Madeleine McCann: A Titanic Struggle With The Germans And Slavery In Morocco
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “IS MADELEINE A CHILD SLAVE IN MOROCCO?”
“Madeleine McCann may have been condemned to a life of slavery working as a ‘little maid’ for a rich Arab family…” Or not
Page 5: “’Madeleine will be used as a little maid’” – so suggests Inspector Hicham Alaoui of the Moroccan Police in El Hajeb near Fez
Little maids, notes the paper, are “collected by rich families as ‘curiosities’ as well as servants. A woman from a group called Ecpatuk says such children are “vulnerable to abuse”. The Express sys the girls are abused “physically, emotionally and sexually”. Can Madeleine McCann be among them? Maybe…
“Sacked detective called in to help with the probe” – Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral is talking with new chief Paulo Rebelo
“Fury over magazine ‘sick’ ads” – German magazine titanic has lampooned the case, using Madeleine’s image in spoof supermarket adverts. Gerry and Kate McCann call it “sick” and “very hurtful”. The magazine says Madeleine McCann is “getting a bit much for many people”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “Clear us… you have no case”
Says a friend of Kate and Gerry McCann: “They are adamant they should now be cleared”, as are many suspects in ongoing investigations
Page 7: “McCann ‘clear us’ demand’” – Says Clarence Mitchell: “If the reports are true clearly it would indicate the police absolutely, and quite rightly, have no case against Kate and Gerry”
DAILY MAIL front page: “Oh. Come off it, Heather, how dare you compare your ordeal to Kate McCann’s?” Heather Mills is on the telly
Page 7: “Police pursuit of McCanns ‘is running out of steam’” – The public prosecutor in Portugal says Kate and Gerry McCann will not face further police interviews “unless detectives can produce stronger evidence against them”
Mark Williams-Thomas, a former detective with Surrey Police, says the McCann’s private detectives could be on the wrong trail in Morocco. Or not
THE SUN page 24: “GERMAN MAG’S SICK JOKES ABOUT MADDIE – McCanns’ horror as spoof ad pokes fun at lost girl”
Ad advert in satirical Titantic magazine promises the kitchen cleaner will “remove all traces at the home” even DNA traces. The adverts warn that just because Madeleine’s face is on the product it does not mean they can be taken for free. The Sun is disgusted. It reproduces the images and the words to allow its readers to share in its disgust
A march on the German embassy is not yet in the planning
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE SICK NEW TWIST – Horror at German abuse of missing tot”
The Germans have her. A German paedo!
Page 7: “TOTALLY SICK – A full reproduction of the spoof adverts. “McCann’s agony as rag mocks hunt for Maddie.” Thanks to the Star and Sun, the McCanns now know that an obscure German magazines has made jokes about their case
Says Clarence Mitchell: “It shows Madeleine herself no respect… The magazine did not seek permission to use Madeleine’s image to be used on this so-called joke. It they had it would almost certainly not have been given”
So much for doing anything to keep Madeleine in the news
THE INDEPENDENT page 5: “Mills: I am treated as badly as Kate McCann and Diana.” More on Lady Mucca
THE TELEGRAPH page 9: “Madeleine police ‘consult sacked head of inquiry’” – chief inspector Goncalo Amaral is on the case. Sort of
The paper says detectives are “no closer to solving the case”. And the campaign to find Madeleine goes on…
THE TIMES and THE GUARDIAN: No Madeleine news today
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November 1st, 2007 at 9:46 pm
1074 garty why are you SOOO angry.
whats eatin ya man. you really need to calm down, and take your medication…
November 1st, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Anna 1078- so you are saying my mother and father were wrong to beat me with a stick when I was a child and I complained about going coal picking to keep the home fire buring. Also when I complained that the toilet seat was cold in the outside toilet at the bottom of the yard!!!!!!!
If you read my subsequent posts and not just jump on the one post I made you would see the context in which I made said post.
As I replied to Dora.
I am not a 15 year old schoolgirl wagging off school I do not approve of unauthorised absence from school.
I do not condone smacking a child.
I am not an idiot(as Dora stated) IMHO.
I do not approve of the Mcs stance on childcare amongst other things.
Please read fully my posts and Doras posts and you will fully understand the context in which I sent said post.
Can I just ask what your opinion is on the Mcs stance on childcare?
November 1st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
mods and admin
the oct 31st post that is missing ie not under maddie forum is called
Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, Maddy 129 And 2006 Revisited
it is being excluded from searches at present.
this missing archive for maddie is filed here
Opinions? : 1469 So Far! | In: Magazines | By: | Talk: Forums | By: Anorak
Are you able to move it to forum?
November 1st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
1112 Stevo, you respond to me constantly, darling! Just not directly! It’s like I talk to you, and you talk to the wall.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
1097 The Real Stig
I was taken aback by the words level-headedness and American being used together and making sense to Kris and smiled to myself. I didn’t think lately we’ve had a public reputation of that internationally. So I assume that Kris is American, too.
But I understand your cautioning Kris. She mustn’t get too buddy buddy with the ‘enemy’ now, right?
November 1st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
1094 Kris her child is a few days old - I simply found her comment interesting and extrapolated a theory from it that may apply to some parents of some IVF children. As she’s an intelligent woman I’m sure she’d be interested by the proposition and we’d debate it accordingly, before getting on with cooing over our gorgeous kids. There’s really no need to be so defensive all the time when somebody posits something that might apply to the McCanns.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
1104- Mike, the thought has crossed my mind…
November 1st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Peter O
I love how without even responding to Kris, I get under her skin so much. How cool is that?
