Madeleine McCann: Scare Stories, Kate McCann’s Job And No Mari Luz
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DAILY EXPRESS: “FIVE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPS LINK TO MADELEINE CASE”
“Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are now investigating a spate of attempted child abductions across Portugal.
“At least five kidnap attempts have been reported in the past month, leading officers from the Madeleine team to examine the details for possible connections.”
What of the headline “link” to Madeleine McCann – well, the alleged attempted kidnappings all occurred in Portugal
But “Last week Justice Minister Alberto Costa revealed that the head detective, Paulo Rebelo, was coming to the end of his case”, says the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It’s alarming to hear that this sort of thing can happen, particularly in a country that is so aware of the potential for abduction”
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy: 5 scares in Portugal”
Police searching for Madeleine McCann are also investigating five attempted child abductions in northern Portugal. They began when a nine-year-old girl was bundled into a car as she got off her school bus. Two more children were attacked last month and last Thursday two men tried to lure a girl of nine into a car. Last Saturday, another child escaped abduction. One police source said: “It is causing a lot of alarm.”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine McCann’s disappearance is ‘linked to a string of child abductions’”
Police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have been alerted over a spate of attempted child abductions in northern Portugal, it has been revealed. At least four children have been targeted in the last month in the region of Coimbra, where a nine-year-old girl escaped from an abductor in December.
It’s five children. The Express and Mirror both say its five
KATE McCANN: “Meanwhile, it is understood Kate McCann is quitting her job as a locum GP to devote her life to children’s charities. Mrs McCann has not returned to work since Madeleine’s disappearance in May and has reportedly told friends she feels she has a lot to offer charity organisations.
THE SCOTSMAN: “Torment of Madeleine’s family ‘is like being crucified’”
Kate McCann’s mother Susan Healey says: “It is almost like being crucified day to day. I read the most stupid things about Kate not crying enough or whatever”
Adding: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them. If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to Madeleine, we have to find out. There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance”
Gerry McCann is a “surgeon”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Missing Amy’s parents offer cash reward”
The parents of missing Irish expat Amy Fitzpatrick have offered a cash reward for information on her whereabouts. Franco Rey, spokesman for Amy’s Stepfather David Mahon and Amy’s mum Audrey, said: “A substantial reward is on offer to anyone who can provide reliable information on Amy’s whereabouts. Any information received will be treated within the strictest confidence.”
And:
Dubliner Mr Mahon (36) has also travelled to Tangiers in northern Morocco to investigate the possibility the teenager was snatched and taken to Africa.
Rewards have also been offered for missing Briton Madeleine McCann and missing Spanish girl Mari Luz Cortes. The family of five-year-old Mari Luz, snatched from her home in Huelva in south-west Spain on January 13, is offering €300,000 for information on her whereabouts. Rewards totalling £2.6m were offered within 10 days of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on May 3 last year from the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz.
TYPICALLY SPANISH: “parents of missing Mari Luz are against her image being used in a Madeleine McCann poster campaign”
Mari Luz’s father, Juan José Cortés, said after a meeting with Manuel Chaves, President of the Junta de Andalucía, this weekend, that, while he is not against collaborating in the search for Madeleine and ‘even helping to draw up a poster of all the missing youngsters,’ the lines of investigation into the disappearance of the two young girls are distinct, and are being carried out in two separate countries. EFE [Spanish news agency] said he is considering taking legal action for using his daughter’s image for the campaign.
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February 19th, 2008 at 3:33 am
1047 Karen Said:
February 19th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Watched the Zeitgeist movie they’ve all been banging on about.
All fairly reasonable till they invariably get to the shadowy powers/international bankers bit (or the World Jewish Conspiracy to give it it’s usual title).
It’s depressing people still fall for this bigoted stuff.
I guess they’d burn witches if the crops failed.
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Wow, Karen, wow.
Never once in the entire second half of the Zeitgeist movie that discussed politics, wars, international bankers, etc., did race or ethnicity get mentioned.
Interesting that you would bring it up, though, and cry bigotry by implying that the movie did so.
Is that the way you deal with people you disagree with–throw out dishonest statements and then paint your opponents in such wide brush strokes, you’d go as far as saying they’re ignorant enough to burn witches? Wow.
Either you’re doing this because you don’t know any better and it’s a conditioned reflex you’ve been taught or maybe you have deeper reasons. It really doesn’t matter to me.
Truth matters to me. I lose respect for people who are dishonest and unnecessarily rude.
I just wanted to set the record straight about Zeitgeist the movie.
Not all people who believe in one conspiracy theory or another or even several of them all believe the same things, just as not all Republicans think alike or Democrats, or Christians, or Jews. Name calling isn’t part of intelligent debate.
