Madeleine McCann: Alipio Ribeiro’s Thinks, Clarence Mitchell Knows And A Birthday
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY: “MADDIE COPS SAYS SORRY – Police ‘too quick’ “to blame parents”
“A top policeman has sensationally admitted that making Gerry and Kate McCann suspects over their daughter Maddie’s disappearance was too ‘hasty’. Alipio Ribeiro, boss of the Portuguese department in charge of the investigation, dropped his bombshell in a radio interview”
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns spokesman: “Now that the national director of the Policia Judiciaria apparently acknowledges that they should never have been made arguidos, it follows there is no case for them to answer.”
SUNDAY EXPRESS: “POLICE ‘TOO HASTY’ OVER MCCANNS”
“As the couple bravely celebrated the third birthday of their twins, Sean and Amelie, one of Portugal’s most senior detectives admitted that making them suspects had been a “hasty” mistake”
Did Mr Alipio Ribeiro say “mistake” in his radio interview?
Says the paper: “The couple, both 39, said the official’s comments were tantamount to an admission that Portuguese detectives had bungled by centring their investigation on them.”
Says Mr Ribeiro to Portugal’s Radio Renascenca, owned by the Catholic Church:
“At this moment in time and speaking with the experience I have of Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service and the constitution of arguidos, I think there perhaps should have been another assessment before the McCanns were made official suspects.
“I don’t have any doubt about that. The national director of the Policia Judiciaria doesn’t give out orders on the constitution of arguidos but there was a certain hastiness”
Says the paper: “Last night Ribeiro was under growing pressure to stand down as national director of their country’s Policia Judiciaria”. Pressure from, whom?
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “”Police chief: We were too quick to make Gerry and Kate ‘arguidos’”
Says the Mail: “Kate and Gerry McCann’s bid to clear their names over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine has been given a massive boost after the head of Portugal’s police admitted it had been a mistake to rush into making them official suspects”
Mr McCann says: “We need a breakthrough and this looks like it could be one. It is fantastic news. We still have a long way to go but people in Portugal need to understand what has been happening and what we have been going through. We know it will take the police a long time to accept what has been happening is wrong but it is an important step towards that”
Says the McCanns’ lawyer in Portugal, Carlos Pinto de Abreu: “Many people who may have vital information have possibly not come forward as they wrongly suspected the McCanns”
What about that huge reward, and doing the right thing? People may be deterred from coming forward for fear of being named in the media and questioned by Metodo 3, the McCann’s private investigators. But let us not speculate
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “MADDIE U-TURN - EXCLUSIVE Cops admit mistake on twins’ birthday”
“Kate and Gerry McCann threw a birthday bash for their twins yesterday - as a top cop admitted it was WRONG to name them as suspects over missing Maddie”
Well, Policia Judiciaria “boss” Alipio Ribeiro, said the police acted too hasilty. “Ribeiro last night faced calls to resign over the astonishing U-turn” – although from whom, the paper does not bother to say
Say the McCanns: “The support we have had from around the world has been amazing. It’s helped maintain our strength and hope and this has helped the search for our precious Madeleine. We believe there is a very good chance she is still alive. She deserves the love and security of her family. She needs to be back home with her mummy and daddy, brother and sister”
THE GUARDIAN: “Police chief says ‘we were too hasty’ in naming McCanns as suspects”
“In an interview to be aired on Portuguese radio today, Alípio Ribeiro, the national director of the Polícia Judiciária, will concede that police may have acted too soon in making Kate and Gerry McCann formal suspects, known in Portugal as arguidos. His comments were interpreted last night by the McCanns as a tacit admission that the police were wrong to name them as being involved in the disappearance of their four-year-old daughter”
Madeleine McCann: speculation, suspicion and sensation
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February 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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I wish! At least I could win some money there! Nope, just your usual pub quiz (you know the type where the booze flows 
…. note to self before going out : DO NOT MISPLACE 5 YEAR OLD 
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bountyhunter Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
JULIE
232 musical quiz ? Noot vir Noot ?
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Re: weather - been stinking hot here all day. Last night at about 6 we had a terrifying electric storm …. was at a friend for a braai ….. it knocked out the power (or so our ever so faithful electricity provider says
for four hours). It was so bad that the roof of the shopping mall at Carnival City collapsed (three people were killed and two children were quite badly hurt - one of them a baby). It looks like it’s building up again for another powerful one today …. quite scary!
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
241 Man on a hill
I couldn”t remember the exact spelling of the Film I was telling you about and appealed here.
Chatelaine replied; it” s Zeitgeistmovie.com so you can watch it on your computer.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Portuguese legislation in English: for those who are interested
http://www.gddc.pt/legislacao-lingua-estrangeira/english.html
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Article 138
Exposure or Abandonment
1 - Whom endangers the life of another person:
a) By exposing her in a place where the person is subject to a situation which she cannot defend herself from on her own; or
b) By abandoning her in a defenceless state, for motive of age, physical defect or illness, when the agent had the duty to guard, watch or assist to the person;
is punished with a prison term of 1 to 5 years.
2 - If the fact is practised by an ascendant or descendant, adoptant or adoptee of the victim, the agent is punished with a prison term of 2 to 5 years.
3 - If the fact results in:
a) Serious offense to the physical integrity, the agent is punished with a prison term of 2 to 8 years;
b) Death, the agent is punished with a prison term of 3 to 10 years.
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“Kate refuted all these suspicions at the Policia Judiciaria in Portimao, where she was interrogated, and it was then that the penal circumstances of negligent murder were explained to her. CM knows that the investigators, while not confronting her directly with a possible aggression, explained her that by not confessing to the accident, she could be opening the doors into a more serious penal setting.
