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
Posted: 30th, October 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,424) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 30th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
242 Jacqueline …..was referring to the child in the photo and the berber child and Madeleine.. NOT all Berber children!!!!!! This is getting silly..
October 30th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
242 Jacqueline
you had a grainy photograph of an unknown child whose face was half hidden.
if it were so easy with all this biometric stuff as you say it is, then why is it just such a fuss with those new biometric passports the US want us all to have? Face has to be the the right size to fit the template used by customs, no smiling please, look straight into the camera, and so on. If it were that easy, if you were able to check biometric markers from a grainy photograph where a child’s head is half hidden, gosh, why did I have to come back with new photographs for my passport then???
October 30th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
107 Garth Says:
Jcb
You’re right.
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Sorry, is this now Friends Reunited?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
239 brandon flowers Says:
“Has anybody who thought in Sept that they did it , changed their minds?
and visa versa?
How many have stuck with original gut instinct ?”
My impression in September was that the media have highly exagerrated the evidence and the meaning of the “arguido”-status, and that the media pressure on portugese police made those presenting us the “usual subjects”, as parents always are in such cases.
I would have expected the parents to crack in September in case they were guilty. As they did not, I think they are either innocent or have committed a perfect crime. In the first case they have my compassion, in the second case they have my respect.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Teddy’s got it right.
I would even add - from the number of abductions to order of little blond girls, how many of those abductions actually took place with the abductor breaking into an apartment in a small town (as opposed to snatching the victim from a public space)?
Perhaps Jacqueline the expert can tell us????
October 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
231
Ruth
Thank You
October 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
The latest from Paulo Reis
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/10/pj-detectives-prepare-for-final-steps.html
October 30th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
239. I thought they were completely innocent of any implication until I started feeling sick after hearing Gerry talkl about his desire to get into politics at the Edinburgh festival in June or July. Then after watching more of their interviews in August I really began to get a bad feelign because I realised they rarely ever sent messages to Madeleine in their interviews, they were using the twins in their marketing yet wanted me to believe they’d been targeted by paedo, they frequently talked about their sadness and frustration but never express any concern for what Madeleine must be feeling and the whole thing with the fund - how quickly it was set up; how they chose not to organise it as a charity because that would mean sharing the money with other missing children so they opted for limited company but made damn sure it looked like a charity and all of these inconsistencies with what I’ve seen othere parents of missing kids do just got more and more clearer so by Augusts’ end I no longer believed them. Their inability to speak to Madeleine directly, or to her alleged abduictor or to speak about Madeleine in any real non-abstract way are other very disturbing McCann elements imo.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
239
brandon flower
“Has anybody who thought in Sept that they did it , changed their minds?
and visa versa?
How many have stuck with original gut instinct “?
My gut feeling from first seeing them on TV was that something did not add up. I have always tried to keep an open mind, but the more the McCanns do/dont do, the more I think that they are involved in some way.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
235
It may have been those pesky Mexicans.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
100 Garth Says:
The very fact that they are ’simulating’ the transfer of a ‘blanket’ is very significant. And they certainly wouldnt be enacting that to simulate the McCanns passing a child through the window now would they?
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Please help me here.. How do you know “who” they are emulating?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
October 30th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
98 jcb Says:
JCB = Just Complete B…… No, Can’t think of it.. Someone help me out here please?
Quote – “they made the biggest mistake any parent could make” – Several nights in a row
Quote – “they cannot stand up for themselves because of the stupid secrecy laws in Portugal” – Oh that it were true! Anyway, they have all those family and friends, and sources close to whomever and not forgetting Comical whathisname all of whom do a fantastic job of standing up for them. Sadly, the McCann’s might be better served if all these people ‘standing up for them’, just sat down and kept quiet for a while.
Quote – “I want to know why is the Mark Warner Club not being chastised for not allowing children into the restaurant with the parents, especially as it is advertised as a family friendly resort” – Do you have any proof of that statement?
Quote – “I have stated previously that their idea of child minding is where someone walks around the apartments, listens at the door, if there is any noise they report back to the reception and the parents are informed.” – Just because a company offers a ‘service’ it doesn’t mean you as a parent are not responsible for deciding whether it’s suitable for you and your family. Frankly I’m flabbergasted that anyone should think it acceptable to leave three children under age of 4 alone in an apartment, irrespective of WHO claims to be listening out for them occasionally.
Quote – “Madeleine was targeted from day one” – If you have supporting evidence of that statement I should hotfoot it to your nearest police station, they would love to know about your important evidence.
And I/we contributed to the fund too. Legally, they can currently do pretty much as they like and I/we/others just have to accept that. It doesn’t mean I, and others, can’t express reservations about the use to which they are putting the fund.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
174 - Rationalist
I don’t know anything about Berber children’s eyes, but I know about biometrical tests. It calculates all the distances and volumes very precisely. In this case, the volumes of the unknown child were closer to that of Madeleine than to that of Bouchra.
If the American little girl could be there, not checking if Madeleine is around would be criminal and unforgivable, because there where at least two doubles of her in the area. So I cannot see what wrong is done.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
You might fly in Virgin Toni but you’ll be going home Sexy Air
October 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Does anyone know if the fund being openly used for their mortgage is also being tapped for home improvements like the newly installed panic buttons?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Has anybody who thought in Sept that they did it , changed their minds?
and visa versa?
How many have stuck with original gut instinct ?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
book my flight, virgin airways of course
October 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
229
You just don’t know how good I am Toni - if you get my drift. Wanna find out???
October 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
231
Ruth
I know Felicia ,she is very honnest
October 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
all this kidnapped by arabs/morrocans whatever brings to mind old stories about being kidnapped by gypsies, what next, blood libel and the jews to blame?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
spot on teddy boy.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
30 JUN 07
Russell,
Told direct to the journalist
October 30th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Another question for you.
How soon after the ‘abduction’ was the fund set up? Seems to me it was pretty quick.
Even allowing for the financial and organisational acumen of the ‘friends and family’, you have to feel as though plans for something like this must have been ready and waiting to kick it off so expertly.
Now what would you call that - prudence or premeditation?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
translation. . Russell, when the questions enclose it, loses the sympathy: ” I have not any more anything to say to you. I am not going to disgrace the promise that I assumed with Kate and Gerry. They want to have the executive control on the whole information that is spread “.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
It’s incredible that UK press wants us to believe a kidnapped American girl was found by Metodo 3 yet none of the US press seems to know about this? Actually, only Daily Mail is running this story? This is bs. If it were true it would be reported by more than one agency by now.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Damn good point teddy boy, you always say the right thing at the right time
and you are sooooo good
October 30th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I know Felicia Cabrita ,she’s a very honnest journalist
October 30th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
There are people on here who must have searched the sum of human knowledge regarding this case - so I ask you this.
How many cases are there known of in Europe over the last, say, 5 years where blond children have been stolen to order? I for one cannot recollect any - and I’m sure given our medias love of a “human interest” story, we would have heard.
So this makes me think that, if abduction of blond children was your speciality, you would have to charge a pretty penny to make ends meet, given how infrequently you went to work - certainly more than a subsistence wage Berber could afford.
This area has been picked by the McCann machine because it remains, in our eyes, a place of mystery where things go on that we do not understand - so easy then for a child to be hidden among the mountains.
What next when Morocco proves, as we and the McCanns know it will, to be a dead end - the Australian Outback? Antarctica? or maybe the Amazon Rain Forest.
This is just another smoke screen.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
225 What????!!!!!!