Freitag, 26. September 2014
Freitag, 5. September 2014
A subtle hint by the media?
Montag, 21. Juli 2014
A message from Goncalo Amaral
21 Jul 2014
Dear friends,
Upon reading the news about the most recent trial session, I am certain that the vast majority of journalists doesn’t know what is being discussed in court, and have not informed correctly.
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Lisbon Appellate Court’s decision - 2010
Dear friends,
Upon reading the news about the most recent trial session, I am certain that the vast majority of journalists doesn’t know what is being discussed in court, and have not informed correctly.
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Lisbon Appellate Court’s decision - 2010
The book at stake in this process – "Maddie – the Truth of the Lie" – which was written by the defendant Dr. Gonçalo Amaral, has the main motivation of defending his personal and professional honour, as the author points out right away in the preface and throughout his text.
The contents of the book does not offend any of the applicants' fundamental rights.
The exercise of its writing and publication is included in the constitutional rights that are secured to everyone by the European Convention on Human Rights and by the Portuguese Republic’s Constitution, namely in its articles 37º and 38º.
Samstag, 5. Juli 2014
In support of the People of Praia da Luz
As pessoas na Praia da Luz dizem: #SomosTodosPedintes
Pedimos Paz!
People in Praia da Luz say: #WeAreAllBeggars
We ask for Peace!
Die Menschen in Praia da Luz sagen: #WirSindAlleBettler
Wir wollen Frieden!
Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2014
Going through the motions
My take on the Arguidos and the alleged evidence based on the report by Marisa Rodrigues from JN to which I would like to express a very special thanks for a professional reporting. 1. S.M.
1.1. The sofa
The alleged similarity between hairs found on the discarded sofa and in Apartment 5A is only theoretical. Since no DNA had been obtained in 2007 from S.M. the only comparison that could be done in the Lisbon lab was to extract and analyse the MtDNA from the hairs and place them in the relevant Haplotype groups.
Haplotype X - apart. Ocean Club e sofa of 1-seat in the garage in Portimao
Haplotype Y - apart. Ocean Club e sofa of 1-seat in the garage in Portimao
Haplotype Z - Residencia Liliana e sofa of 1-seat in the garage in Portimao
But since there are only a certain number of haplotypes it is of absolute no relevance if the same haplotype is found in two different spots.
There was also a similarity of hairs in a completely unrelated apartment in Burgau and Apartment 5A. And if my hair was tested I am sure my haplotype would fit one of the hairs found in 5A as well.
1.2. The hearsay
The statement concerning the alleged overheard conversation regarding a body that had to be disposed of was neither made to the PJ nor is it part of the original rogatory process and can therefore only have been made to one of the McCann's private investigators. How much credibility does this have if it was the then suspects PI's that "unearthed" this statement? The credibility of Metodo 3 (and I suspect it was them) has been at it's height when they promised Maddie to be back by Christmas and has since lost considerably...
1.3. The arson
This was a crime directed at the Arguido, the burning of his car and the framing of him. Wouldn't it be a good idea to try and find out who did it and why, instead of turning the victim of a crime into a suspect of another crime because he had been a victim in the first place?
Do we have to point out that this crime was committed during the reign of Metodo 3?
2. J.S. ("recently diagnosed with a brain tumour. He didn't follow his doctor and his lawyer advice and decided to speak up to refute the accusations.")
2.1 The burglarizer
In the list of employees of the Ocean Club there is the word "furto" attached to the Arguido's name, written by the PJ investigation which means "theft". But so it is with 2 other persons that are not being targeted by Scotland Yard. Of course it is normal that people that have been charged previously with some kind of offence should be investigated, but this had obviously been done by the PJ who came up with no connection. We should not forget that NOTHING was taken from 5A exept the body of a little girl.
2.2 The phonecalls
The only phonecall relating to J.S. in the released PJ files is to the number allegedly belonging to R.R. at 21:51. Nothing else.
2.4. The residence
J.S. lives on Rua Primero do Maio. The Smith sighting was in Rua 25 de Abril roughly 350 metre away, in no way a suspicious distance in such a small town if you live in the centre and not in some ex-pat area.
2.5. The e-fit
The person who allegedly helped to draw up this e-fit was 60-80% convinced that it had been Gerry McCann who he had seen. The fact that the e-fit had been hidden by the McCanns for years and the sighting covered-up weighs heavy against the possible similarity of somebody's face to an e-fit done by private investigators of the then suspects.
3. P.R.
Acting strangely might be excused when you are suffering from schizophrenia. Apart from that we have the same MO of the then accused's PI's contacting witnesses and getting e-fits done. Not in any way an independent source. Phonecalls are not in the files
4. R.R.
Having been only 16 years at the time of the "disappearance" he is supposed to fit the description of a witness who described a man 18-20 years of age as being a charity collector, which in itself is not a crime, at least not outside the Metodo world.
This and the one phonecall that can be found in the files should be sufficient to drag this young man in front of the vicious british media? I think not.The whole "request" is in my opinion copied straight from a report of Metodo 3 that Scotland Yard found in the boxes they collected from their offices during a raid in Barcelona some years ago.
Which leaves a couple of questions: Why was it approved by the Portuguese judiciary? And what was the purpose of this action? To prepare for shelving the case again, because no patsy will ever be found after this latest farce? Or to refute even the most ludicrous scenarios that entered the process when they were found inside the boxes of Metodo 3 and therefore have to be dealt with?
Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2014
Engländer fragen nach DNA der Arguidos
Engländer fragen nach DNA der Arguidos
- Illegale Mittel wurden vorgeschlagen
- Verdächtige werden befragt
von Marisa Rodrigues
Die britische Polizei ging so weit, die Kriminalpolizei (PJ) um Fingerabdrücke und DNA-Profile der vier Verdächtigen, die jetzt zu Arguidos gemacht wurden, zu bitten. Heimlich, falls erforderlich.
Der Antrag ist Teil eines Rechtshilfeersuchens von Juli letzten Jahres, aber es wurde von der PJ angefochten, weil es illegal ist. Auf Wunsch von Scotland Yard und mit Zustimmung der Staatsanwaltschaft wurden die Verdächtigen gestern formell zu Arguidos gemacht, durch Inspektoren der PJ in Faro.
Mindestens zwei der Arguidos wurden nicht von Anwälten begleitet, die in der Zwischenzeit nominiert wurden, damit die Befragung stattfinden konnte. Eine Liste mit über 250 Fragen erwartete si. Die Mehrheit stimmte zu diese zu beantworten. Die Fragen wurden von den Inspektoren der Kriminalpolizei gestellt, in Anwesenheit der britischen Detektive, die nicht eingreifen konnten.
JN hat erfahren, dass die Befragung zu Beginn des Abends abgeschlossen wurde und die Arguidos nicht ins Direktorat zurückkehren müssen. Der letzte der entlassen wurde um 20.30 Uhr war Sergey Malinka, ein russischer Staatsbürger mit portugiesischer Staatsangehörigkeit, der bereits im Jahr 2007 untersucht worden waren, in dem portugiesischen Fall. Seine Computer wurden beschlagnahmt und Hausdurchsuchungen vorgenommen, aber nichts Relevantes wurde gefunden. Er war ein Freund von Robert Murat, einem ehemaligen Arguido in der portugiesischen Untersuchung.
Die anderen Verdächtigen sind José da Silva, ein ehemaliger Fahrer des Ocean Club, Paulo Jorge Ribeiro, ein Arbeitsloser, der an Schizophrenie leidet, und Ricardo Rodrigues, der damals 16 Jahre alt war. Sie leben in Praia da Luz, einige von ihnen in der Nähe des Geländes, wo die Recherchen stattfanden vor einem Monat. Scotland Yard glaubt, dass sie einen Einbruch in die Wohnung planten, in der die Mccanns ihren Urlaub verbrachten. Aber Madeleine war aufgewacht und wurde getötet, so dass damit sie nicht in der Lage wäre, sie zu identifizieren, und der Körper wurde von einem von ihnen durch die Straßen, die mit Touristen gefüllt waren, getragen. Eine Theorie, die absolut keinen Sinn für die PJ macht. (HEAR HEAR)
Ab heute werden 11 Zeugen befragt, ebenfalls auf Wunsch von Scotland Yard.
Spürhunde für die Suche in Autos
Die englischen Behörden werden von Spürhunden aus dem Vereinigten Königreich begleitet, um nach den Verhören evtl. Durchsuchungen durchzuführen, z.B. der Auto. Die Hunde sind die gleichen, die vor kurzem bei der Suche an der Algarve teilgenommen haben. Damals während der Untersuchung im Jahr 2007 hatten zwei Hunde (Eddie und Keela) geholfen, Indizien zu sammeln.
Arguidos: Fakten, die die Engländer als kompromittierend sehen.
S.M., Geschäftsmann, im Alter von 30
Bereits im Jahr 2007 war er ein Verdächtiger und ein Ziel der Durchsuchungen der PJ. Jetzt ist er es wieder, weil er ein Sofa entsorgt hatte, das von forensischen Experten analysiert wurde und das Haare enthielt, die ähnlich der Haare sind, die in der Wohnung der McCanns gefunden wurden. Es gibt auch ein Gespräch, das aus zweiter Hand berichtet wurde und angeblich in der Nähe von Malinks Zuhause belauscht wurde bzgl. einer Leiche, die entsorgt werden müsse. Die Engländer betrachteten auch die Tatsache, dass damals das Auto des Russen in Brand gesteckt wurde und jemand das Wort "Fala" ["Sprich"] auf de Bürgersteig schrieb.
