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 5:18 pm
630 MikeSA
All agreed and sadly, the biggest fear of a lot of us is seeing these people walking away scot-free. I’m not against an innocent person walking away free - I’m against the manner in which these people allowed their daughter to go missing. Then I’m sickened by their fake demeanour and attitude. I just don’t like them at all.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I’ve been asking about the precise details of the ‘official’ McCann-Tanner story of ‘the abduction’, to see if they can in fact be made to ‘add up’ to something logically coherent.
I imagine this is also what the police have been testing - it’s really quite astonishing, and to me the most astonishing thing about this whole weird affair, that the British media can be so incredibly biased in their reporting. A lot of it is a mix of insular xenophobia and other primal fears, but I still don’t fully understand it.
Anyway, here’s Bob’s link, responding to my question about WHERE precisely Gerry & Wilkins were chatting for 15 minutes:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/1609_maddie.shtml
…Trouble is, it suggests everyone was walking through reception and along the road to get from the Tapas Bar to flats 5a, b and Wilkins’s flat. Also suggests Tanner was RETURNING from the bar to her apartmnent (along the road) at 9:15.
So I guess it’s just about as reliable as the THREE wildly incorrect plans of the apartment I’ve seen so far, and just about any media version of anything in this case - except the plain and incontrovertible evidence of the McCann’s on-the-record statements and TV appearances. … Not to mention the ‘friends’ on-the-record statements, like O’Brien’s confirmation of the (media: ‘non-existent’) pact of silence.
As I and many others have noted here and elsewhere, this case has forced a major rethink of what the media do in the UK.
They basically MAKE MOST OF IT UP, in accordance with a mainly right-wing and xenophobic agenda set by their rightwing (often foreign) bosses.
YES: what we used to think of as merely selective and distorted reporting isn’t really ‘reporting’ at all. It’s a more or less complete fabrication.
This for me, is the great LESSON of this case.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
You wouldnt leave your handbag and wallet passport etc in an unlocked room, so why 3 small children? If the apartment had gone up in flames while they were neglected would they have got any sympathy?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Tasteless in what way?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
great acting by the mc canns. havent seen that kind of acting in years. keep up the acting kate suits u.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
the sniffer dogs
find traces on the apartment , on the road to the church ,on Kates ,shall i go on ???
October 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Have been away for a few days and have now skimmed some posts….. WOW.
is there a full moon? there really are some lunatics on here right now. Scary to think some of these people are out there in the community getting over-excited as they fantasise about child abuse.
Instead of satirical Anorak is now seeming rather tasteless.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Is the Thesaurus going to be out in time for Christmas?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Ask anybody , emotionally involved (the disapearsen of child , makes all emotive ) if they will say that that child had problems, especelly in a foreign country ??
October 30th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
627 matt
Yes I know. Keep an eye out for Viz because I wouldn’t put it past them running a cartoon based on the McCanns. The funniest one I remember like this was when they did Harold Shipman and Fred West living as neighbours in the same street. Both were vying to kill an old lady neighbour and by the end of the cartoon it turned out the old lady was the Boston Strangler in drag. So funny.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
574 - SteveO
What I find risible is that any “positive” evidience, no matter how vague or tenuous the source might be, is considered nailed on “fact”, whereas anything “fishy”, is disregarded as unreliable, rumour, supposition etc.
Remember the sniffer dogs?
Apparently they get excited about babies nappies and rotting meat, so any reaction they might have had is completely irrelevant, never mind the fact that these dogs don’t just bark at something, they are trained to react in a very precise manner that is not easily construed as a normal reaction to anything. (I was given a personal demonstration of this by 2 forensic scientists at the CSIR in my country btw, so I do know a little bit about it).
So that “fishy” evidence is completely discredited, but a faceless (but highly detailed blanket..uh, no…no child in the exact set of pajamas) man, whose presence is apparently ruled as extremely unlikely by 3 witnesses, including the lemonmeister himself, is apparently highly creditable, as is the unknown “source” claiming that the DNA evidence is “contaminated”.
Yesterday I postulated that there were three goals to this misinformation campaign.
1.Distract the investigation away from themselves.
2.Create a politically charged environment that would make it difficult for them to be extradited.
3.Create a climate in which they could claim that they would not get a fair trial.
This looks to be part of 3.
They are flinging as much shit as they can to undermine any evidence they think the PJ might have.
We’ve seen thisbefore with the OJ Simpson trial.
In my country, in civil cases, the burden of proof is “balance of probability”.
In criminal cases, the burden of proof is “beyond reasonable doubt”.
Imo the McC’s are trying to make this impossible to get to “beyond reasonable doubt”.
Unhappily, I think they’re close to succeeding.
Perhaps the only route to justice would be something along the lines of the OJ Simpson saga.
I.e. if the public who did make donations could get them in the dock challenging them on their premise that “abduction” was a likely, or even realistic, explanation.
