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 6:18 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
713 - stevo - lol, or kate in the huge pit of syringes, that would be good for her!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
testing
How come the posts I’m sending to Stevo aren’t posting?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Tip - dead moths make ideal hang gliders for earwigs
October 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Stevo 715 said
Talking of Viz, we should make up some Viz Top Tips relating to this case.
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Oooh yes lets. Lets really get ourselves on a roll about a missing four year old! Lets really make a joke of it. Great fun…
October 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Where was Madeleine born ?
Holland ?
I don’t remember to see where
Can you help me ?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Stevo-
Top Tip on childcare
If you are going to leave your kids unattended to go on the razzle please remove all child abductors from the area!!!!!!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
716 matty
cheers…catch you laters.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I hope I didn’t offend you Diane. Some women can be
awfully touchy.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
705 Josser
Don’t use big words.It confuses them.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
687 Portia
Who’s disappearance? Madeleine’s or the nanny?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
710 - Matty, homeless people can’t afford names - we’re forced to steal them from unwitting passers by, but that’s all academic I guess - like Gerry’s job now.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
711 - rosemary - great link - thanks
October 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
715
Thanks for caring about the quiz questions.
And unfeasible isn’t a word.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Stevo 703- nice one. LOL.Viz could run for years with this one!
Well the piggy is burning and I don’t want to upset Sid the Sexist will do that later when I log back onto Anorak, so TTFN!!! BBL!!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
707 Bob
In the case of Gerry’s ego it is a new word - a McCannism.
Talking of Viz, we should make up some Viz Top Tips relating to this case.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
700
Diane. I didn’t send you any poetry.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
708 just_me
Imagine Gerry locked in a room with that clown coming out to see him? “I’m going to play a game…tell me where Madeleine is in the next minute before this trap snaps your head off!” lol.
I’m slacking…still got to watch Saw III on DVD. I have it here but just not opened it yet. I want to go see Gone Baby Gone this week.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
So you’re saying that Viz said something about unfeasably large things?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
667
just_me
I liked this link to the crematorium story:
http://blogs.reuters.com/from-reuterscom/author/stuartmcdill/
October 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Josser 695- what’s your tag on the street, Big Issue or Gizza job, go on Gizza job?
Please hang onto the doggy the Mcs can downsize a car!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
706 Ferdinand
I meant it as the definition but like you observed, it can also be used quite effectively when talking about Gerry.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
702 - stevo- saw IV - yes went to see it, very very good as were the other three although id say not quite as gory. lots of twists, but very well thought out. definate lead to another film. hanging out for the dvd now lol, its one of those you really need to watch twice. saw a trailer for ‘7 nights of day’ that looks really good too, so looking forward to that. recommend sawIV tho.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Actually, I don’t even think “unfeasible” is a word
October 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
698 Stevo Says:
“Scot-free: http://www.allwords.com/word-scot-free.html”
Thank you. However, I was wondering if it was meant as word-play.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
699 - Homelessness has come a long way over the years. Most of us are fully interactive and multi media now.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
621 Dr. Watson Says:
Edit…. You are entitled to have you money back unless Mccanns show you the undisputable evidence of abduction. Edit…..
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So, you’re assuming they are guilty despite the fact they haven’t as yet been charged with any offence?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
701 matty
How about Gerry McCann and his unfeasibly large ego?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
697 just_me
I wonder why he’d rent a car there and put that Norfolk address down? All I can think is his UK driving license still has that address on it. I was thinking that his mother’s address in PDL was more relevant to hiring a car in that town but then again I suppose you’d put your home address where you live. Which…is odd because I doubt it would be the Norfolk one.
What do you make of his German girlfriend who still lives with her ex husband? That’s a weird relationship isn’t it?
And…completely unrelated, did you see Saw IV?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Bob 696- Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles- Viz character who carried his gonads around in a wheel barrow! I was quoting from Viz!!!
http://home.comcast.net/~nickj-h/buster_gonad_1.jpg