J.S., ehemaliger Fahrer, im Alter von 38
Er arbeitete im Ocean Club und die Engländer halten ihn für die Person, die Ferienwohnungen aussuchte in die im Ort eingebrochen wurde und die dafür verantwortlich war die "Bewegungen" der Touristen zu überprüfen. Scotland Yard sagt, dass ihn Telefonanrufe verdächtig machen, die er zu anderen Arguidos machte in der Nacht des Verschwindens und seine Ähnlichkeit mit dem Phantombild, das auf der Beschreibung einer irischen Familie basiert, die im Urlaub in Praia da Luz war. Er ist angeblich der berühmte Mann, der gesehen wurde, als er ein Kind trug.
P.R., im Alter von 50
Er wurde ein Verdächtiger für die englischen Polizisten, weil ausländische Touristen sein merkwürdiges Verhalten und seine Gegenwart in der Nähe der McCanns Wohnung vor dem Verschwinden beschrieben. Als psychisch Kranker wurde er auch durch seine Ähnlichkeit mit einem anderen Phantombild auf der Basis von Zeugenaussagen denunziert, die ihn als Bettler identifizierten und weil er einen der anderen Arguidos kannte, mit dem er am Tag des Verbrechens telefonierte.
R.R., im Alter von 23
Er war 16 zu der Zeit des Verschwindens und die Engländer bringen ihn mit dem Fall in Verbindung wegen der Anrufe, die er vor dem verhängnisvollen Moment und am selben Tag gemacht, darunter ein Aufruf an Paulo Ribeiro. Ein weiteres der angeblich belastenden Argumente ist die Tatsache, dass er der Beschreibung ähnelt, die von Zeugen von einem der beiden Bettler und einem Verdächtigen für Einbrüche in der Gegend von Praia da Luz gemacht wurde. Gegen ihn spricht auch die Tatsache, dass er in der Nähe einiger der anderen Männer wohnt, die jetzt von den englischen Polizisten zu Arguidos gemacht wurden.
Quelle: Jornal de Notícias, 2014.07.02, Papierausgabe und E-Paper
- Illegale Mittel wurden vorgeschlagen
- Verdächtige werden befragt
von Marisa Rodrigues
Die britische Polizei ging so weit, die Kriminalpolizei (PJ) um Fingerabdrücke und DNA-Profile der vier Verdächtigen, die jetzt zu Arguidos gemacht wurden, zu bitten. Heimlich, falls erforderlich.
Der Antrag ist Teil eines Rechtshilfeersuchens von Juli letzten Jahres, aber es wurde von der PJ angefochten, weil es illegal ist. Auf Wunsch von Scotland Yard und mit Zustimmung der Staatsanwaltschaft wurden die Verdächtigen gestern formell zu Arguidos gemacht, durch Inspektoren der PJ in Faro.
Mindestens zwei der Arguidos wurden nicht von Anwälten begleitet, die in der Zwischenzeit nominiert wurden, damit die Befragung stattfinden konnte. Eine Liste mit über 250 Fragen erwartete si. Die Mehrheit stimmte zu diese zu beantworten. Die Fragen wurden von den Inspektoren der Kriminalpolizei gestellt, in Anwesenheit der britischen Detektive, die nicht eingreifen konnten.
JN hat erfahren, dass die Befragung zu Beginn des Abends abgeschlossen wurde und die Arguidos nicht ins Direktorat zurückkehren müssen. Der letzte der entlassen wurde um 20.30 Uhr war Sergey Malinka, ein russischer Staatsbürger mit portugiesischer Staatsangehörigkeit, der bereits im Jahr 2007 untersucht worden waren, in dem portugiesischen Fall. Seine Computer wurden beschlagnahmt und Hausdurchsuchungen vorgenommen, aber nichts Relevantes wurde gefunden. Er war ein Freund von Robert Murat, einem ehemaligen Arguido in der portugiesischen Untersuchung.
Die anderen Verdächtigen sind José da Silva, ein ehemaliger Fahrer des Ocean Club, Paulo Jorge Ribeiro, ein Arbeitsloser, der an Schizophrenie leidet, und Ricardo Rodrigues, der damals 16 Jahre alt war. Sie leben in Praia da Luz, einige von ihnen in der Nähe des Geländes, wo die Recherchen stattfanden vor einem Monat. Scotland Yard glaubt, dass sie einen Einbruch in die Wohnung planten, in der die Mccanns ihren Urlaub verbrachten. Aber Madeleine war aufgewacht und wurde getötet, so dass damit sie nicht in der Lage wäre, sie zu identifizieren, und der Körper wurde von einem von ihnen durch die Straßen, die mit Touristen gefüllt waren, getragen. Eine Theorie, die absolut keinen Sinn für die PJ macht. (HEAR HEAR)
Ab heute werden 11 Zeugen befragt, ebenfalls auf Wunsch von Scotland Yard.
Spürhunde für die Suche in Autos
Die englischen Behörden werden von Spürhunden aus dem Vereinigten Königreich begleitet, um nach den Verhören evtl. Durchsuchungen durchzuführen, z.B. der Auto. Die Hunde sind die gleichen, die vor kurzem bei der Suche an der Algarve teilgenommen haben. Damals während der Untersuchung im Jahr 2007 hatten zwei Hunde (Eddie und Keela) geholfen, Indizien zu sammeln.
Arguidos: Fakten, die die Engländer als kompromittierend sehen.
S.M., Geschäftsmann, im Alter von 30
Bereits im Jahr 2007 war er ein Verdächtiger und ein Ziel der Durchsuchungen der PJ. Jetzt ist er es wieder, weil er ein Sofa entsorgt hatte, das von forensischen Experten analysiert wurde und das Haare enthielt, die ähnlich der Haare sind, die in der Wohnung der McCanns gefunden wurden. Es gibt auch ein Gespräch, das aus zweiter Hand berichtet wurde und angeblich in der Nähe von Malinks Zuhause belauscht wurde bzgl. einer Leiche, die entsorgt werden müsse. Die Engländer betrachteten auch die Tatsache, dass damals das Auto des Russen in Brand gesteckt wurde und jemand das Wort "Fala" ["Sprich"] auf de Bürgersteig schrieb.
J.S., ehemaliger Fahrer, im Alter von 38
Er arbeitete im Ocean Club und die Engländer halten ihn für die Person, die Ferienwohnungen aussuchte in die im Ort eingebrochen wurde und die dafür verantwortlich war die "Bewegungen" der Touristen zu überprüfen. Scotland Yard sagt, dass ihn Telefonanrufe verdächtig machen, die er zu anderen Arguidos machte in der Nacht des Verschwindens und seine Ähnlichkeit mit dem Phantombild, das auf der Beschreibung einer irischen Familie basiert, die im Urlaub in Praia da Luz war. Er ist angeblich der berühmte Mann, der gesehen wurde, als er ein Kind trug.
P.R., im Alter von 50
Er wurde ein Verdächtiger für die englischen Polizisten, weil ausländische Touristen sein merkwürdiges Verhalten und seine Gegenwart in der Nähe der McCanns Wohnung vor dem Verschwinden beschrieben. Als psychisch Kranker wurde er auch durch seine Ähnlichkeit mit einem anderen Phantombild auf der Basis von Zeugenaussagen denunziert, die ihn als Bettler identifizierten und weil er einen der anderen Arguidos kannte, mit dem er am Tag des Verbrechens telefonierte.
R.R., im Alter von 23
Er war 16 zu der Zeit des Verschwindens und die Engländer bringen ihn mit dem Fall in Verbindung wegen der Anrufe, die er vor dem verhängnisvollen Moment und am selben Tag gemacht, darunter ein Aufruf an Paulo Ribeiro. Ein weiteres der angeblich belastenden Argumente ist die Tatsache, dass er der Beschreibung ähnelt, die von Zeugen von einem der beiden Bettler und einem Verdächtigen für Einbrüche in der Gegend von Praia da Luz gemacht wurde. Gegen ihn spricht auch die Tatsache, dass er in der Nähe einiger der anderen Männer wohnt, die jetzt von den englischen Polizisten zu Arguidos gemacht wurden.
Quelle: Jornal de Notícias, 2014.07.02, Papierausgabe und E-Paper
Montag, 30. Juni 2014
The wallet in the bush
From "madeleine" by Kate McCann:
The paths that research take are long and winding. I was looking at the time when Danie Krugel was called in to search for Madeleine with his "matter orientation" machine. A most crucial time in the story. The question has never been successfully answered as to why two scientific people who requested professional expertise in all matters involved, such as the reliability of sniffer dogs, would ask a man with his secret electronic wiggle stick to go hunting for their daughter let alone be guided by the well-meaning advice of "psychics".
Let us look at the time frame Krugel's visit took place in. He arrived on the 15th July at a time when the parents had not yet been made arguidos and Robert Murat had been the only official suspect in the case, due to a friend of Clarence Mitchell having a "strange feeling" about him, CEOP "profiling" him as a sociopath of the highest order and of course because four of the nine Tapasniks had visions of him being at the crime location.
