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.”
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September 29th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
unfortunate term of phrase ” ice maiden ” and “cold fish” seem now
Kate must have been doing the checking of the fridge
September 29th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
day 150 tomorrow and the sky programme
September 29th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
(4)Ade Says:
September 29th, 2007 at 8:51 am
5 Trismegistus
(5)”How absurd to accuse the innocent Kate McCann of being a “cold fish” and an “ice maiden”. Such a ridculous suggestion just shows how ridiculous some of……”
If ‘crazy’ had been substituted for the second ‘ridiculous’ you would have achieved the ‘ten’words but I don’t know if this is in the dictionary or not as I can’t be bothered to look at the moment.
September 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
To All Media Manipulators
Re-arrange these words into first sentence of famous quote and complete -
“all of some people the fool can you the time of…………….”
September 29th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
http://www.recycledart.org/madeleine/
This is a website for madeliene, for us, against them!
September 29th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
The only known fact in this case is that a young girl is missing. The parents and their friends allege she was abducted and if the press leaks are to be believed the police believe she is dead, there never was an abduction and the parents are complicit in her disappearance. That said, the only fact in all of this is that a young girl is missing.
Much has been made of the lack of emotion shown by the McCann’s throughout their ‘ordeal’. To some this is proof positive that they are as guilty as hell. My own view has always been that some combination of their medical training, the need for professional detachment, and suppressed/delayed guilt about leaving their children alone that night might just be enough to explain the apparent lack of public emotion. Assuming the parents are totally innocent of any wrongdoing in this case (leaving aside for the moment the debate about them leaving the children alone in the first place), if you earnestly cling to the belief that your daughter will be found alive it’s short logical leap to hope and pray that the decision to leave them alone won’t be the last contribution you make to your daughters wellbeing. It’s a dreadfully Catholic thing too, to hope and pray against the odds for such miracles.
As a parent of two young children myself I simply do not want to believe that Madeleine’s parents were in any way complicit in whatever may have happened to her. (Accepting the debate about them leaving the children alone on that night.) I know there have been occasions where, with hindsight, I have admonished my young son in somewhat sterner tones than was possibly entirely necessary. There have been occasions too where I have had to leave the room/house for fear that my temper was about to spill over and yes there have been very rare occurrences where I have forcibly had to restrain my son – ever seen a three year old in full temper tantrum mode when the hands and feet are going like pistons – and later worried that I had used too much force. How easy might it have been for something like that to have resulted in an ‘accident’? No, I don’t want to believe the accident theory, probably for very well understood psychological reasons that others are better qualified to explain and doubtless in a more articulate way than I ever could.
And yet, something doesn’t ring true. I have no evidence upon which to base this feeling. It’s just an intuitive gut feeling that all is not as people would have us believe. Then last night it struck me why, I heard a lovely quote recently, “Without passion there is no life.”
The McCann’s have failed to show any passion, particularly for Madeleine, throughout. As I said above, I can possibly accept it while they were not suspects and the abduction theory appeared, publicly at least, to be the only show in town. But here I am four months on, and 100% innocent of any involvement in my beloved daughters disappearance (save the debate about leaving her alone in the first place) and now I find my wife and I as the main suspects in her disappearance by an inept police force that have clearly lost the plot. If indeed they ever had it. I’m completely innocent, some low life(s) have/had my daughter, she may be alive and suffering, she may have suffered and died, who knows? No one is now looking for either my beloved daughter or the perpetrators of this terrible crime.
I don’t know about anyone else, but given the fact that I KNOW my wife and I are completely innocent I would be absolutely incandescent with rage. Not for any injustice against myself or my wife, but because my daughter is no longer the centre of the investigation. Once I had removed myself and remaining family from Portuguese territory I would have held a very public press conference, no PR people, just myself and my wife and I’d have called the Portuguese authorities bluff – remember, I KNOW they are bluffing because I KNOW I/we are completely innocent. I’d have gone public on everything I knew and then challenged them to lock me up anyway. I’d happily draw attention to the case by rotting away in a Portuguese jail (the rest of the family/Team McCann would still be on the outside campaigning against this madness) if only to expose the nonsense the police were spouting and then hiding behind their own secrecy laws.
But the McCann’s haven’t done anything remotely like this? Why not?