Which means it would stop being treated as negligent homicide, and would pass into a qualified crime or with eventual harm.”
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“The truth is that the status of arguidos that was imposed on them, is the normal consequence after the appearance of strong clues that could question their former statements as witnesses. It is also true, and they know it well, that whether in the United Kingdom or in Portugal, leaving three children on their own in an apartment that provided access like that one did, is a penally relevant illicit act.”
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February 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
245
Sludgehammer Says:
Saturn, I am running rings around you….how apt…….
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Yes, I agree it is apt that you are running rings. You are, after all, part of the circus.
I think, though, you are just an awkward usher trying to bring people to their seats. You are not much of a juggler.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
SLEDGIE
Love the twins cant stand their parents.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
208 Xklamation
Thank you for your post. Now we know what we are talking about.
I am only reading it now, doing several things together, and peeping unobtrusively at the screen from time to time. It really is an addiction when you start hiding yourself isn’t it?
Anorak, Anorak, am I caught for life into your net?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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Trismegistus Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
232 julie…
I suggest that you consult “Kate McCann’s Big Book of Child Care”
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Shouldn’t take long to read then ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
248 Vera and hannasus…
Just yesterday I was watching an old episode of “Mythbusters” which is a great show featuring some mad special effects engineers doing scientific tests of urban myths. They decided to do the myth about a child being carried off by helium balloons… the cameraman’s daredevil daughter volunteered to be the guinea pig, and she was a blonde named Maddie.
Balloons, Maddie… disappear…
For the curious, they did eventually get her off the ground (in a quite safe and secure harness, and with many preliminary tests with a dummy) but it took 3,000 helium-filled balloons.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
MAN ON HILL
250 Havent you heard fund running dry, retrenchements ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
232 Julie
Wouldn”t know how to keep a 5 yr old quiet, they are pretty lively at that age and very
fidgety. the Music might hold her attention.
did you see Garth”s post 209? I know you have “disagreed” with him but I have steered
well clear, never answered anything from him. Maybe he”s noticed and is going to make
me his next target.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
bountyhunter, the twins are such a delightful pair of boisterous youngsters, it was their birthday the other day, did you know that, perhaps you sent a card.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It is interesting to note that there is only the usual three stooges here defending the Mc’s. Where are all the Pro-lurkers?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
JULIE
232 musical quiz ? Noot vir Noot ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
229
hannasus Says:
………”If there was an iota of truth in what you are claiming then I can say with absolute certainly it would be all over the papers that they were no longer arguidos”.
This is not the case.
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I’ve been out into the garden to check if there had been a celebratory releasing of clouds of yellow balloons to mark the occasion of ‘lifting of arguido status’……alas, no…………just grey, stormy skies!
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
232 julie…
I suggest that you consult “Kate McCann’s Big Book of Child Care”
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
SLEDGEY
You and garfy enjoying your usual lunch of peanuts in the lovely lounge in the lovely houe at rothley, mind you dont frighten the twins,
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Saturn, I am running rings around you….how apt…….
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Right, from a portuguese dictionary, the verb “arguir” is defined as (all in Portuguese)
do Lat. *arguire ou aguere
v. tr.,
acusar;
incriminar;
censurar;
objectar;
impugnar;
v. int.,
argumentar.
and for a conjugation go here:
http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/conjugar_resultados.aspx
I got hold of the wrong indo-european root to say it meant “watched”, I was thinking it came from the same root as english “guide” which is from IE root “weid-” where we get lots of things from witness to guide to evidence, interview and (believe it or not) penguin.
However it looks like it does come from IE root arg-, from which we get argue, argent (silver) and a few more obscure words based on the meaning of shining and clarity.
Well, linguistic roots won’t find the little girl, will they?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
205 Sledghammer
Yes Sledge, Ribeiro himself says “tactically….”. He certainly thinks the PJ could have tactically done better, with hindsight. We discussed it with Simon a few days ago, some of us thought so too.
But infering from that they think the arguidos are innocent isn’t exactly objective.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
hannasus, it appears that it is not only your name that is spelt backwards, I have claimed nothing.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
231
Peter O Says:
“One of the things a good PR person does is to always interpret every situation in a positive manner. Doesn’t matter whether they represent an egg producer, a car manufacturer or two people currently arguidos in a criminal investigation. It has nothing whatsoever to do with establishing the truth. It’s just about placing the most favourable interpretation on any given situation for the client(s) concerned.”
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Or, War is the art of illusion.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
CANT SAY NO
HI dont worry we are not fooled by the macs and their roaring comical lion. they will not get away with it, sooner or later thet will have to face the music. pj are not fools.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
CSN
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
223 Chatelaine
Many Thanks ….. I saw it a few months ago, thought it very interesting. Man on the Hill and I were talking yesterday about conspiracies etc and he said he would order it from Amazon. I posted back to say no need he could watch it on his computer but couldn”t find
the proper name and tried a permutation several times without success.
I shall keep your info safe and again, thanks.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
227, what sources you as usual have made that up, the announcement while not the expected one was a day late, and from the Portuguese, again give my regards to Danny or are you now taking the Walt Disney course.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
this is great “ARGUIDO” STATUS MAY BE LIFTED EH! well now we might find out what the “WHOLY INNOCENT EXPLANATIONS ) are……….
the mccs have hidden behind the status.. so when lifted they can talk..yes? and be questioned ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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February 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
HI HANNASUS
How are you and what gives with this weather, its freezing cold up here in the mountains , blowing great gales, thunder and lightning ! Clarence letting off steam again ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
232
Julie
Afterall this time discussing this case ya still don’t know ?
Sorry,it was bad taste to say this
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’m off to a music quiz in about an hour and a half.
Any tips on how to keep a 5 year old quiet will be much appreciated