During the four days following his arrival Krugel surveyed the area to the East of Praia da Luz including the stretch of land where Scotland Yard has recently performed their second ground investigation. This area lies along the main street connecting Lagos with Praia da Luz and would have been the route George Brooks had taken that morning on May 4th around 6 a.m. when in his headlights he saw a couple carrying a child scurrying into a side road. It is the same road along which Kate and Matt went for some jogging allegedly on Wednesday lunch time.
If we are to assume that Madeleine's body had been hidden since 4th May on this piece of land - 15 minute walking distance from 5A - why would Krugel now be allowed to survey this area and give a report with his findings to the PJ? Who then might initiate a second search with dogs and might possibly find the body? In my opinion this would only make sense if the discovery of the body would also present a link to the abductor, an unmistakable fingerprint that had been overlooked during the first searches like the wallet in the bush. Or preferably like a cigarette butt with the DNA of its owner...
But why then was no body discovered? Why no appropriate end to the sad saga? Let's hear Kate again:
Apparently everything was working according to plan, a "static signal" that Madeleine was most likely dead and buried in the area surrounding the Black Rock had been communicated by Krugel to the PJ. To this day Krugel is certain she had been in that area. Unfortunately there exists only a google maps image of a rather general area and no X that marks the spot.
But on the 18th of July, during this meeting with the PJ, the final body blow did not come from Krugel, but from a totally unexpected side. The PJ had requested the assistance of Mark Harrison and informed the parents during that meeting that Britain's best cadaver dogs were about to enter Portugal and would be searching Apartment 5A as well. Cadaver odour AND a body found in walking distance from the apartment might trump a cigarette butt, possibly overlooked again.
So the next day on 19th July their phones started pinging in the "Triangle" while they were sitting at the Bar Caribe with Trish, Sandy and the twins having a good time. The rest is history.
15/7 Krugel arrives
18/7 talks with PJ, info on upcoming arrival of Eddie and Keela
19/7 last day of Krugel's search - first phone pings in the "Triangle"
20/7 Mark Harrison arrives - McCanns make it to the top of the hill overlooking the area in 16 minute jogging
22/7 Gerry flies to Washington
26/7 Gerry comes back - second phone pings in the "Triangle"
27/7 third phone pings in the "Triangle"
28/7 fourth phone pings in the "Triangle"
29/7 Trish and Sandy leave PdL
30/7 Eddie and Keela arrive
31/7 searches in 5A
1/8 an alibi search of the above mentioned area was conducted within one hour
By now we were more than familiar with
cases where evidence had been missed the first
time round and discovered on further searches (in
one instance the UK police had told us about,
a wallet sitting in a bush). At this stage, I was also still
giving some credence to the information we were
receiving from psychics, some of whom were
suggesting that we should scour nearby territory
again.
The paths that research take are long and winding. I was looking at the time when Danie Krugel was called in to search for Madeleine with his "matter orientation" machine. A most crucial time in the story. The question has never been successfully answered as to why two scientific people who requested professional expertise in all matters involved, such as the reliability of sniffer dogs, would ask a man with his secret electronic wiggle stick to go hunting for their daughter let alone be guided by the well-meaning advice of "psychics".
Let us look at the time frame Krugel's visit took place in. He arrived on the 15th July at a time when the parents had not yet been made arguidos and Robert Murat had been the only official suspect in the case, due to a friend of Clarence Mitchell having a "strange feeling" about him, CEOP "profiling" him as a sociopath of the highest order and of course because four of the nine Tapasniks had visions of him being at the crime location.
During the four days following his arrival Krugel surveyed the area to the East of Praia da Luz including the stretch of land where Scotland Yard has recently performed their second ground investigation. This area lies along the main street connecting Lagos with Praia da Luz and would have been the route George Brooks had taken that morning on May 4th around 6 a.m. when in his headlights he saw a couple carrying a child scurrying into a side road. It is the same road along which Kate and Matt went for some jogging allegedly on Wednesday lunch time.
If we are to assume that Madeleine's body had been hidden since 4th May on this piece of land - 15 minute walking distance from 5A - why would Krugel now be allowed to survey this area and give a report with his findings to the PJ? Who then might initiate a second search with dogs and might possibly find the body? In my opinion this would only make sense if the discovery of the body would also present a link to the abductor, an unmistakable fingerprint that had been overlooked during the first searches like the wallet in the bush. Or preferably like a cigarette butt with the DNA of its owner...
But why then was no body discovered? Why no appropriate end to the sad saga? Let's hear Kate again:
Wednesday 18 July. The start of a downward spiral
for me. When I look back on our meeting with Neves
and Encarnação that day I recognize it as a turning
point: the beginning of what was to blow up into a
whole new nightmare...
The meeting ended with a final body blow. Danie
Krugel, on whom we had, irrationally, hung so much
hope, had produced a report for the PJ based on his
findings. His machine had recorded a ‘static signal’
from an area around the beach, close to or on the
Rocha Negra cliff. Although this included villas,
apartments and other buildings, the implication of
the ‘static signal’ was that Madeleine was most likely
to be dead and buried there.
Apparently everything was working according to plan, a "static signal" that Madeleine was most likely dead and buried in the area surrounding the Black Rock had been communicated by Krugel to the PJ. To this day Krugel is certain she had been in that area. Unfortunately there exists only a google maps image of a rather general area and no X that marks the spot.
But on the 18th of July, during this meeting with the PJ, the final body blow did not come from Krugel, but from a totally unexpected side. The PJ had requested the assistance of Mark Harrison and informed the parents during that meeting that Britain's best cadaver dogs were about to enter Portugal and would be searching Apartment 5A as well. Cadaver odour AND a body found in walking distance from the apartment might trump a cigarette butt, possibly overlooked again.
So the next day on 19th July their phones started pinging in the "Triangle" while they were sitting at the Bar Caribe with Trish, Sandy and the twins having a good time. The rest is history.
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15/7 Krugel arrives
18/7 talks with PJ, info on upcoming arrival of Eddie and Keela
19/7 last day of Krugel's search - first phone pings in the "Triangle"
20/7 Mark Harrison arrives - McCanns make it to the top of the hill overlooking the area in 16 minute jogging
22/7 Gerry flies to Washington
26/7 Gerry comes back - second phone pings in the "Triangle"
27/7 third phone pings in the "Triangle"
28/7 fourth phone pings in the "Triangle"
29/7 Trish and Sandy leave PdL
30/7 Eddie and Keela arrive
31/7 searches in 5A
1/8 an alibi search of the above mentioned area was conducted within one hour
Freitag, 20. Juni 2014
Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2014
A Sauce Said...: No stone left unturned?
A Sauce Said...: No stone left unturned?: Visitors to findmadeleine.com, the website of Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned, who wish to learn more about the Fu...
Sonntag, 15. Juni 2014
Freitag, 13. Juni 2014
Presumption of Innocence
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| The parents killed her. British police are stupid. |
I have been asked many times the question why I don't respect the presumption of innocence in this case, especially by people that know me and my usual respect for human rights. It is not easy to explain.
From the time the news broke in May 2007 until the release of the police files, I had been very much a fence-sitter trying mostly to shed some light onto the hundreds of conflicting news reports. At that time I even was posting under the name Impartial on the Mirror forum and 3As. I could see the discrepancies, the changes to their statements via the media but I could also see two people devastated by the loss of their daughter.
During these months I kept the presumption of innocence high. Even though suspicions became stronger by the day it was my private opinion that even if there had been a terrible accident and the parents had somehow felt the need to cover-up her death in order to avoid repercussions to their other children, the children in the group, their jobs and reputation it was up to the law to investigate, charge, judge and sentence those responsible for it.
This still would be my stance today had it all stopped there. Had there not been added crimes to the original crime. Additional crimes that would never get followed up if the original crime would not be solved.
The crime of fraud for one. Taking money from schoolchildren, old age pensioners and well-meaning mothers. And not to be invested into a fake search for the missing child but very explicitly invested into the build-up of a defense wall that would avoid the proper prosecution of the original crime. Cheating the course of law if you like.
But it was the crime of deliberately casting wrong suspicions on another person that then caused me to drop my caution and restraint. The way in which Robert Murat had been set up by four of the friends of the McCanns, how his life and that of his mother and fiance had been shredded to pieces only because he was "too" helpful, happened to live in the direction of Jane's concocted sighting and coincidentally was also the person to translate the important statements of Dianne Webster and the nannies was my breaking point. In order to get justice for this crime the first one would have to be cleared up. Otherwise there would never be evidence of this follow-up crime. Compensation money by a paper that had been a victim itself was not a substitute for good old proper justice.
Last but not least it was the parents' atrocious treatment of the one man who had committed himself to finding out what had happened to their daughter: Goncalo Amaral
The vicious, vindictive, hate-filled persecution and destruction of another good man was the last straw that changed my view about a highly cherished good, the presumption of innocence. The law is clear, and no mere mortal can change it, but on this blog it was cast aside after the evaluation of the evidence of the police files to express the desire for the truth to be revealed, to put a stop to the never-ending destruction of people and the creation of a parallel universe built on lies and deception.
Dienstag, 10. Juni 2014
The Dig 2.0
All around me I sense a drop in hope and trust. Based on the fact that a second location for digs has been chosen and that the MEDIA (accomplices in the crime of the century) have found a feeble thread to link one of the "suspects" to that area.
