Madeleine McCann: The Tapas 7 Speak, Blonde Children In Morocco And Hashish
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN front page: “McCANN FRIENDS HIT BACK – FURY OF TAPAS 7. Pals: there is NO pact”
Say the McCanns dining party: “The police told us not to discuss our statement. We’ve always tried to honour this. We wish to state there is categorically no so-called pact of silence – or indeed anything secretive between us. Just the desire to assist the search. It is frustrating that the facts we have done as we were asked is till being looked upon as suspicious”
“COPS IN WINDOW PROBE” – Paolo Rebelo is looking at the window of the McCanns’ holiday apartment. “is this how evil Maddie snatcher struck?”
Four pictures:
1. “Rebelo pushes window
2. Net curtains rustle in breeze as the window swings open
3. Detective leans in
4. Team confer about possible escape route”
“Fund paid mortgage” – Some of the £1million Madeleine McCann “fighting fun”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “NOW THEY BELIVE US – Police finally accept Madeleine was snatched”
Portuguese police are looking at possibilities
Says a friend of the McCanns: “At last, after all these months, Kate and Gerry’s story is being believed. They are very encouraged by the re-enactment of Madeleine’s abduction and the police now accept their version of events”
A policeman climbs through a window. He passes out a “large bundle”
“MADDY ‘SPOTTED 10 TIMES IN MOROCCO’” – Says private detective Francisco Marco: “Several unconnected people have told us of the same girl with the same woman. She has shorter hair than Madeleine. But everything else matches”. Like her name?
“MORTGAGE FUND FURY” – Says Clarence Mitchell: “The fund exists to help them when living costs became difficult”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – McCANNS USE FUNDS TO PAY MORTGAGE” – Two mortgage payments on their “£600,000” home
The Express leads with picture of Gerry McCann playing golf. Inset is a picture of Gerry McCann on a bicycle
“We’ve found a kidnapped blonde girl, but it’s not her” – A blonde girl in Morocco. She can speak English. She must have been kidnapped. Right?
Says Francisco Marco: “Blonde children are a valuable commodity in North Africa. They can be sold for huge sums and give prestige to families who buy them”
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADDIE FUND PAYS McCANNS’ MORTGAGE” – Mortgage repayments on their “£500,000” home. (How long before the Express and Mail start a heated debate on the value of the McCanns home and how that value has been affected by the story?)
Page 4: “Is she in the mountains? Investigators scour Morocco in the search for Madeleine”
Says the Mail: “In an extraordinary coincidence the detectives are reported to have already found an English-speaking blonde girl of about Madeleine’s age living with a local family”
How many more blonde children are in Morocco? And can we find them all?
DAILY STAR front page: “Maddie ‘alive in drug den’”
Page 7: “MADDIE’S IN MOROCCAN MOUNTAINS – Ten sightings with rich Arab”
Says Francisco Marco PI of the woman with the blonde child found in the Rif mountains: “My feeling is this woman is some sort of carer who is working on behalf of other people”
Says an “insider”: “It’s a very secretive country and the Rif mountains enjoy official protection because of the importance of the hashish production”
“McCanns in the clear – Portuguese police now believe Madeline was kidnapped”
THE TIMES page 13: “Police return to holiday apartment in attempt to solve Madeleine mystery”
Paulo Rebelo is inside the apartment. He walks to the beach. He passes Sergey Malinka’s home. He is on a road leading to the N125 main road
In Morocco, a 60-year-old woman is seen with a blonde child
“Funds for search used to pay mortgage on McCanns’ house” – The McCanns’ home is worth “460,000”
THE TELEGRAPH front page: “Police re-enact Madeleine night”
Page 17: Paulo Rebelo is at the Ocean Club. Says a source “close to the couple”: “Blonde children are a very valuable commodity in places like north Africa”
Paulo Rebelo is looking
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news
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October 31st, 2007 at 1:56 am
I meant 1241 Clarkeson
October 31st, 2007 at 1:55 am
1281 Tony Bennett
Why they tried to keep his name secret I dont know. It was obviously going to get out eventually.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:55 am
835 jcb Says:
Edit….
Look at the *majority* of the posts here….
*Some posters* are using the most vile language to describe the McCanns
You can’t tell me that *every one* of you that post on here haven’t done something that they regret. Edit….
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Could you please clarify…. Are you talking about:-
* The majority of posters
* Some posters
* Everyone
October 31st, 2007 at 1:55 am
Clarkeson
My wife, newly departed, used to make quite a biscuit cobbler.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:55 am
The first book on the Madeleine McCann case will reveal the full list of ‘discrepancies’ in witness statements, according to its author.
Hernani Carvalho, one of Portugal’s best known crime reporters, said his investigation has produced a “series of questions” about the timing of the child’s disappearance from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
October 31st, 2007 at 1:53 am
1230 thea
“The information hotline is being operated by the Barcelona office of Metodo 3, one of Spain’s best known firms of private investigators, which has 20 detectives.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2730949.ece
“Metodo 3, based in Barcelona, currently has three men on the ground in northern Morocco, including a former head of the Spanish National Police’s organised crime squad.”
