Madeleine McCann: Fnideq Arabs, Naoual Malhi And The Eternal Blonde
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADDIE ‘I know where to find her’”
“As the McCanns mark six months without Madeleine, the Mail visits the remote Moroccan village that may hold the key”
Know: “A grim, soulless place where a dusty sea-wind whistles constantly through the narrow streets and the darkened bazaars seeth [sic] with intrigue, the Moroccan town of Fnideq is Africa’s last settlement”
Is Madeleine here, in this outpost of Hell?
“Tragically, the sight of a cute-looking child clinging forlornly to some strange adult hand is no great rarity here”
Like in the Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent, on a Saturday afternoon? Or still worse?
“Last month, however, by grace of her blonde hair, apple cheeks and a milky complexion, one little girl looked so strikingly different as she was swept along Fnideq’s teeming streets in the clutches of a middle-aged Arab woman that someone finally took notice”
Oh for the grace of being blonde among so much seething darkness….
The woman? Why, it’s 24-year-old Moroccan Naoual Malhi. She’s pictured wearing an animal-print raincoat. She stares into the camera. Look into her eyes. She saw Madeleine. And now she is in the papers. And that reward remains on offer…
A man has also seen Madeleine, a blonde child with milky whiteness and apple cheeks. “Listening to the man, Naoual’s pulse quickened. Everything seemed to tally”
Madeleine: DNA ‘does prove her body was in McCanns’ hire car’ (Link)
DAILY MIRROR front page: “SHE’S ALIVE. GIVE HER BACK”
“Maddy mum on 6-month anniversary”
A new photograph of Madeleine has been released (see picture)
Says Kate McCann: “Madeleine is a beautiful little person and the best place for her to be is with her family”
Page 5: “Please keep looking, please keep praying”
6 MONTHS OF PAIN: McCANNS IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Not her own words in an exclusive interview, rather a selection of quotes from Gerry and Kate McCann dating back to May 3, when Madeleine went missing
And a new quote from Kate McCann:
“Six months is such a long time for a little girl to be separated from her family. We believe that our Madeleine is out there somewhere and retain hope that we can be reunited. Madeleine is a beautiful little person who deserves a loving and happy life. To ensure this there is no doubt that the best place for her to be is with her family.
“We know that somebody somewhere can make this happen.That somebody has the ability and power to bring back us back so much joy as well as bring peace to themselves. If you have any information relating to Madeleine’s disappearance or whereabouts please pass it on to 00 34 902 300 213″
Or call the press
THE SUN front page: “MY BABY – Kate please after new DNA blow”
“MADDIE MISSING SIX MONTHS”
“The anguished couple were last night rocked by leaked DNA results from a UK forensics lab, which were said to show: Four-year-old Madeleine’s body WAS in a car they hired 25 days after she vanished in Portugal
“Bodily fluids from the Renault Scenic appeared to have come from the youngster’s CORPSE
“BLOOD found in the family’s rented Algarve holiday apartment was also hers”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “This is yet another unsourced, unsubstantiated report and we simply won’t comment on it. Suffice to say that Kate and Gerry have absolutely nothing to hide”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: ‘SHE WAS KILLED IN FLAT – Parents’ new DNA shocker”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - PRIVATE DETECTIVES REVEAL: “WE’RE CLOSING IN ON MOROCCAN HIDEAWAY”
Here’s hoping the kidnappers don’t read the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER” and move locations
Moroccan Majid Jazoili says:
“Two people I know saw a picture I carry with me of Madeleine McCann. They told me they had seen her with a family who live in a tiny village in the Rif Mountains. There are three women with daughters who each have a family of their own. There is also a grandfather who lives with them in the same house and lots of children. I don’t know what the blonde girl is doing with them. I called the number I had seen on the poster”
It’s a big reward. Expect more sightings…
THE TIMES: “Friends fear for Kate McCann’s fragile health
“Tonight the couple will come under the most intense public scrutiny since they arrived back in Britain when they attend a special service at the Church of St Mary and St John in Rothley, Leicestershire. They are expected to arrive just before 9.30pm, about the time they say their daughter was taken from their bed at the Ocean Club complex a few days before her fourth birthday”
A minute’s silence?
