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 30th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
488 Stevo
I’m so glad we’ve got you on our side. Everybody else says “in my opinion”, “I believe”, “I guess”, whathaveyou. You don’t.
LOL
October 30th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Matt
“I have nothing further to tell you. I am not going to dishonor the compromise I assumed with Kate and Gerry. They want to control all information that is disclosed”.
I remember in the early reports GM became the official spokesman
and he or they stated that.
I have tried finding it
Do remember the exact phrase?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
486…Ferdinand
Perhaps you are right in that…but I feel the it will become a very strong lead in time.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Thea - 470
But why would the portuguese authorities be interested in protecting a wealthy briton?
I think a lot of what you say makes sense, but I’m struggling to understand why would the portuguese be part of it. The police is being called incompetent, an otherwise peaceful welcoming and crime-free country (Lisbon last year named safest EU capital) is being portrayed as the source of all evil by the british press (thankfully the international press is taking a very different stance).
Especially if you think portuguese public opinion is vastly skeptical of the McCanns innocence (and the vast majority thinks that at least they should be prosecuted for negligence). So why would the portuguese authorities protect a wealthy briton?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
The report that ‘ALL scientific evidence is contaminated’ is bull.
This is the PJ putting the McCanns into a false sense of security. They did it in August when they openly said the McCanns were not suspects and days later made them arguidos.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
462 — Sherlock — I agree that GM responds (indirectly) to any possible piece of evidence against him he hears the PJ may have. I think that this is GM’s strategy, though, not his lawyers’. If the McCanns are eventually arrested, all they have to worry about is what the judge(s) think(s), so trying to influence public opinion point by point is useless, and, actually, is bad for the defense. Every public statement GM makes potentially conflicts with something he has said or will say. This is why I’ll bet his lawyers and Clarence Mitchell advise him to keep his mouth shute. But GM is too arrogant to be quiet, so he keeps jabbering and blogging away. Perhaps the PJ is leaking any evidence they MAY have (or eventually get), to bait GM into spinning tales. If that’s what the PJ is doing…it’s working!
October 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
467
Matt Says:
“I still think that the “They’ve taken her” shout is one of the most important clues in this case.”
It really seems that you might be right, although only in a sense that every other evidence is just as fishy or even weaker.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
467 Matt
Yes it is. “they’ve taken her” is a powerful clue. I read Thea’s posts with interest and it does make you wonder about the VIP connections too. Without getting too controversial I’ve always suspected recreational drugs in there somewhere. Anything past that is too incredible and mind boggling.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
IMHO, I don’t even thik it is legally possible; if it;s established he IS guilty, the hospital will be sued for putting patients at risk etc. etc. I don’t think they would risk hospital’s reputation, especially after the Glasgow incidents.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
479 matty
i think it originates from gazetadigital.com. check out
October 30th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=490708&in_page_id=1811
I feel so sick
October 30th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
463
dora Says:
“My comments await moderation because Mods and Admin don’t agree with the fact that I think the McCanns are innocent and that Madeleine was abducted.”
Nonsense. Some of my comments were “awaiting moderation” because I entertained ever so briefly the possibility that Madeleine was routinely raped by friends of the McCanns.
And I thought I was being circumspect by not including Gerry among the possible suspects.
By the way, Dora, do you think the McCanns are INNOCENT of crimianl child neglect? If so, I suggest you read up on the legal definition.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
463. Dora please stop with your narcissistic anti-Anorak moderators rant.
I believe the McCanns are guilty of something more than leaving their children alone and I had a post never make it to the boards. Mods/admin have cocmmented several times that they’ve had problems due to the host being in southern California where they are experiencing huge wildfires.
Please grow up and shut your canoli hole unless you have proof that you are being censored. Everything is not about YOU.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
mich 471- that’s where I saw it, was just wondering if anyone had seen it reported anywhere .
October 30th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
460
This is completely scandalous anyway. In such a profession, in a position of social trust, noone who is formally being a suspect should be allowed to work!
There is something like ‘public trust’ professions (lawyers, doctors etc.) and they requires high moral standards and clear background with no criminal record (even not related directly to the job).
This is a scandal. If the ‘arguido’ status is lifted, then it is all up to the hospital and patients; special case, ok - but with being an arguido, hired in the hospital? I must be dreaming, someone wake me up please.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
403 impressed
“Go Daddy has become the largest ICANN-accredited registrar and the first registrar to surpass Network Solutions in total domain names registered.” - wikipedia
You were implying that Jacqueline De Croys website was in some way related to the Freekatemccann website because they used the same registrar - godaddy.
This is a preposterous and ludicrous
suggestion because A) Godaddy is the largest domain name registrant in the world and B) Jqacqueline De Croys website is not anonomously registered, the registrant details are openly available. Her site is registered to an address in Belgium.
There is nothing of substance to imply that there is any commonality between the owners of these sites.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
404 Stevo Says:
391 Peter O
Edit….
