Madeleine McCann: A Pundit Says, Judge Eurico Reis Orders And The Sun Omits
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “Shut up: Maddie cop by judge”
Police national director Alipio Ribeiro “stunned his men” by “admitting” the decision to make “doctors” Kate and Gerry McCann suspects was “hasty”
Judge Eurico Reis said it is “not the cop’s role to publicly comment on cases under investigation. The judge raged: ‘It is his duty to SHUT UP.’”
And: “Portugal’s top prosecutor Antonio Cluny branded Ribeiro’s comment ‘extremely worrying’” – Why worrying? Because of what he said? Or because a policeman has given his personal views about an ongoing case? The Sun fails to make this clear
The McCanns spokesman tells us: “You cannot have the head of the police force openly questioning the validity of the way in which they were made suspects and then not have a review”
Can’t you? Can someone expert in Portuguese law tells us if you can or cannot…
FERGUS Shanahan: “COPS SO WRONG”
Alipis Ribero is on the radiop. Says Shanahan: “In effect, Mr Ribeiro is saying: ‘We never had any evidence agsint Kate and Gerry. We didn’t take Madeleine’s disappearance seriously… Some of our detectives thought Kate and Gerry looked dodgy. So we made them suspects and hoped something might turn up.”
The tabloids, meanwhile, look at “creepy” Robert Murat, also a suspect - you know, the one the Sun calls an “oddball“
DAILY STAR: “BLOW FOR MADDIE PARENTS”
“TORMENTED Kate and Gerry McCann are to remain official suspects over their daughter’s disappearance. They hoped to have their ‘arguido’ status lifted after Portugal’s top cop Alipio Ribeiro admitted it may have been a mistake to put them in the frame. But government legal advisers yesterday denied they were planning to clear their names”
So the personal views of a policeman are not a deciding factor in an ongoing investigation?
“The 39-year-olds may be considered suspects for as long as the investigation continues – possibly years”
Read all about it!
DAILY MIRROR: “STILL SUSPECTS – Maddy probe team in row over letting McCanns off hook”
Says Judge Eurico Reis: “This case has had more than enough media exposure”
Mr Ribeiro is on the radio…
Says “media pundit” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: “He killed the investigation when he said there was haste in making the McCanns arguidos in the case”
Says Antonio Cluny, who we heard from earlier in the Sun: “I don’t know if he’s right or not but this conduct of speaking about pending cases is extremely worrying”
Why did the Sun end its Mr Cluny quote short?
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: “Madeleine McCann: Liverpool grandad hoping for a miracle”
Says Mr Healy: “Like most people I would like to think that if there is a spark of hope I have to hang on to it. They haven’t found anything yet. We have to believe a miracle can happen. I still believe she is alive and until someone tells me different I will believe”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Maddy’s grandad hopes for miracle”
Brian Healey says he is pleased that “Alipio Rebeiro, national director of the Policia Judiciaria, said detectives were too hasty in making the couple suspects over their daughter’s disappearance”
Says he: “I am glad he has said it, it will get things moving to reinstate the fact they’re innocent”
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February 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
RR,
don’t know what’s going on. Don’t know if I’m allowed to ask you to call round? It would be nice though. x So, you go to Birmingham tomorrow?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
shame it would have been nice to see you 
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im only in brum until friday afternoon
February 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
725 Batman
The 3 Arguidos site. The one created out of the demise of the Mirror Forum.
M&A
Hope it’s ok to say this?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Anyone know what this little boy looks like?
Maybe it would have been more worthwhile to issue 1,000,000 posters of him rather than reissue more of a girl who will never be found.
But what would mean………..sharing………………………eeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk
February 5th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Good post by Bugalugs1970 3A
Alledgedly a “criminal profiler ”
http://www.the3arguidos.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3105
February 5th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
726
RedRooster Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
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Yes I know !
February 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
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dcb Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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most of whats on here is just general chat ffs….
February 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Christine what is 3A please?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
There’s a photo of G McC holding a very new born baby M (apparently) with a glass of wine on 3 A. Where the hell do these photos come from? Is there a plumber on the forum? I suspect a leak…..
February 5th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
708 Willo
So I presume, because the McConns wish to support the search for Jeremy Vargas and make sure that he is not forgotten, they will be offering - not only the services of M3 (reknowned child finders) but also some financial support.
As well as Gordie B’s mobile number - just in case
February 5th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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willo Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Any thoughts on this report from the Daily Record?
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CLARENCE ?? JUNE 1st 2007
From Times Online
June 1, 2007
McCanns call on Spanish to investigate child abduction link
The parents of Madeleine McCann today called on Spanish authorities to investigate the possibility that her abduction could be linked to other cases of child disappearances in their country.