“They will hear special prayers being said for Madeleine and other missing children between 9.30pm and 9.45pm. By 10pm, the time Mrs McCann reported Madeleine missing, the couple are expected to be back home”
And Kate? Says a source: “Some days are absolutely fine, but on others there is a lot of crying. It is not just the loss of her daughter, it is everything that has happened since”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Detectives probe Madeleine McCann sighting”
Naoual Malhi, a Spanish woman of Moroccan origin, is in a taxi
And a new picture of Madeleine: “Wearing a pink and white striped T-shirt, her blonde hair is blowing across her face as she gives a cheeky grin to the camera”
Madeleine McCann is blonde. And missing
THE GUARDIAN: “Madeleine plea marks six months”
Francisco Marco, of detective firm Metodo 3, says: “We have a six-month agreement with the McCanns. We have already spent a month and a half working. I will find her before that period is up”
ARAB NEWS:
“A study in its own right, the coverage of the McCann case says much about the hysterical, media-fixated country Britain has become. The couple’s professional status and telegenic qualities practically guaranteed that they would become objects of keen media interest. It was, though, remarkable with what zeal the McCanns positively embraced their sudden celebrity and poured their energies into keeping themselves and their story in the headlines”
More to follow…
Posted: 3rd, November 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (835) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 7th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
has no one ever been to morocco on holiday before….theres millions of blonds blue eyes there.
whats the big commotion about a blond blue eyed girl in morocco?
November 5th, 2007 at 7:05 am
616 DavidYourman
Tanner scares me. She looks like a man and capable of anything.
November 5th, 2007 at 6:59 am
663 Annie_M
From your paste:
“Earlier in the day, the McCanns released a new photograph of their daughter on a Shetland pony as part of a fresh appeal for her safe return.”
I’ve been away so I don’t know if anyone’s said anything about the ‘coincidence’ a new picture was released — there was a lot of discussion about why so few pictures of Madeleiene have been released and voila, one turns up. I’m convinced now they read this in order to make their next move. I’ve always thought that.
November 5th, 2007 at 6:53 am
41 Ade
It was a great article, but did you notice it was written by a Brit? I guess no one in Inglaterra would touch it so he went to the Arab press.
the code box called me sugar : )
November 4th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
HOUSTON — Police in Texas say the body of a young girl washed ashore in a storage box in Galveston Bay last week could have come from as far away as Europe, but officially ruled out it being British toddler Madeleine McCann, who went missing in Portugal six months ago.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
MIKE - Yes of course they could - as you say quite rightly - it has been from day one “us, me, we ” - they have an awful lot to lose, and when you have gone this far it gets easier. I will be very surprised if ultimately they are released without charge, but I will also be very surprised if they are charged. I think this case will go on record as the most publicised unsolved crime of all time. There have been so many diversions, red herrings and inaccuracies in this case. I think that the idea to give an immunity from prosecution for anyone who is an accessory to the crime to come clean would be a jolly good course to take. But maybe that would be too easy - eh?
November 4th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Everything about the McCanns’ behaviour, body language, and choice of expressions tells me that they are not telling the complete truth about what happened on that night.
I notice Kate’s comments are very centred on her and her “status” as a mother. The same is true of Gerry, but to a lesser extent. “We went out as a family of five and we’re coming back as a family of four.” (i.e. We’ve lost our integrity and respectability as a family, not “We lost our daughter”?) “I’m her mummy…” (Not, “She’s my little girl…”) and the dreadful, “Life is less fun without Maddy…”
I thought from almost day one that the parents were somehow implicated, but the longer it goes on, the harder I find it to believe that they are directly responsible. Could they and all their friends keep such an enormous and terrible secret with no one cracking under the pressure?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
717 Matt
Yes, they are backing off.
Like you, I can’t read the original article! Would be interesting to know why they chose that particular one.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
817 Kris.
I still suspect Kate more than Gerry. He is an awful liar (I mean not good at lying).
Her words are strange, as you have recognised - her mothers concern seems less about the loss of the child than the effect it has on Kate. She (Kates mother) seems to have responded more normally than any opf the others.
Her asking for a priest that night - I think indicating not an abducted child but a child who had died - it was religion she turned to immediately.
Regarding the request from the lawyers for 25 people to be interviewed. This is difficult to unravel. Is it driven by Gerry? Is it the lawyers deciding the right thing to do and the Mccanns not able to reject their advice as it would throw suspicion on them?
Whats your take on that?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
816 Kris.
Many more photos? Where?
Alos, why arent there lots of the holiday? Surely they would be the best ones to use. So I dont think you will find Stevo is satisfied - his argument was, where are all the recent photos?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
819 Kris.
I agree with that.
But it does cast suspicion on the Mccanns. Why did they come up with the ideas of nappies and rotting meat? Why didnt they think, hang on, it might have been someone else who had access to the car!
Remeber the cry ‘They’ve taken her’. Someone helping out - Kate wasnt told?
