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 1:50 pm
259
xklamation Says:
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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Interesting link.
I post it again
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
CIARA LOUISE
Its almost 4pm here perhaps tea > go and check see if i have a nice red merlot just for you, back soon
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
302…II
“”"”"And yet is absent from the transcripts on Joana Morais’ and other websites.
Feel free to find a site that quotes those words from Ribeiro himself, in a transcript.”"”"”
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fesplendordelaforma.blogspot.com&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
There ya go…me old misinformant.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
284
man on a hill
Regarding the poster ’sledgehammer’.
Who’d give themselves such a label - I assume he meant he was cracking nuts but forgot that the phrase means using an inappropriately heavy and imprecise tool.
He runs from clarity and specific clear presentation, throwing in innaccurate and misleading one liners and then refusing to debate them, interactioon with him always ends with him attempting at being witty and seeking to denigrate his opponent. ‘Ad hominem’ is a term he has embraced!
However, I have to say I enjoy the opportunity he provides as it does help clarify and confirm debating points for use when discussing with other ‘higher layer’ posters.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
259
xklamation Says:
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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For those who have missed the link…..
It may answer many questions etc….must dash off.
Thank you Xclamation,very valuable info
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
MATT Right coming up J&B ok ? Think I will have another one myself. God thought sledge was bad but oy oy takes the pudding
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
302 Increasingly Increduloous Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
“It has been referred to in other Blogs/Reports.”
And yet is absent from the transcripts on Joana Morais’ and other websites. Feel free to find a site that quotes those words from Ribeiro himself, in a transcript.
You lot really aren’t very good at understanding what “on the record” means, are you?
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Your lots ability to put a positive spin on any possible shred of information that might show Team McCann in a better light is truly remarkable.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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308
bountyhunter Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
HELLO NOSEY HELLO CIARA LOUISE
Nice to see you both here, please hold the fort, off to go and get something to drink, your orders please ?
MATT ? lOGIC ?
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Well it’s a bit early in the day but go on..I’ll have a red merlot please.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
283 Matt
Yes Matt. They provide a good, happy show.
It is important for S and A to know they don’t have to provide sush a show, and they aren’t responsible for their parents’s mood.
Usually, twins make people smile. They are funny, even a bit ridiculous, but so endearing. Every one is fond of twins as long as they act like twins, and don’t entangle themselves from the fusional state they are in. Twins lack self-confidence, later in life, according to studies (more so if they are of a similar gender and if they are “real”twins. Good news for S and A).
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
nosey 306 i FEEL FOR YOU, WE NEVER WANTED MORE THAN ONE ! Buy did not dare say no to the Aga man, need him badly here in winter. he is always handing out kittens, never has his queens spayed. this little one grew up with two queens, several Toms, 4 mangy dogs and about 8 other kittens, was almost ferral, we have tamed her a little. the family also have 5 kids aged from 5 to 12 who constantly must have chased her around.
Aga man and family remind me of The darling Blossoms of May ? Have i got that right have had to consume large volumes of gass from 11 all morning i think he is one of those robot type machines, dizzy !!!
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
292 Sledgehammer Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Peter O, not as breathtaking as your lack of reality.
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I think you are replying to the wrong person? What I actually said was:
In my opinion, Sledgehammer is in the pay of/in league with the SpinMeister. Truth is of no concern here, only perception.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Ciara-Louise
I miss her posts.
Thanks for telling us about Chenier”s return.I hope she is well
I went to the beach for a quick stroll and the only thing I could see were arguidos in the horizon…..
Gone again…..clearing up the carnival mess from last night.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
308…bountyhunter
Scotch on the rocks for me, please.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
HELLO NOSEY HELLO CIARA LOUISE
Nice to see you both here, please hold the fort, off to go and get something to drink, your orders please ?
MATT ? lOGIC ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
304…Increasingly Increduloous
Will let you know when I hear the unabridged report.
Just told you that.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
bounty hunter - just got back to find a lovely plump but dead mouse sitting in the middle of the hallway, loving left there by one of the lovely - but getting bigger kittens. went to the kitchen to get something to move it with and on my return it had dissapeared
10 mins later ( having resolved not to call sky news or the british embassy ) i noticed it again - one of said lovely kittens had put it into their food bowel
do you think this is the start of a cat lead food protest???
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
302…Increasingly Increduloous
Ah…ad hominem…..excellent….loser.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
“Well, personally, I’ll wait for the unabridged report of the Broadcast.”
in other words, you now realise you haven’t actually seen anything thatn attributes those words to Ribeiro himself….
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
HELLO LOGIC
How are you, not seen you for a few days ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
“It has been referred to in other Blogs/Reports.”
And yet is absent from the transcripts on Joana Morais’ and other websites. Feel free to find a site that quotes those words from Ribeiro himself, in a transcript.
You lot really aren’t very good at understanding what “on the record” means, are you?
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
290
noseycow
Hi Nosey, do you know Chenier posted after you left last night.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
294…Increasingly Increduloous
Well, personally, I’ll wait for the unabridged report of the Broadcast.
Much preferable to your “axe to grind” version, am sure.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
MATT thanks
sorry JUlie letts scroll the troll, must be on something perhaps helium
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
“your verbal diaorea is astonishing, do you think we can be bothered to read your mangled messages ?”
I can genuinely beleive the vocabulary in them gives you problems - using things like three-syllable words……
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I would bet that the PJ even know the reason for the (apparent) cover-up. In any case, I think that the PJ seem more intent than ever of bringing the McCs back to face trial. If this was a PJ climb-down, they would simply say that the case is being closed due to all the difficulties they are encountering and that the arguidos status would be lifted within days. They wouldn’t embarrass themselves by saying that they shouldn’t have made them arguidos, were too hasty, etc etc….
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
294…Increasingly Increduloous
Actually it doesn’t.
It has been referred to in other Blogs/Reports.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
OOPS my last message was meant for i.i. who believes bull beats brains as long as you spout enough of it please 288 .
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
“The Radio Programme is on the “Record”.”
indeed it was - and doesn’t include any comments concerning whether the error was “tactical” in nature, or simply reflects an error of judgement (by implication, based on a lack of evidence).
So, for example, the “David and Goliath” bit comes only from Levy’s “unamed source”.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
291…bountyhunter
Shiuldn’t that be to 288.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Peter O, not as breathtaking as your lack of reality.