A WATER PLANT
Tractorman is supposed to have worked at a tiny water treatment shack somewhere in the scrublands of the western Algarve.
The Express has elaborated a bit more on the possible targets:
Ah a derelict farmhouse brings back memories of Aztec towels with blood and fibres:
The road George Brooks would have taken is exactly the road M537 along which the dig 2.0 is going to take place.
Two sightings of a man/couple carrying a child through Praia da Luz and two digs close to the areas these sightings occurred.
Forget about the water plant and do as the cultists do. Believe!!!
ETA:
Dom't get your expectations too high, this is just the search for the second possible hiding place. The third and final one only one or two people know.
A WATER PLANT
Tractorman is supposed to have worked at a tiny water treatment shack somewhere in the scrublands of the western Algarve.
The Express has elaborated a bit more on the possible targets:
They are to concentrate on areas close to a water treatment sub- station, a derelict farmhouse and an abandoned well.
Ah a derelict farmhouse brings back memories of Aztec towels with blood and fibres:
The hunt for Madeleine McCann last night centred on a disused barn near Praia da Luz where police found a towel stained with what may turn out to be the little girl's blood.Fibres found on the towel allegedly match fibres from the hire car rented by Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.Portuguese detectives discussed the breakthrough when they met British police and a Crown Prosecution Service official last week at a police station in Leicester.But there is a second lead that might confirm the seriousness of tomorrow's dig. And it is noone else but Michael Wright who coincidentally went for a pizza:
As for additional information I would like to add that on Sunday, 6 May I went to the pizzaria in PdL and bought a large quantity of pizzas. I was attended by a girl from Liverpool. I explained to her my relationship to the McCanns and she told me that her father 'George' had seen a man carrying a child in his arms in the early morning of 4 May in the resort. I asked her if her father had spoken about this to the Portuguese authorities. I don't know if the information was ever investigated.Sky was the first to broadcast it:
So George Brooks was on his way from Lagos to Praia da Luz on the morning of May 4th around 6 o'clock when it was still dark and the McCann couple had already left the Payne's apartment to do at least Kate's only physical search of her daughter.
The road George Brooks would have taken is exactly the road M537 along which the dig 2.0 is going to take place.
Two sightings of a man/couple carrying a child through Praia da Luz and two digs close to the areas these sightings occurred.
Forget about the water plant and do as the cultists do. Believe!!!
ETA:
Dom't get your expectations too high, this is just the search for the second possible hiding place. The third and final one only one or two people know.
Montag, 9. Juni 2014
Running commentary
A sentence from Pat Brown's latest blog has made me smile:
Clarence Mitchell has been firmly shut up by Scotland Yard with their latest instructions of the media.
No more "source close to the family"-nonsense or "friend of the family"-fairy tales. His days are over.
But it would not be the McCanns if they would simply give up. (Get a t-shirt with their motto here) They do have spent a lot of money for a PR agency in Portugal, Lift Consulting who have apparently taken over where Mitchell has left. The myth that all this is happening not because of 8 non-suspects who enjoyed some nights at the local tapas bar in 2007, but because of 8 burglars/drug traffickers has been transfered seemlessly from the UK to Portugal. Despite the more serious news outlets reiterating that the portuguese police is determined that the thesis is frankly rubbish.
Totally coincidentally Brendan de Beer has all the right sources, allegedly within the Portuguese police, those nasty plods who might endanger the whole operation by leaking information to the media. Well Scotland Yard might just pack up their equipment and leave, if the leaks are not stopped.
Never believe the media, always question the source. After 7 years we should know that.
"We have heard via the press (and although this information can be questionable, the Portuguese press seems to agree FOR ONCE with the British press) that the scrubland area searched all last week was an area near to where at least one of the drug dealing suspects lived.Any idea why this might be so? It is really simple if one has focused on the distribution of media spin ignoring most of its contents.
Clarence Mitchell has been firmly shut up by Scotland Yard with their latest instructions of the media.
No more "source close to the family"-nonsense or "friend of the family"-fairy tales. His days are over.
But it would not be the McCanns if they would simply give up. (Get a t-shirt with their motto here) They do have spent a lot of money for a PR agency in Portugal, Lift Consulting who have apparently taken over where Mitchell has left. The myth that all this is happening not because of 8 non-suspects who enjoyed some nights at the local tapas bar in 2007, but because of 8 burglars/drug traffickers has been transfered seemlessly from the UK to Portugal. Despite the more serious news outlets reiterating that the portuguese police is determined that the thesis is frankly rubbish.
Totally coincidentally Brendan de Beer has all the right sources, allegedly within the Portuguese police, those nasty plods who might endanger the whole operation by leaking information to the media. Well Scotland Yard might just pack up their equipment and leave, if the leaks are not stopped.
Never believe the media, always question the source. After 7 years we should know that.
Freitag, 6. Juni 2014
Where is Jane?
During the recent Miles for Missing People charity run Kate was competing in the 10k run while Gerry and the twins entered the 3k competition. According to the entry list Kate was to be accompanied by such old friends as Rachel Oldfield and Jane Tanner for moral support and to show that all was well within the Tapas group. There are pictures of Rachel to prove that she gladly stood by her old friend although she would have lost sight of Kate rather quickly tailing behind.
But where was Jane? There is no picture of her at the start of the race and she did not make it to the finish line according to the list of results. Did she get lost on the way or was she not there at all? Was her name entered into the attendee's list, waisting precious ~ 20 pounds from the FUND to give the impression that she was still good friends with the couple or did she simply not turn up because of things more important like the annual Galway Flip-Flop run?.
I am afraid we will hardly ever know.
But what we have learned only recently is, that after Andy Redwood had exonerated her from the suspicion of being a mere liar and fantasist by producing the ever so elusive "Man who carried a child", she has been placed firmly back into the very position she so desperately wanted to leave. And unfortunately by the very people she so badly wanted to help that night in May 2007.
The recent docu drama, offered to Channel 5 by a BRIGHTON based independent film company served only two purposes apart from secretly reveiling that it was the possibility of satellite images of the ABDUCTOR during the night of May 3rd that allowed Kevin Halligen to cheat the McCanns out of at least half a million: To document that the "world's best intelligence people" never ever once suspected the parents themselves and to place Jane firmly back into her role as a fantasist who makes up stories as she flip-flops along.
The "docu" also showed that the very people she tried to help out got her taped during interviews and did not trust her at all to keep quiet. Imagine the moment Andy Redwood showed her the Omega Report and what it contained regarding herself. If she did not have second thoughts after she had to read in Kate's book yet another alleged phantasy attributed to her (that she saw Madeleine during the sailing on the morning of May 3rd) that would have certainly made her reevaluate her position in the chess game she had always been a pawn in.
Wherever she is, I wish her all the strength she can muster for the upcoming months and years and give her one thing: She is the only human being in the game.
Dienstag, 3. Juni 2014
The fraudulent fund
While we are waiting for Tito and Muzzy to sniff out the perpetrators please have a look at this excellent blog that has done a lot of research on the fund once set up by the News of the World and its' subsequent distribution when the NotW shut down (Amen)
Montag, 2. Juni 2014
The completely unreliable dogs
Now Gerry, how does it feel whenScotland Yard is bringing in your biggest enemies?
Not today, yet.
Today they were somewhere else, involved in serious undercover work.
Not today, yet.
Today they were somewhere else, involved in serious undercover work.
Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2014
Maddie's Jammies
No I am not going to do another research on the infamous pyjamas. Maren from the Netherlands had done an absolutely amazing piece of research that leaves nothing to add:
I am just trying to make sense of the current, rather confusing situation we find ourselves in.
The digging that is soon to commence...
If they are serious about digging in the heart of Praia da Luz and if it is not purely a distraction exercise for the media, I wonder what they will be looking for.
The evidence in the hired car, the George Brooks sighting and common sense tells us that it can't be a body they are looking for, but it must be some item/s that had to be disposed of separate from the body. IMO there is only one thing that the Gerry-lookalike abductor took with him on his way to the beach and that were Madeleine's pyjamas. Those pyjamas we had endless discussions about and whole newspaper articles written about trying to confuse us whether they were Eeyore or Barbie, white or pink, long-sleeved or short-sleeved...
The reason for the change of the description of the pyjamas which the BBC proudly claimed to have initiated, might have been the description of the pyjamas the Smiths saw on the girl that had been taken towards the beach by a man resembling Gerry McCann. It might have been of utter importance to cover-up the Smith sighting and any resemblance with Maddie.
After the Eeyore pyjamas had been presented to the whole world it then would of course have been equally important that her body should never be found in her real pyjamas because that would expose a lie of enormous proportions. So body and pyjama would most likey have been separated at some stage.
Could this be the reason for the digs soon to commence? Not for a body but for the pyjamas? Their colour, make and sleeves would tell their own story.
I do remember Andy Redwood issuing the words: “We know the pyjamas their child was wearing…"
ETA:
While we are speaking a BRIGHTON film company have offered a programme to Channel 5 to be aired next Wednesday about the "McCanns and the Conman". Unfortunately the conman is not coming from Brighton.
