Madeleine McCann: People Smugglers, A Small Fridge And Child Alerts
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - STOLEN BY PEOPLE SMUGGLERS.”
“Missing Madeleine McCann may be in the hands of North African people smugglers. Police in Morocco, investigating a reported sighting, believe they have identified a link with a ruthless gang of traffickers.”
Remember when Madeleine was in “the clutches” of Moroccans, and how the gang turned out to be a couple of farmers and their daughter?
Now: “The breakthrough came a few weeks after Madeleine went missing when a Spanish tourist reported seeing a blonde girl matching her description being dragged along by a scruffy, Arab-looking woman in the town of Zaio.”
Spanish tourist Isabel Gonzalez has told the world how she saw a blonde toddler in Morocco. Not Bouchra Benaissa. Another blonde Moroccan.
“The alarm was raised in May by 60-year-old Spanish tourist Isabel Gonzalez who said: ‘The girl I saw was blonde, with pale skin, whereas everyone else in the area is dark-skinned and dark-haired.”
Well, not everyone. Remember Bouchra Benaissa..?
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE BODY KEPT IN FREEZER.”
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE COPS IN SICK SLUR.”
“COPS MOST SICKENING SLUR YET” – “MADDIE’S BODY KEPT IN FRIDGE.”
“Maddie parents mark 150 days”
“McCann’s gagged by cops” – “A friend of the McCanns said: ‘It is madness. We are being forced to inhabit a fantasy world in which we can increase public awareness of Madeleine’s disappearance and urge the public’s help through a poster campaign, but her own parents cannot help in this because of the legal status attached to them. It is so frustrating - Madeleine’s own mum and dad are not allowed to speak about her.’”
So they have anything to say that is not said through their spokesman, Gerry’s blog and friends, and to the police?
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE SENSATION – NEW SUSPECT IN STAIRWELL.”
“A British tourist seen ‘hiding’ in a stairwell outside Madeleine McCann’s apartment on the night she disappeared was being investigated last night.
“The new suspect, stocky and wearing two-tone glasses, was spotted by an Ocean Club worker just 12 metres from the flat. The employee, who did not want to be named, exclusively told the Mirror: ‘I’ll never forget him.’”
DAILY MAIL: “McCanns gagged from answering claims they dumped Madeleine’s body in Spain.”
•Portuguese papers claim Kate McCann killed Madeleine while Gerry played tennis
•Couple ‘then hid the child’s body in a fridge and later disposed of it in Spain’
•McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the reports were ‘utterly ludicrous’
These are the “latest lurid allegations”.
“A family friend ridiculed the suggestion that Madeleine’s body could have been stored in a fridge, saying: ‘Have you seen the size of the fridges in those apartments? Of course they did not stuff her in a fridge.’”
THE TIMES: “Kate and Gerry McCann’s friends refute ‘missing hours’ claim as smears continue.”
“The parents of Madeleine McCann have pleaded for an end to the distressing smear campaign that has suggested that they may have killed their missing daughter…
“It was claimed yesterday that police in Portugal believe that Kate McCann killed Madeleine while putting her to bed at their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz between 7pm and 8.30pm on May 3 and then hid her corpse in a fridge, with the help of friends.
“The respected Diario de Noticias newspaper said that officers believed that Mrs McCann accidentally killed Madeleine while her husband was playing tennis.”
Stop the smears. But read all about them first.
THE GUARDIAN: “EU plan for missing child alerts.”
Oh?
“Portugal will next week call for the creation of an EU-wide alert system for missing children, five months after Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday resort in the south of the country. The move has been welcomed by the McCann family.”
So she was taken across boarders?
“In a statement released through Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, Madeleine’s father, Gerry, said: ‘If this is true, we would very much welcome it as it would be a major step in the right direction. We feel it would be vital in protecting other children and their families. Kate and I have consistently campaigned to effect change throughout the EU to help protect children.’”
But Madeleine McCann might not have been stolen. Is this just another instance of people jumping on story to promote their pet cause?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann’s parents may face jail.”
No, not for child neglect.
“Kate and Gerry McCann could face 12 months in prison if they speak out to defend themselves against a slur campaign in Portugal because of the country’s strict secrecy laws, it is claimed.”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Each and every one of these nonsensical allegations causes real pain and hurt for both Gerry and Kate.
“We just hope that everyone can see these ridiculous rumours for what they are.”
Posted: 29th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (573) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
September 29th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Then again, without any evidence..what’s the point?? PJ need to really get in control of things.. They will end up looking like fools if nothing is found. IMO..nothing will be found…Mcliars have overwhelming amount of support and power. If Pj does not find a body, then Mcliars will be free to do whatever they want. Poor little twins.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I heard that family members said the fridge was not big enough to stuff madeleine. I’ve been there..Yea..maybe to put Philomena in there..But there’s plenty of room for a little body.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Its a load of ole wive’s tails son.
