Madeleine McCann: Melissa Fiering Sees, An Algerian And Waldo
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE SEEN IN FRANCE”
“Eye-defect girl in cafe” – Why do they stare, daddy?
DAILY MIRROR: “I SPOTTED MADDY AT CAFE IN FRANCE”
A picture of Melissa.
“’This is so significant because the girl noticed the blemish in the eye and it’s on CCTV for first time’ - McCANN FAMILY SPOKESMAN CLARENCE MITCHELL LAST NIGHT”
This is the Mirror’s “EXCLUSIVE THE HUNT FOR MADELEINE”
To France:
“The little girl was spotted in a motorway service station cafe by student Melissa Fiering, 18, who insists she clearly saw the distinctive flaw in her right iris”
Says Melissa: “My friend and I had music playing loudly out of our mobile phones and this little girl was dancing to it. It was only when I looked closely at her I realised it was Madeleine. She had a very thin face and her blonde hair had been cut much shorter, down to her jaw. But it was her”
Why so certain?
“I looked in her eye because I’d seen on TV that Madeleine’s got a defect in her right iris and I saw this girl had it. I could hardly believe my eyes but I knew for sure it was Madeleine. I called out her name and she looked up at me - she obviously recognised it”
Obviously. Dancing with a small child and then you shout out a name and she looks at you…
“But when I called out ‘Madeleine’ the man she was with got worried and started dragging her away from the queue”
The man with Madeleine is described as a “dark-skinned man, who was possibly Algerian”. Blonde girl with dark-skinned man. Like her?
What did Melissa do when he was spotted, this swarthy man?
“As he dragged the girl away he threw a white coat over her and pulled a woollen hat from his pocket and jammed it on her head. Melissa adds: ‘He didn’t say a word but as they got to the door he prodded the girl in the back. I tried to take pictures on my phone but I only got one and it was all blurred. I ran outside after them but they’d vanished”
Vanished?
“WE HAVE THE GUN THAT KILLED RHYS”
Rhys Jones was killed in Liverpool, shot by a youth on a bike
“Rhys’s mum Melanie, 42, and dad Stephen, 45, who have received a message of sympathy from Madeleine McCann’s family, issued a statement for tomorrow’s six-month anniversary of the shooting”
Why do we know this?
The message says: “We are still struggling to come to terms with the loss of our beautiful son Rhys. The pain we have had to face every day has been magnified by the poignancy of occasions like Christmas and Rhys’s 12th birthday. The last six months have been a living nightmare. All we want is justice for our son”
Rhys Jones is murdered in Liverpool. Rhys Jones was 11 years old. His parents are not suspects
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE IN NEW ‘SIGHTING’ AT RESTAURANT”
Dutch woman. A restaurant? Not a therapist. A student
The Dutch student is “100 per cent certain” she saw Madeleine McCann in a roadside restaurant in southern France
Says Melissa: “I called out ‘Madeleine’ and she looked up. The man with her was about six feet tall, with black hair, a black leather jacket and several days growth of stubble. He put on her coat and hat and bundled her away”
She adds: “I can’t stop thinking about it. I wish I had stopped that man. I wanted to pick her up, I am sorry I didn’t do that”
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: “Madeleine McCann ’spotted’ in Southern France”
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: “Student claims to have sighted Madeleine McCann in France”
A reader comments: “Is this kid going to replace Waldo?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS: “French police investigating an alleged sighting of Madeleine McCann in southern France have determined it was not the missing British girl.
A police official says a Dutch tourist reported that she may have seen McCann at a roadside restaurant. Examining closed-circuit video footage, the investigators spotted a man and a young girl who resembled McCann, but determined it was not her.
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February 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
173
brandon flours
Big sigh….is there a way to stop the mcForggies?
Ils sont fous les mecs!!!
February 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Val, enjoy.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9uoH6YIpg
February 21st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Lone Pigeon, 78% posession and near 600 odd passes dont even begin to describe the doin we got, I think you will find that Sledger is from greyskull aka the darkside.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
172 Gandolf
Nothing to do with Madeleine, but could you do me a favour? You posted
yesterday a youtube video on Billy Connolly, who is one of my favourite
comedians. I tried to send it to myself, but it didn”t work. Just tried to find
yesterday”s posts but no chance.
Iv”e got to go now but will be back later this afternoon to check. Many thanks,
February 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
178
Bâtman Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
With all this French/France bashing I won’t fancy being an English rugby player this weekend. Playing France IN Stat de France.
just_me - c’mon… stade de France…do your worst
February 21st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
With all this French/France bashing I won’t fancy being an English rugby player this weekend. Playing France IN Stat de France.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Wasnt this ‘new’ sighting on Tuesday anyway?
