden. Overigens staat de Britse pers vol van dit gebeuren zoals je aangeeft Kahaarin in het artikel van Anorak, ook op radio en tv/internet. Het is wel zo dat Engeland in Europa de nummer 1 is wat drank betreft. Maar vooral in een warm land, moe van de buitenland e.d komt een neut dubbel aan. Vanmorgen op BBC's Breakfast merkte iemand scherp op dat er gewoon niet geboozed moet worden in een vreemd land terwijl je kids alleen zijn, "see what happend to Madeleine." Oeps!

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Anyway, ja dat de McCanns gecleared zullen/willen worden lees ik al pakweg een half jaar...ha ha! Maar goed, er is nieuwe hoop voor de McCanns, BBC: "Natalie Horrell was five months old when she was taken from a Cardiff shopping centre. She was returned days later after a police inquiry and a woman was jailed." Maar wel 20 jaar geleden....geeft niks, áls de McCanns besluiten naar Praia da Luz te gaan wegens de reconstructie kunnen ze altijd nog vragen aan de politie of ze vrouwen met een kind hebben zien lopen. En zo kunnen de McCanns en hun team nog jaren vooruit, alle vermisten nagaan en maar linken aan Madeleine, maar dat had ik al ergens geschreven geloof ik...

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En dan krijg je zomaar 'toevallig' het gevoel dat na het bezoekje van Metodo 3 aan de Smithjes in Ierland die verklaring van hen een andere wending neemt, in het voordeel van de McCanns....want ik vind het wel een forse stap van de PJ dat ze toen de Smithjes lieten overvliegen, Metodo 3 'interviewd' ze daarna en opeens is het maar een vaag verhaal.

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Op woensdag 7 mei 2008 17:44 schreef Suko het volgende:

Hajo Kahaarin. Ha ha, altijd leuk jouw reacties/post te lezen. Nee geen echt nieuws. De BBC flikt het ook weer een aantal fouten te melden:

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Dat was alleen te snel gedaan omdat je als Arguido niets meer hoeft te zeggen en dus vluchten ze vlak na het 'vonnis' het land uit, de McCanns waren als getuigen meer bruikbaar geweest, maar ja, als ze de bek niet opendoen....En Madeleine was toen 3jr en geen 4jr zoals de BBC meldt. Als laatst zegt Mr Ribeiro: "On Tuesday, Mr Ribeiro reportedly told Radio Renascenca that he regretted "what he said as well what he failed to say" publicly about the investigation." Nou wát zou hij daar nou mee bedoelen....

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En wie is dan die nieuwe national director of the judicial police, Almeida Rodrigues? Niet echt van heel groot belang maar het is de eerste niet-magistraat die deze functie gaat bekleden:

Een man vanuit het veld, zak maar zeggen, acht weten we veel, als de gewone cop er blij mee is, wat zullen wij dan oordelen. Good luck...Almeida Rodrigues zal het nodig hebben!