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 9:16 pm
Maybe the “abductor” wasn’t in the room, but rather just outside the window, which GM then opened and handed a bundle too…………………………………………………
October 30th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
fencesitter, I have read that Interpol is involved in this case in several different news reports. If you visit the Interpol websitte ttthey have Madeleine’s info posted.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
On a generally gloomy day for McCann-sceptics, I offer this contribution from another Madeleine McCann Forum today. If it’s already been posted on Anorak, I apologise, I’m out most of the day at the moment:
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“Hi – I am working for a golf holiday organisation located in the Algarve (all I can say I am sorry).
“Some information I know from a good friend involved with the investigation from day 1 and still in it…You are welcome of course to destroy the credibility based on that last sentence but I do not really care as it will all come out soon…Estimated to be anytime now and by the end of the year.
“Regarding the parents the police in Portugal do have one piece of very incriminating evidence from the night of 3rd May that has something to do with a telephone call that was made on the night by one of the parents or one of the tapas group.
“This information is considered by the investigating team to absolutely show that there was no abduction and that the parents were involved in some way in the disappearance of Maddie. The detail of this information is known only to a select few senior officers in Portugal and UK. It was also referenced in the questions to Kate that she did not answer.
“I do not know what the details of this evidence are and my good friend totally refuses to give any more information despite all sorts of bribes, apparently it is THE ONE thing that the parents cannot get away with so you have to make your own conclusions on that. Why haven’ t they just charged them?
“That’s what I asked – apparently the PJ feel they have been strung along completely by the McCanns from day 1 and they are absolutely committed to preparing a watertight case that will put at least one of them away for a long time and put the other away for some time too but less.
“They want to do this because they feel that what the McCanns have done is not only detrimental to the police but on a wider scale is very detrimental to the country as a whole and the only way that the PJ can help the country to recover from that is conduct a thorough court case that leaves no one in doubt of the McCanns guilt and therefore give Portugal it’s credibility back as a tourist destination.
“They therefore do not feel rushed to charge and get it resolved – however my friend often says that they know that the most popular period for Europeans booking their summer holidays is January – I assume from that he means that they will be charged before then. In the meantime they know where they are”.
One day, sooner or later, we will know more of the truth about Madeleine’s ‘disappearance’
October 30th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
jcb Says:
…………”With all due respect, I know a darn sight more than a lot of you do apparently!!!”…….
Nah Nah… Na… Nah Nah.!
October 30th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
The full objects of the Find Madeleine fund are:
1.1.1 To secure the safe return to her family of Madeleine McCann who was abducted in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on Thursday May 3, 2007;
1.1.2 To procure that Madeleine’s abduction is thoroughly investigated and that her abductors, as well as those who played or play any part in assisting them, are identified and brought to justice;
1.1.3 To provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine’s family.
1.2 If the above objects are fulfilled then the objects of the foundation shall be to pursue such purposes in similar cases arising in the United Kingdom, Portugal or elsewhere.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
If the abductor is so fiendishly well prepared why does he end up in the room when GM returns for his half hourly check? The abductor has had 30 minutes to do the deed in a screened, poorly lit area and in a dark apartment yet hangs around and has to hide before making the difficult climb with a young girl through a window. Sounds like a Carry On (old British comedy films for European readers) scenario to me.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Garth
You obviously think the McCanns innocent of any involvement.
I would just like you to play devil’s advocate for a moment because there must be at least SOMETHING in all this time that has made you question your view.
I personally believe they’re guilty of something very sinister but I also accept that it is still possible (however remotely) that a real abduction took place.
You must have one thing at least in your mind as a theory of how they could be guilty even if you feel they’re innocent.
What is it?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
920. comely figure with bodacious breasts?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
What we are asked to accept is that within this group of well educated people they ALL thought it okay to leave ALL their children, regardless of age, night waking history, upset tummies, etc in unlocked and strange rooms abroad while they went out wining and dining.
Not one person thought :”Well actually, I’m not happy at all with this, I’m staying with the kids.”
Unless they didn’t feel able to express this view because of the group dynamics.
Is there a bullying alpha person in the group who is so dominant and persuasive that the others all put their concerns in the back of their minds so as not to cause a fuss? Is there a bullish person who says “Look, it will be fine. Don’t be stupid, just do it.”