Something(s) about this case just don’t ring true, the McCann’s and/or their friends in some part hold the key to unlocking this mystery but I fear we may never know the real truth of what happened to Madeleine. The police on the other hand are possibly incompetent buffoons barking up entirely the wrong tree, or are clueless as to what really happened and are just looking for someone(s) to blame so they can kill the case off (but in either of these scenarios, why the lack of passionate reaction from the McCann’s personally?) or, the police KNOW roughly what happened but in the absence of solid evidence to charge someone(s) they are baiting/bluffing the perpetrators in the hope that someone(s) will crack?
Just my opinions. I can’t prove anything I say.
September 29th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
http://www.recycledart.org/madeleine/
A Justice for madeliene website for us
wooohoooo
September 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Carmen, I’d give money to. Not much mind (-:
September 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
They will not silence us
justice for maddie
September 29th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Does somebody not like this site? Down again…spooky…
Noseycow you told us that Gerry spends all his time at the computer, could he be….
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Mods and Admin
I panicked too, but the webmaster was doing lots of housekeeping, have you noticed the chnages?
September 29th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I think the twins are a timebomb
the next krays
when they read what their parents did
September 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
50 m.e.
well I agree they will have to extricate themselves somehow.
My guess is the reporting stance pendulum will swing completely towards the other side and the media will be telling us they were right all the time.
Will beardie ask for his 100 grand back though?
September 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
49 carmen
Yep I know it’s comical clari (or maybe comical clarrie) I always get it wrongas I have a mental picture of Phiwwlll from the Vic when I type…
September 29th, 2007 at 10:42 am
45 Ade
Well if they do read this they’ll obviously have to ‘cherry pick’ because as we all know there are things here that they couldnt possibly have a rational answer for.
If this ever goes to trial and the McCanns are implicated could the general public ever mount a civil case based on the perversion of the course of justice by the media (bbc and sky) retrospectively because of their biased pro coverage?
September 29th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Here’s a prediction. Now everyone knows they are simply not interested in finding their own poor little girl (dust is just soo hard to find, after all) I reckon they will start latching on to other “abduction” cases.
Photo shoots with “poor people” an’ all dat jibe man. They could then extend the remit of the “fund” to look for other people. Handy ruse for a few jollies too.
Branson could cash in by lending them a 747 (bit cramped wid all dem reporter dudes - bet he wished he’d ordered some extra Airbus A380s now).
You read it here first…
September 29th, 2007 at 10:41 am
well if they kept the body in the fridge (which is quite possible) then that explains why gerry was apparently taking rotting meat to the tip every day.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am
39 noseycow…
I have the mother of all hangovers, thank you very much! Off to a pointless FA cup match in the New Forest…
September 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am
37 carmen
I am convinced they read this blog. The freezer stuff was like night follows day…
Watch out for serious reduction in the use of “ludicrous” and take-up of our suggested alternatives from now on (see posts above).
Comical Mitchell may have even just found out what a thesaurus is. Ge probably thought is was something from the Jurassic period (like the people he works with?). God help us all now he’s got his hands on a tool for communicating in the English language…
I think Peggy and Phiwwwllll should ‘ave a word…
September 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am
17- just read your post and found it very interesting. I myself have contacted Social services twice about a neighbour i used to live by. She was a single mother who without doubt was ” not all there”!! I never thought she was abusing her children, but they were definatly neglected. Both children aged 2 and 4 had got “lost” at some time and would be wondering outside, in the streets unsupervised and in just a nappy at 10pm at night.
I was told by social services that it all went by a points system and until this woman had a certain number of points against her they couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything. I was also told that it is a good system for children who are in REAL danger!!!
I really think the whole thing needs to be reworked to look after ALL children.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am
40 -mojo
liars ???
September 29th, 2007 at 10:29 am
TWIST
29.09.07, 10:15am
Do you really believe Clarence Mitchell would give up a great career in Government just to help the McCann’s spread smears in the press to disgredit the PJ?
Come on now…be reasonable.
- Someone posted this as a comment in the Daily Express - are people really this dull????
1. Clarence Mitchell is earning more now than he was with the Govement courtesy of being on Richard Branson’s pay roll!
2. Did he give up his job or was he given an opportunity to resign after he got caught informing the McCanns that they were being bugged by the police - an offence which Mr.Mitchell should have been taken to court for by the way.