I have just thought why the PJ haven’t charged the McCanns before now. Perhaps it’s because it’s never been done before. Has there been any other cases of foreigners implicated in the killing of their offspring in Portugal before? I doubt it. At least nothing on a scale like this. Edit….
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Don’t know the answers, but if it was anything other than the alleged abduction some claim, then it must surely count as one of the most complex cases anywhere ever on the planet? We may find in years to come that the case becomes something of a ‘cause celebre’ within police and criminologist communities because of the new facets to crime it will doubtless have unearthed.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
468 Hideki
When I said that abusers plan I meant that an abuser will typically have a developed awareness of how to hide the fact that the abuse is taking place. Plan is probably the wrong word and perhaps I should say they have “tactics” to hide the abuse. I just dread to think of what horrors the poor girl went through - however she disappeared.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
anyone seen this yet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=490708&in_page_id=1811
October 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
469…Stevo
I concur.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Dora - there’s nothing wrong with thinking they’re innocent.
But do you write abuse to other posters and do you insist that anyone who thinks they’re guilty is some kind of moron/monster?
What I tend to find is that anti-McCanns are happy to talk our theories out and hardly ever answer a pro-McCanner unless directly addressed. Where as most pro-McCanns spend all their time on here denouncing us as heartless/evil/whatever.
The abduction theory is the most plausible, but it’s also a conversational dead end because none of us are psychic and we don’t know who he is or where he went etc.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
453
matty Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Anyone else read about an Irish teenage girl who saw Gerry and Wilkins talking but didn’t see the man with the child Tanner allegedly saw? She is supposed to have been interviewed by PJ.
I on the on the cyber slueths web page
October 30th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Ian,
I don’t think PJ is being allowed to investigate this case as they normally would have due to prssure from not only UK authorities but high up government officials in Portugal as well. I never believed 98% of the “Portuguese = bad cop and British = good cop” bullshit. But I think there could be some kind push pull between the two nations but the police would not have this information and would be guessing justs like us as to why they are being told to concentrate on this line of investigation and why to wait several months before doing this etc….I don’t know exactly what the McCanns did but I do believe they are involved more deeply than their careless choice to leave the children without a minder. I believe UK authorities gave them a series of options on May 3rd and they chose the most lucrative story line.
Focusing on the McCanns is EXACTLY what they want so that we don’t see the truth of the story which involves at least one vip Briton. If this mystery person is responsible for M’s disappearance I am not yet sure. But there is no other reason for the immense amount of financial support from wealthy Britons and all the protection of the Mc’s offered by UK government and any logical reason for why the British press has for the most tpart handled the McCanns and Tapas 7 with kid gloves. These are not important people but for some reason they are being treated as such.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
462 Sherlock
Don’t forget the 7 kids in one room allegation as well.
I wonder if the PJ release erroneous information for the McCanns to refute when all the time their evidence is completely different. In other words, it’s engineered to throw them off the real scent.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
425
Stevo Says:
“I would think therefore that if [sex] abuse was a factor in this case then the perpetrators would already have a plan concocted because they would have such plans all the time and planning would be their normal modus operandi.”
Yes, but did they plan for the sudden death of one of their sex-object children? Or, to put it another way… maybe there were those who had planned for this, and those who had not. Under this scenario, it would look like the McCanns had not… for them it was an unforeseen “disaster”.
I’ve read and agree with your earlier post that this sort of scenario is the most controversial. But lately I am regarding it as also the most probable.
Note to Dave S: do you think that a discussion of sexual abuse would not have any reference to “anal penetration/ejaculation”? If so, I guess I need not bother with any more of your posts. In the case of sexual abuse, the death of a victim would mean that DNA evidence (such as semen) may well be detectable in and on the corpse. That would be a strong motive in disposing of the body.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I still think that the “They’ve taken her” shout is one of the most important clues in this case.
I hope the PJ spend a lot of time on that one.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
451 thea
I know what you mean about Sam Vaknin although his work is probably the best in terms of having more of it. I think it’s a no-win situation for an NPD sufferer to write about it because they automatically think of themselves as experts so they’re on a loser from the start.
I used to have a link to a site with people who gave their experiences of living with an N. It was better than all the diagnosis sites because it gave you real world experiences that you could relate to. I’ll see if I can find it.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
They might get him to deal with the rubbish…..he seems to be quite qualified in that department now considering his Portuguese experience in shifting it.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
395 Thea Says:
Peter O, I agree but they all do seem rather arrogant don’tthey?
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Don’t know that I’ve heard the rest of the Tapas party speaking/being quoted sufficiently to form an opinion on that, yet. There is I have to admit a certain feeling that you/we are in effect being told, “I don’t have to explain myself to *you*”. With the *you* sounding a little like your describing some dog pooh that you might have stepped in! Certainly they do little to endear themselves to anybody.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
My comments await moderation because Mods and Admin don’t agree with the fact that I think the McCanns are innocent and that Madeleine was abducted. Also I have been abused numberous times on this site and have never seen these people’s comments awaiting moderation only those who think the McCanns are innocent. I have no problem if you wish to ban me - none at all.