Freitag, 23. Mai 2014
I beg to differ...
http://patbrownprofiling.blogspot.de/2014/05/ten-reasons-why-i-cant-take-scotland.html
@1
A flaw in reason and logic: This reason given is in no way supporting the claim. It is on the contrary supporting the opposite. If there was to be a cover-up why start a review, turn it into a full-fledged investigation, get the country that was treated so badly into their boat and press on for 5 years? I am sure Hewlett would have been able to be made into the perfect scapegoat - and I do believe that this was contemplated by some forces at the time - if that would be the current purpose.
@2
The examples for the exact same conduct in other cases are too numerous to be listed. There is no reason why Scotland Yard should adjust to the purported need of interested parties on the internet against common practice. Especially in the stages of an review.
@3
Of course a police force HAS to inform the parents of a missing child until these parents are charged and a suspicion is drafted. As to extent of the information given we only have Clarence Mitchell's word to judge by.
@4
It was the request of the Policia Judiciaria for a reconstruction. It was requested to verify or discard the witness statements regarding the timeline of events, mainly to prove that Jane Tanner would have been unable to be where she claimed to have been and to see what she had claimed to have seen. No other statements could have been verified by a reconstruction since no third party witnesses were present. Not the time of the alarm, not the alleged checks. Since Scotland Yard had already smashed the Gordian Knot that Jane Tanner's statement presented to the case there is no need for a reconstruction, something police forces (UK, Germany) very rarely use anyway.
@5
This is debatable but in my opinion a genius move. We know she lied, she knows she lied, the police know she lied, but the petty reward for outing her lie through a reconstruction was discarded for the destruction of Gerry McCann's alibi at the "moment of her abduction". And the way for the Smith sighting was opened. And an offer was made to Jane...
@6
The claim that Tanner saw the abductor was refuted which is so much more important than to prove Jane was lying (which would have proved rather difficult anyway). The ultimate truth is more important than petty revenge on Jane.
@7
The bulk of the review was most certainly done on those parts of the files that have not been published: the reports about (mainly british) paedophiles or alleged paedophiles or rumours of paedophiles in the area. Taken together with the innumerous sightings that have been discarded by those following the case with a now preset mind this amounts to a huge workload that would have to be done BEFORE any conclusions could have been reached. A quick skim through the 10000 pages of the files can form an opinion but leads to a position that can be attacked in so many ways. (q.e.d.)
@8
All the leads Scotland Yard are following and of course have to follow are part of the case. As mentioned above there are the sightings and reports about paedophiles in the area and of course those alleged incidents that only recently and miraculously turned up have to be verified and investigated even though some might turn out to be mere creations of distraction no unlike some of the sightings we had to put up with the previous years. But by investigating them, evidence might even come from these. In the prospect of the world's biggest court case ever, they better make sure that every other possibility is properly investigated and excluded or I would be very unhappy.
@9
IMO there has yet an exact location to be named where they might be looking for evidence. The location in the center of Praia da Luz would be ideal to distract the world's media from the real procedings. Should they be close to finding her body they would never let the media partake in any unearthings. This open space in PdL is just sweetly perfect for the staging of excavations, with ample parking at hand...
@10
The PJ and Scotland Yard have asked the media to behave and lately Clarence has received the firm instruction to finally stfu.
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I am sure that at some stage in the past seven years there were efforts being made to cover-up the case and the hype around Hewlett was the closest we got to the presentation of a patsy. He was perfect, DNA evidence could have been provided and the public would have bought it.
But luckily there was never a general consent for a cover-up between all involved parties.
In the past year we had the alibi of Gerry destroyed, Smithman brought to the public's attention, the cover-up of the photofits exposed, Madeleine's death accepted and even the dog's mentioned in connection with a fresh search for her body. I have no idea WHAT would convince the sceptics, but it can hardly have been better than that.
For the moment, they may be solving cases right and left, but something is seriously wrong with the Madeleine McCann case and here are ten reasons why I think this is not business as usual and there is a political coverup going on of some sort.
1) The amount of funds being allotted to Scotland Yard to investigate one missing person's case - a case which is not even within their own jurisdiction, a case in which the parents' own neglect of their children and refusal to cooperate with the authorities is shameful - is unprecedented and outrageous.
2) Scotland Yard began their "review" by publicly stating that the parents were not suspects instead of simply saying no one can be excluded from suspicion who does not have a solid alibi as is the usual statement made by police right out of the gate.
3) Scotland Yard constantly says they are updating the parents of the missing child, something that is only done if the parents are absolutely not suspects.
4) Scotland Yard did not do a reconstruction of the crime; they only did a reenactment of the McCann version of the crime for television.
5) Scotland Yard validated Jane Tanner's version of what she saw on a narrow street where she was not seen by two people as she supposedly passed by them.
6) Scotland Yard verified that Tannerman existed with a claim that was not credible.
7) Scotland Yard relatively large "Operation Grange" team has spent three years reviewing files that should have taken no more than a few weeks or months.
8) After reviewing all the evidence and leads in the files, Scotland Yard is investigating suspects that have no connection to the case.
9) Scotland Yard wants to search for Maddies's body (and, yes, they would be searching for a body as all other evidence would be long gone after seven years) in the most unlikely place to find her, right near the apartment in a very open-to-the-view-of-the-public location with hard-as-rock ground where no shallow grave could have been missed by the PJ or anyone walking by.
10) In spite of the fact the PJ has asked for there to be no press about the case, Scotland Yard has its own people still giving interviews.
@1
A flaw in reason and logic: This reason given is in no way supporting the claim. It is on the contrary supporting the opposite. If there was to be a cover-up why start a review, turn it into a full-fledged investigation, get the country that was treated so badly into their boat and press on for 5 years? I am sure Hewlett would have been able to be made into the perfect scapegoat - and I do believe that this was contemplated by some forces at the time - if that would be the current purpose.
@2
The examples for the exact same conduct in other cases are too numerous to be listed. There is no reason why Scotland Yard should adjust to the purported need of interested parties on the internet against common practice. Especially in the stages of an review.
@3
Of course a police force HAS to inform the parents of a missing child until these parents are charged and a suspicion is drafted. As to extent of the information given we only have Clarence Mitchell's word to judge by.
@4
It was the request of the Policia Judiciaria for a reconstruction. It was requested to verify or discard the witness statements regarding the timeline of events, mainly to prove that Jane Tanner would have been unable to be where she claimed to have been and to see what she had claimed to have seen. No other statements could have been verified by a reconstruction since no third party witnesses were present. Not the time of the alarm, not the alleged checks. Since Scotland Yard had already smashed the Gordian Knot that Jane Tanner's statement presented to the case there is no need for a reconstruction, something police forces (UK, Germany) very rarely use anyway.
@5
This is debatable but in my opinion a genius move. We know she lied, she knows she lied, the police know she lied, but the petty reward for outing her lie through a reconstruction was discarded for the destruction of Gerry McCann's alibi at the "moment of her abduction". And the way for the Smith sighting was opened. And an offer was made to Jane...
@6
The claim that Tanner saw the abductor was refuted which is so much more important than to prove Jane was lying (which would have proved rather difficult anyway). The ultimate truth is more important than petty revenge on Jane.
@7
The bulk of the review was most certainly done on those parts of the files that have not been published: the reports about (mainly british) paedophiles or alleged paedophiles or rumours of paedophiles in the area. Taken together with the innumerous sightings that have been discarded by those following the case with a now preset mind this amounts to a huge workload that would have to be done BEFORE any conclusions could have been reached. A quick skim through the 10000 pages of the files can form an opinion but leads to a position that can be attacked in so many ways. (q.e.d.)
@8
All the leads Scotland Yard are following and of course have to follow are part of the case. As mentioned above there are the sightings and reports about paedophiles in the area and of course those alleged incidents that only recently and miraculously turned up have to be verified and investigated even though some might turn out to be mere creations of distraction no unlike some of the sightings we had to put up with the previous years. But by investigating them, evidence might even come from these. In the prospect of the world's biggest court case ever, they better make sure that every other possibility is properly investigated and excluded or I would be very unhappy.
@9
IMO there has yet an exact location to be named where they might be looking for evidence. The location in the center of Praia da Luz would be ideal to distract the world's media from the real procedings. Should they be close to finding her body they would never let the media partake in any unearthings. This open space in PdL is just sweetly perfect for the staging of excavations, with ample parking at hand...
@10
The PJ and Scotland Yard have asked the media to behave and lately Clarence has received the firm instruction to finally stfu.
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I am sure that at some stage in the past seven years there were efforts being made to cover-up the case and the hype around Hewlett was the closest we got to the presentation of a patsy. He was perfect, DNA evidence could have been provided and the public would have bought it.
But luckily there was never a general consent for a cover-up between all involved parties.
In the past year we had the alibi of Gerry destroyed, Smithman brought to the public's attention, the cover-up of the photofits exposed, Madeleine's death accepted and even the dog's mentioned in connection with a fresh search for her body. I have no idea WHAT would convince the sceptics, but it can hardly have been better than that.
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2014
A memorable fortnight
April 24
May 7
Letter from Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley to news editors re Op Grange, the Madeleine McCann investigation.
Scotland Yard sees the need to issue a statement to the press to ask for restraint and the McCanns - who revealed all to the media themselves - follow with "dismay".
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So to sum this memorable fortnight up, it seems obvious, that the parents were informed about the upcoming searches for a body shortly before April 24th. The plan to come to Praia da Luz for the anniversary was dropped. Was the risk too high with the upcoming arrests that Clarence Mitchell had been advocating now for ages?