If anyone managed to get it into court, the burden of proof would then be lower, namely, “balance of probability”, which would then allow a rather public spotlight to fall on some of these rather bizarre claims of theirs.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
they have groomed the people in to believing what they want.they should go in to acting with kate doing her fake crying.keep up the act kate it could get u away with what u done.guess money talks,one law for the rich and one for the poor.anyone else would of lost their kids to social services.guess some people are above the law.heard a saying years ago the truth will set u free (yeah right) in this case the lies will.they will walk free cause the are above the law.
simon liverpool
October 30th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
620 Diane
Some of this “third way” sounds thought out but the premise of it sounds like waffle to me. It’s like a theory that doesn’t have a conclusion so it’s just called “the third way” because it’s stuck and can’t resolve itself.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
605…Stevo
I can’t wait for the new edition
of Roget’s Thesarus to hit the bookstands.
Should be full of those McCannisms and
Mitchellisms.
Should add at least 20 pages to it.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
These theories are getting more complicated and less likely as time passes………..but they certainly keep the bored minds busy in fantasy land.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
were there two people who saw a man carrying a child that night as these two discriptions dont tally
The man is said to be white, 5ft 10in, medium build with short hair, and wearing a dark jacket, beige trousers and dark shoes.
Ms Tanner described the man she saw as aged about 35 to 40, 5ft 6in (1.7m) tall, and of slim build. The artist’s sketches show a man with dark, greasy collar-length hair and wearing a purple or maroon top with beige trousers, (oh and just to note he has light shoes on the picture aswell )
October 30th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
611 Chloe Spain
If the abuse claims are to be believed, then perhaps there’s some incriminating clues of that on the photos and this explains why the pictures haven’t been released. An absence of photos is only circumstantial evidence anyway.
But then there’s those eye witness reports from so many people saying that Madeleine was a sweet little girl etc. Reports like that tell you the people who saw her didn’t really find anything unusual about her.
I will say this though. I know a lady over here that adopted two sisters aged 7 and 8. The girls had been sexually abused and were routinely woken in the early hours of the morning to perform sexual acts. This went on for years before the girls were put in care. I met these youngsters and can say there was no way of knowing from appearances that these girls had been treated any differently in their upbringing. The details of what happened to them is way too sickening to repeat here.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
606 mrdbond Says:
” Ferdinand Says:
You’re saying that a child-trafficking-paedophilia-network-gang-transaction would be “legally binding”? In WHAT country would this ‘legal’ contract be valid. Sir? Pray tell.”
For example in Molvanîa (IIRC).
October 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
617
patch
Yes.
And the “NEUTRAL ” ground is Spain
October 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
If a conman takes money from a pensioner on the premise that their roof needs repairing, when it does not, then his actions are fraudulent. He runs a business, not a charity, however, misleading anyone into parting with their money, using false statements, is a fraud. A business which collects money from people on the premise of the abduction when no abduction is proven to have taken place in, in my opinion, no different.
If a business decides to collect my clothes in order to supply to the poor African coutry Mumba-Umba, then if such country does not exist, it is a fraud.
You are entitled to have you money back unless Mccanns show you the undisputable evidence of abduction. The other question is whether you want to bother.Let them spend as much as possible, then, even if they do not go to prison, they will not escape the public opinion. No Mitchells will help, if the Fund goes spent all on living expenses etc.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
It looks like the real Stig still believes that the McCanns are innocent of any wrong doing.
Stig or other McCann supporters could you let me know if:
a) you think it’s diligent to leave your kids in an unlocked holiday apartment
b) you think a cooperative relationship with police is built by refusing to answer questions and leaving the country
c) you think DNA evidence could possibly be dismissed on the grounds of rotten meat and nappies
d) you think that using the fund to pay for the mortgage in the weeks after Madeleine disappeared (and before even considering using the fund to hire detectives)
e) you think that the Tapas group and the McCanns being in the UK is more helpful for the search for Madeleine than being in Portugal
f) you think that the McCanns were truthfull in alleging that the reason for leaving Portugal (coming back to a normal life) has been confirmed by their publicity-seeking activities ever since they came back to the UK
IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE QUESTIONS ABOVE, PLEASE SEEK MEDICAL COUNSEL- URGENTLY!!!
October 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
616 Stevo
‘you know it makes sense’ is the Third Way’s catchphrase.
‘No, I don’t’ is my answer.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Stevo 616
Bullseye! The Third Way says everything and nothing all in one
October 30th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
613 Can’t say No
Politics will prevent them being charged even if there is enough evidence to charge them with murder?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
608 Third Way
It’s all very generic for me I’m afraid. If you came out with a proper allegation of what you think is holding them together in this pact of silence I could think about it. It’s as though the third way is a report on the evidence rather than a theory of what you think the evidence means.
I know the T9 are clubbing together to hide a secret but the third way isn’t saying what the secret is…is it?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
testing testing
testing
October 30th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
605…Stevo
Ya got it in one.
As did Andrew too.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
609
patch
The Police,will do nothing .They are being stoped by the politics
October 30th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
603 Stig
That’s rather strange, don’t you think?
October 30th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
(599)
Stevo, what are your theories about the absence of photos from PdL? Do you think Madeleine showed some noticeable characteristic (temporary or permanent) in the photos that we don’t know about’?