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”
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February 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
VISITORS !
see you later tonight
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It is not Anoraks way to print falsehoods as this quote from the above leader exemplifies.++++“At this moment in time and speaking with the experience I have of Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service and the constitution of erguidos, 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 erguidos but there was a certain hastiness”++++directly attributable to Alipio Ribeiro.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
See sky is trying to influence us presidential elections again, previous times they got gwb elected and re-elected
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
clouseau - IMO the phrase ‘prime suspects’ is a media thing, if you mean aguidos? then…
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
374
can you just refresh my memory …who are the prime suspects?
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
bounty - your effort has been noted and is appreciated
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
371…clouseau
Week…3rd Feb-10 Feb in Orchard House….
Arguida 1….still Arguida
Arguido 1…still Arguido.
11th Feb - 18th Feb….Ditto.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Sledgy
hows the tunnel progressing?
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
NOSEY 370 lollololol smiley.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
cmon Sledgy whats the report from Rothley towers?
whats happenning next week?
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
amused bystander
I think it would be fantastic news if you are right
The fund would start getting donations again - ensuring the continued employment of various (almost said dubious but won’t) characters, both in the uk and abroad.
Clarrie could start his real job promoting double glazing and stop doing interveiws on daytime tv., he would also stop his pretending to be a police officer press conferences.
Kate could go back to work as a locum gp and gerry could start seeing patients again - perhaps ensuring that kate has her supply of 6 cadavers a week?
Life would be perfect for team mcc
surely something to celebrate?? 
Do you think in all this glee one of them may stop and think of a little girl that they once knew…
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Would you and amused like to forecast who the next US President will be.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Amused Bystander, been and gone at noon Portuguese time, very interesting.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
oh dear
PJ confident they are following the right route
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
nosey thanks send it right over.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
364…clouseau
Will E McVey ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
in the joyful news that Mccanns are totally innocent will the Vatican be puting Maddies link back on ?
er pause you know pause erm well err whoosh clunk NO
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
“…Radio Renascenca interview to be aired later today”
Sorry I see by flipping through previous posts today that it’s apparently already been aired. However that doesn’t change my predictions…
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
INC.INC
I think i would prefer the cyanide to reading your cr@P.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
thanks bounty LOL re monsters - have a nice mouse they can have…
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
356..II
You are squirming by trying to set false argument.
I never said that this was said or not said.
You said that it wasn’t said.
I referred you to the actual transcript for the truth of the matter.
Which we still await.
So…stick your supercillious probosis where it hurts you most.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Amused Bystander 341
IMO you have it about right.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
NOSEY
Your tea is served, five roses think thats more or less like english breakfast / please help yourself , monsters are wanting food, they are stalking me.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
“AMUSED AND II Can i get you each a nice cyanide capsule ?”
careful you don’t mix it up with your meds….
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Matt,
the anonymous blogger claims it’s a quote (albeit missattributed - and unsourced).
How can could it be plagiarism - when Levy doesn’t claim it to be his own words in the first place?
Anyhow - any luck on finding that primary source that backs your claim that those are Ribeiro’s words, not those of an anonymous source?
Thought not….
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
english breakfast please - not to strong, just milk - no sugar please
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
nosey tea coming right up, weak or strong, milk sugar, indian or ceylon ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
AMUSED AND II Can i get you each a nice cyanide capsule ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
cup of tea??? please
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
347…II
Am not the one accusing her of plagiarism.
You are.
I don’t need to speak to her about that.
Think you do though….could be accused od spreading false information you know.