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 9:55 am
Agree with Mark Williams, though, that Rebelo seems to be doing, at last, what should have been done months ago, ie a thorough investigation into ALL possible scenarios. However much the tabloids try to rake up a bit of sensationalism, he’s only carrying out a thorough review of all the evidence to date. Following up Murat again is only part of that review. Similarly interviewing the McCanns and the tapas friends again. (WHEN is that going to happen?!)
At least, unlike Amaral, he is not working solely on one theory and trying to force the known “facts” fit that theory. Very poor police work to do that.
Whatever the result, it’s reassuring to know Rebelo is “working”!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 9:35 am
1386 Ian
Well, I agree with you totally! I mean, without Mark Williams we’d never have guessed the investigation might be reaching “a crucial stage” where decisions will have to be made. Remarkable insight. Worth his weight in gold, that man!
October 31st, 2007 at 9:17 am
1389 coolandcalm
«A little dickie-bird I know who is in the know told me that there is new evidence against Murat but because the order of ‘no more leaks’ is being rigidly enforced by the PJ under threat of sacking no-one is saying what it is.»
Yes. But I PARTICULARLY appreciate the new style of leaks now being initiated by Rebelo:
«During a reenactment of the abduction on Monday, Mr Rebelo paced from the flat towards Murat’s house. A reporter asked him why he was doing that, and he replied: “I’m working.”»
The Sun (this morning)
Nice one, Rebelo. Makes it that that much more difficult for Anorakers to find ever new crazy and crackpot (imho) theories to spawn. I sincerely hope Rebelo is not sacked like Amaral was for making such injudicious leaks…
October 31st, 2007 at 8:56 am
well I never. How very exciting to hear a word being spelled. And correctly. But it doesn’t show me the spam word so I guess my PC must try harder!
A little dickie-bird I know who is in the know told me that there is new evidence against Murat but because the order of ‘no more leaks’ is being rigidly enforced by the PJ under threat of sacking no-one is saying what it is.
Yes I know, it could easily be just another rumour; same as 95% of the stuff swirling around about the McCanns is just rumour. But without rumour this forum would not exist!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:53 am
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”
Only for those who believe in Santa
October 31st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Morning All.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:31 am
Morning world.
I see Mark Williams has decided to say … well, nothing really (Sky news).
October 31st, 2007 at 8:29 am
It is clear that Team McCann are joyously “jumping through the hoop”
regarding reports of the PJ doing a Reconstruction around the Apartments
related to the disappearance of Madeleine.
They shrill…”It proves that the PJ believe our story” !!
Reports that the PJ are going to re-interview Mr Murat evoke the very same
shrill response from within the McCann Camp.
“It proves that the PJ believe our stor” !!
Er….calm down Clarence and Team McCann….it’s your turn next.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:26 am
1362 Bob
My word was “blood” and the next is “candy” Blood candy, yum.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:22 am
1382 Teddy Boy
I go to sleep at 10. I get up at 3 am. I’m not American and that’s when I want to read what I missed overnight.
Anorak
Smart move with the Anti-Spam word
October 31st, 2007 at 8:15 am
Anorak
Could you close these forums at midnight UK time and re-open them at 6 AM please. This would stop these cock sucking americans coming on and filling the site with garbage.
How the hell did we pal up with such a third world nation?
October 31st, 2007 at 8:13 am
1364 Kris Says:
Edit….. can’t someone come argue with me please?
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No!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:30 am
1338
Maria
Get real
October 31st, 2007 at 7:24 am
*crap
October 31st, 2007 at 7:23 am
1360
Kris
Do you believe all the in the press ??
October 31st, 2007 at 7:16 am
1142 Tony Bennet
You make very interesting, thought provoking comments but I cant agree with you that the men were involved in a sudden meeting to hatch the abduction hoax.
If the parents and all/ some of the friends were involved then it was already planned way before may3 and any conversations would just be to finalise the stories. You dont get away with what these people may have for so long with a plan concocted in a few hours.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:15 am
Just 1 question ,the Mccanns are both 39 yrs ,they are no kids.When we become parents ,we have responsabilities . Why in the , can we ignore they negleted their litlle children ??They even had babbysitting and they refused it .
October 31st, 2007 at 6:58 am
It is amazing how much the little girl on the back of the elderly lady looks like Maddy. The hair seems thinner on her than on the girl they produced later. Still, the authorities have done their forensic bit and come up nought.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:41 am
Thanks moniker.