Speaking in Madrid, where they spent the day trying to raise awareness of Madeleine’s case, Gerry McCann said he hoped Spanish police would become intimately involved the search for their daughter. He also pointed to the recent disappearance of a 7-year-old boy, Yeremi Vargas, the second child to have gone missing from Spain’s Canary Islands in less than a year.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
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Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
RR,
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dont know how long for though 
yeah babe ?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
717
Good idea, dcb, but wouldn’t that take up bandwidth?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
714
RedRooster
Already got your e-mail and you’ll never disappear from my life RR.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
710
Grande Finale Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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Or maybe Anorak could open a new non topic related thread just for general chat?
Mods and Admin
we do have the forums
February 5th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
RR,
you still there?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
708
Thanks for that, Willo. Not sure I believe that as the cases still seem different to me, but oh well.
(first difference is the whole, kidnapped while playing outside, possibly alone?)
710
February 5th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
709
Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
RR,
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if i suddenly dissapear you’ll know why??? 
no problem babe but do me a favour make a note of my email just in case. Someone here is playing silly buggers hey carmen and unfortunately she doesnt play fair… so just incase she decides to “remove me” it would be nice to stay in touch
February 5th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
685 Logic
Thanks for your post (I think it was Sunday evening). I’m off to the health shop. Gonna get me some of that Q-10 stuff.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
RR, I will e-mail you , don’t know what’s going on. Half term up here at the weekend and no problem for me to drive to Birmingham.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
meritocracy = elitism
A government or society in which citizens who display superior achievement are rewarded with positions of leadership. In a meritocracy, all citizens have the opportunity to be recognized and advanced in proportion to their abilities and accomplishments. The ideal of meritocracy has become controversial because of its association with the use of tests of intellectual ability, such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, to regulate admissions to elite colleges and universities. Many contend that an individual’s performance on these tests reflects his or her social class and family environment more than ability.
Not a good way to admit to moderating, don’t you think, more than a hint of self congratulation there.
Mods and Admin
In your opinion, maybe
February 5th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
556 Portia
Now I see what you mean. I would say that anything that is in the public domain definitely won’t tell a story that the McC’s would not like to portray, so I’d say, that the photo is just that a photo. And yes, kids at that age stick their tongues out.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Just delurking to add what I think may be a constructive suggestion, could more private conflabs be taken to a quieter thread maybe as below ? (no inference meant by the title)
http://www.anorak.co.uk/money/180108.html
February 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
RR,
don’t know what’s going on but the e-mail part was added on to my post . I didn’t type it.
Not that I won’t e-mail you but that was added in.
Mods and Admin
Sorry that was me, i have emailed you, check BULK its subject is June at Anorak,just explaining something
February 5th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Any thoughts on this report from the Daily Record?
It’s only taken 9 months to establish a link and feed the media another line when they were in contact in May ‘07!!! Pfffft
Spanish Cops Link Missing Boy To Madeleine McCann
Feb 4 2008 By Emily Nash
POLICE searching for a missing seven-year-old boy in Spain are linking it with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Jeremy Vargas vanished from his home in Gran Canaria just eight weeks before four-year-old Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz.
Detectives hunting for the boy have told his parents they are now working closely with cops in Portugal.
The development adds weight to Kate and Gerry McCanns’ insistence that their daughter was abducted - and that they were not responsible.
The link between the cases was revealed as dive teams searched a murky reservoir for Madeleine’s body.
Jeremy’s mother Ithaisa Suarez, 24, told yesterday of the striking similarities between the two cases - and her belief that both children may still be alive.
She said: “The specialist police team from Madrid have told me that they have been in contact with the Portuguese police investigating Madeleine. They are working on the theory that people involved in child trafficking are behind these cases.”
Jeremy was playing on wasteground behind his home when he disappeared on March 10 last year.
Ithaisa insists both Jeremy and Madeleine, four, were snatched to order and likely sold on by a ruthless gang.
She was the first mother in similar anguished circumstances to write to the McCanns, both 39, when Madeleine disappeared last May. The two griefstricken families exchanged a series of letters.
Ithaisa wants to meet Kate and Gerry, as well as the parents of missing Mari Luz Cortes from Huelva, Spain, to present a united front in drawing international attention to their plight.
She said: “We need to stick together and make sure people understand we have not given up on our children being found.”
Clarence Mitchell, the McCann family spokesman, said: “We are very grateful to the Vargas family for their continued support.
“Kate and Gerry have Jeremy in their thoughts an awful lot of the time.”
February 5th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Ciara-Louise
email me babe
therealredrooster@yahoo.com
February 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I’ll email you now ok
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Why was this edited into my last post??
February 5th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
why is carmen being nasty??
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whats going on ??
February 5th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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Carmen Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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why the childish behaviour carmen ??
February 5th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I dunno … men and multi-tasking … just don’t go together