Whatever happened, I always wondered why everyone seemed so amazed at the idea that Maddies corpse could have been put in that car. It did not have to be the Mccanns directly, but could have been someone acting on their behalf.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
821 She doesnt have kids does she!
November 4th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Am I wrong in thinking that the cadaver dogs traced scent in the direction of a nearby supermarket? Wondered whether somebody, Murat perhaps, had a contact there which would have enabled him. or whoever, to store the body in a feezer on those premises. If a premeditated crime, it woud have been thought out in advance, otherwise perhaps it’s not impossible for a quick thinking person to know there was access available to a freezer there or elewhere?
November 4th, 2007 at 9:31 am
768 jacquescousteau Says:
Been thinking…I’ve been against the Mccanns it’s true - for their neglect, but put that away… if they did it how? I just can’t see how - if the DNA evidence is correct and they transported her body in a hire car 25 days later - where did they keep the keep the body? How did they hide it so quickly in such a way they could recover it later? How did they transport and dispose of it under the glare of the media? Where did they dispose of it when their car movements have been analysed by cctv? If they did it they must be criminal masterminds
Has anyone got any plausible explanations as to how the Mccanns did it? Otherwise I think we all have to accept they didn’t do it
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I have no idea of what actually happened. If the McCann’s, or any of their friends, are directly involved in Madeleine’s disappearance then whatever fate befell Madeleine almost certainly did not occur between 9.00 PM and 10.00 PM on May 3rd. That will just be the time window that the ‘illusionist’ wants their audience to focus on.
Perhaps we should check if any of them are members of the Magic Circle?
November 4th, 2007 at 9:02 am
814
Kris Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Tinsel- 791- I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard in a long time!! Holy crap!! “I refuse to believe a child would throw up for no reason!”
well there we go. You OBVIOUSLY do not have children.
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Proof positive !! I have known kids to throw up in a temper, they don’t all have to have Gastro-enteritis before they do it, the litlle b**** ’s - sorry - darlings seem to be able to do it on cue to punish you if they don’t get their own way !!
November 4th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Kris,
Suspects have no rights to demand anything.
Crawl back into the woodwork please, your time is most definitely up.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:51 am
And one final comment. Regarding the DNA evidence in the car (which may or may not be true, depending on which news story you read)… Do we not know for certain that Oldfield at least had access to this car? Why do we assume Kate and Gerry were actively involved in the murder/body disposal? It seems to me there are several T-9 members (or at least one) who had access to the car and could have done this with or without the McCanns knowledge.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Tinsel- 791- I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard in a long time!! Holy crap!! “I refuse to believe a child would throw up for no reason!”
well there we go. You OBVIOUSLY do not have children.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Dang, I wish I’d been able to get on earlier today– I had so very much to say!!!
Let’s start with the photos: many new ones released. Let’s hope this mollifies our Weird Anoraker Stevo, who is constantly saying that the dozen photos of Madeleine we have aren’t enough and somehow implicates the McCanns in her death. I like the photo of Madeleine on the pony with her mom on the side.
Second: Interesting that the McCanns have submitted a list of 25 names to the PJ of people they “demand” they interview, including the nanny by the last name of Baker who apparently saw someone looking in the apartment window. Interesting also is the news that four members of the Tapas 9 may be named suspects– not surprising O’Brien and Tanner, not surprising Oldfield, but surprising David Payne.
Lastly, I’m going to agree with Thea who, very early today, found the statements of Kate upon the 6-month mark really odd. The phrasing is actually fascinating…. When I read it several times on CNN (that’s CNN -USA to you Brits) … if you read it, you can see that these statements feel weird for a mom who really believes her child is alive , here, on Earth. and, they feel so PRECISE, so carefully phrased, not a natural speech pattern, or linguistic pattern, but phrases that seem so constructed. So I read them again and upon another reading I realized they made more sense– MUCH more sense– coming from a mother who knows her daughter is dead but believes they will be reuinted in (cough cough) Heaven. So Madeleine is “out there, somewhere…”
So here, finally, is my best guess on what happened: Madeleine died as the result of SOME accident or act of violence, and by my bet is it was NOT Kate, but one of the Tapas 9– O’Brien, Tanner, someone. Kate knows Madeleine is dead. Gerry is controlling her, forcing her to play along with the abduction theory, to protect his friend (and connections, jobs, etc). This explains a lot to me– Kate’s weird reactions to things, her odd phrasing,and yet her very obvious and palpable grief. She is not willing to play the usual mom of missing kid role because she knows better, so she insists on phrasing things in a way that are accurate for what really happened. If we knew what really happened, Kate’s bizarre statements (which start early on and only culminate in these recent doozies) would make much more sense.
That’s my story at the moment… we’ll see if I stick to it.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:19 am
I wonder if Stevo is happy now that there are many new private family photos in the public domain???
