Madeleine McCann: Scare Stories, Kate McCann’s Job And No Mari Luz
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
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 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Hi Jo
February 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Jo
“”I am aware that they requested Yeremi Vargas’ parents’s permission to use his image, why would they just presume they had our permission too, why didn’t they ask us? ”
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Is this true ????
February 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Thanks for responding, Cheryl.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
night brandon x
February 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
548
brandon flours
Nite
February 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Hi jo
- thank-you ( you know what I mean 
)
February 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
“Portuguese police looking for Madeleine and the McCann’s own private investigators Metado 3 have looked at both cases in connection with her disappearance. ”
More lies
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What a laugh
February 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Sorry, Jolie, just went back and read yours again, wasn’t deliberately not answering it fully.
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Jolie Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Do you think Clarence Mitchell’s explanation that the Cortes parents had given a blanket approval of ‘anything you can do to help’ will help the McCanns avoid legal trouble? Will it protect them from negative public opinion? Will people take a negative view of the Cortes parents because of his comments?
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I don’t think there will be legal troubles as long as any posters, which may have gotten out, are withdrawn. Everyone has tunnel vision against the Mccanns who think they had a ‘hands on’ in the child’s actual disappearance and they’ll look for or rather best said ‘hope for’ legal problems against the Mccanns in the Cortes issue re the posters. I honestly don’t believe anything sinister was meant in the MCanns offer to help them. I don’t take any negative view of the Cortes parents at all - I can fully understand why they don’t want drawn into the mess by accepting help and subjecting themselves personally to possible vicious rumours.
It is a pity that they have to turn their help down because over here posters of missing children are located everywhere one goes, I’ve even seen them on back of buses. And they have actually helped to find children missing.
So, do I think there will be trouble over this? NO. Well, I’ll qualify that by saying the only trouble that may occur will be by speculations and innuedoes which will soon become ‘bible’!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Night everyone
February 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
313 Jolie
334 Marie Nicholas
I like your posts too. As well as Fairs and Maria’s [whom I've missed again] and many many more. That’s what keeps me here.
Re conspiracies: I do believe in conspiracies of the government. I do believe 9/11 [or 11/9] could be part of a conspiracy. Never trusted it. Bush was still fighting Gore over presidency [remember Floriday, where brother dear is governeur?]. After 9/11 the fight suddenly was over, everybody was supporting ‘their’ president. And look what it’s done to freedom? Normal passengers even have to put of their shoes to be checked, while I’m sure they’ve never found a terrorist by that decree. [silly example I know, but easy to translate
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February 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
541
jo
February 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
542
Pilimary
Till later
February 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hey, Jo
Have you seen this latest article in The Daily Mail from today about the Cortes family’s objections to the posters? Yes, the UK press has picked up on the story, surprise, surprise.
Some of the reader comments at the end are casting aspersions on the Corteses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=515636&in_page_id=1811
February 18th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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Jolie
The Mari Luz parents don’t want ,and never wanted any connection ,with the team Mccann
They are not stupid
They didn’t even knew about the posters
February 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
CSN
Not by the moment. Let’s see…
Pitty pitty I gotta go
SY ASAP
February 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
530
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Pilimary
?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Totje
Believe me, they have nothing to do (m3), there is no case, and they know it. They kno they have nobody to look for, everything is a big farse, a money (& publicity, marketing) matter
February 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
531 CSN
So you’re saying that the cost was completely borne by the Find Madeleine Fund?
and no attempt has been made to be reimbursed by the other parents?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
good afternoon all
February 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
530
Pilimary
I think you should do something
February 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
530
Pilimary
Did you talk with your family about that ?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Jolie
I don’t think that the parents of J and ML had paid a single euro. The three cases, anyway, don’t have anything to do one another
February 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
435 Chloe Spain
Local politicians aren’t part of ‘the big picture’ nevertheless they are also involved in [small] conspiracies. At least that’s my experience so far. Think of who’s allowed to do the cleaning of the town hall [for instance] or the painting. And look at the links between these companies and the local politicians. Most of the time you will find some links [friends, family, friend of a friend etc.].
February 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Some of us do think that the M3 have plenty of time on their hands to investigate others on behalf of the McCanns, since they really do not have to be looking for poor Madeleine, as her parents likely already know of her disposition.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
530
Pilimary
I in return was spammed
February 18th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
528
Jolie
What a crap they wrote there
February 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
CSN JOLIE
I cannot do it now, but I can look for my last message to them and reproduce it here. I think it wasn’t very insulting, but hard enough
After that message I receive the mail fro M3 asking QUIEN ERES? and the telephone started sounding strangely…
Im not jocking, those two are dangerous
February 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
527 Pilimary
Yes, not getting the police involved is probably better, particularly if you wrote something really terrible to the McCanns.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
513 Can’t Say No
Here’s the sentence from the article in the Spanish paper I was referring to:
“The news agency noted his comment that the press in Portugal is reporting that the cost of the poster campaign is being met with 4,000 € from each family.”
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15143.shtml
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I interpret that to mean that the Cortes and Vargas families were expected to pay the McCanns for a portion of the cost.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Jolie
Seriously
No, I didn’t do anything. My telephone shounds “pinchado” sometimes, but others it sounds normal. If the strange sound lasts too much, Ill ask for the police, but better do nothing