Instead the media had to be prepared which resulted in the death contemplations. In their exclusive to the Mirror the dig had to be spun. The danger to tourism was addressed as well as the mantra about the "useless, bungling, portuguese police" renewed. And the blasphemous idea of SY acting because of a tip-off (where did this come from?) was rejected.
The main objective though was to throw a spanner into the cooperation between the PJ and SY. Both forces must have been furious. What was most probably meant to be done under the radar provoked a show for the masses. A helicopter flight over Praia da Luz for the assembled media and hints at various locations, preferably open, easy to reach areas where lots of reporters could watch and do what reporter usually do. No matter how ridiculous these areas look to the neutral eye.
So when the show will start and the digs will bind the world's media to specified areas with ample parking we can not be sure about what is going on elsewhere but we can be sure three parties in the game know that the others know. The fourth party will watch and take pictures.
Maddie anniversary brings shock new revelations - Portugal Resident 24-04-14
""Meantime, British police, journalists, Madeleine McCann’s parents, and even the former parish priest Haynes Hubbard - who befriended the couple when their little girl went missing - are all understood to be on their way back to Luz to focus attention once again on the world’s most famous missing person.""After an unusually quiet advent to the 7 year festivities, there are indications that the parents will go to Praia da Luz to attend the service in the local church. The fact that their friend Father Haynes Hubbard will arrive from Canada would be an additional incentive to them. And all with the prospect of arrests within weeks...
April 25
Maddie McCann's parents: ''We won't apply for death certificate and still hold out hope 7 years on - Daily Mirror 25-04-14
But suddenly - after 7 years of disputing vehemently every possibility that Maddie might have come to any harm - Death is being contemplated.
May 1
Maddie’s mother comes to Portugal “looking for answers” - TVI 01-05-14
""The mother of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in May 2007, states that she continues to return to Portugal “once or twice” a year to “look for answers”.
The previous alleged plan that the parents would come to Praia da Luz seems to have been dropped. Instead this piece of non-news is published to be able to claim a misunderstanding, should someone ask. The venue is changed to Rothley's war memorial.
May 5
""A source close to the McCann’s said: “Kate and Gerry have been told police will be conducting the searches in and around Praia da Luz as soon as they get the green light from Portuguese authorities.In a World Exclusive to Rothley citizen Tracey Kandoohla, the PARENTS through their mouthpiece Clarence Mitchell reveal Scotland Yards plans to start the search for Madeleine's grave. In order to get their spin in first they spill the beans to the world's media.
“There will be earth diggers everywhere and it will look very dramatic and it will be a heartbreaking and hugely emotional time for Madeleine’s poor parents.
“They don’t believe police are acting on any new tip off. They just need to carry out their own digs, looking for any possible clues that Portuguese authorities may have missed on their previous searches.
“It will not be a mere fingertip search of certain areas, it will be full ground searches, using radar and other equipment. It is such a sensitive part of their investigation but it has to be done.""
May 7
07 May 2014
Letter from Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley to news editors re Op Grange, the Madeleine McCann investigation.
""It is important you understand this and appreciate the position in which I find myself. We will not be able to provide any information concerning the activity because ultimately it could mean the work stops. We respect the Portuguese position as we would expect them to respect our position if we were carrying out work on their behalf in the UK.""and
""7th of May 2014 - Media Interference
We are dismayed with the way the media has behaved over the last couple of days in relation to our daughter’s case. There is an on-going, already challenging, police investigation taking place and media interference in this way not only makes the work of the police more difficult, it can potentially damage and destroy the investigation altogether – and hence the chances of us finding Madeleine and discovering what has happened to her. As Madeleine’s parents, this just compounds our distress. We urge the media to let the police get on with their work and please show some respect and consideration to Madeleine and all our family.
Thank you.
Gerry and Kate""
Scotland Yard sees the need to issue a statement to the press to ask for restraint and the McCanns - who revealed all to the media themselves - follow with "dismay".
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So to sum this memorable fortnight up, it seems obvious, that the parents were informed about the upcoming searches for a body shortly before April 24th. The plan to come to Praia da Luz for the anniversary was dropped. Was the risk too high with the upcoming arrests that Clarence Mitchell had been advocating now for ages?
Instead the media had to be prepared which resulted in the death contemplations. In their exclusive to the Mirror the dig had to be spun. The danger to tourism was addressed as well as the mantra about the "useless, bungling, portuguese police" renewed. And the blasphemous idea of SY acting because of a tip-off (where did this come from?) was rejected.
The main objective though was to throw a spanner into the cooperation between the PJ and SY. Both forces must have been furious. What was most probably meant to be done under the radar provoked a show for the masses. A helicopter flight over Praia da Luz for the assembled media and hints at various locations, preferably open, easy to reach areas where lots of reporters could watch and do what reporter usually do. No matter how ridiculous these areas look to the neutral eye.
So when the show will start and the digs will bind the world's media to specified areas with ample parking we can not be sure about what is going on elsewhere but we can be sure three parties in the game know that the others know. The fourth party will watch and take pictures.
Samstag, 10. Mai 2014
CMTV Interview with Goncalo Amaral
A huge thank you to Astro from themaddiecasefiles.com for the transcript and translation into English
CMTV “Maddie Special”, May 3rd, 2014
(Gonçalo Amaral is asked for his opinion about the Euclides Monteiro and sexual predator leads)
GA - It’s been a long time, and a long time during which a story was built. A story was created from the principle that an abduction took place while no abduction was proved, nobody has proved that it was an abduction yet.
So these news come out, these and other news, and this is worth zero.
Is [abduction] a possibility that you are not convinced of?
GA - It’s been seven years, nobody can prove that there is an abduction, why there is an abduction. There are important things in the investigation. When it was reopened, they should have been taken into account. If what is being done [in the current investigation] is serious, and I think it is, there are people who – the Portuguese police at least has many people who are interested in solving the case, or concerned with it.
They will have to take into account, namely that group of people, namely – we’re talking about a paedophile here, a serial predator, all over the Algarve, or from Vilamoura up to that area [of Luz]. Now they talk about 18 cases, cases that have not been registered with the police, cases that –
I remember, at that time, in 2002 there was already great sensitivity towards this kind of paedophilia situations, even because of the Casa Pia case, in that area the Joana case, so to state that the police forces seem to have stifled it and now suddenly these stories appear…
This makes us think, it makes us think and let’s stop for a moment and let’s look, objectively, at what is there. And what is there, objectively, is a complaint with the English police of a British couple that says: there is a gentleman there, who two years ago committed paedophile acts towards that little girl that disappeared.
I heard that that gentleman broke into a few houses and that he lied down besides [the little girls]. And that this is paedophilia. I ask: those gestures that were made relating to Madeleine, two years earlier, during the holiday in Mallorca, that are described in the process and they are, there is a complaint from a couple of doctors that were friends with this couple, at the British police, what happened to that?
Deep down, what are we looking for? First, we investigate what is there in the process.
And in fact, that never happened.
Not even in the first letter rogatory, the only letter rogatory that we went to England to carry out – no diligences were performed concerning that situation.
(…)
GA - The conclusions that we reached did not point to an abduction, they pointed at other things, but not to an abduction. An accidental death followed by the concealment of a cadaver. But the investigation was still at a point, it hadn’t reached the end yet. Therefore only by continuing the investigation, doing a reconstruction, carrying out more diligences, namely the questioning of that couple of doctors that complained about that gentleman, doctor David Payne.
So there’s a series of things that at the moment we seem to be forgetting, a deal seems to have been made, it gives the idea that there is a deal out there, we forget about this, now let’s think about that…
And then it’s all inconsistencies, you’ll notice: there was the witness statement of a lady, Jane Tanner, who is a friend of the couple, she was there on holiday, that said “I saw the abductor carrying the child walking into that direction. He was dressed like this, and this and that”. And this put at stake – the way she said it and the location where she said she saw it, where she walked – it put the very testimony of the child’s father at stake.
What happened?
A few years later, based on an e-fit that was made upon request from the couple, by their private detectives, someone is found who says “I still have the clothes from that time, this is my daughter that I was carrying, and I even still have – notice this! – I even still have the little girl’s pyjama, almost four years later. Here’s the little girl’s pyjama. And I went to pick her up from the Crèche”.
And it’s said that the crèche was open at half past nine in the evening. It would just take someone who picks up a phone and calls the crèche and asks at what time the crèche closed. And why this gentleman appears after all of this time.
Then it is said: “Now we are going to make a reconstitution”. The English police makes a reconstitution, with some actors, and then reaches the conclusion that the important man was the one that carried at half past nine, who was walking down the street and was seen by the Smith family. And yes, that one is the important one.
This was said by the Scotland Yard.
But that man doesn’t have a belly. He is not dark, he is not an African.
Why were you removed from the process?
GA – That is a good question. I know that before I left the investigation, someone suggested to me that I should let the case go into archiving, that I shouldn’t worry about the outcome of the investigation.
Who suggested that to you?
GA - It was suggested to me.
In the Judiciary Police?
GA - Yes, in the Judiciary Police. Then there were statements from me on the night of the first of October – I remember that on the 2nd, at the time, the British prime minister, Gordon brown, was in Portugal, it was the Lisbon Treaty, therefore I remember that day well, even because it was my birthday.