November 4th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Things may start to unravel soon, don’t you think.
November 4th, 2007 at 4:49 am
That’s what I think too. Anyone involved in a serious crime like this would sertainly want to get rid of evidence altogether. It sounds almost as stupid as when the ~FBI claimed to have found passports of terrorists that had some from a blazing fireball wreckage in the 911 story.
(and the guys were still alive too ha ha)
November 4th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Well my Daughter never slept for more than 3-4 hours at a time until she was quite old, luckily her Mother coped with it, although a weaker more self interested person could quite easily have been driven bananas by it. Well, she was actually but just took it out on me
It’s difficult to ever know what goes on behind closed doors. Maybe Madeleine craved attention from her parents who are more interested in their own lives and pleasures than giving in a loving parental way.. who knows indeed. This is what the Police will be trying to establish by asking old friends, neighbours, anyone at all with a bad word to say about them will be listened to. It certainly makes you wonder what’s really been going on. Weird situations like this don’t just happen, there’s got to be some kind of build-up to this kind of situation
November 4th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Charlotte at the ‘Cutting through the Rubbish–The McCanns’ blog had this to say about the timing of finding the travel bag alongside of the road:
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“A carrier bag dumped at the side of the road nearly six months after Madeleine disappeared? I’m sorry but this is far too convenient. Surely an abductor would bury the clothes and other items or burn them, not leave them in a bag on the side of the road to be found … unless the bag with its contents was deliberately planted by ‘concerned’ parties in an attempt to prove the abduction theory.
How convenient for the bag to be found on route to Faro airport. I really can’t see an abductor leaving a bread trail.”
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http://cuttingthroughtherubbish.blogspot.com/2007/11/maddie-dna-clue-in-airport-bag.html
November 4th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Yeah it would be cool to get 14 bottles of wine and eat tapas to celibrate
I haven’t got any surplus kids to get rid of though, what about you? ha ha!
Am I correct in thinking you have a website with your travels to India on it by any chance?
November 4th, 2007 at 4:25 am
New Madeleine pic, “cheeky grin” in the Daily Telegraph, what?
The child looks exhausted to me. Happy in the moment, but spent from the night before. Even if she hadn’t disappeared, something’s really amiss in that household.
November 4th, 2007 at 4:23 am
803 andrew
I hope you are right.
I would quite enjoy such a party! We at Anorak really must do one, regardless.
November 4th, 2007 at 4:20 am
776 Andrew
You raise an interesting point. Doctors usually band together to save each other from civil lawsuits when thing go wrong in a medical case.
But a criminal case, where you do real time, may be a different matter.
Or maybe not. If the PJ really have something, then we should start to see a cave-in soon.
The O’Brien/Tanners have children. Perhaps they want to help, but not so much that they orphan their kids (effectively). It will be interesting to watch, for sure.
November 4th, 2007 at 4:19 am
I think stevo is doing a timeline, I get confused myself.. although not so confused to not know it isn’t me! The Egg-Man, naughty isn’t he. He’s responsible for most of the Worlds unsolved crimes you know. He really needs to get caught. Pleasa anyone, if you know anything to stop this fiendishly freaky poultry-human mutation, phone crimestoppers now!
Well, the Police are going to have fun with more genetic evidence to play with. Surely soon one or two of the tapas gang’s doors are going to be knocked on by the boys in blue wanting words in their ear down at the station… Hoorah! Lashings of ginger beer all round to celibrate
November 4th, 2007 at 4:07 am
787 Uta Hagen
Yes, the vomiting child…makes me think that the Tapas 9 were really lucky that no other children died from the drugging….
Or it could just all be a ruse. You know, I read that he called the front desk to get his sheets changed, but they claim they didn’t change any sheets. So, was there a washing machine? How convenient…..
Wasn’t Andrew doing a timeline? Or maybe it was Stevo, or Will…
I myself have been too busy counting the flying pigs overhead….
November 4th, 2007 at 4:07 am
763. Uta, I think you are way off about women and marriage. Not all women see a traditional marriage as a truly meaningful ritual. Or marriage or any partnership ritual as serving any true purpose at all other than receivinig gifts.
Plenty of women having low self esteems and massive neuroses and incorrectly perceive marriage and motherhood as the answer to their issues only to be sadly disappointed after the wedding celebrations and baby showers wear off.
If looking at this from a heterosexual perspective is what is throwing you off them perhaps looking at it from a lesbian’s pov would assist you. Most countries do not recognise marriage between same sex partners and so many homosexuals do not get married even though they deeply love their partner.
I personally believe Jane Tanner is a lyer but I don’tt believe it has anything to do with the fact that as far as we know she is not *legally* married to Russell O’Brien.