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 8:39 pm
What’s unhealthy is someone who is on Anorak all day and night like Stig. Not people seeking truth and justice. IMho of course.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Bessie,
I personally think they killed Maddie and have destroyed her body forever..AND i think they know that her body will never be found!! Every day that passes by, they must wake up saying “WE haven’t been caught yet” and to this day, YES i agree, there is not one piece of evidence, but there are way too many red flags. Also, i agree that if PJ was a little more competent (For example, close area immediately after “abcuction”) then I’m pretty sure Kate and Gerry would be behind bars, as they should be!! Quite honestly, without a confession, I highly doubt they will ever be charged..So sad!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
956 - Darjeeling - Whatever it takes because that is what I would be doing.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
959 bessie
Yep if it was a car accident that’s true - as long as you didn’t hide the body and say someone abducted your child… That’s called perverting the course of justice - and getting people to pay into a fund that can never achieve its aim is called fraud.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:38 pm
FOURTH atempt to post:
Here’s some REAL journalism (Mad, I know…):
http://www.titanic-magazin.de/home.html
November 1st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Smells like teen spirit.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
959. You would be if you were drunk or on drugs.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Pitty loves the spam words and every time she gets “Moon” she types something, Moon is the name of Fangs brother………and Pitty loves the MOON!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
961. And I was just beginning to believe you were my one and only constant.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
952: If the fund was to support the McCanns in their search for Madeleine, why are they drawing money from it when they aren’t doing any looking?
EXACTLY!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Smells like Cheese
November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
932 Ade
Thanks for the codes. Good work.
Did you respond to my point about the song being removed from the site? I posted the webhost details earlier. I suggested we all email Cameron MacRae at Infohost to ask why the song was taken off the site. Here’s the details again (I emailed earlier but got no reply as yet):
Email: cameron@infohost.co.uk
Direct Telephone: 01854 612821
Mobile: 07725314021
November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
What I meant is that I don’t think they are responsible for possibly killing her. If i was in a traggic car accident and I survived and my imaginary daughter got killed, then i would not be responsible for her death or shouldn’t be charged for her death..
November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
948 stevo
Yep that’s probably right. Million quid at 5% is about a grand per week interest. They may be getting higher interest - plus they have other amounts donated by beardie and co. Nice little earner as delboy would say - cushty…
November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
866 Stevo
“I still don’t know why it struck a nerve.”
Because you were suggesting something personally intrusive and I believe people are entitled to privacy from the base curiosity of strangers.
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people paying their household expenses and mortgage to know what they are worth.”
How much have you contributed to the fund? - not one cent I’ll bet, ergo, by your own reasoning, you and anyone else who has not contributed has no justification to the information.
But that is only if your reasoning had any merit, which it does not. Unless there had been an explicit statement that a contributor would have access to the information before they made their contribution, they should not be entitled to such information.
“Shit…the dole office check out how much savings you have and there’s means testing on loads of other issues. For all the fund contributors know, the McCanns could have 100,000 quid in savings stashed away for a rainy day.”
Yes, and they are governed by data protection legislation to ensure the confidentiality of their clients personal details. That information may be accessed for a lawful purpose but it is not made public.
It doesn’t matter if they do have savings, people who contributed should have considered the possibility before contributing.
You are just a sticky beak who gets his jollies poking his overly long proboscis into the McCanns private life. Remember how you banged on and on about how wicked it was of the McCanns to have private holiday photos they wouldn’t make public, thus depriving you of the indulgence of your unhealthy interest in the private lives of others?
November 1st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
952 Judge Dread- what exactly would you like them to do, that they are not doing? Get on a mule and go trek across the RIF mountains? Knock on Murat’s door and ask to see his basement, perhaps? Scuba dive looking for bones?
November 1st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
just too many coinceidences for me if nobody from above pulling strings,british ambasador leaves,priest leaves,government man becomes pr,and they act as if they dont give a shit,because they have been told they are untouchable
November 1st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
907. Karen, Very smart of you. I am somewhat relieved to know I am not the only one who feels this way.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:32 pm
832 Vivienne
you’ll notice i never stated they are “grief stricken.” I was only arguing that your examples of why they are NOT grief stricken are not particularly convincing, but are based on your perception of events. If you’d like, I’ll go argue with all the rest of them– I just picked out two or three which are particularly common (mis) perceptions of the McCanns emotions. But since you bring it up: I find it perfectly normal for parents going through that kind of hell, with two kids (TWINS no less, and age Terrible 2!), to decide they must keep jogging/exercising in order to maintain some kind of sanity. It’s a documented, scientific fact that exercise helps maintain stable emotions. K and G need to be stable for their kids.
Mind you, I’m not saying I think their behavior is entirely normal, I’m just saying that I think a great deal of fuss is made over anything they say or do, at this point, and all of it is seen through a veil of bias (and that bias is: terrible parents probably capable of murder/coverup). I maintain that without that veil, what Kate and Gerry have said and done since May 3 is certainly odd, but not wildly odd, and not enough to convince me they feel no grief. For goodness sakes, even someone who knowingly and intentionally murders someone will likely feel grief afterwards!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
If the fund was to support the McCanns in their search for Madeleine, why are they drawing money from it when they aren’t doing any looking?
November 1st, 2007 at 8:30 pm
The Mc’s, the lying bums, can explain away no tears - can explain haircuts, tennis……smiling….etc. all of it……..
but they will never be able to explain why they didn’t search for her (during the first week especially) until they couldn’t put one foot in front of the other one……..until they dropped in their tracks from exhaustion………..
If that was the only piece of evidence ever known, their behavior during the searches, then that alone would be enough to “convict” them of at least manslaughter, in not murder.
Pitty is nodding her head in agreement!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Parsons is an hhonest to goodness arsehole but the bigger uglier hairier ones are the owner and editors.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
945 Stevo
Cheers! Oh . . . “money”? . . ah, right
November 1st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
943 Ade
I don’t remember anything the McCanns have done since about July where they’ve actually added support. I think the fund has gone up purely due to interest on the account.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
923. Yes please do. Maybe poor digestion is your problem.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
939 sad git
I’m quite happy NOT to be tony parsons
November 1st, 2007 at 8:27 pm
933 Sad Git
Go to http://www.godaddy.com and type in the domain you want at the top. If it’s available it’ll take you to payment pages. It’s a fiver in English money for a year. By the time you’ve added hosting fees etc. you’ll be up to about 15-20 quid.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:26 pm
926. Bessie,
If you left your children or child, or those of someone who had entrusted their care to you unattended for 30 minutes and when you returned you discovered that one of them had accidentally died when they wandered outside looking for you because they had had a bad dream and were scared; or on your return you find one of them has been kidnapped - would you feel culpable? Responsible in any way? Totally innocent of any wrong doing?
November 1st, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Mortgage repayments:
I think this was a key blunder. This has triggered people who previously supported them into having small doubts. Small doubts will fester and grow into big doubts and disbelief. They will lose popular support increasingly.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:24 pm
926 bessie
Of course they are responsible for her death. If Madeleine dined with them on the night of the 3rd May or if the parents stayed in, Madeleine would be here today (presuming she wasn’t gone before the night of the 3rd!).