Madeleine McCann: Carlos Anjos Says, Clarence Mitchell Replies And The Daily Express Is Quiet
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THE SUN: “Maddie cops snub”
Carlos Anjos, head of the Portuguese Police Federation, says: “There are bigger problems in the police”, than the case of Madeleine McCann
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “Mr Anjos is entitled to his opinion but it is entirely unhelpful”
This the same Carlos Anjos who once noted:
“There is no criminal investigation which can feed a news frenzy for six months, so what we have seen are both English and Portuguese journalists behaving in a scandalous and unprofessional way. Writing terrible stories in the papers, some of which have clearly affected the McCanns… now we have to say that the McCanns are partly to blame for this. Because it was something they created”
And then one of the oddest lines yet seen in a newspaper:
“Meanwhile cops have ruled out a theory the four-year-old could have been snatched by Swiss pervert Urs Hans Von Aesch. He blew his chance in august after killing a girl of five”
Anyone care to explain that comment?
DAILY STAR: “FIND MADDIE? WE’VE GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO. HEAD COP BLASTS McCANN SEARCH”
Says Mr Anjos: “There are bigger problems than the Maddie case”
Why the Star should appear shocked at this seem unclear, given the tabloid stories of paedophilia being rife in Portugal
Says Mr Anjos: “I am certain that all of my colleagues involved in the investigation are doing everything they can to discover what happened”
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy’s ‘not our priority’”
Mr Anjos made his views known in Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas
MARI Luz Cortes – Still missing. Her father has posted a £110,000 reward, The paper reports that police are “scaling down the search”
DAILY MAIL: “Maddie? We’ve got bigger problems”
Says Mr Anjos: “But with respect, there are bigger problems in the Policia Judiciaria than the Madeleine case”
DAILY EXPRESS: NO MADELEINE NEWS – Which is the biggest Madeleine McCann news of the past six months
Madeleine McCann: hype, frenzy and speculation
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February 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
387 Julie Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
What flavour icecream would everyone like?
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Still catching up posts. I hope the ice creams didn’t melt. I don’t like ice creams, exept for the “waterijsjes” [made of water and lemonade, is it called water ice? dunno]. Melon please.
Well spotted, also nosey and dcb. Just returned form work and walking the puppy in the forest. Beautiful colours still and nobody around, no noices exept for the cracking of branches and a few birds.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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mrs pigeon aka brandon f Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Julie
Has to go to Mc Donalds first
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Brandon
I have to say………….. your firkin hilarious!
February 8th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Minister of Justice will be explained to Parliament
The CDS / PP, opposition party, called the hearing of the Minister of Justice in Parliament. The party of the right centrist wants to know the reasons why the Minister Alberto Costa has maintained its confidence in the national director of the Judicial Police after his controversial statements. Several parliamentarians, both from the government and the opposition, have expressed their surprise and displeasure about their declarations of Alipio Ribeiro.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Gonçalo Amaral was contacted by the journalist about an anonymous e-mail accusing a former employee of the Ocean Club. “The journalist or the inspector himself may have been manipulated,” our source confirmed that the police did its job, “both in Portugal than in the United Kingdom”, but the case “has become a political and diplomatic issue ‘or nobody want to lose face.
Manipulation or not, the journalist admits today its aversion to the case Madeleine: “I do not want to hear about more of this story.”
February 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Noseycow :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/11/wmaddy311.xml
9:30 p.m. Dr M Oldfield
February 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Despite an aggressive campaign in the British press against Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, coordinator of the Department of Criminal Investigation (DIC) Portimão, the head of the investigation of the disappearance Madeleine McCann has stood up to the month October. The publication by the Diário de Noticias of an article or Gonçalo Amaral reportedly accused the British police to work solely “on what the couple McCann and he claims it suits him,” led the National Director of the Judicial Police, Alipio Ribeiro, al’écarter of his duties: “That’s exactly what Clarence Mitchell had advocated,” says our source.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
ian - can we discuss this later?????
gone now…
February 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
“Comments from Murats lawyer regarding his status. Thought it was interesting….. it is actually stated that the PJ know that he never met Madeleine or her parents. (from the local Algarve paper)
so how can they justify keeping him an Arguido? ”
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I would have thought that because Mr Murat had been present to translate for at least one of the interviews and other ‘inside’ knowledge he might have surrounding the case it is only sensible to keep him as an Arguido.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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Julie Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Garth, how many more minutes before you go down to the local??
