Madeleine McCann: Praia da Luz Calls, Maddy Shunned And Portugal On The Edge
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL page 36: “Madeleine: Portuguese detectives trawl thousands of phone records”
Police are looking through phone records of Praia da Luz’a 27,000 residents at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance. They are looking for unusual call patterns. Bugging calls
A local resident of Praia da Luz says the police questioned her, saying: “We are investigating all calls made within Praia da Luz from 9.30pm onwards on May 3″
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “Any information could prove vital”
THE SUN page 15: “Maddie cops seize local phone bills”
“They are using a method of triangulation which pinpoints a person’s location via their mobile and are also checking land-line calls”
Can it work? Says the Sun: “Mobile phone evidence exposed holes in the alibi of Soham murderer Ian Huntley”. And that is similar to this case because..?
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADDY – Blitz to fined phone clues”
Page 10: “COPS CHECK EVERY CALL ON DAY MADDY VANISHED”
Well, not every call. Just calls made in the area of Praia da Luz by those 1,000 persons on a police list
DAILY EXPRESS page 19: “Now Madeleine police seize all phone records”
The papers says the search is in light of talk of a “massive conspiracy”. The Express is belived to be fond of a conspiracy
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Kate and Gerry are encouraged by this police work because it shows the investigation is now active and thorough…Crucially they also hope it may lead to them being reunited with Madeleine”
DAILY STAR: “PARENTS SHY AWAY FROM NAME ‘MADDY’”
Or Madeleine, for that is her name
The name Madeleine is “now lower than at any time in the past five years”. It is now the 80th most popular name. Says a child psychologist called Ruth: “The majority of people who hear the name Madeleine automatically associate it with her”
What the top girl’s name is readers are not told, nor where Kate features. The Telegraph says it is “Grace”, as in Baby Grace
NEW YORK TIMES: “Portugal Polishes Its Image as the ‘West Coast of Europe’”
Portugal wants to reposition itself. Portugal is exciting, shiny, new and historical.
But: “The unsolved case remains a big story for the British tabloids, and there have been reports of declines in tourism from Britain, an important market for Portugal.
“Over all, though, tourism remains strong, Manuel Pinho, Portugal’s minister for the economy and innovation said. ‘This is a tragic case, of course, but it has not affected the numbers,’ he said. ‘It’s a very peaceful country, a very safe country’”
The demonising of Portugal and the case of Madeleine McCann
Posted: 20th, December 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (547) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 20th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
367 Ferdinand
Inspector Godot?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
366 BabyJane
Er, maybe. But why do you ask?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
313 Salomon ES Says:
“Does anyone get the impression that the investigation is finished and they already have enough to charge the Doctor’s and a few of their friends?”
Certainly, Inspector Godot will come next week to question them and then to arrest them, no doubt.
That’s the fascinating think about this forum: It is an ongoing art performance, a free online improvisation of Samuel Beckett’s famous play. Theatre of the Absurd in the 21st century. Disturbing. Addicting.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
360
Remigius
Do you eat a lot?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
julie
dont forget your phone , sheets, and alibi
December 20th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Right all, gotta run now …. off to quiz night!
No, serious, I’m not kidding …. (don’t worry the little one’s going with me, and I haven’t sedated him …….. YET!!!!)
December 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
351 Ferdinand
It’s kind of a sales incentive for tots. Instead of the all-expenses-paid trip to the Seychelles, you get a little gold star. yeah….
December 20th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
If they did cancel a babysitter for just that one evening, that could dovetail into the story of the staff mentioning that the children needed more minding. They were attempting to politely intervien, mentioning that there had been complaints. The last-minute canceling could provide clues–when was the booking, when was the cancellation, etc.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Ian
Here’s a mystery.
The Times has a page written on May 6. There’s a slideshow on that page and it shows the castle photo of Madeleine looking to the right. How can it have been published so quickly? There’s other photos in there of the Pope visit also. Clearly the date on the article doesn’t match at all - it’s way off.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/audio_video/photo_galleries/article1755459.ece
December 20th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
341 Stevo
Don’t give it a thought! The best Chinese/Thai places are always right where you can also get a nice “massage,” aren’t they? And why not? A man’s gotta eat, right?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
349 dcb
And the booze at Paraiso Restaurant on the beach!
No wonder they didn’t rent a car in that week…they were legless all the time.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Here’s a link that states Mrs Fenn heard a child crying TWO nights before Madeleine disappeared :
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/madeleine-neighbor-with-vital-information-never-questioned-by-police/
December 20th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
350 Firestar
Unix and Linux are not mainstream. There’s millions more PC’s and devices that use FAT or NTFS.
Give me a link to any handheld device like cellphone or camera that uses Unix or Linux.
