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 9:47 pm
666bmMarie Nicholas
No I didn”t know, but I don”t eat them anyway, thanks for the info. I have a list of what to eat and what not to eat. I have made concessions but life would be so boring if you stuck to
rigid guidelines so I do indulge in chocolate occasionally. To my mind nearly everything
we eat today is full of preservatives etc that it has been proved that foods prepared in the
“old” days were 40% more nutritious that what we eat now.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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Peter O Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
601 Saul Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Clarence Mitchell forms his opinions on what he sees and hears, not unlike all the other posters on here.
The major differences being, he has a wider audience, plus he is very highly paid for it.
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As others have remarked, he isn’t actually that highly paid, but I do understand your point in this respect.
He is not expressing an opinion, he is informing what he hops is a largely gullible/apathetic public via a compliant media what it is he wants them to believe. Forums like Anorak are an irritation to people like Clarence.
He is not informing me anything, I am perfectly capable of forming my own opinion on infomation I receive, however I would be delighted to be as poorly paid as he is.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
596 Aardvarko Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Peter 592 - I want him silenced. I think you would too if you were the object of his bile.
I realise mods and admin are not around as much on a Sunday evening, but I’ll keep attempting to bring it to their attention.
This guy can’t be allowed to carry on like this!
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Compared to some I have encountered in here Sledgehammer is positively courteous!
Be careful what you wish for. I’m sure there is nothing more that posters like Sledgehammer, and his kith and kin, would like than if we were unable to discuss openly the fate of an innocent three year old girl, Madeleine McCann.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Bountyhunter 668
Somebody (who I think was close to the case) told Anorak once: over the border 16th May, red car, crack in windscreen, LWS.
Which I took to mean Spain because a car was involved - but I don’t think we ever worked out what LWS meant.
London Waterloo Station? Lightweight Seat? Low Spring Water? Someone’s initials? A route?
Like everyone else I gave up trying to work it out.
Going now.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
681,Ian, Big news day friday 1130am…….
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
666 Marie Nicholas
I forgot to comment on coconut. Coconut is definitely a hard fat, the hardest one I can think of. That’s why it’s used for dry skin conditions. And the fat is saturated even though it’s a vegetable fat. However, research does not show that it causes atheromatous build-up in the arteries - JUST THE OPPOSITE. In cultures (like on tropical islands) where they eat loads of coconut fat, heart disease is especially low. So it doesn’t seem as though there’s a need to worry about our friend the coconut either.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
633 you are greatly mistaken. It was not I who corrected your nonsense and well you know it, post 83.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
601 Saul Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Clarence Mitchell forms his opinions on what he sees and hears, not unlike all the other posters on here.
The major differences being, he has a wider audience, plus he is very highly paid for it.
Edit….
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As others have remarked, he isn’t actually that highly paid, but I do understand your point in this respect.
He is not expressing an opinion, he is informing what he hops is a largely gullible/apathetic public via a compliant media what it is he wants them to believe. Forums like Anorak are an irritation to people like Clarence.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
656
REPORTER
Whinning?
Crumbs, I’d so hate to find sledgehammers awful unstructured posts as rewarding as you do.
They shoot horses, dont they?
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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Logic Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Just changing the subject - I think that the picture of Madeleine riding her tricycle looks very different to the other pictures we’ve seen of her. I’m not doubting it’s her - but I do think facially she looks different. What do other think?
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I’ve seen that pic before but studied it in more detail this morning as it was on the thread and found it hard to believe it was M. She does look different and I thought the features are not similar to the Maddie we have seen in the usual pics. When looking at a compilation of photos of M sometimes it looks like two similar but different little girls…odd IMO
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
667
slyfox
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Got you this afternoon ok. pickle or truffle same thing, but where is it ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
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Saul Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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Logic Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Saul
Is it nice in BORO? Is it sunny or rainy? Is everyone happy and unstressed?
It is a much maligned place, however I am very proud of it, I can’t think of a place to find more genuine people.
