Madeleine McCann: The McCanns’ Return To Portugal, A Year Of Looking And Ben Affleck
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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
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April 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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BabyJane Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
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I’m not her and I don’t know what her reasoning was at that point in time not to call the police immediately.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
925 Daisy
I read not so long ago that the Waiter had been re-interviewed by the PJ and his
identity is being kept secret, and his whereabouts. If true, this is obviously very significant and I suspect CM would love to know where he is, it”s a wonder Metodo 3
havn”t found him!!!!!!!
Iv”e mentioned this a couple of times, Anorak does not have an “insider”, who can post
info to us……Sky have 2 and 3A”s at least 1….pity that!!!!
April 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
By the way, I assume that JT was with the group during her husband absence case it always have been said the the only missing was Obrien. That means that JT was with the group
If it so, is specially strange. Daddy is with the girl during 45 minutes cause she is sick, and mummy chats and drinks as if nothing….
Can anybody confirm that point?
April 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Lindy - Totally agree 103%
April 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Hi All
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BabyJane
……………….
Its always the way with these ’sightings’, nobody ever seems to speak to the child, take a photo, call the police…etc etc….IMO its another McTactic, trying to convince people she is still alive. I wonder if the latest person to supposedly see M is in any way connected to the Mc’s
April 5th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Madeliene McCann is sadly dead,be it that her parents had a hand in it or not.THEY are responible for her and her brother & sister, they FAILED . By leaving those babies alone at night,in a unlocked flat.They are guilty of that and no one can say they are not!!!IMO Good afternoon everyone
April 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Nice chat today
But hungry people around.
Bye for now
April 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Marie Nicholas, whoops sorry, says she saw it in 1956.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Hm, Daisy, if somebody had a heart attack in front of you, would you board your plane? If the woman in Tenerife thought it was Madeleine, she must have known the child is in danger and that something ought do be done quickly.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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Marie Nicholas Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
914 Jo
No problem with you hating them, and what they represent, but a problem if because you hate them, you think they aren’t innocent.
I am very suspicious myself of all the story, but I really dam not interested in having feelings about them. Hate isn’t much of a help if we try to be wise, and wisdom is necessary when we tackle the difficult task of assessing other human beings’ behaviour.
No,Marie
My initial reaction was :no,they are not involved and then……pffff,there are too many things going against them.
Their very attitude/behaviour.
The very same things THEY have created,including,Madeleine”s “abduction” which experts have discarded almost straight away
Oh…not that I believe whats written in the media but for god sake! not everything in the media is true but not is totally false either.
Too much goes against them,too much and then I went really “cold” on them
April 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Corretion
HEY, can we help?
April 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
921 bountyhunter
Good point, I never thought of that!!!!!! The McCanns said they “didn”t trust the creche”, but were quite happy to leave the children there all day and every day. I”m
not saying the children didn”t enjoy their holiday, but couldn”t Mum and Dad spare
the time to take them to the beach at least. The only holiday snap I remember seeing
is the one by the pool……oh, and the one at the tennis Court with Madeleine clutching
the Tennis Balls. Don”t know what will happen, but at some stage we will at least know
what evidence the PJ has, not that is helps Madeleine of course.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
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BabyJane Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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She said she had to board her plane … maybe no time? What would she gain by making it up … that is my train of thought anyhow.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Val,
Yep, Obrian out of the table for 45 minutes is always odd, even if noghing had happened.
Imagine, you friend is missing of the everynight encounter at the tapas bar for 45 minutes.
WHAT WOU YOU HAVE DONE? (in 45 minutes!!!!!)
At the first 20 minutes, you call him by phone and knows that his dougher is sick, after half and hour, anybody of the group, or maybe more, mainly women, MAINLY THE CHILD’S OWN MOTHER, go running to se what happen. But I insist, no only her mother, even somebody else.
Someone would have gone to Obrian’s room and asked, they can I help, what’s up, how is she?
April 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Marie Nicholas
My mom saw ‘Night of the Hunter’, she says it was the most terifying movie she ever saw. she was about 10 at the time (1966) ? I think it starred Robert Mitchum Shelley Winters ? She say it was better than Phsyco, love to get a copy.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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jo Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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Thanks!