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Wot seems to be your problem?
But as you asked……..about 1900hrs gmt.
Setting up all the gear for tomorrow nights gig.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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noseycow
They have most certainly not confessed to neglect!
They say that there was no risk - that they checked regularly, they have been extremely careful never to say they regretted leaving her. So careful, in fact, that they got themselves into a corner with the 5 minute window of opportunity which Gerry has recently sought to remove (in my opinion) by posting on his blog a new time for Jane Tanners sigting which cancels it out and opens up the window of opportunity again.
Although we call it and see it as neglect, they do not and legally it wasnt, because the law is insufficient on the point (at least in England and Wales).
February 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown himself who recommended that David Miliband sending Clarence Mitchell Portugal as a delegate at the Foreign Office with the specific instruction to accompany the couple McCann and increase the pressure on authorities Portuguese.
“He had greater authority than the consul or ambassador… and he has not asked to use it,” said the same diplomat - who is no longer employed at Portugal today.
After a meeting between McCann and the Judicial Police, Clarence Mitchell had stressed - said the diplomat - “the inspector Gonçalo Amaral was an obstacle but that the press went to take care of him and eventually be rejected of the investigation. “
February 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Julie
Has to go to Mc Donalds first
February 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
NEWS NEWS NEWS
Alipio about to be FIRED!
Hail to the PJ
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1304695,00.html?f=rss
February 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
must dash be back later
happy sleuthing flirting all
February 8th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
“The Portuguese justice is doing his work and British consular services are doing their duty,” Miliband told the agency EFE on the sidelines of the meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union to Portugal.
Although the subject remains sensitive, both in Portugal and the United Kingdom, the diplomat maintaining its assertions: “Labour delegates from the Foreign Office, especially that of Clarence Mitchell, has affected the smooth conduct of the investigation”.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Garth, how many more minutes before you go down to the local??
February 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
who did say the apartment seemed lighter???? i think it was matt wasn’t it - but he hadn’t been in the apartment before so what’s he comparing it to???
February 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
David Miliband, the Minister for Foreign Affairs British present in Portugal at the time of interviews with Kate and Gerry McCann, was informed in advance by its Portuguese congener of the Portuguese authorities’ intention to set up the couple as arguidos and arrest prominent Kate McCann. “It’s the minister who had given instructions to the Consulate of Portimão to negotiate the departure of McCann, ensuring that there would be no preventive prison”, accusing one of the diplomats who had treated the case to the time, adding “usually it is not our official role.”
February 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Perhaps Messrs Anorak would be so kind and obliging as to provide us with a post counter, that would save the trouble of us having to wait for very valued posters to go back and count how many posts others are making?
February 8th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
British Pressures “on affected the smooth conduct of the investigation”
February 8th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
brandon - lucky you
February 8th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
472
Ian Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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February 8th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
471
can’t say no
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February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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Ian Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
436 noseycow
Well, we have to think like they do (which is difficult!).
All their words are carefully chosen to esnure they avoid a legal charge of neglect. Doctors are of course well aware of the requirements for charges of child abuse and neglect.
This in itself is revealing as it means they were immediately in a defensive stance at a point when most parents would have thrown caution to the wind to recover their lost child. It illustrates that their thoughts were not completely focussed on recovering their daughter.
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Sorry mate but you live in cloud bleedin cuckoo
February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
427 Man on a hill
I also have a mac and use safari. I am not very good, yet I can make links.
- If you copy the link, you put the pointer on the left, press, and go along to the right until it is sort of lit. Then in the menu, you go to “edition” (the 3rd from the left), and click on “copy”. Then you bring the pointer where you want the link to be, click. Then, in the menu go to the same place (”edition”, 3rd from the left), click on paste.
- Other way :
you just type http://name of site ….//. When you send it, either by mail or in a post, it turns blue, and it works as a link.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
466 Katy
Sorry dog jumped up!
Sky news online…says he is for the chop.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
nosey
I think she fancies me
she’s obssessed 
February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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Rockhopper
Not your lack of attention, but mine! I though the request had come from a certain pro-mccanner and not our own sweet nosey one!
Apologies for confusing.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
For those ,who know french ,please go to SOS Madeleine !!
February 8th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
466 Katy