November 1st, 2007 at 9:42 pm
1066 jay
Blonde girl on texas beach - I think i have found it:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3807522&page=1
November 1st, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Jolie
Thank for post, I have friend who work for Sydney paper, could be Hitchen tell truth but I not complete sure. I do know for sure that two top Aussie investiage journo and three Uk base associates are doing BIG job on Tapas 7 and other McCann people and expose will be out soon and we all be REAL shocked. This separate from Hitchen but I do not know all details. Must go now.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:42 pm
1098 clarkeson
I don’t think there’s grass on the pitch so it’s an academic question.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Hello. Six months and still no Madeleine. Searching going on in Morocco, potentially providing another cover up story, and it may well happen that this case remains unsolved for years or for ever. That wouldn´t in my opinion clear the parents of suspicion. The only explanation given for their innocence being the case not being strong enough to charge them! Yet a couple of weeks ago the new head investigator stated this was the strongest line.
997, you have valid points there and I hope the police are not letting out now what they really are up to. I hope they have knowledge and equipment to carry out this investigation and they are currently physically searching as waiting for more test results.
I’m astonished too that the huge amount of money the mcCanns collected from people has not been spent on looking for Maddie, and that a long time ago! Now it´s quite late to show engagement, and their approach and behavior until now tell a lot IMO. They only get energetic when they need to protect themselves, not in Maddie hunt.
Obviously it’s very difficult to imagine how I’d react if my daughter was abducted, but I think I’d try to offer just about anything in exchange. The mcCanns have long had access to the most convincing tool, money. How could they btw know the request of money by the paedophile couple last summer was a hoax?! Unless they just knew.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
1082 Stevo Says:
The other thing about blondes that shouldn’t be forgotten is that Liverpool is perhaps the bottle-blonde capital of the world. Edit…..
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And there was me thinking it was Essex that held that accolade?
You mean, she was a REAL blonde? Damn!
November 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
1090 Thea
“A Scorpio?” - nope - think randy….
November 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
1093 bianchigirl
I agree. Two weeks ago I was showing a property and the couple had a daughter aged 4 and who was wearing the exact same clothes as Madeleine in the playground photo. The girl was the spitting image of Madeleine but I don’t live in Morocco so I thought it a waste of time checking her right eye to see if she’d been abducted by wealthy Americans.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Krissiepoossies. Surely I am the same person as Mike Hitchen???????????
November 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Bianchigirl, The proMcCanners here and those writing the sh*t which is passing as journalisms in the UK these days have frequently qualify the alleged love the McCanns have for Madeleine by stating how much IVF costs. Vulgar and tacky come to mind when if thinking as these arseholes do would mean that children who are conceived naturally or adopted are worth less?
November 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
jolie,thanks
November 1st, 2007 at 9:39 pm
1057- Stig- could you count Stevo’s posts and time, too??
November 1st, 2007 at 9:39 pm
1044 - Darjeeling
I give up, as I said I would be doing anything and everything to find my daughter, and so should they be. I’m not going to play your stupid games because I think it is self evident what anything and everything means.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:39 pm
1st ?
November 1st, 2007 at 9:38 pm
stevo ,is kate really blonde does the pelmet match the curtains
November 1st, 2007 at 9:38 pm
1060 Clarkeson
Here is a link to Mike Hitchen’s blog: http://www.ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/
November 1st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
1026 Kriss
“Jolie- you’re american? Really? No wonder you’re so level headed.”
Careful there Kriss!
November 1st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Some McCannisms repeated for latecomers:
It was about as close as being in the McCanns backgarden (a very long way away)
About as safe as the McCanns Baby Monitoring Service (an extreme form of useless)
My eyes are as good as Jane Tanner on a dark night in Portugal (I need glasses)
It was more ludicrous than Gerry said (the most extreme form of ludicrous)
The meat was more rotten than Kate & Gerry’s boot on a hot day (so rotten it was dead)
It was so hot today and I was drier than Kate McCann’s face in summer 2007 (0% humidity)
November 1st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
1086- Bianchigirl, I think that is a great question to ask your friend. Then we’ll see if she’s still your friend tomorrow.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
1081 Stevo she really isn’t that blonde - not in comparison to her sister. She’s definitely mousier. But she has to be ‘blonde’ to fit the ‘little angel’ stereotype.
I took my 16 month old to nursery today and there were at least 4 ‘Madeleine McCanns’ there - pretty little blonde girls. Unfortunately, bless her, she is really not that uncommon looking which obviously accounts for all the sightings.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:36 pm
escalarta,no es la idioma
November 1st, 2007 at 9:36 pm
1081- and your posts are so relevant and meaningful! Let’s vote: Who thinks Kate dyed Madeleine’s hair???
November 1st, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Stig,
To be true you haven’t been around much these last few days. However, when I have read through or personally joined in recent past threads you were available day and night. I have been on more than usual these pastt 3 days because I am sick and worked from home today and yesterday which I normally do not have the pleasure of doing. And when at work I am not one to play online much at all.
Strange that you would take the time to tally and score who has posted how much within what time span. A Scorpio?