April 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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Daisy Says:
Jo,
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You are obviously passionate about your convictions, but so do others (as the persons who thought they saw the child somewhere)
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Well, if a woman sees the most searched child of the world at Tenrife airport and doesn’t call the police immidately but waits until she is back home in Britain, I wouldn’t call that very “passionate”.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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val Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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Val,
I think that they won’t go back just yet. We don’t know what will come out of these new interviews and I don’t think they will go back if they are still “arguidos”. May 3 is still a months away and many things could happen between now and then.
I recall reading (don’t know if it is true), that the dates set for the interviews were in consultation with all the people that will be interviewed. Hence, the PJ must have known that the McCanns are planning to be away. Could this have been planned this way on purpose for some unknown reason, I mean the PJ wanting them to be away?
April 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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Daisy
Protected witness
April 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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Marie Nicholas
I know this, Marie.I came to really dislike them so much…..I cant believe it myself
Madeleine is missing and they MUST respond for it…..and they are NOT doing it.Instead they have tantrums,obstruct the justice,spins and lie,demand and blackmail.
Very charming people really!!!
They have no excuse whatsoever IF they really wanted justice for Madeleine which I have never heard them say
They only care about their asses and thats all.
Oh….I forgot to add egocentric and psychotic to what I said earlier
Sowwy
April 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
914 Jo
No problem with you hating them, and what they represent, but a problem if because you hate them, you think they aren’t innocent.
I am very suspicious myself of all the story, but I really dam not interested in having feelings about them. Hate isn’t much of a help if we try to be wise, and wisdom is necessary when we tackle the difficult task of assessing other human beings’ behaviour.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Disappearing Waiter …
Does anybody know what happened with that “key witness”, a waiter, that had to go into hiding? What come out of it, if any?
April 5th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
913 Daisy
Yes, I”ts the best I”ve seen………so much for the investigative journalism of the
British Press!!!!!!!
There is another Video where the Investigator says the abductor would have had plenty of time to take Madeleine.I suspect the McCanns are throwing all these diversionary tactics NCMEC, European Parliament, additional witnesses etc to make
life more difficult for the PJ……..but it won”t work. However, I am a bit apprehensive
about the latest “McCanns will risk going back to Portugal” ……..for their arguido status to be lifted ?
April 5th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
What if:
Although their absence could mean neglect, they “prepaired” their absence (or semi-absence, to avoid charges for neglect) to justify abduction?
I guess so because, it seems likely that they left the children alone everynight without any fear… they were sedated.
The problem, for their version, is that they have wanted to avoid charges for the possible accident and the cover up and also charges for neglect… That was their first mistake
April 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
If we are, and appear as persons whose aim is the MCs to be punished and go to jail, I think we really weaken our position.
I want to stress that it isn’t my aim. I think it is important not to accept to believe without knowing, and since it is what the PR is trying to make us do, I am fighting that by posting here, and insisting that I want to know. I don’t love the MCs, I don’t hate them, I don’t admire them, I don’t despise them. They are indifferent to me.
What entitles me to play the role I play, as a poster on this thread, is the desire for truth to come out. It is sad that a little girl can disappear from the face of the earth in a few hours’ time, and it deserves understanding.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
VAL
The creche closed at 11 or 11.30 , could have been embarrasing to go and haul the pissed9 out of the bar to fetch their kids.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Peter Mc
You’re right, its not going to be a chat close to a cup of tea. But many times we have read the expression, even in the press, “last ditch”… It means to me, exactly that, “last ditch”. If something, by any reasons, go wrong, maybe a nosense, a little protocol, then the case is over. I don’t hope so, anyway
April 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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jo Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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It is a FACT that their absence has HARMED Madeleine in the case she has been abducted which she has NOT.
Of course,if I was the only one saying it….it would be an other matter,I agree,but I am not the only one.
I mean, after 11 months of it and idiotic sightings leading nowhere,with M3 paying people to spin the story (of this I personally have he proof + other details I will NOT discuss here)if people CANT see this is NOT a straight case of abduction then yes,they are stoopid.
Come off it,Daisy.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
PeterMac,
But then what do you know ? Smilie thingie, all the really smart people here KNOW the Mccanns are innocent, how dare you put in your tuppenceworth ?
April 5th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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Marie Nicholas Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
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Second Paragraph …. Well said, I agree with you.