Grace Before Film: “Net Closes” In On Madeleine McCann’s Kidnappers
THE Express’s front-page headline (“MADELEINE”) is married to the promise of a “FREE £15 EYE TEST FOR EVERY READER AT ASDA.”
The face of Madeleine McCann stares from the page. Readers are used to the image, familiar with Madeleine’s distinctive right eye, where the pupil runs into the blue-green iris.
The official Madeleine McCann website features the song Everything I Do (I Do It For You), chosen no doubt because it opens with the line “Look into my eyes”. Although the song also implores listeners to “Search your heart - search your soul/ And when you find me there you’ll search no more”, words that appeal to the tabloid press for whom Madeleine is “our Maddy”.
Entertaining Stuff
Such mawkishness causes Tony Parsons to write in the Mirror of the people who felt uneasy about the cinema showing of Shrek The Third (certificate U) featuring an appeal for “snatched” Madeleine. Parsons says of the people on a fun day out who don’t like their four and five-years old learning of children “snatched” from their beds and never seen again: “And they should be grateful that their own children will sleep in their own beds tonight.”
Only a lunatic would want to experience what the McCanns are going through. But we should not give thanks that our children sleep in their own beds in this Grace Before Film. The crime of child abduction is rare. We should be shocked at the crime, not anxious and fearful that our children will be next.
Fishing Net
But Madeleine McCann does appear as the victim of a heinous crime. And now good news. Promising news. “Net is closing in on kidnappers,” says the Express. “Chief suspect faces new quiz.”
Only the Express has news of a breakthrough. And the news is that police “expect a major breakthrough in the hunt for her kidnappers”.
What it is? Can’t say? Will it lead to Madeleine being found? Can’t say? Will it be a happy ending? Can’t say. Will the ogre get it in the neck? Can’t say.
The Express is thin on facts but it does say that the chief suspect is Robert Murat. He is due to be “hauled in” for more questions later this week.
Says a police source: “While there is only one official suspect so far, investigators have identified other people they believe were involved in this case and they are now being sought.”
But the only suspect we have is Robert Murat. And his estranged British wife Dawn tells us: “Hopefully, any new meeting with police will be able to tell him he is no longer wanted with their inquiries.”
That might be it. If any new evidence were incriminating, the police would not wait to speak with Murat or arrest him.
But still the Express looks at Murat twice and tells us all about him. It offers no new insight, no new clue. But the net is closing in, we are assured.
Keep your eyes peeled. Wear glasses if you must. Help find Madeleine…
Posted: 9th, July 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (114) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 5th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Understand the grieving mothers perspective under the circumstances, thoughts and condolences to Maz, your babes are in heaven.
Gary, the media attention is to spread the word and photographs to an international population with the slight hope that their daugter is identified by somebody, and actions instigated to return Maddy to her loving and grieving parents. Charge the parents…chop there hands off…send them to prison…fine them….wake up everyone….these people are the main advocats ensuring mass media attention for the safe return of a beautiful innocent little girl, do you think by taking them to court it will change facts, change the fact Maddy is still out there somewhere wondering when help will come. Maddy is the person everyone should think about, get her back…then attck the parents if it makes you feel better.
August 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Munchausen by Proxy. The mother has a want about her with that teddy bear, and the father well what can I say charge the pair of them with neglect, if it were me I would hang my head in shame what on earth makes them crave media attention for.
If it happened in the UK they would be charged, so CHARGE THE PAIR OF THEM.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
just want to clear up the deaths were 8 months apart type error
August 10th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
i buried my son on the 3rd may the day she went ‘missing’, i hav to agree wiv earlier users the maccans piss me right off, im 21 and my son was my fourth child, my 2 month old died last july also so i lost two in two months, no fault of my own one due to illness the other stilborn, i have to say i hate seeing their mugs everywhere, its a farce, its disgusting they get to keep the twins after their neglect caused the ‘loss’ of maddy. if had been me - and im not stupid enough to leave my surviving children who are 4 and 2 alone- the press would hav come down on me like a ton a bricks as would the police and the social.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Well said Stan…..
Refreshing to see majority views being expressed, as apposed to the rubbish previously spouted by some ignorant morans previously.
I look out every day for a glimpse of positive information, leading to the safe return of Maddy…fair play to Robbie Williams, JKRowling, and the like for continued public support and keeping the focus of all.