3. He is not capable of discrediting the P.J - what makes you think a little whining will have an effect on anyone other than silly people like the one who made the comment above?
September 29th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Apparently the McClique McCann were ecstatic yesterday when it was revealed that their lawyers had irrefutable proof that there was no smokescreen in all of this.
Clarence said that part of the defence would be based upon the fact that Gerry does not smoke and therefore does not own any matches.
” The mere notion that a non smoker could start a fire was utterly ludicrous” he said to the reporters ammassed outside the barely visible McCann residence.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:27 am
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Allude
Elude
Colluded
Delusion
illusion
interlude
prelude
prolusions
September 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am
your all on form this morning - don’t you drink on a friday night like the rest of the world???
September 29th, 2007 at 10:25 am
your all on form this morning - don’t you drink on a friday night like the rest of the world???
found this yesterday - freekatemccann.com
methinks team McCann know whats coming next and have been preparing for it..
for some reason it won’t let me send the link -sorry
September 29th, 2007 at 10:23 am
your all on form this morning - don’t you drink on a friday night like the rest of the world???
found this yesterday
http://www.freekatemccann.com/
methinks team McCann know whats coming next and have been preparing for it..
September 29th, 2007 at 10:22 am
So it seems I may have been right about the little girl that was NOT Maddie - or was I?
I said that it was probably under a 2 year old because of the size and weight of carrying a 4 year old on your back like that with no loong legs dangling from the sides.
Then when it came out who the girl was I congratulated the man for being able to carry a 5 year old on his back like that for so far.
Only the following day it turns into a 3 year old and the following day a 4 year old.
And lo and behold today: courtesy of Times Online:
As the world’s media descended on Zinat, a small village in the Rif mountains, the parents of Bouchra Ben Aisa said that a picture taken on August 31 by a Spanish tourist was actually of their two-year-old daughter.
That’s right they say 2 YEAR OLD today!!!! LOL
What a croc of shite these papers write -they cannot get any story correct before putting it into print - so how are we to believe ANY of the stories they give us - yet alone make a comment on them????
September 29th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Kate and Gerry - if you really want to STOP the rumours, then come out and TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. For Christ’s sake, GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST before you must surely SNAP! Do yourselves, your kids and the British (and Portuguese) public a favour and tell us what REALLY happened (or are you waiting to SELL the story?).
September 29th, 2007 at 10:14 am
about abandonment
this excerpt touched my heart:
Mother Theresa once said:
“In 25 years among the people I have come more & more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human can ever experience”. She said that the worst disease today is not leprosy or cholera or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being abandoned, uncared for & deserted by everybody.
Abandonment
is a state of INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION.
Those abandoned are shattered by an aloneness they didn’t choose.
Feelings of desertion, dependence & demoralization are experienced.
de·ser·tion: Willful abandonment of one’s spouse or children or both without their consent & with the intention of forsaking all legal obligations to them
Those abandoned have sustained a narcissistic injury & the lack of control makes them feel victimized.
Emotionally, abandonees feel as if they’re experiencing the recovery room - having just had their Siamese twin severed from them. What makes the pain so unbearable for abandonment survivors, is that it wasn’t their idea to have the surgery; it was the OTHER person’s.
The abandoner makes the situation worse by:
Immediately re-attaching to a new love - interest to take part in a medicating relationship
Not feeling the intense pain of the separation
Not experiencing the feelings of rejection, isolation & profound loss of love that the one abandoned feels
In other words, the Abandoners aren’t suffering in the recovery room, because for THEM it wasn’t major surgery. They’re “out & about” experiencing a new life.
Both sides are now on an emotional roller coaster. Both feeling regret, confusion, remorse & anger. But the one who’s “left behind” bears the brunt of the tear.
The fact that it’s more painful to be the abandonee than the abandoner is rarely acknowledged by the latter, because both sides want to be considered “the injured party
September 29th, 2007 at 10:11 am
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1705290#post1705290
Article third from the bottom
Maddie Buried in Huelva - words to that effect - headline
Re the “two companions” who disappeared with McCann’s for two hours in Spain. Does anyone know if “friends” accompanied them on the trip? Or would they be journalists. And what is the Catholic ritual performed three months after death? Is it just a visit to the grave or does it involve another ritual of some sort?
Many questions!