You’re a mouthy tw*t.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
334 chenier
Yes, the audacity!
It just makes one gag.
Still, can you imagine being one of GM’s relatives, and perhaps, at a holiday fete, finding yourself ALONE in a room for him, even for a moment? Or with Katiepoo, perhaps on one of her manic crying jags, or those slightly hysterical, edgy, shrill-laughing outbursts?
Imagine the table where they all have to sit, knowing that the most (supposedly) accomplished of them–the great doctors–have killed someone. Not “someone” who might have died on the operating table, or course–not some anonymous person about whom the typical medical professional might say, “I did my best,” but…a child….one of THEM…. Imagine having to eat and sleep and deal, every day, with people whom you suspect to be (wittingly or unwittingly) killers.
I once worked for a man who’d killed another man–shot him dead in a deranged kind of fit. He’d just returned to the U.S. from the First Gulf War, and he bought his wife a gun “for protection,” and they had some kind of argument with her landlord and after the landlord made some kind of idle threat to “fix them,” he pulled out this gun and shot the guy dead.
He served 5 years in prison for it. It took a huge amount of money to pay the lawyers to work out a plea arrangement. He claimed post-traumatic stress syndrom. But every one of us knew what he’d done. We liked him well enough, but we were always very mindful that he’d killed a man in cold blood, and not paid very much for that life.
He also knew we knew.
The point is, even if the killer is someone who’s sort of paid his debt to society, that person has still killed a person. This makes them very, very different. They are a killer, and suddenly, there has to be a whole new perception about them. This is a person who’s crossed a line that most people, frankly, don’t ever cross.
If you know your cousin or uncle or brother or father has killed someone–your own relative, someone whose blood runs in your own veins–how do you handle that?
I think there is some heavy thought going ’round in the McCann camp.
The money in the fund won’t last forever, either. Then wot?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Firestar!!!
ello matey
December 20th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
351 Ferdinand
No problem…it’s easy to assume everyone knows what we’re talking about. I made the mistake with star charts before I read the story myself.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Stevo, here’s the link to Chaplins again :
http://www.algarve-luzbay.com/places/chaplins/chaplins.html
December 20th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
347 Julie
For some reason I was thinking May 2 and thought that was the Tuesday or the quiz night evening at Chaplin’s. Then I realised it was May 1 on the Tuesday.
So, are we thinking Madeleine was gone on the evening of May 1?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
338 Stevo Says:
“That is not what star charts are for. They are a reward system for good behaviour.”
OK, with that hint and Google I have finally understood. I was thinking of an astronomical star chart.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
200
Stevo Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
188
Hideki
A file - whether a text document, photo, program or whatever, complies with the filing system on the media concerned. There’s only two mainstream filing systems in common use. FAT32/64 and NTFS.
more bollocks from our ‘computer expert’.
unless of course, the internet backbone, banking and finance sectors and all the universities are running on windows because the security is so good or something.
or maybe unix and linux are formatted fat32 nowadays.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Stevo - don’t forget the beer and bottle of wine they had whilst they were child minding in the apartment before they went out!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
345
brandon flours
Smoke and mirrors…
The PJ tell the world what they want us to know.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
344
Stevo Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
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Stevo, I recall that the newspaper reports at the time said that it was TWO nights before Madeleine disappeared that they were supposedly at Chaplins. This is the same night Mrs Fenn heard the child crying. This would make it the Tuesday night! I’ll find that link to Chaplin’s for you again …. happened to find it earlier when I was playing around on google.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
343 Julie
Yes, me too!
Actually, it really is a notorious place - made famous by the Yorkshire Ripper. There’s students around there and it does have some awful dingy spots. But, if you want awesome Indian food it’s the place to go.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
The PJ do not seem to think it happened earlier
December 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Have we all made a mistake here….?
If Chaplin’s has a quiz night on Tuesdays, isn’t that 2 days before May 3?
I can’t find the link to Chaplin’s where it said what day the quiz night was on.
Ian - are we making a mistake here?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
341
Stevo Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
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Wheeew, glad you added in the rugby/soccer part at the end
December 20th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
340 dcb
Yes, she polished off the leftovers. But was it six bottles (Gerry said they drank four and two were unopened) or was it 14?
Funny…14 bottles of wine and 14 text messages. There’s another coincidence.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
337 Remigius
Sad to say but I’ve spent many hours along Manningham Lane in Bradford.
It’s their notorious red light district and also has some of the best curry houses (Indian Restaurants) in Bradford as it’s also got a large Asian community there. Add in rugby/soccer and they were my reasons for being there.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Stevo - who won? Maybe the one that didn’t rush to find Madeleine. Big bottle of plonk as a prize to drink all by herself