And I unburdened with a journalist who called me asking about a sighting in Morocco, and what I said to her is what I reiterate now: the British police, at that time, was so worried with us to know, in fact, what the involvement was, if there was involvement from the parents at all, what was the parents’ responsibility in the child’s disappearance.
We are not speaking about homicide, we are not speaking of any of that.
In fact, what had happened there, that night? Specifically with that group, and with the parents as main suspects.
And then when that news appeared that the little girl had been sighted in Morocco, because there, it was said, there could not be any blonde girls, but it turned there could, I think she was the daughter of a Belgian lady. So the English are not that much smarter than we are, or the Moroccans (…)
GA – What is happening here is as simple as this. Removing me from the investigation is the first step towards archiving of the process. And then the process is archived. And then it was reopened, with what looks like a deal.
I’ve already seen it written in the papers: “The parents were cleared”. I don’t know, was there a trial? Why were they cleared? Were the Gaspars investigated, was everything that is there [in the process] investigated?
Isn’t it at least strange that 7 years later these parents, if they had anything to do with the case, continue to search for their daughter will all means?
GA - Who says that they are searching for their daughter? What I have analysed, because I have the right to look at the situation, is that they have always carried out a campaign to defend themselves, a campaign to sell an image of themselves.
A campaign to collect donations, a campaign that has already allowed them to pay the house that they live in.
A campaign in which they destroy the lives of a series of people, a campaign that put employment at the Ocean Club at risk, it led to unemployment.
A campaign where they don’t care about others.
Deep down, it’s their image. Only that. This is my analysis of the situation and I am entitled to it.
Do you think that Scotland Yard is accessary to that campaign?
GA – Until Scotland Yard clarifies the mystery within this mystery that is Mr David Payne, and that situation of the paedophilia complaint – it’s not someone who goes to burglarise a home and lies down next to – we are talking about obscene gestures and saying, with words, asking if Madeleine did certain things, to the father of that child, Mr Gerald McCann.
Other people saw it, witnesses, who on the 12th of May denounced it to the English police, who in turn never informed us about that situation, only in October did a fax arrive concerning that, but the story has been told.
So, let’s understand what this is about.
If it’s only the fear that all of them have, that pact may exist, all of them having abandoned their children, because they did abandon them, during that week they always left them alone, at their own risk, nothing more – or if there is more to it.
That is what needs to be understood, and how far that can cause, within the British society, hat damages it may cause. I don’t know.
But what motives could Scotland Yard have to go along with that?
GA – Let’s find out why. Let Scotland Yard come and say why they don’t investigate. Let them deny that the complaint existed, or let them confirm that it did exist and why they don’t investigate it.
It’s seven years later. Seven years later, it’s said that Scotland Yard is making an appeal, some big appeals, and that people call SY and a call centre.
We already did that. The Judiciary Police and the English police, at that time, seven years ago, launched that questionnaire. They launched a questionnaire, in England a call centre was installed, people who spent their holiday at the Ocean Club, who spent their holiday in the Algarve, had the opportunity, seven years ago, to say all that they could say, to contribute, and nothing was said about it.
Now seven years later these things start appearing.
So that is the mystery. First the statement of Mrs Jane Tanner was cleaned, then they tried to clean the Smith family’s statement. That backfired because on the internet, everywhere, people started saying, no, but this gentleman here is Gerald McCann, the one in the e-fit that had been made by those detectives that had left the MI5.
So this is where we are. When you say to me that they are searching for their daughter, I doubt it.
You were removed from the case just as you were about to collect the testimony of this man [Martin Smith].
GA – It’s true. We had already asked the Police’s National Directory for permission to bring him to Portugal, so we were taking care of the traveling, the accommodation. When I return to Faro [after being removed from the case], my colleague that came afterwards considers that deposition not to be relevant.
But he still made diligences, I think there is contact with an Irish liaison officer in Madrid, he is the one who then brings his statement from England, therefore…
But after the deposition that this man gave to the English authorities, he contradicts himself, he is no longer absolutely sure that this man was Gerry.
GA – That is no contradiction. When he speaks to us, he says it is that person. When the statements to the British police appear, 85 or 90% is mentioned, so it’s a probability percentage. The way that he identifies him is not due to the physiognomy, it’s the way he walks, the way he holds the child. So in terms of evidence, let’s put it this way, it would never have great value as evidence.
But in terms of the police work, in the investigation, it’s an argument that is important to understand and to clarify.
Until someone appears – maybe someday someone appears, someone who says that he was also fetching his child at that time from the crèche that hands out the little girls at half past nine or ten in the evening, someone who also kept the clothes and the similar pyjamas. Maybe there were children of that age, all wearing the same pyjamas.
Even we had one of those pyjamas, it was bought from the same store, in England, for future comparison.
Is this one of the key moments in the investigation, for you?
GA – It is important. It’s one of those points that until it is clarified, we can’t move forward with the abduction theory, because the description matches the description of Gerald McCann and it matches the description that Jane Tanner made of the other individual, the one who allegedly appeared in the meantime.
Nothing was confirmed in Portugal.
Here in Portugal something interesting is happening, here in Portugal and in England. Scotland Yard has information from the Portuguese police and breaks the judicial secrecy, and says a few things there. And everyone takes it for granted. They take it for granted, it’s the police saying it, therefore it’s an almost absolute truth. But the question is why.
I’m a policeman.
And I know that some journalists investigate.
And sometimes I ask myself why nobody asks, why there isn’t one journalist that says “But is this even possible?”. Why don’t I go and knock on the crèche’s door, for example, and find out if it is possible, at that time.
Why don’t I go to the GNR and the PSP and say, my friends, in 2002 child abuse was already under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Police. There had already been the Casa Pia case, you were alert to the situation, so there was a serial predator on the loose and only SY knows about it?
And so on.
There are questions that we have to find out why. And why, for example, Mr David Payne, why it doesn’t move forward.
Were mistakes made in the investigation?
GA - Certainly so. There are mistakes made in all investigations. The first mistake that was made in this one, and I tell you this easily, was that we didn’t place this couple under surveillance from the first moment onward, under phone tapping and so on. The McCann couple.
Because in such a situation, with children of this age in their care – it was their duty to guard them, to care for them – they are the first suspects. This happens anywhere in the world, doesn’t it?
Is this a never ending story?
GA – It will have an end. I don’t know. Madeleine disappeared, in the meantime some witnesses are already deceased, others will be deceased in the future, I don’t know my future, either. This will have an end. We shall see what happens.
But before the end, and before this program ends, I want to alert to a situation that is important. The English like this very much, it’s important. It’s not only indications, it’s not only the inconsistencies, it’s what they call the scientific part of the question.
And the scientific part is the hair that was found in that car. Hair without roots, that the English laboratory says that from its coloration, it belongs to Madeleine McCann. And that nothing except for transference between objects could justify [hair] inside that car trunk where cadaver odour was found.
The Judiciary Police that has them, they should send them to a laboratory to be analysed for a DNA profile without the need for hair roots. People say that there are labs of that kind, so do that now.
We have been at this for such a long time. Maybe they can spare some money and we can move forward in the investigation, surely. To the Netherlands or to Germany, I think there are laboratories there.
CMTV invited the McCann family’s legal representatives and its spokesman to make a statement. The invitations were not accepted.
(Gonçalo Amaral is asked for his opinion about the Euclides Monteiro and sexual predator leads)
GA - It’s been a long time, and a long time during which a story was built. A story was created from the principle that an abduction took place while no abduction was proved, nobody has proved that it was an abduction yet.
So these news come out, these and other news, and this is worth zero.
Is [abduction] a possibility that you are not convinced of?
GA - It’s been seven years, nobody can prove that there is an abduction, why there is an abduction. There are important things in the investigation. When it was reopened, they should have been taken into account. If what is being done [in the current investigation] is serious, and I think it is, there are people who – the Portuguese police at least has many people who are interested in solving the case, or concerned with it.
They will have to take into account, namely that group of people, namely – we’re talking about a paedophile here, a serial predator, all over the Algarve, or from Vilamoura up to that area [of Luz]. Now they talk about 18 cases, cases that have not been registered with the police, cases that –
I remember, at that time, in 2002 there was already great sensitivity towards this kind of paedophilia situations, even because of the Casa Pia case, in that area the Joana case, so to state that the police forces seem to have stifled it and now suddenly these stories appear…
This makes us think, it makes us think and let’s stop for a moment and let’s look, objectively, at what is there. And what is there, objectively, is a complaint with the English police of a British couple that says: there is a gentleman there, who two years ago committed paedophile acts towards that little girl that disappeared.
I heard that that gentleman broke into a few houses and that he lied down besides [the little girls]. And that this is paedophilia. I ask: those gestures that were made relating to Madeleine, two years earlier, during the holiday in Mallorca, that are described in the process and they are, there is a complaint from a couple of doctors that were friends with this couple, at the British police, what happened to that?
Deep down, what are we looking for? First, we investigate what is there in the process.
And in fact, that never happened.
Not even in the first letter rogatory, the only letter rogatory that we went to England to carry out – no diligences were performed concerning that situation.