My rackity ole bones are telling me its a put up job.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
178 Point 2) The beatings were part of the defendent’s own defence and her way of explaining how her missing child’s blood was in the family fridge. So no, she probably hadn’t heard of bribes for children rather than beatings.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
179
i think the mc’s get all their press releases form viz magazine.
Fool passers by into thinking you keep a bird of prey by walking down
the street wearing a leather gauntlet, waving a piece of rotting meat in
your hand and constantly looking up into the sky.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Use bovril instead of marmite.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
any new updates other than the moroccon girl is not her. and the Mcliars possibly put her body in fridge??
September 29th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
164 The Usual Arguidos
True, they can talk to the press but not about anything pertaining to the enquiry and no-one is interested in anything else!
My info came from a Portugese newpaper (24 Horas) so can’t see them getting their laws wrong.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
169 firestar LOL
Bugger that was the wrong link oops.
Brilliant and pragmatic at the same time..
Many are lovingly collated here - proper link this time not guitar player…
http://fishtank.org.uk/humour/humour.php3?articleid=61
My favourite topical one is:
Make guests believe your home might be bugged by running your hands under tables and inside lampshades, then turning the shower on every time you want to speak.
Sounds like a typical day at a Tapas 9 house…
September 29th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
176
come on then, were waiting for granny’s theory.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
So what’s new with the McLiars??
September 29th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
169 firestar LOL
Brilliant and pragmatic at the same time..
Many are lovingly collated here
http://www.john-renbourn.com/discussion/index.php
My favourite topical one is:
Make guests believe your home might be bugged by running your hands under tables and inside lampshades, then turning the shower on every time you want to speak.
Sounds like a typical day at a Tapas 9 house…
September 29th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
110 batman
Thanks for that.
It is certainly food for thought but I have some doubts.
1) she didn’t have just one child, she had 6. Where were the other 5 while she and her brother were beating the daughter to death?
2) why do you need to beat an 8 year old that severely just to get her to keep quiet. Hadn’t they ever heard of bribes?
3) if you have 6 kids by 6 different fathers, why are you so scared of the kid telling a boyfriend? I imagine it possible she might have been caught out before.
4) The Times article implies the police never claimed the injuries she sustained, and which were supposedly documented in the lurid photo, were fake, they said she tried to commit suicide after being questioned. So the police don’t deny her injuries are real but say she managed to give herself to enormous black eyes in a ’suicide’ attempt - R…I…G…H…T!
5) The article claimed she was afraid of the child telling her ‘lover’ at the time but the Sun article alleges she has a husband, pictures included. I know lover and husband are not mutually exclusive, but the article making the cops out to be just misunderstood fails to make any mention of a husband.
So once again i think we have a conflict of information.
There is another article on it here with a good picture of her face after the ’suicide’ attempt. I have read some on here say it is just makeup. Doesn’t appear to be to me and the right eye looks swollen - in fact the upper eyelid and that side of the face adjoining it are clearly swollen out to the side.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007411009,00.html
Who do we believe on this one? If the charges against the PJ in that article are so clearly inappropriate, as it seems to be trying to imply, why haven’t the charges just been dropped?
September 29th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Now that the laws have changed regarding secrecy, Kate and Gerry can give interviews. Like to Barbara Walters.
Are they going to?
I would love to watch that.
I really would
September 29th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
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September 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
170 If he had have had an egg shaped head, maybe he wouldn’t have got stuck in the stairwell in the first place, and could have popped out more easily.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
170 deeeeees
Stairwell to Heaven knows what?
September 29th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
167 edible stick covered in marmite
Oooohhhhheeerrrrr Missus…
September 29th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
170
if youre australian its vegemite i think.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Don’t even know what marmite is!
What is everyones take on the “Suspect in the Stairwell”? Another Smokesscreen. Noticed he wasn’t described as having an egg shaped head.
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http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/twiglets, there is also a wikipedia entry too for ‘twiglets’
September 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
160
lol
i remember them.
Save a fortune on laundry bills. Give your dirty shirts to Oxfam. They
will wash and iron them and you can buy them back for fifty pence.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
162 no ! in front of the time.
firestar you can’t possibly live in Hampton Court.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
165
like an edible stick covered in marmite.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
and to add insult to injury,i’ve just googled my house and found some cheeky bastard selling pictures of it on the internet.
is this legal?
i am annoyed.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I give…
What’s a twiglet????
September 29th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
147 Moderation: “The McCanns and Robert Murat cannot say anything…….”
Another McLie. There is no provision in Portuguese Law to prevent an Arguido from talking to the press.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
159 firester
sounds like YOU are the ghost…
September 29th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
158 erm Judge sure it wasn’t 16:39?
September 29th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
#159 firestar. they are looking over your wall trying to work out what you are doing with those twiglets.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
156 firestar
Nice one - the tip reminds me of early Viz. I liked the one where the tip was keep your car side lights on all the time then people think you drive a Volvo…