Just because we don’t hear anything, does not mean that investigations and searches are not happening. If public are not aware..then responsible culprits are not aware. I still believe that the portuguese police (despite early mistakes or failings) know much more than they are letting on.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Ignore them Stan. They are thankfully the minority. Most people understand what the Mcanns are going through or can at least empathise. We must believe that she will be found and this will be a catalist for a way forward to protect and find more children. I applaud the Mcanns for keeping their daughter in the minds of everyone. She will be found.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:50 am
you making accusations against the mccanns..you are just dispicable people..yes they shouldnt have left their children..there is definately parenting issues in there..but thats it…you have no evidence whatsoever to support your claims saying the mccanns were involved in their daughters abduction…all they did was leave her..which was wrong yes..but they are not abductor’s or murderers..this is infact a very small minority making these acusations against the family..and its completely unfounded…you have even been blasted in the news yourselves..for being the sly, bored and vindictive cocksuckers that you are…it strikes me as odd that some people can post so much on this..perhaps unemployment levels are high i honestly dont know the reason but i think you should not be sad and get off your arses and not spend your life mocking and ridiculing 2 people who have recently lost their daughter..i have no doubt in my mind that john or at least one other of the tossers on here will have something witty to say back..but its just spiteful name calling and what not..knock yourself out…and after that go do something with your life! i only use this because im in work and slightly bored..but the things some of you asshats say truely pisses me off! okay im done thats me..
let the hectic replies begin..
July 15th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Any information about the alleged third party connection of Murat? I read Murat remains a suspect due to a third party connection. At a much earlier date I read someone who planned to go into business with Murat decided not to and left his computers at Murats and left the area. Another earlier reading stated the police were looking to question an American, something about a white van. Was there really porn on Murat’s computer? Murat said no in an interview I read. Maybe the porn was on the persons computer who planned to go into business but left the area leaving his computers at Murat’s? What about the McCann friends who claim they saw Murat around the McCann apartment? Are the McCann friends the only people who claimed to have seen Murat? Supposedly there was a guy who knew Mr. McCann and spoke with him a while after Mr. McCann made a check on the children. According to an article I read the man said he would have seen a man carrying a child that the lady friend of the McCann’s claims she saw. The time she claims she saw a man carrying a child the man who spoke with Mr. McCann was walking the area with his child, according to the article. Did the man who spoke to Mr. McCann outside the apartment see Murat around the apartment? Maybe some of the reporters will find out more about these circumstances?
July 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
We could contemplate things till the cows come home, but only time will tell, if at all.., what has happened to her.
Im starving right now and having toad in the hole for me tea. MMMmmm!
July 11th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Hmmm fruitcake sounds good im starving….
To be honest i dont think any one of us will ever really know what happened to Maddie even if she comes home safely.
If the parents have conned the world and plan to have her returned then they are very clever people and they will have made it so that Maddie dosnt know anything about what they have done.
And if she has been abducted we will never know the truth.
Its good that people care so much to be here still trying to work out what happened on that awful night.
Myself i hope she is ok but i have an awful uneasy feeling about the way things are being run nothing seems to be going the way a child abduction case would normally go.
I think thier is some dodgy shit going down here and that we will never really get to the truth of it.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Sorry but i am not the fruitcake Hollie just think about the rubbish most of you are writing it has nothing to do with discussing what happened to Madeleine just a load of people swearing and talking gobbly goop…….(get a life)
July 11th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Hmmm Cathy..and who exactly are you?… “I think that some people on this forum are need a psychiatrist’s “…..a psychiatrist’s what? Fruitcake!
July 11th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I could do with a psychiatrist’s fuck the rest on here!!!!!!!!!
July 11th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I think that some people on this forum are need a psychiatrist’s
July 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
ahhhtishoo!!!! not yet
July 11th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
sniff sniff any news?
July 11th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Only the McCannes Spokesperson announced that the PJ summer holidays were McCancelled, not the PJ themselves.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
The Italian man arrested in connection with the kidnap of Madeleine McCann was denounced to police by a Spanish lawyer. Danilo Chemello contacted the lawyer claiming he knew “things” about the missing girl.
Danilo Chemello, 61, and his girlfriend Aurora Pereira Vaz, 56, were seized yesterday in a dawn raid at a luxury ‘fortress’ in Sotogrande, Cadiz, in the south of Spain. It is the case’s most significant development in weeks.
The couple are thought to have been attempting to extort €4m from the McCanns, but investigations are still continuing as to whether they have any involvement in the case, according to the Portuguese press.