Thea, you said the McCanns called the PJ morons - I asked you before for proof of your claim, but you failed to do so. I think we can all conclude you have nothing to back up your claim.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:52 am
flip me
for a minute I thought he was the tappas10th
comparisons to Jack the Ripper case I made last month coming true
October 31st, 2007 at 1:49 am
1272 — Tony Bennett — “…a R.C. priest would be defrocked if he ever revealed to anyone but the Vatican spy network (i.e. his superiors) what was said in the confessional booth.” If the McCanns acutally confessed (in the sacramental sense) to a Catholic priest, that priest would not be permitted to tell anyone, and “anyone” includes “the Vatican spy network”. If, however, the McCanns told the priest the same “abduction” story they told everyone else, the priest would be free to talk to his superiors about what the McCanns said. I maintain that there is no way the McCanns “confessed” the Catholic priest in Portugal. Putting aside how irrational it would be to confess to a crime you are in the process of covering up, the fact is this particular priest was much more useful to the McCanns as one of the many trusting people in Portugal who rallied to their side. If the McCanns wanted to confess anything — again, this would make no sense whatsoever from a religious perspective — they could have confessed to another priest. The McCanns needed that first Catholic priest in Portugal to actively work P.R. on their behalf, something he never would have done had they confessed to invovlement in Madeleine’s disappearance.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:48 am
824 Stevo Says:
I remember when you woke up as a toddler you’d see faces or other shapes in the pattern in the curtains. I remember my mum ruffling the curtains because I could see a man’s face looking back at me. Stupid things like that are horrors to a small child. What beats me is how you can think it’s ok to leave kids alone like that.
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Totally agree and brilliantly described..
Though I do still think it’s possible that the whole ‘leaving the kids on their own’ is in all/or certain key parts, an elaborate fabrication to cover other far more nefarious activities.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:48 am
PRINCESS MARGARET’S SON, VISCOUNT LINLEY
From TV New Zealand, an Australian newspaper, another NZ newspaper and an American TV station, to name but four…
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“Attempts to keep the identity of the British royal at the centre of a sex and drugs blackmail plot under wraps have failed.
The Queen’s 45 year-old nephew, Viscount David Linley, is understood to have been the target of the blackmail attempt”.
REST SNIPPED
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October 31st, 2007 at 1:46 am
JCB
Thanks for that, but sadly the days when if you read something in ‘The Sunday Times’, it had to be true are long gone.
‘The Sunday Times’ and ‘The Times’ are part of the same group as ‘The New of The World’, ‘The Sun’ and ‘Sky’ and they have followed a ‘McCanns are innocent’ editorial stance from the night when Madeleine went missing to the present day.
In one respect, this policy has worked against the McCanns, because a few people (most Anorak posters included) are not happy with such a one-sided version of events and question why such a powerful media organisation is churning out propaganda rather than reasoned comment.
Sorry to be dismissive, but your posting is a press release, generated for PR purposes.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:45 am
Uta
I think he may have been playing tennis with Jeremy Wilkins
October 31st, 2007 at 1:43 am
most catholics I know only call on a priest if it was last rites,death or confession!
abduction — maybe in a few days! to repent
I AM A TERRIBLE MOTHER , GOD HAS PUNISHED ME,WHAT CAN I EVER DO TO BRING MADELEINE HOME!!!!?
October 31st, 2007 at 1:40 am
795 Diane Says:
767 Stig
‘They were happy to accept their changed status meant they were no longer entitled to that assistance’
Really strange
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I’m not convinced of the McCann’s innocence, though I don’t have a clue what they may actually be guilty of.
I don’t understand how you can consider that statement extract ‘really strange’? Maybe it ought to be punctuated/emphasised differently?
I’m sure they are not happy to accept that they are arguido’s. However, given that they are it would be inappropriate for the fund to continue paying their living expenses?
Would that read better? Personally, I think this is one of the few things – admitting they can’t use the fund for living expenses whilst they arguidos - in this whole sorry PR debacle.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:40 am
1270
jacquescousteau Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 1:28 am
Judithc do you have the link to the Times article without me having to trawl back?”
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jcb typed it all out. It was from The Sunday Times Sept 9th. You can read it on her/his post No. 1250.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:38 am
I think it will be the location of the call
ie.
alibi in resort — mobile signal 19 mins ( gerrysblog first week) away along beach/harbour
or calls made on the 2nd may
Or the ones when they thought they were squeaky clean
heluva
rome
uk
October 31st, 2007 at 1:38 am
1270
jacquescousteau Says:
“October 31st, 2007 at 1:28 am
Judithc do you have the link to the Times article without me having to trawl back?”
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jcb typed it all out. It was from The Sunday Times Sept 9th. You can read it on her/his post No. 1250.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:37 am
Mods and Admin: can you please change the anti-spam word to ‘guilty’. Thanks.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:37 am
1272
Tony Bennett
Tony, I think you are right in saying that it is on the record that they tried to contact /get their own priest over to portugal.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:34 am
1270
jacquescousteau Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 1:28 am
Judithc do you have the link to the Times article without me having to trawl back?”
