Madeleine McCann: The McCanns’ Return To Portugal, A Year Of Looking And Ben Affleck
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “McCanns risk arrest over visit”
KATE and Gerry McCann may risk arrest by returning to Portugal for the one-year anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance.
The couple are prepared to take the chance in a last ditch attempt to revive interest in four-year-old Maddie, missing since May 3.
Any facts?
The doctors, both 39, left the Praia da Luz resort last September – 48 hours after being made official suspects over the mystery.
Gerry and Kate McCann are Doctors. Such are the facts.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “They want to be there for the first anniversary. Going out there would send the strongest possible message that Madeleine could still be alive and the search for her should continue.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: “Turning the tabloids”
Ben Affleck is Gone Baby Gone:
Almost as troublesome was the story’s unforeseen and unintended resemblance to a real-life case of child kidnapping that hit the headlines in the months it was being filmed. That was the disappearance in Portugal last year of British girl Madeleine McCann, who was of a similar age and appearance to the film’s kidnapping victim and had a name eerily similar to the character in the Lehane novel, Amanda McCready.
McCready has disappeared amid the squalor of her south Boston neighbourhood. The police are out in formation, as are the television news vans, antennas raised high, all but trembling for blood.
Madeleine McCann: That’s entertainment
Posted: 4th, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,577) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 6th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
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Salomon ES Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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SalomonES, I have used your excellent letter as a guide for writing a protest to the President of the European Parliament, as well as to Glenys Kinnock, Edouard McMillan-Scott, Struan Stevenson and Diana Wallis. I am sure many others have done the same.
As someone who has no particular expertise to add to a forum such as this, it is good to be able to make a contribution to justice for Madeleine by writing to any authority which may have influence over the outcome. I have been in correspondence with my MP, the auditors and solicitors for the Fund and now the MEPs. I know it’s a drop in the ocean, but I am ever hopeful that a swell of public opinion will over-ride the oppression from on high, and the truth will come to light.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Clarence Mitchell has also said the Tapas 9 couldn’t keep track of times that evening because they didn’t have watches or mobile phones.
Yet it has been said that G Mccann sent 14 text messages from the Tapas bar that same evening…the kindest interpretation was that he was cheating on the pub quiz.
PS: A few missing regulars this weekend.
Just interested, because of RR’s reported “10 identities” - and the fact that all his access is currently blocked…
April 6th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
He (Clarrie) said: “To say this is a smokescreen is utter rubbish. It is pure co-incidence that police interviews are being conducted at the same time the European Parliament is sitting, and Kate and Gerry are TABLING A MOTION.” My emphasis
[edit - dr] [Do ]you genuinely believe that any of the 728 million population of Europe can just wander into Brussels and TABLE A MOTION. Any more than you , Sir, even as a British citizen can Table a motion in the House of Commons of your own country.
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But by Thursday we shall all be able to see from the official minutes that the McCanns did no such thing. They are not MEPs. They have no ‘locus standi”. They have simply left Britain for their own reasons. Which we humble mortals cannot even begin to understand.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Thank you Duncan.
I chose the name Arsenalina because of Mr Anorak’s love of all things Arsenal (the football club)
ermmmm …… maybe it should be a French name then
April 6th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
goodnight
watching john hagee on God channel
April 6th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Can you imgine the amout of lies the police will hear this week?
They must be used to it. It is great they can register everything on recorders and videos.
I would give one million to listen to Jane Tanner, in the same room.
By now I know this story by heart.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
1521 Pat
Where”s everybody, you mean. Don”t know where they are, I posted to lilith a
while ago.
Don”t know about Garth, I havn”t posted much , not much to say at the moment is there.
I”m going to watch There”s something about Mary”" hope the other posters turn up to
keep you company.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
1521
on his bike at knockhill
April 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
where’s garthy lately?
April 6th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
evening all…
val..beats me too!!
Last time the pj were here the mccs went off somewhere too… i wonder why…?
April 6th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
1517 lilith
Well done!!!
Is there no Agenda for the 10th ? All it says is “Texts put to veto on Thursday, also,
what does “expired” mean against each item. How they can take up such a positive
stance on Amber Alert the way they left their children alone beats me.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
1517
well spotted
April 6th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+AGENDA+20080409+SIT+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN
READ IT AND WEEP!
The European Parliament is NOT having a discussion about the Amber Alert System on April 9 or 10!
The ONLY thing that MIGHT happen is it being brought up by a member of parliament during the one minute speech!
So they have no business being there(in the audience I presume) at all.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
By its ownadmition the british government has allowed renditin (CIA) flights to pass tgrough UK - so lets ‘water board’ the bastards
April 6th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Do you think we could gain information by other techniques - water-boarding - very innocent - sounds like surf-boarding ? I have money - lets kidnap them and take them to a garage !
April 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
AS for the Express story being pulled on the internet site because of another more important story, it must have been very quick after publication as the story was unavailable just after midnight. If a story had superceded the Madeleine story it would have been demoted on the story list not pulled in its entirety???????
April 6th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I am not stupid I did an evil !!! now
April 6th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
April 6th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Go to cook
Tomorrow in April 7th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye by now
LOL
April 6th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Pilimary
enjoy the cooking at that temp we start getting out our duvets and light the fireplaces, we are spoilt.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Duncan r
lovely picture, Scotland ? We only get snow like that 3 or 4 times a year , Envy,
April 6th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I would have said the same
Gotta go to cook now (BTW we have had 25º today, and on Friday we had 28º
Happy snowing!
Tomorrow is April 7th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 6th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
PILIMARY
Isuppose all the boys and girls are watching football ? will wait an hour then go and have a bath and good scrub.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
PILIMARY
No problems, mrs b says if she has to get her own handle here she will call herself Cat Ballou, but she says as i am on here all the time anyway, she wont bother.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
BH
See? sometimes it worths to have a hubby (in winter, for example, when its time to fill the stove
April 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
BH
Blame it on my English, sometimes I cannot follow your familiar conversations when youre posting one another…
Im going to sue my English teacher
April 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Pilimary
yes, just for today i am srry about it because i had to get life into our very old Aga anthracite stove, been at itt all day, had to feed it 50 kg of anthracite, not nice, but not a job for Mrs. B just hope its going ok.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Bountyhunter
Ohhh, as we say in Spanish ¡Tierra trágame! (mother earth, please swallow me!)
.oops:
April 6th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
BountyHunter
1494
Yes, I’m female.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Duncan
OH MY GOD!!! its beautiful!
you k now, many, but MANY, Spanish people love (and envy) British because they say they all have nice gardens.
I don’t know about the others, but YOU have a nice garden!