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 3:59 pm
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dcb Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
chenier
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Good to ’see’ you; I hope you are well?
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
chenier, how remiss of me, apologies, please accept my good wishes for your speedy recovery and soon to be enjoyment of the rudest health!!
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
chenier
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Peter O, you would have to take that up with Clarence, or perhaps you missed his statement, while in your bunker.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
402 clouseau Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Re Sledgy threats
do we need to start a fund?
403 clouseau Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
401
yes peter whoosh clunck money gone
well at least i can sleep well tonight knowing that a perhaps i have contributed to the greatest scam of the 21 century
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Well, a thought has just occurred…….
If the whole thing is one day ever exposed to be a scam, and as contributors to the fund, do you think we may be able to make some sort of claim/class action to benefit from a share of the royalties generated when various parties sell their stories to the media, books, films, DVD’s, etc, etc?
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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Matt. Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
385…chenier
Welcome back, chernier.
Hope you are feeling better….broadband probs aside.
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Much better, thank you; I managed to totter to Waitrose to lay in a supply of Glenlivet, sorry, do some grocery shopping, which is a good sign.
The broadband is torture; I thought I was quite good at dealing with uncertainty, but there’s something rather creepy about never knowing whether the damn thing is actually going to work!
However, the monument of certainty in this uncertain world, Clarrie is spinning his socks off.
And I understand why; the only newspaper with a front page on the fragrant duo is the star.
You would have thought this stunning acceptance of the McCanns total innocence would have been on the front pages of every newspaper, wouldn’t you?
Particularly since Clarrie was claiming earlier on in the week that a front page on Madeleine added 70000 to sales.
But the editors seem to feel that Clarrie’s story isn’t quite as important as he says it is, much, no doubt, to his disgust.
Indeed, the editors may have remembered Clarrie’s claims that it was inevitable that the fragrant duo would continue to be arguidos for another 4 months.
And that the file was reviewed by a magistrate, not the PJ, for the extension of arguido status.
And it was granted…
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
nosey cow, are you really nosey or just silly, what I would like is to see the perpetrators of this crime punished to the full extent of the law, trouble is I do not know who this is yet, nor does anyone else, except the felons.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
401
yes peter whoosh clunck money gone
well at least i can sleep well tonight knowing that a perhaps i have contributed to the greatest scam of the 21 century
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Re Sledgy threats
do we need to start a fund?
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
391 clouseau Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Sledgy
as they are going to be cleared soon can you askf or my £50 back that i donated to the fund in June…i have asked myself twice however no reply….
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Oddly, similar communications from myself have gone unanswered. I assumed of course that they were simply to busy turning over stones and opening the vast quantity of mail from well wishers to get round to opening my letter.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
382 Sledgehammer Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Clouseau, or not a Clouseau, how are we today, by this time next week a few rather indiscrete posters may be bricking it, Clarence is not a fellow to be underestimated.…
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Are you making threats based on your insider knowledge, or you just expressing an opinion?
There are still three argiudos. Madeleine is still missing. Someone(s) close to her family or their friends most likely know more about the events leading up to and following Madeleine’s disappearance than has currently come to light, in my opinion.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
379 Sledgehammer Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It is not Anoraks way to print falsehoods as this quote from the above leader exemplifies.++++Edit…
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There are still three argiudos. Madeleine is still missing. Someone(s) close to her family or their friends most likely know more about the events leading up to and following Madeleine’s disappearance than has currently come to light, in my opinion.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
378
bountyhunter Says:
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”
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Hillary has a very nice catch phrase the other day:
“It took a Clinton to clean out the mess after a Bush. And it takes this Clinton to clean out after this Bush”
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
347 Increasingly Increduloous Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
“Think you should speak to her then. She will put you right.”
Which means you can’t…….
It does illustrate a major problem around this case, and other that attract interest on the web - inaccurate quotations, and downright fantasy pretty rapidly aquire a life of their own, being repeeated, uoted and misquoted - and still beleived by those who’ve got a mind to.