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I think Newcastle might argue on that one…
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Marie Nicholas 666
Avocados are very oily and high calorie but contain monounsaturated fats, amongst other types, that have actually been shown to lower the bad cholesterol (LDL - low density lipoprotein) whilst not lowering the good cholesterol (HDL - high density lipoprotein). So probably not good for weight loss but wonderfully good for everything else - and are actually GOOD for your total cholesterol levels.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
659 Châtelaine
Ask your Maman about perks to influential people.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Saul Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Here is something to put things right regarding The Boro
nice one mate……
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
663
Saul Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
“Here is something to put things right regarding The Boro”
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Sorry Saul, but for a non UK person this might have come from Mars …
Did you notice one of the comments?
“Classic case of a talentless individual building his part up! I have to smile at the studio ‘experts’ who laugh along, but they’re really thinking ‘what a Tosser’!”
Ehhh
;-( [cannot chose...]
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Can I just clarify my position, because one or two people may have misunderstood me today?
I agree with Sledgie and Reporter that the case seems to be heading for the buffers. But that’s not to say I like the situation - cos I DON’T.
All that can save the case now I think is what I would call that “Pickles moment” - that being a reference to Pickles the dog who found the World Cup quite by chance after it was stolen in 1966. In other words, serendipity, an unexpected piece of good luck.
And to adapt what the IRA said to Mrs Thatcher after the Brigton bombing: Maddy’s killers have to stay lucky each and every day, for the rest of their lives.
The PJ only have to get lucky once.
Bye for now.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
656
REPORTER Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
What is it about you people, whinning to mods about a guy, who is only stating his opinion. For the record I agree with everything he has said, including the muppet distorting posts. I know who I would rather have at my back. Ribeiros a dead man wakking, his subs don’t like or rate him.
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It would be nice if you would specify which of Anorak’s numerous contributors constitute the ‘you people’.
In the meantime I shall be conducting intensive research as to what a ‘dead man wakking’ is.
My initial view is that it’s one of the herbs we’ve been discussing, but I fully appreciate that I may be wrong…
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Chatelaine says:
“Nice name, b.t.w., False Flag ;-)”
Heh heh heh
Thanks i like yours an all !
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
636 Logic Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Chenier
Do you think Clarence will deserve a bonus as well?
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Absolutely! Six figures, local job centre (or whatever they are called these days) phone number!
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Yes we must let them wallow in their ignorance, if they are unable to add two plus two.
any predictions about where that truffle has been hidden ?
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Evening!
Big Big news day today eh?
NOT
Even their most ardent supporter Rebecca Wade editor of NOTW, most vocal about her convinction of their innocence, didn’t buy the CM spin. No front page spread, no centre page spread - correct me I’m wrong.
Ho Hum
Plus anyone noticed that she, as the editor, has the final say on the reward they set up, but only after talking to the PORTUGUESE authorities.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
653 Val
If you have cholesterol, do you know that avocado and coconut are full of it?
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
658
Marie Nicholas Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
“630 Châtelaine
I very seldom drink white wine because it is really bad for me, though I like Alsace wine and Pouilly. It gives me some sort of rhumatism, it is bad for articulations. [...] When a wine is very good, and flows smoothly into the throat, do you know the saying according to which it is : “Le petit Jésus en culottes de velours” “Baby Jesus with his velvet pants”[...]”
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I NEVER drink white since I found out many years ago that I not only don’t like it, but that it depresses me.
Regarding a good taste in Holland we say “An angel just peed on my tongue” …
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Once again.. (before going to dinner. Yes, 22,30 its dinner time in Spain!)
Two weeks ago, the news spread the skecth of the poor unknown (the creepy) stating this: THIS MEN THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR SCREEN HAS LIKELY SNATCHED MADELEINE MCCANN, BLA BLA AND ANY CLUE MAS BE REPORTED TO 34-902…… (petardo 3 hot line)
Can you believe it???
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Here is something to put things right regarding The Boro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdBuDSEokz0
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
66i MrsT
you’re even
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
now because of the CIA fliths we need to do something, get aut the arguido status from the family my be is wath we need
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Sorry Chenier …. I’m glad to see you back.
Even though I don’t post very often, I do enjoy reading your posts and you have definately been missed