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
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December 20th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Tony Bennett
I think your letter re consular assistance is well worth sending. The consular/high profile bit is one of the most worrying and disconcerting features of this case, in my opinion, and a good reason for following through.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:57 am
95 Logic.
Good call, but how would Kate have been keeping so happy for the next day? Are there any pictures of her that day, May 3rd? Any witnesses see her that day?
December 20th, 2007 at 11:51 am
logic yes me to thinks it happened chaplins night
December 20th, 2007 at 11:50 am
76 Jez
I think that is a real possibility. If they had left the children for a long time and knew that their visit to Chaplin’s would be evident, they would have realised that a child neglect charge would probably ensue, because of the obvious distance. However, do you really think that, if it was an abduction, they would have completely failed to report it the night it happened? They would indeed need to be whole group of psychopaths to do that!
Could it be more likely that an accident occurred on the Chaplin’s night and, when discovered, was too late to do anything about it, thus the purported abduction? At least by being in the Tapas bar on the night she went “missing” they were somewhat nearer to her, which they may have hoped would mitigate their actions somewhat.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:47 am
89 Hilly,
I don’t know - but the computer chappie thought it was all so obvious that one wonders how the PJ could have missed it - but then, as is well known, HSS has serious doubts about the competency of the PJ, particularly when it comes to anything hi tech (cf throwing suspects down stairs to extract a confession and other old style policing methods- the PJ, as may expect of a police force that grew up serving a fascist dictatorship, seems to be a dab hand at that - or so our Portugese gardeners tell me).
However, the Anorak board seems to think that the PJ are first rate, so, on the Board’s view, it can be assumed that, if the photos are dodgy, the PJ would have spotted this long ago - they have not done so (unless they are being atypically quite about it), so, on the Board’s view, the photos must be kosher what what hey hey
December 20th, 2007 at 11:38 am
52 Brandon flours
And nor do I! I though the whole thing with selling up at a loss etc was very fishy.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:38 am
78
Carmen Says:
“The curious thing is, they have absolutely no problem regarding talking about the things they DON’T know - as in she was abducted by paedophiles…….It’s a topsy turvey world, they are quite happy with some speculation, but bitterly unhappy at confirming facts.”
Yes, and they also are silent when it comes to explaining how they KNOW that paedophiles were involved. Your recent mention of Clarence Mitchell’s Dec 10th remark is similar — it is a claim that he KNOWS that Madeleine did not die in the apartment. But he refuses to state how he can KNOW this.
So Clarence Mitchell KNOWS paedophiles took Madeleine out of the apartment while she was still alive.
HOW does he know that? I would think he could be brought in for police questioning , just on the basis of his statements.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Check this out. The Tapas bunch supposedly left the children behind on the Tuesday evening when they went to Chaplins (which is slightly further away than the Tapas Bar) :
Best of all is check out which form of entertainment is offered on a Tuesday evening (as well as the time), and what time Happy Hour is (bet they wouldn’t have been able to give this a miss either) :
http://www.algarve-luzbay.com/places/chaplins/chaplins.html
This is also the same evening that Mrs Fenn said that she heard a child crying continuously and calling for daddy!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:22 am
I would like to take this opportunity to wish Gerry and Kate a sh1t Christmas.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:20 am
66 HHS
So you think they did it now? If not why all the dodgy photo’s?
December 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am
62
Salomon ES Says:
“could Clarence Mitchell have been T10?”
Interesting idea. Do you mean Dianne Webster’s partner, or just attending Mark Warner resort?
Clarence left his governement job and became in charge of McCann PR. More accurately, he left his job and began working for Brian Kennedy the tycoon. Then Brian Kennedy put Clarence “on loan” to Team McCann.
So… what is the prior relationship between CM and BK? They must know each other very well. Is Clarence somehow also connected to Jehovahs Witnesses?
I had been thinking maybe T10 is BK, but maybe CM was there too?
December 20th, 2007 at 11:17 am
http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2007/08/once-twice-three-times-team-mccann.html
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Once, twice, three times Team McCann ignores offer to raise awareness of missing Madeleine
‘Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned.” A high profile, multi-media, global campaign that is based on lies and deceit. The campaign has made little or no attempt to find Madeleine. Donations from struggling parents, businesses and even emotionally blackmailed children, have been used for expenses never before associated with a search for a missing child.
Within a short time of Madeleine’s disappearance Team McCann, set about the task of protecting the McCanns from the financial hardship most parents of missing children incur. We have all seen it time and again - relationships break down, mums or dads lose their jobs due to stress, and families are financially ruined due to legitimate expenses incurred in a desperate, heartbreaking attempt to find their lost child.
Gerald McCann and Kate Healy came from nowhere - and they were determined to do everything in their power to avoid going back to their roots. They were prepared to betray their little girl, betray the sympathy of the public and betray the concept of truth, in order to protect their lifestyle.
With the help of highly-connected friends and a regime of secrecy, fear and protection, the operation went in to full swing with the slickness of a well organised propaganda campaign. They targeted people’s emotions, they tried to sell the, “there but for the grace of God go I” message to the naive and the unquestioning.
For a while it worked - but everything the McCanns do - they do badly - and that includes parenting. Thankfully for those of us who are seeking answers, they enlisted the aid of Justine McGuinness, a PR guru who is so inept she doesn’t know how to spell PR, let alone organise an efficient, water-tight campaign.
