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 7:28 pm
814
fencesitter ~
WHAT???
October 30th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
810
oh i can’t be ares’d trying to find this little girl. Let’s fit up the parents and go and “munch some sardines”
October 30th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
The Real Stig
Are you still here?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
750 Louise Says:
Edit…
They do get me down. They are worse than the paedophile who took her> It’s like a sick cult in here. A real sink of iniquity.
None of them care about Madeleine.
+++++++++++++++++++++
That’s a bit of a gross generalisation?
If ‘we’ bother you that much, why do you trouble yourself so by forcing yourself to read our ramblings?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Find Madeleine trademarked May 18th, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2253559.ece
McCann trademark
The campaign to find Madeleine McCann has applied for British and European trademarks to protect its fundraising, internet and print promotions. The applications, which were filed on May 18, seek to protect the name “Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned”. The European application also seeks protection for the provision of social services and advice for people affected by missing children.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
809
fencesitter
maybe they have something huge to hide. That’s why Kate told ,that the police wanted to “frame” her
October 30th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
801
fencesitter
Sorry , they choose to be arguidos, because , that gives them the right to remain silent.They choose , not answer the police the questions they had , instead of cooporate to help the daughter
October 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
809
How can telling the truth incriminate yourself
October 30th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
801
fencesitter
Because the refused to answer questions !
October 30th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
803 just_me
801 fencesitter
Any person, parent or not, can waive their right to remain silent. People often do this when they are clearly innocent, and want to help the police catch the real criminal.
Here, “protect” can only mean, to protect one’s self from disgorging information about one’s crime. You can invoke your right to remain silent, but it is then fair to assume that you are hiding something criminal, because the right doesn’t exist outside of that. It’s a right against self-incrimination….
October 30th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
801
fencesitter
Yes
October 30th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Maybe its a bigger scam than we imagine, maybe they know Maddies is alive in Spain because they arranged it all?
Imagine if they got her back and were proved to have been right all along?
Would have worked a treat would it not?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
801
again why on earth would they want to remain silent
October 30th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
sorry typo - remain
October 30th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Why are journalists so weak at doing their job, as investigative journalists, I mean. In all forums, people from all over the world ask a million guestions and all together come up with a lot of thinking material for reporters to use. Why the lack of information in the articles in the papers ? I´ve thought inmediately that something strange was happening, from their first interview when Kate said: she lovely etc…. If I were a reporter, I would have made it my lifetime masterpiece of reporting, and would stick with it till the end.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
801 - aguido status gave G & K the right to remail silent in questioning
October 30th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
798
How about identical twins?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Can someone correct me if i am wrong.
“Arguido status is given to protect the suspect”
Why on earth would any parent want to be an official suspect in their childs disappearance
October 30th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
793. No need to fall either side. Stay on the fence!
The problem is there isnt one simple thing for them to be guilty of. If we were discussing carelessness with ones children which (in my view) goes beyond the boundary of criminality, then one would have to admit they are guilty.
But if we are talking about causing direct harm to their child, unproven.
Abduction? I dont think so, but I (we) dont have any evidence either way.
Being irritating and self righteous? Guilty.
Using the same words too often? Guilty.
Telling lies of one kind or another? Well, I for one think guilty!
etc (got bored).
October 30th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
546 Solaris
Thanks so much for the link to this vile article in the Mirror. I have also complained to the PCC about it.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
795 Mike Hondemburst
“Can anyone see how its possible for them to have killed her yet she may still be found alive”?
Perhaps they are a lot more religious than most of us give credit for.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
767 Stig
‘They were happy to accept their changed status meant they were no longer entitled to that assistance’
Really strange
October 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
673 – Rationalist
We don’t believe that the people taking care of kidnapped child in these mountains know anything about the crime they are hiding. We have seen several criminal networks use the innocence of people who knows nothing of this reality, who cannot imagine ½ a percent of it, so to have the blame on them if anything turns wrong. It just requires an old aunt or whatever, who will be happy to make a little money, thinking doing good for the child, for her health in the mountains or whatever. It also requires a few clever lies so that when the child learns the language, what he or she will not be understood the right way. I myself got trapped by the lies of a network and spent five months wondering what was wrong with what these people told me. When enough time is passed, it is not so dangerous to travel with the child, they come and get him or her, and then the bad time starts.
I would not believe a minute the money is made by these people who are obviously not very wealthy. You can be sure they know nothing of the reward. What went wrong in the McCann case, is that the story covered the entire world, as normally, I just keep local.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Can anyone see how its possible for them to have killed her yet she may still be found alive?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
792. Perhaps a bit more specific than my post, but I have to agree.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I have been teetering on the edge for several weeks now, how close soon before some concrete evidence gives me a strong push on either side
October 30th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
783 fencesitter
They aren’t in Portugal because they know she’s dead, and the PJ will watch them, and the priest won’t talk to them anymore and people will throw trash at them in the streets there and scream out, “Murderers! Go home!”
so, they left.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
788 Of course.
The problem is there isnt any evidence of abduction except the words of people who arent perceived as as being honest. Consequently even the weakest evidence (of which there is lots)is perhaps given more credibility than it might otherwise recieve.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
762 jcb
JCB, we all have the right to express our views on this site and it would not be the same if we all agreed completely with each other.
However, it will be interesting to see what the “best investigators in the world” will turn up. Also, put yourself in their position. Would you:-
1). Activly look for your daughter from day 1 to date.
or
2). Spend all your time trying to prove your innocence and constantly replying to rumours in newspapers.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
756 brandon flowers
What video? The lip-biting one?
sorry, I’ve been away.