New book coming out. See link below.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490803&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
October 31st, 2007 at 5:35 am
1346 — Kris — I think the McCanns are guilty, but I don’t think they’re freaks. I think most of what seems odd about them can be explained by the fact that they are lying in most of what they say and do in public, and even trained actors would not be able to act 24/7. For example, I think the reason Kate McCann doesn’t cry at all in public, why she seemed to force herself during the latest intervew, is not that she doesn’t miss Madeleine desperately. I think the reason Kate McCann doesn’t cry in public is that what she is supposed to cry about — that Madeleine’s missing — is untrue, so she can’t cry over that. And if she tried to access her emotions over what really happened, she could end up spilling the beans. So, she’s trapped within herself.
I don’t think the McCanns “murdered” Madeleine; I don’t think they had the requisite intent for murder. I think what happened was a banal accident when Kate was watching her. What happened after the accident deomonstrates why “it’s always the cover-up that gets you”. Casting their purported actions in the best possible light, I’d say Gerry McCann may have thought he was defending his wife and (remaining) family by covering up the accident. The problem, though, is that when you take one step down that road, turning back is almost impossible.
I have come to have some sympathy for Kate and Gerry McCann. I think that accidents happen. The tragedy, in the literary sense of the word, was that the McCanns didn’t own up to what happened right away. Because one of their children is dead, they never would have been “happy” again in any case. However, now they are in a Hell that seems to have no real end. I think if I knew them personally, I would urge them to tell their lawyers they want to come clean.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:28 am
YAY!!!New Zealand gets a mention. Here it is The parents of the little British girl abducted in Portugal lived in New Zealand for a year.
Madeleine McCann, who turned four on Saturday, is feared kidnapped after she vanished from her bed in the Praia da Luz holiday resort on the Algarve on May 3. Her parents were eating at a nearby restaurant and had made half hourly checks on their sleeping children.
In 1996 her mother Kate McCann practised as a GP in Wellington, while her father Gerry McCann was working in Napier and played for Napier City Rovers Football Club.
“He buried many goals for Napier” said a source. ” He was always ahead of the play, we had a young team and if he saw a kid napping he would scream blue murder at him”
Hero in the changing rooms afterwards. Often winning the 14 bottles of his choice for player of the day.
Ignore above paragraph apparently the source was very unreliable which seems strange as it was the same person who issued the report in the first place and who now denies ever being in New Zealand.
This is true though:
A colleague of Gerry McCann’s, Ian Geary, says he captained the side during the entire season, was a very handy player and a very nice person. He says he can’t imagine what the couple must be feeling or going through and their hearts and prayers go out to them.
Mind you that was May 14th.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:18 am
1355
Bob Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 5:12 am
Did Rosemary leave?
You stupid shit,
I thought you cared for Kris.
Drop dead, a-hole.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:15 am
1346
Kris Says:
Hi, Kris:
I disagree. I think the McCanns will hold on to their “they’ve taken her” story come hell or high water.
They’re not going to break–make mistakes, certainly. But never put aside their pride and sense of self preservation.
They didn’t hire that DreamTeam for nothing.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:12 am
Did Rosemary leave?
October 31st, 2007 at 5:10 am
1353
moniker Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 5:06 am
Sorry Kris and Bob, I have inadvertently maligned you.
Please forgive. My heat is pure. You are meant for each other.
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of course, I meant that my heart is pure.
You are meant for each other.
Love is divine.
God bless.
You may think I am joking, but don’t think that.
You are perfect together and I (with g0d’s blessing), bless your union.
Your are a fierce couple!
Love you both.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:06 am
Sorry Kris and Bob, I have inadvertently maligned you.
Please forgive. My heat is pure. You are meant for each other.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:05 am
I mean, Murat LOOKS guiltier than Gerry by far.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:03 am
moon trick candy and moon again.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:02 am
It’s such a shame there’s no one here in the evenings (by U.S. standards) to discuss Madeleine. Woe is me. This is the only time of the day I really have to just WASTE TIME, can’t someone come argue with me please?
October 31st, 2007 at 4:51 am
Cris Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 4:16 am
So far, I really love the anti-spam words… Moon, Sugar.. we could write poems!!
Bob, you still here, darling?
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Cris, Bob only wants to suck tit. Have fun!