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 5:40 pm
Correction to 661- just got a text….
Wot’s fer tea pet? x
Text back….
Pork of course with all the trimmings when I get the broom from out my backside.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Worth a look. Don’t know why they didn’t mention the sniffer dogs. Otherwise, a good summation, IMO.
http://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/
October 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
65 Thea
All true! The PJ should look at those billionaire patrons.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
can someone remind me about the crematorium. i read that it had not been used for ages due to locals complaining, but then the owner used it recently to cremate a ‘dog in a black sack’, is there any links to this? its one of those things that comrs to mind when i hear it repeated that the mccanns said “show us a body and prove she is dead”, as if they know very well there is no chance of that ever happening.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
661…matty
An overload of information that matty
Thus you could never be a member of Team McCann.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
51 Steve
67 The Real Stig
It’s not Kate–that’s just the Botox talking.
Isn’t it interesting how the only time Kate became reportedly genuinely phsyically upset is when the PJ named her “arguido?”
October 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Be careful, they are coming to get you!
October 30th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
There moovements with the Spanish King. The Top P,J, spoke only to Spanish Tv as the Mccans….
October 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
78 Sherlock
It can only be exclusion.
and also, possibly to get those “close” McCann “friends” to babble out some interesting, self-serving nonsense that might hold a clue as to how Madeleine’s parents and/or Tapas 9 may have killed her, and then “disappeared” her body.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Matt 655- cheers anyhow.
Has anyone seen the Viz character Tony Parsehole?
Used to read Viz in days gone by, still use quotes from Viz to this day me having a hubby with unfeasably large testicles!!!!!!
October 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I asked what they ate for dinner a long time ago and never got an answer.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
622 Can’t say No
If we are to believe that politics will save them from being charged, then all of this is to no avail.
We will never know the truth. They could get away with murder. They will become rich celebrities and we will all be left sickened. Neutral ground Spain?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Stevo Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
538 Anonymousthe1st
It also makes you wonder why O’Brien’s child was vomiting…
None of this theory bears thinking about.
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Or maybe it wasn’t the O’Brien child that was vomiting?
Maybe a tactic along the lines of “the abductor must have drugged her”, in case details emerged or some traces are found?
I’d still like to know more about those sheets that were claimed to have been ordered.
As far as the “paedophile conspiracy” amongst the tappanista is concerned, I think that’s highly unlikely.
These children were put into a creche, day after day.
It would have been way too risky in that child-minders can often really bond with kids (some of them do love kids, and that’s why they do what they do), and the risk of something coming out would have meant that they would have kept the children isolated, rather than let them into an uncontrolled environment.
Personally, I think abduction would be a more likely (even though not very), explanation than some tappanista paedophilic ring.
However, I think that the few facts we can glean from this imo point to an accident of some variety (possibly recreational drugs, maybe sedation), and that only 3 or at most 4 of the tappanista are actually involved.
I think the coverup has just gained momentum that can’t be stopped or controlled anymore.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Someone here remember , The Kennedys story ? That nephew that killed a girl ??? And was never arrested ???
October 30th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
100 lashes a day for life
October 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
651…matty
Ah….I see…..must have misread….sorry about that.
Will check again later tonight. Have to go out in a few minutes.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
488 Stevo Says:
The report that ‘ALL scientific evidence is contaminated’ is bull.
This is the PJ putting the McCanns into a false sense of security. Edit…….
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Or someone from the other side leaking against the PJ to keep up the ‘incompetence’ angle. Or some sad journalist with column inches to fill making it up. Or….. Well, I guess you’ll get my drift.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
think scot-free means they (scottish) dont like paying for anything
October 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Your mother tongue?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Matt 641- it hasn’t got the quote from Russell O’Brien about disonour etc.
This is the only mention I can find of it in
SOL JUNE 30, 2007
an article by Felicia Cabrita and Margarida Davim
Didn’t David Payne also say something along those lines on camera, ie everything we say will go through the Mcs(something like that) ?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Why has it taken them so long to hire private detectives?It would have been the first thing i did as a distraught mother. Thought that would be what they used the fund for
October 30th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
631…Stevo
That sounds so funny…..my son when in his earlier
teens used to read Viz.
And I usually had a read of it myself…when I could
tear it out of his grasp.
I might even subscribe….Private Eye seems to have
gone rather lame lately. (Especially about McCann’s .
..et al…no mention at all to my knowledge)
October 30th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
640
Stevo Says:
“All agreed and sadly, the biggest fear of a lot of us is seeing these people walking away scot-free”
What does that mean: “Scot-free” ?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
bring back stoning, hanging is too good for them
October 30th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
stevo
they make me sick to the core, vile people. I havent seen any signs of remorse only tears of self pity
October 30th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
477 - The Real Stig
Thank you. “Droit Fondamental” (fundamental right) was bought though the American provider offered one for free, but not the “.eu”, because we needed a neutral eurpean name to provide subdomain names for small organisations unable to afford a website, to raise millions to search for missing child or to show cases related to the breach of fundamental rights.
My mother tongue is French and what I would call a “domain name provider” seems to be a “domain proxy” in proper English. The simple idea we would offer a domain name to the McCanns is indeed highly “ludicrous”, as they certainly don’t need our financial support.
What is really amusing is to note that there wasn’t a single comment on our biometric analysis when it came out. Now, not only it shows Madeleine might be alive and a new element shows the lead was not so ludicrous after all. As soon as the McCanns were doing the right thing at last, instead of what we considered useless stuff: their are all sorts of rude comments about our biometric analysis… and even the domain proxy we found!
The really amusing part of the story is that I had asked our experts to do this analysis, because I wanted pictures to illustrate an article on all the false sightings, like the one in Belgium, which was over ludicrous for words.
Our experts, who insist to work in the shade, for the sole benefit of children in danger, agreed.
The analysis took longer than normal. They thought they where going nuts, because the three children were recognized by the programme. They got very cross and made analysis, over analysis, but it always came back to the same result. We then had to find an explanation, because it was absurd to imagine both the Moroccan police and the Bennaissa family played such a game.
Mind you, if we had to care about the ludicrous or rude comments we hear, we would have stopped working for a long time !
October 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
<—feels pretty darn proud someone is using my link
October 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Are the McCanns having the mortgage paid or have they had the capital paid off?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
638 wtf
You should have said you wouldn’t leave 3 small kids for one night let alone 4 consecutive nights. Don’t they make you sick?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Brandon Flower
Matty
The link you were seeking is :
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2765908.ece