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 7:19 pm
Carmen
We were on Wanadoo, then changed for another which isn’t bad, but since it is French Telecom which lends the net channels to other companies, if the trouble comes from the net and not from your particular server, you are far behind on the waiting list. For that reason, we think next time we change, we will change for orange. With our present server, twice there was trouble with the black box (which I think divides the line between two computers and the phone), and it took enormous time to get someone from the company on the phone, then get a guy to come and check at home, then get a replacement box, as apparently a number of their black boxes went on the blink together. We staid almost 3 weeks without internet and without phone (only the cell phones).
If you use orange and don’t want your number on the phone directories, don’t forget to tell them in order to avoid phone marketing.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Ok, let’s joy , over the pervs of justice :evil
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
CSN …. stay for a little while aplease?
:beg: 
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
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Sledgehammer
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I see how happy the antis -Justice are
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Back , just for a few minutes
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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Aardvarko Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Julie - not from SA, bur from Glasgow in sunny Scotland; please may I emphasise that I am in no way related to either the despicable McCanns or the despicable Hedgeslammer.
My name came from a cartoon character called “The Invisible Aardvark” , created by the fantastic cartoonist J.Edward Oliver , in the 1970s music paper “Disc”. (Shows my age, I’m afraid)
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Aaaah, Aardvarko, thought you were one of my kinsmen ….. the Aardvark (horrible looking bugger as he is) …… but then again, perhaps you have morphed the Aardvark …. and make him look pretty ……
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Aardvarko, bottled it can’t back up your posts.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Julie - not from SA, bur from Glasgow in sunny Scotland; please may I emphasise that I am in no way related to either the despicable McCanns or the despicable Hedgeslammer.
My name came from a cartoon character called “The Invisible Aardvark” , created by the fantastic cartoonist J.Edward Oliver , in the 1970s music paper “Disc”. (Shows my age, I’m afraid)
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Aardvarko, it gives me great pleasure to know that you are a clueless fool
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Yellow card request here …. please ?????
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Chenier says:
“The whole broadband thing is a nightmare”
Hi Chenier, I am so relieved and happy to see you back with us……sharp and amusing as ever. I sure do sympathise re living with ‘Broadband and the ever tentative uncertainties of cyberspace reality ! Suppose it’s all of a piece with the general uncertainties of post-modernity ! I too, did a couple off weeks or so of leaving computer always on for the same reason as you…….then my joint fuel provider jacked up my electricity payment by £20 a month which I assumed must be directly connected. Would I be right does anyone know approx cost per hour of running a PC ? Still reckon it’s probably worth it for you right now……Might you opt for a new connection to ditch the ‘orrible Agent Orange ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Alipio Ribeiro, while I am on a roll Aardvarko, is not an investigating officer, he’s a desk jockey, whom the rank and file are not to happy with, you must try harder you are letting the standards of the barmy brigade look decidedly dodgy.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Aardvarko, well if you will post crap
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Well now that’s rather priceless ….. considering from whence it comes
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
503 Logic
Thank you logic. You know a lot about plants !
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Aardvarko may I ask personal question? Where are you from …. how did you come by your name? If you don’t want to answer, I understand …. wil maar net weet
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Aardvarko, well if you will post crap, where and when did anyone claim to “know” the twins or anyone else in the McCann steamroller………….do tell.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Ok just back from quiz night …. we won HANDS DOWN …. but I didn’t loose 5 year old, and he was good as gold ….. WTF am I doing wrong here?
Garthy, you still out to get me?????
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
517 Thank you so much Hedgeslammer for illustrating my point so clearly.
Why bother with debate when you can use mindless insults instead?
I will resist the temptation to stoop to your level!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Ian says:
“I have a friend who only reads the Daily Mirror..”
Ian, the people I am thinking of are another type….sophisticated, very sceptical anti ‘New Labour’, Spectator readers…….I suppose they must be numerically insignificant…..would love to know though……there are the xenophobia signs and nostalgic ‘little Englander’ sentiments which in previous decades I never would have expected to hear expressed by young, articulate and well read British parents……
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Aardvarko, it gives me great pleasure to know that you are a clueless fool, who like some others likes to tell people what they are thinking, PMSL at your continuous crap. You probably think Opinion is a place in China.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Garth 508.
Blimey… some dinner if you’ve been asleep since England lost!
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Re: the US election. Does anyone else think that Obama just looks so young? I’ve got tims in my cupboard older than him!
M and A
about 20?
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Good evening everybody. My PC has been on the blink but is alright now, “a women’s touch” was needed.
Arsenal won.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
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Carmen Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 am
Noseycow
Amazing isn’t it, how the use of humour on a satire site can cause offence!
I did reply to that poster for you, there were several other points that needed a reply.
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REPLY: Yes you did, Carmen, and thank you. “Satire” - I love that word “Satire”. I’m done much research on that word - the various definitions - asked friends their thoughts, views on satire. The one that really made me smile as to their interpretation on why one uses the word “satire” for what they say - ‘to cover one’s ass in what they are saying.’
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Clouseau, my dear fellow I do so appreciate life so much more, when the lower classes know their place, as I am sure a famed dick of your ilk would concur with.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
508 Garth Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
502 Peter O Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Is Garth especially grumpy today?
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Needed to sleep off a rather large roast dinner……..and just woke up! Grrrrrrrrrrr
…..and England lost!
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One could almost argue that they are all self imposed…… I generally feel much the same after Liverpool’s less than flattering performance, of which there have been many this year!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
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Increasingly Increduloous Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
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This point has been discussed at some length here, and now that there is a natty search feature on the site you can pull up those references very easily.
And I must go and nuke some food…
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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Peter O Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Is Garth especially grumpy today?
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Needed to sleep off a rather large roast dinner……..and just woke up! Grrrrrrrrrrr
…..and England lost!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
“About 9:10′ Gerry claims he was seeing Madeleine for the last time (several sources), at ‘about 9:15′ Jane Tanner said (on video) she saw an abductor, Gerry posted later on his blog that Tanner saw the abductor at 9:10.”
and of course a linnk would be of rather more use - plus, of course, some proof that this is what features in statements to the PJ….
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
they said: sensational u-turn in Madeleine case: the PJ admit to have acted with precipitation naming the couple “arguidos”… bla bla…
HOW THE F…… HELL MAY THE SPANISH PUBLIC TV GIVE THOSE “NEWS”, THE FIRST COMPLETELY UNNACEPTABLE (AS SEEN) AND THE OTHER COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT??? PLS ARREST THAT LIAR, THAT MANIPULATOR, SHAMELESS, LUDICROUS MCCANN SPOKEMAN!!!! Nnnoooooooo!!! It simply cannot be true such manipulation of public opinion
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Any clearer?
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
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Carmen Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Chenier
Glad to see you back.
We did try to e-mail you to find out how you were, to pass on the zillions of good wishes from all on the board, and to cheer you with the improbably rumour sweeping the board - occasioned by the untimely demise of one Jeremy Beadle in a London Hospital, just moments after your last posting - that you were in fact a small, fat, practical joker, now deceased……………
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Good grief.
Well I’m small, but fortunately not any of the others.
Not, of course, that there’s anything wrong with being fat, or a practical joker, or indeed dead.
Though possibly being a practical joker constitutes a fate worse than death…
I very much missed all the posters here, not to mention the institution of Anorak itself; M&A do an incredible job and it really sucks when I’m barred from the playground!