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jcb typed it all out. It was from The Sunday Times Sept 9th. You can read it on her/his post No. 1250.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:33 am
786 james mck Says:
Has anyone thought that that perhaps two things can still go together
a) the McCanns are strange, unpleasant people
b) the poor child was still abducted
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Leaving aside the current lack of evidence to support an abduction (some may be found-albeit may would deem that an unlikely outcome), what you describe is a totally possible scenario.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:32 am
1171 Maria wrote (October 30th, 2007 at 11:53 pm)
1. “But, if they’d gone to all that trouble, would they be likely to give the game away in a careless phone call the very first night? Wouldn’t they have wanted to keep their friends and family “on side” by maintaining the lie absolutely with them? You can’t afford to have many people in on a secret like that, I would think…”
REPLY: Many criminals ‘undo’ themselves either by boasting about their crimes or by making one simple but ‘fatal’ mistake. Don’t you think that the following tend to ‘give the game away’ anyway? -
(a) ringing up a relative immediately about the ‘abduction’ and claiming it was a ‘disaster’
(b) ringing up one or more relatives and friends and swearing blind that the shutters had been jemmied open - when in fact they weren’t?
2. “Would they be likely to want to speak to the priest who had married them?”
REPLY: I believe that the record shows that they did - very soon afterwards - or the McCanns asked a relative to contact him straightaway.
3. “Surely they’d have wanted to keep away from anyone likely to suspect that something was wrong or who would be likely to urge the correct response (reporting all to the police) if he WAS told?”
REPLY: Maria, we’ve been through this before; a R.C. prieist would be defrocked if he ever revealed to anyone but the Vatican spy network (i.e. his superiors) what was said in the confessional booth. You must know this as a pract ising R.C.? He could ‘advise’ the McCanns until he was blue in the face. But if they had done something criminal - even very serious - his oaths would not permit him to tell the police. I know you brand me as ‘anti-Catholic’, but let’s face it and not duck it, the rules of the confessional played a massive part in the huge sexual abuse of thousands of young boys by R.C. priests in he past century. That plus the absurd, inhuman and unBiblical instruction on priests not to marry.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:30 am
Judith C
I’m sure their a bunch of social study sixth formers having a bloody laugh!
apart from stig and Maria
Just like the mc canns were “naive” to neglect their kids
These lot are so naive…………
Dont they watch the news ?
read books?
watch a true crime programme
read about murders etc……..
” you’re living in a land of make believe, with elves and fairies and little frogs with funny green hats! …”
Homer Simpson
October 31st, 2007 at 1:28 am
Judithc do you have the link to the Times article without me having to trawl back?
October 31st, 2007 at 1:27 am
Smells Like Ass!
October 31st, 2007 at 1:26 am
771 Ian Says:
753 Peter.
If the Mccanns were to admit that they felt Madeleine was at risk, they may well be open to a charge in the UK. However, Kate as a GP will have been briefed only recently (well, just before this all happened) in this area, as have all GP’s. Edit…..
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I understand why they can’t admit to any culpability re child neglect. I have a concern that the McCann’s may in fact only be guilty of trying to avoid carrying the can for any neglect charges which might arise from allegedly leaving the children alone. In trying to avoid these charges they may have created a convoluted web of deceit that impairs the investigation into what really happened to Madeleine and also threatens to create far more personal damage for them, their family and friends than owning up to neglect would. Why they continue to spin this complex web is probably concrete proof that I am typing/talking out of my nether regions.
I’m also of the view that if something far more nefarious took place then we should probably discount/challenge the ‘children left on their own’ claims. They may be true, in all or part. Far more likely that the “reported events” of the evening of May 3rd were constructed in to create the illusion of an abduction. In this scenario, I’ve always felt it far more likely that whatever fate may have befallen Madeleine occurred prior to 9.00 PM on May 3rd, possibly even prior to May 3rd.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:26 am
1257
Judith C
Yes, I read in was a disiplinary action pending. However, I think Gerry has more than just that on the group.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:23 am
1250
jcb Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 1:01 am
Please take the time to read this article from the Sunday Times. Perhaps you will then be not quite so venomous, and you will think before you write any further stupid comments.”——followed by an article in which the McCanns are fabulous and maligned and innocent and grief-stricken and the Portuguese are - well, foreign - isn’t that enough? written by a Luvvie in ‘The Sunday Times’ (a once great newspaper under its editor Harold Evans, on which I was a journalist and which has now, unfortunately, been nobbled, like the rest of the media, by the Broon crowd).
jcb! Do you REALLY BELIEVE this utter and complete tripe?
October 31st, 2007 at 1:22 am
1259 Trismegistus
“And WHERE, I ask, WHERE!
Has Cuddle Cat gone?
Abducted?”
No it has been washed to death!
October 31st, 2007 at 1:21 am
the difference between
pro mcanns -they believe what they are told by team mc cann/uk tv and the tabloids.
Anti mc canns -watch look and listen to the mc canns ourselves/respect police and investigation techniques/ and question inconsistancies in statements.
I am sure most cases we would keep quiet, but this one is like a red flag
to most “children come first” people
Again te Mc Canns are old enough and ugly enough to look after themselves
Their kids aren’t!