(…)
GA - The conclusions that we reached did not point to an abduction, they pointed at other things, but not to an abduction. An accidental death followed by the concealment of a cadaver. But the investigation was still at a point, it hadn’t reached the end yet. Therefore only by continuing the investigation, doing a reconstruction, carrying out more diligences, namely the questioning of that couple of doctors that complained about that gentleman, doctor David Payne.
So there’s a series of things that at the moment we seem to be forgetting, a deal seems to have been made, it gives the idea that there is a deal out there, we forget about this, now let’s think about that…
And then it’s all inconsistencies, you’ll notice: there was the witness statement of a lady, Jane Tanner, who is a friend of the couple, she was there on holiday, that said “I saw the abductor carrying the child walking into that direction. He was dressed like this, and this and that”. And this put at stake – the way she said it and the location where she said she saw it, where she walked – it put the very testimony of the child’s father at stake.
What happened?
A few years later, based on an e-fit that was made upon request from the couple, by their private detectives, someone is found who says “I still have the clothes from that time, this is my daughter that I was carrying, and I even still have – notice this! – I even still have the little girl’s pyjama, almost four years later. Here’s the little girl’s pyjama. And I went to pick her up from the Crèche”.
And it’s said that the crèche was open at half past nine in the evening. It would just take someone who picks up a phone and calls the crèche and asks at what time the crèche closed. And why this gentleman appears after all of this time.
Then it is said: “Now we are going to make a reconstitution”. The English police makes a reconstitution, with some actors, and then reaches the conclusion that the important man was the one that carried at half past nine, who was walking down the street and was seen by the Smith family. And yes, that one is the important one.
This was said by the Scotland Yard.
But that man doesn’t have a belly. He is not dark, he is not an African.
Why were you removed from the process?
GA – That is a good question. I know that before I left the investigation, someone suggested to me that I should let the case go into archiving, that I shouldn’t worry about the outcome of the investigation.
Who suggested that to you?
GA - It was suggested to me.
In the Judiciary Police?
GA - Yes, in the Judiciary Police. Then there were statements from me on the night of the first of October – I remember that on the 2nd, at the time, the British prime minister, Gordon brown, was in Portugal, it was the Lisbon Treaty, therefore I remember that day well, even because it was my birthday.
And I unburdened with a journalist who called me asking about a sighting in Morocco, and what I said to her is what I reiterate now: the British police, at that time, was so worried with us to know, in fact, what the involvement was, if there was involvement from the parents at all, what was the parents’ responsibility in the child’s disappearance.
We are not speaking about homicide, we are not speaking of any of that.
In fact, what had happened there, that night? Specifically with that group, and with the parents as main suspects.
And then when that news appeared that the little girl had been sighted in Morocco, because there, it was said, there could not be any blonde girls, but it turned there could, I think she was the daughter of a Belgian lady. So the English are not that much smarter than we are, or the Moroccans (…)
GA – What is happening here is as simple as this. Removing me from the investigation is the first step towards archiving of the process. And then the process is archived. And then it was reopened, with what looks like a deal.
I’ve already seen it written in the papers: “The parents were cleared”. I don’t know, was there a trial? Why were they cleared? Were the Gaspars investigated, was everything that is there [in the process] investigated?
Isn’t it at least strange that 7 years later these parents, if they had anything to do with the case, continue to search for their daughter will all means?
GA - Who says that they are searching for their daughter? What I have analysed, because I have the right to look at the situation, is that they have always carried out a campaign to defend themselves, a campaign to sell an image of themselves.
A campaign to collect donations, a campaign that has already allowed them to pay the house that they live in.
A campaign in which they destroy the lives of a series of people, a campaign that put employment at the Ocean Club at risk, it led to unemployment.
A campaign where they don’t care about others.
Deep down, it’s their image. Only that. This is my analysis of the situation and I am entitled to it.
Do you think that Scotland Yard is accessary to that campaign?
GA – Until Scotland Yard clarifies the mystery within this mystery that is Mr David Payne, and that situation of the paedophilia complaint – it’s not someone who goes to burglarise a home and lies down next to – we are talking about obscene gestures and saying, with words, asking if Madeleine did certain things, to the father of that child, Mr Gerald McCann.
Other people saw it, witnesses, who on the 12th of May denounced it to the English police, who in turn never informed us about that situation, only in October did a fax arrive concerning that, but the story has been told.
So, let’s understand what this is about.
If it’s only the fear that all of them have, that pact may exist, all of them having abandoned their children, because they did abandon them, during that week they always left them alone, at their own risk, nothing more – or if there is more to it.
That is what needs to be understood, and how far that can cause, within the British society, hat damages it may cause. I don’t know.
But what motives could Scotland Yard have to go along with that?
GA – Let’s find out why. Let Scotland Yard come and say why they don’t investigate. Let them deny that the complaint existed, or let them confirm that it did exist and why they don’t investigate it.
It’s seven years later. Seven years later, it’s said that Scotland Yard is making an appeal, some big appeals, and that people call SY and a call centre.
We already did that. The Judiciary Police and the English police, at that time, seven years ago, launched that questionnaire. They launched a questionnaire, in England a call centre was installed, people who spent their holiday at the Ocean Club, who spent their holiday in the Algarve, had the opportunity, seven years ago, to say all that they could say, to contribute, and nothing was said about it.
Now seven years later these things start appearing.
So that is the mystery. First the statement of Mrs Jane Tanner was cleaned, then they tried to clean the Smith family’s statement. That backfired because on the internet, everywhere, people started saying, no, but this gentleman here is Gerald McCann, the one in the e-fit that had been made by those detectives that had left the MI5.
So this is where we are. When you say to me that they are searching for their daughter, I doubt it.
You were removed from the case just as you were about to collect the testimony of this man [Martin Smith].
GA – It’s true. We had already asked the Police’s National Directory for permission to bring him to Portugal, so we were taking care of the traveling, the accommodation. When I return to Faro [after being removed from the case], my colleague that came afterwards considers that deposition not to be relevant.
But he still made diligences, I think there is contact with an Irish liaison officer in Madrid, he is the one who then brings his statement from England, therefore…
But after the deposition that this man gave to the English authorities, he contradicts himself, he is no longer absolutely sure that this man was Gerry.
GA – That is no contradiction. When he speaks to us, he says it is that person. When the statements to the British police appear, 85 or 90% is mentioned, so it’s a probability percentage. The way that he identifies him is not due to the physiognomy, it’s the way he walks, the way he holds the child. So in terms of evidence, let’s put it this way, it would never have great value as evidence.
But in terms of the police work, in the investigation, it’s an argument that is important to understand and to clarify.
Until someone appears – maybe someday someone appears, someone who says that he was also fetching his child at that time from the crèche that hands out the little girls at half past nine or ten in the evening, someone who also kept the clothes and the similar pyjamas. Maybe there were children of that age, all wearing the same pyjamas.
Even we had one of those pyjamas, it was bought from the same store, in England, for future comparison.
Is this one of the key moments in the investigation, for you?
GA – It is important. It’s one of those points that until it is clarified, we can’t move forward with the abduction theory, because the description matches the description of Gerald McCann and it matches the description that Jane Tanner made of the other individual, the one who allegedly appeared in the meantime.
Nothing was confirmed in Portugal.
Here in Portugal something interesting is happening, here in Portugal and in England. Scotland Yard has information from the Portuguese police and breaks the judicial secrecy, and says a few things there. And everyone takes it for granted. They take it for granted, it’s the police saying it, therefore it’s an almost absolute truth. But the question is why.
I’m a policeman.
And I know that some journalists investigate.
And sometimes I ask myself why nobody asks, why there isn’t one journalist that says “But is this even possible?”. Why don’t I go and knock on the crèche’s door, for example, and find out if it is possible, at that time.
Why don’t I go to the GNR and the PSP and say, my friends, in 2002 child abuse was already under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Police. There had already been the Casa Pia case, you were alert to the situation, so there was a serial predator on the loose and only SY knows about it?
And so on.
There are questions that we have to find out why. And why, for example, Mr David Payne, why it doesn’t move forward.
Were mistakes made in the investigation?
GA - Certainly so. There are mistakes made in all investigations. The first mistake that was made in this one, and I tell you this easily, was that we didn’t place this couple under surveillance from the first moment onward, under phone tapping and so on. The McCann couple.
Because in such a situation, with children of this age in their care – it was their duty to guard them, to care for them – they are the first suspects. This happens anywhere in the world, doesn’t it?
Is this a never ending story?
GA – It will have an end. I don’t know. Madeleine disappeared, in the meantime some witnesses are already deceased, others will be deceased in the future, I don’t know my future, either. This will have an end. We shall see what happens.
But before the end, and before this program ends, I want to alert to a situation that is important. The English like this very much, it’s important. It’s not only indications, it’s not only the inconsistencies, it’s what they call the scientific part of the question.
And the scientific part is the hair that was found in that car. Hair without roots, that the English laboratory says that from its coloration, it belongs to Madeleine McCann. And that nothing except for transference between objects could justify [hair] inside that car trunk where cadaver odour was found.
The Judiciary Police that has them, they should send them to a laboratory to be analysed for a DNA profile without the need for hair roots. People say that there are labs of that kind, so do that now.
We have been at this for such a long time. Maybe they can spare some money and we can move forward in the investigation, surely. To the Netherlands or to Germany, I think there are laboratories there.
CMTV invited the McCann family’s legal representatives and its spokesman to make a statement. The invitations were not accepted.
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