Sounds like Clarrie got a bit miffed a certain 9 year old took his headlines away
to me!
February 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
106
Man about town Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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so you don’t think it’s in team mc cann’s interest to keep having regular ’sightings’ then, even though the pj say they know she’s dead and who did it?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
172
Gandolf Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
No Lone Pigeon, drowning our sorrows and partying at the same time, after the serious gubbing the Tic got last night, Barca are different class, the score is no reflection on their superiority, no use trying to deny it.
good effort all the same tho
So you are a celtic supporter. Ummm i’m sure someone else on here was one of those…now who could that be… i can’t remember !
I’m glad the arse didn’t win and i’m even more gutted man u got one back.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
I believe the poster responsible for 159 is a poster previously ejected from Anorak (sledgehammer).
Once again this poster and the poster Reporter have immediately begun to attack others without any provocation.
If this continues and the site cannot prevent these unpleasant people from posting (or chooses not to) then I give notice now that I will be ending my involvement with Anorak.
No doubt this will be met with applause from some quarters - but I shall be moving to another similar location with tighter moderation.
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Mods and Admin
Just remember your shame list may not be permitted, and its under discussion as I type
February 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=517220&in_page_id=1811
‘I sympathise with the McCanns’ says father of British student murdered in France 18 years ago
February 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
No Lone Pigeon, drowning our sorrows and partying at the same time, after the serious gubbing the Tic got last night, Barca are different class, the score is no reflection on their superiority, no use trying to deny it.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Marie Nicholas
You are in France arent you ?
Have you heard about this?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
“The sighting came as French police confirmed they were investigating an alleged trade in kidnapped children which has seen babies offered for sale for as little as £7,000.
Detectives believe Eastern European crime gangs are snatching children before holding impromptu “auctions” in motorway service stations and supermarket car parks. ”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/20/nmaddy120.xml
February 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
163 Jo
Melissa ? Very pretty. Do you know the song by Julien Clerc, “Melissa … Ibiza”?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
151
Lone Pigeon
If you knew me and where I come from you would try to dissuade me like my very close friends,kids etc… but ah…lets give up!
Lets spin in france now….
Spain has been “done” already
February 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Must go now - think I spotted Big Foot in my shrubbery and will need to get onto the tabloids quickly. Now where is my out-of-focus Polaroid instamatic to allow me to snap the ‘proof’…..
February 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I don’t know much about who publishes the Portuguese newspapers. Can anybody help me out? Who owns them, or is it multiple owners?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Mods, can you let that one through too pretty please
February 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
159
Gandolf Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
hangover? Was you at the brits gandy dandy?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
155
Marie Nicholas
…and it is my petite daughter”s name as well!!
I havent told her yet
February 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
156 Chloe Spain
“I think I made Cyprus up”.
But why not - after all they are ALL made up by your-know-who !!!!!
February 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
149 - lol, thanks mods & admin for letting it through
post 114
February 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
142
Ian Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
136 Lone Pigeon
Every attention seeking crackpot in the world is being given credibility by the McCann mouthpiece.
Its time the authorities in the UK actively assisted the PJ and ‘eliminated’ the McCanns and their friends.
As they have nothing to fear, I dont see why they arent on the plane to Portugal, they have enough legal support to ensure they get a fair hearing.
What is it they are afraid of one wonders?
losing cash. That’s the only thing they’re afraid of now Ian
February 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Afternoon campers, have a serious hangover, glass bottle of Irn-Bru and ice cream plus lentil soup required, Watson this aint Patch I wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. 135 I refer you to your previous trashings.
Scarlett you are gonna PYSL, when you hear what the alleged DNA is, or rather isn’t. A bit like the non existent raid on the house in Exeter, that produced the non existent sweater.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
154 Chloe Spain
sorry, and Chile too I think
oh, and Belgium
February 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
148
Bâtman
May be rothley then for the next holiday?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Oh no - I think I made Cyprus up. Well, Malta, anyway.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
133 Jo
She is a foreigner and all the press is on it. So the French police will just shrug their shoulders. They are used to losing their time on people saying “n’importe quoi”.
And I tell you, most tabloïd readers are stupid enough to see Melissa as a heroin!!! (When you think G. had a standing ovation from the British cops).
February 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
148 Batman
… Cyprus, Malta ….