And cries of bigotry and racism shouldn’t keep people from searching for the truth or exempt other people’s from being examined and analyzed.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:03 am
I have to go now, maybe we can talk another time.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:59 am
This has been debated by many people here.
f you believe someone abducted Madeleine then you are entitled to that opinion.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:53 am
1062
Saul Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:47 am
I agree totally with you Cheryl, a lot of high ranking people have a lot to hide.
However, this is a case of a child on holiday, far away from the reaches of organised people. Don’t be deflected by people with their own agendas.
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I’m not talking child trafficking, Saul, I’m talking a paedophile who works alone. The UK even sent the Portugese authorities their list of ones who go over there. One could have gone from anywhere to there or even be from there. A resort, families with children…prime target place.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:47 am
I agree totally with you Cheryl, a lot of high ranking people have a lot to hide.
However, this is a case of a child on holiday, far away from the reaches of organised people. Don’t be deflected by people with their own agendas.
Garth is entitled to his own opinion, and states it very well, but that doesn’t make it right.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:38 am
1060
Saul Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Cheryl,
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Saul, we have so many cases over here one could write the script on how they operate. I’m not being swayed by Gandolf at all, I’ve just be surprised to find someone else on here (Gandolf) with some thoughts like mine. People laugh at Garth on here but I don’t but I keep my mouth shut.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Cheryl,
I think you are maybe a little naive. Paedophilia is a problem worldwide, but I don’t think Portugal is the epicentre.
The far east is very welcoming to people like this, well documented in the media.
People like Gandolf are here only to create mischief. They don’t need any help from unsuspecting people like yourself.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:28 am
1058
Saul Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Cheryl, it doesn’t matter what my stand is. I was just curious what you meant by the link you posted.
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I posted the link to Gandolf as he has posted one or two on here which shows the paedophile ‘action’ (for lack of a better word) in Portugal. Saul, the very day I heard the news of that young child’s being missing I did an immediate search on any paedophile activity in Portugal. It had all the ear marks of one.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Cheryl, it doesn’t matter what my stand is. I was just curious what you meant by the link you posted.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:18 am
1056
Saul Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Yes
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Okay, I honestly don’t know your ’stand’ on this case but I have my thoughts on it and actually thought through another theory which didn’t hold water in my own mind after I analyzed it. But I refuse to get into debates on here with the hard anti-mccanns. I got burnt doing that one time - I actually tried to explain something to them and it got taken out of context, twisted around and soon became ‘bible’ on here to suit their purposes. But I’m willing talk with you if we can keep an open mind between us.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Yes
February 19th, 2008 at 2:13 am
1054
Saul Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:09 am
And?
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Was the “And?” directed at me, Saul?
February 19th, 2008 at 2:09 am
And?
February 19th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Gandolf, here is another one I ran across - very interesting reading. You’ll note at the bottom of the article 31 children were missing in Portugal the year before (article written in May 2007).
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37797
February 19th, 2008 at 1:52 am
That’s a relief.
However I look forward to talking with Lex.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Saul
You are
It’s late. I can’t do grammar anymore.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Saul
I’m sure your not a pod-person.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Marie Nicholas
There’s no need to say sorry - I don’t mind.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Karen, I can assure you, I am not a “pod person”. I saw your discussions earlier. It is a pity that people see conspiracy theories and immediately take it as fact
February 19th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Watched the Zeitgeist movie they’ve all been banging on about.
All fairly reasonable till they invariably get to the shadowy powers/international bankers bit (or the World Jewish Conspiracy to give it it’s usual title).
It’s depressing people still fall for this bigoted stuff.
I guess they’d burn witches if the crops failed.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:16 am
1018
Lex Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Saul is one of the pod-people too?
I don’t know if I am disappointed or angry.
I googled “pod-person”.
I am only one person, I know M&A can confirm this.
Lex, you are off my Xmas card list.
Care to joust some time?
February 19th, 2008 at 1:13 am
1043
can’t say no
Have you heard of pacheco nº1?
February 19th, 2008 at 1:11 am
1041
csn
I like catching them out and pressing them, they seem very limited - only Garth seems to have any ‘life’.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:05 am
920
:lol:
Abraham Zapruder
February 19th, 2008 at 12:57 am
I am just going outside and I may be some time.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am
1034
Ian
I don’t even read their posts
Do like me
February 19th, 2008 at 12:51 am
1034
Ian
I have told you before ,ignore this people,they are only losers
February 19th, 2008 at 12:50 am
As for this case
Pathetic ,as those who support this couple
February 19th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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Lex Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I imagine that people across Europe think of the McConns the same way foreigners think of America and Britain after the invasion of Iraq - rich bullies who only care about themselves and don’t care whose lives they destroy.
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Britain
rich bullies
Yep
There is 1 old Portuguese quote about the British ,as every country has
“Isso é para Ingles ver “
February 19th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Brandon, did you go to bed?
I’m off soon too.
Goodnight. 