A dominant narcissistic person is not only very persuasive but it can be so ****ing draining to constantly stand up to their forceful, perceived and skewed view that they are 100% right on EVERYTHING that people around them sometimes go with the flow, or do things out of character to avoid a scene or simply the menacing tension this people can exude if they don’t get their way.
You end up doing what the narcissist says is a “compromise” but actually you don’t really want to do it all. Of course such a compromise could be “Look, if it makes everyone happy, we’ll check on them ever so often, take it in turns. Anyone going to complain about that, or can we move on?”
Of course behind closed doors, the odd person may express anxiety about the situation. They may complain that a partner has not stood up to the alpha control person. But, guess what, so as not to make a fuss they uneasily go along with it. After all, no-one else is complaining, are they? Do you want to be the one who ruins it for everyone else? And anyway.. the holiday will be over soon…..
Just a thought.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
792. Mike Hondemburst,
Yes I can see a foreshadowing of how that would be possible. This is why earlier I mentioned Easter time will be like a blockbuster Hollywood movie.
Synopsis: Kate and Gerry start rolling and turning over stones and searching caves. They eventually find Madeleine. She is resurrected.
Kate and Gerry are hired by Murdoch’s religious channel and they become famous evangelists and child protection agents.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
919 Garth
The ‘abductor’ was perhaps rather good looking? Who knows what Gerry thinks?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
917 - J0hn
Where did I loose you?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
919
To ask if they knew the answer to quiz question 7
October 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Bob 735- unfeasible isn’t a word
Adj. 1. unfeasible - not capable of being carried out or put into practice; “refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility”; “a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances”
October 30th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
m.e.
Come on then,tell me. Why would Gerry talk to the abductor in the apartment bedroom?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
What’s YOUR favourite McCannism??
http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2007/10/mccanns-what-is-your-favourite-or-most.html
October 30th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Garth
Your story was OK but got a bit muddled in the denouement. Roads, directions etc.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Is this an active Interpol case?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
913 John
Declined
October 30th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I agree fencesitter this is what makes their refusals to be cooperative suspicious. A young child’s life is in danger and they’ve made the situation political?
October 30th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
903 Garth
Please accept the Silver Dagger Award for 2007.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
908 - m.e.
Erm……….no I hadnt thought of than one. Cant really think why I would!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
858,
Kris, you can google for the unkinid remarks the McCanns have made through their PR and close family and friends. I don’t know if the word “moron” was expressly used but the overall tone of much of the McCann spin as to their opinion of PJ is that they (PJ) are lazy morons and UK police are brilliant and hard working. If you cannot properely interpret these sentiments then you are either a liar are not very intelligent with all due respect.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
901
Incriminate me all they want it if it can help locate my missing daughter
October 30th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
906 Thea
Obviously too easy. hope you’re thinking of one…if you can be bothered…lol
October 30th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
903 Garth
Yeah..have you thought of the possibility that Gerry did know the abductor was there because he spoke to him?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
884 Stevo
No such thing as prefect crime.It is possible all Tappas 9 had their stories set in stone in egininnig, BUT along came set after set after of other facts and leaks to cause them to keep on adjusting such things such as time lines, to outsmart the latest round they got hit with..and ended up with so many versions they have now got egg on faces.
I will concede that on holiday one does not tend to track time second by second in case one needs exact times later ..after all one goes on holiday to forget the daily grind and time bound routines…however on such a momentous occasion one would assume that they realized time was of the essence and became a focal point and therefore they had to sit and remember step by step and time by second who was where dong what etc.Not alter the times every day as news, PJ news,.leaks, or witnesses contradict them.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
904. Ludicrous!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
834. jcb, As I am a pro-McCann I feel that I should also have my ‘pennies worth’ and support them as much as I can.
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It very well could be you really are delusional and insane. jcb if you think the McCanns are desirous of your pennies think again.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I have a little game for us all to play because I’m bored……
One person states an anagram and gives a clue. First to post continues the game….if you can be bothered…….or maybe I’ll borrow Ade’s coat and survey the lower field…..
CISDOLRUU
According to the McCanns it explains every theory.