Police discovered a small bed made up in the garage of Chemello’s apartment, which had been under surveillance for weeks following the tip-off. Chemello has already served
gibby zobel on the Italian man thought to have been involved in a blackmail plot
18 months for abusing his own step-daughter, leaving her locked up in a room with bars, eating scraps off the floor. He was also the subject of an international arrest warrant over a plot to kill a French judge. Vaz is from the Algarve, where four-year-old Madeleine was snatched on May 3.
Spanish and Portuguese police closed in on the apartment and found it heavily protected and with a sophisticated CCTV system. Sotogrande is close to Gibraltar and a gateway to north Africa.
But Portuguese police say they have not established a direct link with the couple to the kidnap of Madeleine. There is speculation that it may have been a blackmail attempt with bogus information.
Until yesterday, the British man Robert Murat, 33, had been the only arrest in the case. He remains an official suspect.
FIRST POSTED JUNE 29, 2007
July 10th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
According to the Daily Express, detectives expect a major breakthrough this week in the hunt for the individual or individuals responsible.
The net is finally tightening on those responsible for abducting Madeleine McCann. A source close to the Portuguese team said yesterday that the reason given for the vacation cancellations is that police fear the search will suffer if they leave the case for several weeks.
According to additional reports, detectives believe a group of people were involved in the abduction and arrests may be imminent. Officers are keeping Kate & Gerry McCann up-to-date with each development.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Vitriolica will not appreciate her name being used on this site.
On the real topic: Why the interest in Murat again?
July 10th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Paul: Are you his agent, because boy you sure are defensive… All i’m saying is no-one knows why the police keep looking at him, and yes he could be innocent, but the main thing is that this 4year old beauty is found. Everyone is getting past themselves. She is the only one that counts, and if you disagree then you are seriously demented.
I have kids too and this kidnapping has really effected me.
Just let her be safe.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Venessa,
So in your view any one questioned by the police must be guilty of something ? The McCann’s have been questioned does that make them guilty as well ? Of cource it doesn’t. If “we should wait and see” why don’t you follow your own advice.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I have receved a response from the Anorak administrator. He has asked that all abusive, insulting posts be e-mailed to him (address found under contacts) and he will ban the person, altogether. The staff are aware of who is doing this. But they need notifying immediately so that it does not go on.
I hope that those persons who were posting will return and just ignore the trolls and just forward them on to the Administration as I have been requested to do.
I still pray for Madeleine’s safety.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Ted Says:
July 10th, 2007 at 8:41 am
You lot make me puke. I bet you all cried for Diana didn’t you?. You don’t know this child, so why make out it matters to you - it doesn’t. Tomorrow she will be yesterdays chip paper when a more high profile case appears for you to troll out your ‘caring’ patter. You are hypocrites of the worst kind - feeding your mawkish personalities on the suffering of a child.
I bet you lay flowers at accident sites for people you hardly knew or didn’t even like.
This won’t get you into heaven you know - God doesn’t read this shit.
Go away, God doesn’t read this shit……………… what the hell does that mean?
July 10th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Paul Says:
July 10th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Ann,
Where apart from the red top headlines has Robert Murat been confirmed as a paedophile ?
As for the basement do you really think the Portuguese police haven’t checked it ?
When did I say that Murat was a paedophile? Also I did not say that the police had not searched the hidden basement, I commented that there was indeed a secret basement, that was hidden by a concrete slab.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:26 am
whats one of them ?
July 10th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I think it’s an MI5 plot.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Hi everyone, Any news? Hope you lot haven’t been fighting ! whats the talk today?
July 10th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Not if the authorities have the good sense to take them away and foster them.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Oh get over yourself, would the police keep looking at this man if there was not some semblence of proof that he is involved in some way??????
Perhaps we should just wait and see. Obviously his family is unfortuntely suffering and going to suffer, but what of the rumours and ugly stories doing their rounds about the McCanns??? what about their kids, are they also not going to be reminded about all the rubbish printed about their parents?.
July 10th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Venessa,
What’s the difference ? Branding someone as a paedophile with no evidence. How would you feel if someone accused you or someone you know based on rumours ? What about the effect it has on Robert Murat’s daughter ? Do you think other children won’t bully her because her dad has been branded as a “paedophile” ? If he is charged and found guilty of a crime then fair enough, but what happens if he isn’t ? Will the papers print a front page apology ?