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Utterly surpassed by Clarence’s ability to turn some innocuous remarks into a wholesale declaration of innocence.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
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PeterMac Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Difficult to underestimate him
Bit like Monty Python’s Life of Brian
“This is Biggus Diccus. He wanks higher than any man in Wome”
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February 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Being under the weather I went to sleep in front of the TV last night but I woke at one point and an excerpt from Rebeiros interview was being shown on the news with subtitles so therefore I missed some of it.
The subtitles I saw were as Sledghammer says… I don’t speak Portugese but I’m sure someone would have complained by now if the subtitles had been inaccurate.
What he said was exactly what was expected by those who knew he was going to be interviewed.
I’ve been flicking through posts and am amused at accusations towards certain posters (again) of being paid by the McCanns.
The only people on here that I would envisage as being paid by the McCanns are the likes of Saturn & co with their long-winded guff that eventually bores posters into leaving.
Where did the satire and humour go?
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
331 Sledgehammer Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
It is unbelievable that Doctors would have contacts within drug companies, a bit like lawyers knowing judges or Taxi drivers knowing how to get from A to B, how quaint.
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It’s called marketing… You know, free pens, mouse mats, notepads, invites to rugby/football/tennis matches, sponsorship of white papers and breakfast/lunch/dinner meetings and so on and so forth. All companies seek to influence and curry favour with their target market.
I have in the past been invited to some very nice, but utterly spurious, “jollies” based on no more than my potential budget for that year/particular project(s).
So, as you imply, there nothing remarkable about relationships between doctors and drug companies. I believe the original question sought to understand how extensive and at what level any such relationships might operate between the various parties known, and currently unknown. Seems a reasonable question to ask, in my opinion.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Difficult to underestimate him
Bit like Monty Python’s Life of Brian
“This is Biggus Diccus. He wanks higher than any man in Wome”
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
391…clouseau
McVey’s quote, before she abandoned ship, re return of Donated Monies..
……”Er…I don’t know”…was worrying.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Sledgy
as they are going to be cleared soon can you askf or my £50 back that i donated to the fund in June…i have asked myself twice however no reply….
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
388…noseycow
Like being like being savaged by a dead sheep.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
388
lol
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Its actually the third time we’ve been threatened in less than 24 hours!
does that mean we are doing something right????
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
385…chenier
Welcome back, chernier.
Hope you are feeling better….broadband probs aside.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
382
Sledgehammer Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Clouseau, or not a Clouseau, how are we today, by this time next week a few rather indiscrete posters may be bricking it, Clarence is not a fellow to be underestimated.
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sledgy - more threats???
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Hi all,
Having achieved, if not nirvana, the indubitably happy state of getting my broadband connection back last night, I woke up this morning to find it trashed again.
Five hours later, following a discussion with probably the most incompetent agent Orange has so far inflicted on me, I have it at least temporarily sorted.
But if I disappear again don’t worry; it’s just Agent Orange laying waste to the web.
As far as I can see they have introduced a broadband and home phone service on top of their mobile network without the hardware, the software, and the peopleware to make it work.
So if I do get chopped again, I will be dreaming of vengeance, with the assistance of the supply of Glenlivet that I have laid in…
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
sledgey - would it really make you happy if the pj dropped the mcc’s aguido status?? would it actually make a difference to what happened in pdl??
do you think that it would make finding maddie more likely??
We disagree over whether the parents were involved in her dissapearance - and thats fine.
But I don’t really care about the aguido status (the parents could have asked for it anyway), but why has team mcc and their ’supportering bloggers’ been so consistantly focussed on this issue?? is it all that is important to them???
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
382
i always thought they where innocent…i like them and its disgraceful the way they have been treated
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Clouseau, or not a Clouseau, how are we today, by this time next week a few rather indiscrete posters may be bricking it, Clarence is not a fellow to be underestimated.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
379
yes spot on the status allowed them to much protection