Team McCann have not turned over one stone - they stayed away from stony ground to graze upon greener, lusher pastures. The McCanns go from interview to interview, photo-op to photo-op, launching tasteless posters, tacky wristbands and releasing balloons.
After more than three months the campaign has not produced any information regarding the fete of the child they neglected - the only credible information has come from the Portuguese police and Portuguese media. Information the McCanns, the Establishment and the British media, take unseemly delight in discrediting - unless it suits their own agenda.
Genuine and credible offers of help and assistance have gone unacknowledged, been turned down and scorned. Team McCann ask us to believe they are prepared to do everything in their power to find a little girl betrayed by good-time parents. They give interviews thanking people for their support when in reality the support and kindness of strangers, has been constantly rejected and even ridiculed.
Gerry McCann has been quoted as saying, “We are always trying to think of ideas that will reach people who may not have heard of Madeleines disappearance.”
It is a lie. As are so many things associated with the McCanns.
I received three emails from an impeccable source whose integrity the Tapas Nine, could not collectively come close to. The source has professional credentials and contacts that any parents of a missing child, would give their soul to have on their side. Those credentials were made clear to Team McCann in emails.
My source made three attempts to initiate a highly effective awareness campaign in Bosnia, which as you will see by the correspondence, is a major route and destination for human trafficking.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Julie - it may have been why they all had a recent “secret” meeting. Just imagine - Gerry dropped them all in it from the start by telling the world that they all left children alone and that is why it was acceptable!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:13 am
1 Swannie
lol - I’ll take a wristband please.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Code Madeleine
” Had our new code been in place when little Maddie was abducted from the Praia da Luz apartment, while her parents were dining just yards away, the procedures could have foiled the snatch.”
Previous to abduction procedures, abductor to fill in a protocol …
Abductor to bring a photograph …
No registration at the complex requiered …
December 20th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Exactly dcb. This is probably one of the reasons that the rest of the Tapas revellers have not been very forthcoming in their assistance regarding what happened that evening.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am
julie jez
I wish we could see the articles on chaplins !
All disappeared.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:04 am
If the PJ eventually charge the McCanns with child neglect, then all of the T9 group should be charged as well as they have all admitted to leaving their children alone.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:03 am
76 Jez ….I agree (IMHO) that the demise of Madeleine took place on a prior evening. By the time Kate shouted “whatever she allegedly shouted” the wheels for screeching “abduction” were firmly in motion. That’s how a Foreign Office spokesman managed to make a statement approximately 2 hours and 1 minute after Kate “discovered” that Madeleine had been “misplaced”.
However, what exactly happened to Madeleine and the reasons for such a huge cover-up will one day, hopefully, be revealed …. and then her little soul can rest in peace …. and damn those that did this to her
December 20th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Juli — 67
Clarence is an explanation-laundering machine, hell drive Amaral nuts …
He should get a ticket to Alaska or Antarctica and get some tapas (all of them) with him on board…
December 20th, 2007 at 10:59 am
62 Salomon ES Says:
“Something tells me that Clarence knows more than he’s letting out.”
Could it be Clarence who tells you that?
What’s the point in saying portentously “the McCanns know more than they are letting out”, when they have ever said and never left any doubt that they will not talk publicly about what they know.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:58 am
It is simply appalling that the eight infants could have been left alone while the TP 9/10 dined as far away as Chaplins. This has been pretty much kept out of the press, whilst concentration has been left with the lesser evil of the Tapas neglect.
Far, far worse neglect and opportunity for catastrophe (or easier abduction) surrounds Chaplins. Attention must be drawn to this and focus put on the actual date, timings and attendants. We know so little. It doesn’t take much to conclude that the demise of poor MM more likely occurred that night. IMO
December 20th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Swannie — 1
Alaska not preferred destination?? second - and final - option Antarctica
December 20th, 2007 at 10:57 am
73
whos bodily fluid and DNA is it then?
planted?
for compensation?
or did the £££ flash when the media hype rocketed them all to stardom?
December 20th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Swannie — 1
10 fly tickets to Alaska. Tapas on board included.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:54 am
brandon flours — 64
why not ?
so far can be anything…
also an hoax that went wrong …so many businesses and money-men around…
if it went wrong … and now mcc need help and protection from above … if they don’tget it they’ll tell the world media what they know and … then … scary movie … Gerry’s got them caught by the tennis round-yellow-things-to-play
look what you’ve done!!! … now you must pay for it … sounds typical Gerry …and you must pay to the end of times — the 10th generation? Deal!!
just guessing/kidding??
December 20th, 2007 at 10:52 am
HH how is he going to get hold of the relevany hard drive, the computer whizz chappie.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Sadly Brandon the PO has changed beyond all recognition from, when I was a lad delivering telegrams on a bike. The lads on the rounds still get Xmas tips, but a lot of temporary staff are taken on for Xmas and they don’t do as well,ah for the old days of a simple life, oil your bike chain and away you go.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:47 am
66 Carmen - thanks
When did he say that?
I completely missed it. That sounds like a very odd (stupid even) thing to say.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:47 am
63
Salomon ES Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Morning everyone - could Clarence Mitchell have been T10?
Something tells me that Clarence knows more than he’s letting out.
My recommendation would be to send him on a weekend break with Inspector Amaral.
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I reckon a dinner date behind closed doors with Insp. Amaral would do the trick. Clarrie would be begging to tell all, minus the ludicrous bits!