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 4:43 pm
370 Nosey Cow
Well said……..thing is, if the Aguido status is removed, wouldn”t this affect the whole “No
Stone Unturned” operation? The interest in the McCanns would sink without trace, and
having achieved Celebrity status, I lay odds the search for Madeleine would stop because
it has always been the Parents in the limelight, not poor little Madeleine.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
dont think they would like it very much….all the kiss and tell stories and that
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
i was just pondering about this statement from the head of the pj,saying maybe making the mccanns was abit hasty,what about if just suppose,he meant it was to hasty,because if they hadnt been named agruidos,then they wouldnt have formed a highly paid and skilled defence team,they would not have hired specialist extradition lawyers,they could have answered questions more freely given by the press,the whole thing would have been alot quieter in the press,for the last six months it has just been the maccanns trying to give reasons for thier innocents, and lastly ,once all evidence had been colllected,the pj could have politely asked the maccanns and friends back to portugal for some questions. if they refused then or ran to hire defence and extradition lawyers surely no-one would understand why,and the pr campaign would have been completly different,…………..just a thought
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
nosey cow, it was clueless who injected next week into the conversation, I merely humoured him.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
so in the interest of avoiding ‘up’ ing chants stats
opinions please of the advantages of releasing the drs mcc from their aguido status… bith for team mc and inhabitents of the real world
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
chanteleine - i have been threatened 3 times today and my intelligence insulted twice - never laughed quite as much actually - but surely that should count in your stats?
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
By the law of averages heads or tails and Murphy, I have had 3.2% of bandwidth Châtelaine, hardly enough to make a decent hat, I take logarithms was not a subject you excelled at.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
peter o - chocolate??
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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val Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
” 421 Chatelaine - I would have thought today II used up more space than all of Sledgehammer”s 25%”
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I have to disappoint you & II: he didn’t get any further than 12.71%
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
sledgy - i assume you meant that comment as a response to my question and not peter o’s comment.
Clarrie never said anything about ‘this time next week’ - where did you get that??
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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Peter O Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
“[...] I just hope that others who don’t necessarily frequent forums such as these also find Clarence as utterly transparent as I do.”
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I wouldn’t count on that, Peter. It is my experience that most people, who are not on a forum like this, completely rely on their information via the media. And take it for granted…
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
val - sorry i missed your question earlier - my honest answer is i don’t know why they are so focused on this - see my post 370 for a tongue in check answer
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
425 Why don’t you Google and see what credible Clarence has stated, what his intentions are on behalf of his clients, in respect of libels, can you manage that. One should always keep one’s powder dry.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
420
noseycow Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
chenier - how are you??? no more iv alcohol?? have you been released for good or just until next time???
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Just until next time, but very pleased to be back.
And I’ll be even more pleased if my broadband manages to work for more than 4 hours without hurling me into the outer darkness yet again, as it did overnight.
My revised cunning plan is to leave my pc running ad infinitum, and leave the whole dodgy question of trying to get into my email for a few days. I had to wipe all my cookies and so forth.
I can’t take any more conversations with agent orange at the moment…
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
421 Chatelaine
It”s quite amusing to watch, but gets a bit tedious at times. I scrolled down and only came
back on because it appears the two eyes and AB have left, for the moment. You wouldn”t
mind if they were concise posters and posted interesting information. I would have thought
today II used up more space than all of Sledgehammer”s 25%
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
418 chenier Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
417 Peter O Says: .February 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Chenier… Welcome back to our weird and wonderful virtual reality!
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Thank you; I can assure you that it’s even weirder to be without our wonderful virtual reality.
I see Clarrie has been getting carried away again; presumably he was devoutly hoping that people would overlook the small fact that the extension of the arguido status was granted by a magistrate, not by the PJ.
Interesting the way he is frantic to divert all attention from what happened to Madeleine, and focus it instead on her parents.
I have to say that even if I knew nothing else at all about the case, I would find that deeply worrying.
Just what is he afraid of?
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I’m of the opinion that there is a very deliberate strategy to remove Madeleine from the day to day stories. There are few more heinous crimes in most peoples eyes than those in which children are the victims.
If there is the slightest suggestion that the parents, or anyone close to them and with the parents knowledge, are in any way responsible for Madeleine’s fate then I think you’ll find that most people’s knee-jerk reaction would not be favourable to the McCann’s.
The recent strategy of resurrecting the “bogeyman” was just another attempt to shift any aspect of blame from the parents, in my opinion.
I just hope that others who don’t necessarily frequent forums such as these also find Clarence as utterly transparent as I do.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Excellent bit of early morning fishing, some posters on this board may find out that having a loose mouth, is no “fun fun fun” at all
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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 - rather than resort to juvenile insults, could you please answer the question.
What do you mean by the quoted two posts? Are you personally threatening posters on anorak who disagree with you, or are you speaking on behalf of someone else??
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
405 Chenier
I know nothing…..(who used to say that?)…about computers so would probably have binned mine by now!!!!!!!!
I posted 73 to Noseycow earlier but she went off for a while as have I so may not have seen
it. You might want to check it out and it could explain why CM is so keen to have the Aguido
status removed
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Châtelaine, would you like to be secretary of my fan club…………
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Evaluation is one of my regular routines. I have made a quick “search” of posters and can congratulate SLEDGEHAMMER, our NUMBER 1. He has posted or received reactions one hundred times up to post nr. 417 and has thus taken almost 25% of the bandwidth today.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
chenier - how are you??? no more iv alcohol?? have you been released for good or just until next time???
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
chenier, thank you I do hope you are well. This whole case has become so surreal, that it is difficult in all sincerity to be sure of anything, at this stage I think time and justice will tell, and then I wonder if it will. In reality the only thing that we can be sure of is, that no one is sure of anything, this may remain the case for the foreseeable future, not a happy prospect.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
417
Peter O Says: .
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Chenier… Welcome back to our weird and wonderful virtual reality!
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Thank you; I can assure you that it’s even weirder to be without our wonderful virtual reality.
I see Clarrie has been getting carried away again; presumably he was devoutly hoping that people would overlook the small fact that the extension of the arguido status was granted by a magistrate, not by the PJ.
Interesting the way he is frantic to divert all attention from what happened to Madeleine, and focus it instead on her parents.
I have to say that even if I knew nothing else at all about the case, I would find that deeply worrying.
Just what is he afraid of?
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Chenier… Welcome back to our weird and wonderful virtual reality!
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
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!!
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Thank you, Sledgehammer; I look forward to some weeks of compulsory rest, with plenty of time to comment on Clarrie’s antics.
Poor chap must be getting a bit worried now that his clients are the kiss of death on the front pages; his wonderful claim that the head of the PJ accepted that the saintly duo were wholly innocent in every possible respect has been relegated to the obscure recesses on every paper except the star.
This is not good for a man claiming to have the british media sewn up…
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
413 Sledgehammer Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Peter O, your paranoia knows no bounds, most sensible people would take it as a figure of speech.
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As in the same way that you would like most sensible people to swallow each and every pronouncement made by the Comical one?
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
407 Sledgehammer Says: 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.
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Avoiding answering questions again? A strangely familiar technique in certain quarters of late.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Peter O, your paranoia knows no bounds, most sensible people would take it as a figure of speech.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
chenier - yep i am - nice to see you back.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
404 Sledgehammer Says: 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.
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Felons - That’s interesting. There’s more than one then? Is this based on your supposed superior knowledge, or are you just expressing an opinion?