Find Madeleine McCann On Facebook
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SAY the McCanns: “We strongly support and encourage this new initiative to use Facebook to increase awareness of missing children.”
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you will know that children go missing.
Although not if you’re watching the TV news of reading the newspapers because Madeleine McCann is no longer in the mass media.
But the campaign has not been in vain. She is on a press release.
And the better news is that no children have gone missing in the past few weeks. We look through the mainstream press every day. It’s a fact. But what of life on the internet?
The statement goes on: “Using the power of social media in this way will undoubtedly capture the attention - and hopefully the help - of a younger population who are a hugely valuable and resourceful group.
“We would urge the millions of Facebook users around the world to keep looking and to do what they can to help bring these children home.”
Missing People has set up a widget for Facebook users to download, which will mean information on current appeals will be displayed on their homepage.
Says missing People Chief Executive Paul Tuohy: “If every Facebook user downloaded our BT-powered application, millions of people internationally could see an appeal that could help us to reunite a family.”
Because BT cares…
Madeleine McCann: Fighting the PR war
Posted: 25th, May 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Online-PR Comments (1,240) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 25th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
duncan r
all the Portugeuse that i knew have fled back to Mozambique, not that i know any, so anything that i write about my informants on site will be pure lies. but i have been taking Grippon the last week, and that makes the imagination fly, will order some more, good stuff.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
An attorney-general that does not know his own country’s law in such a serious case, Caplan wont have the same vagueness.
Before September 15, it wasn’t necessary. You could be made an arguido without any suspicions or evidence against you.
That seems definitive.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
212 - Gloria Smudd
Enjoy your hol.
(It’s going to be dead quiet here without you)
May 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Mike sa
hi
you all cold there too ? thought you were all being fired up, watching news ! all calm here,we are far from the madding crowd. but think this thing will grow and grow. will soon be June 16………..
May 25th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
203 - bountyhunter
Or even workmates who happen to be Portuguese
May 25th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
212…Gloria Smudd
Have a great one, Gloria !!
May 25th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
210…bountyhunter
Am good here, thank you, Bounty.
I agree…too much sucking of spliffs rots the brain.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
M&A
Thank you all for your kind wishes for a happy Smudd holiday! (Things are just going from bad to worse here, with a new sinkful of muddy racing stuff having recently been lovingly brought home)..
May 25th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
202
Rasputin Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I omitted nothing, perhaps you do not like the direct quotes from the Portuguese attorney-general.
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I’m perfectly content with the Attorney General’s statement; he said he did not know whether the couple would have been made suspects in light of the code, which came in on September 15.
At no point does he say that the McCanns would not have been made arguidos under the new legislation.
Equallly the McCanns lawyer did not claim that his clients would not have been made arguidos under the new legislation. He said
‘”Maybe that’s why the inquiry happened then, why they were made arguidos eight days before the new laws came in.”
You are trying to pretend that they would not have been made arguidos under the new code; you haven’t produced any evidence to justify it.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
MATT Hi
perhaps a figment of imagination, due to overuse of spliff ?
how are you ?
May 25th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
205…Rasputin
Judge must be quite happy with things….otherwise would not have
authorized extensions of Arguidoships.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Bounty, if it’s snowing where you are, no wonder it’s so bloody freezing up here in Joburg.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
duncan r
we do not get as much snow as you do will take a photograph anf see if someone can upload it for me.
love to you and your wife.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
203…bountyhunter
seb knows nuffin.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Your point Duncan, the article was widely reported at the time, some people like to think it doesn’t exist, the interesting thing is that the Portuguese are in breach of their own laws, and have basically admitted it. Caplan must be laughing his head off.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
“Carlos Pinto de Abreu, suggested….. ”
“Portugal’s attorney-general, also admitted that he did not know……. ”
Those are the important portions of the quotes in the article.
Neither are definitive.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
CHENIER
I think you should incinerate him, just more so than the lamb chops.
much better, after flu, thank you.
but it has just started snowing here.
funny how these people like Razzi always have people, family im Portimao, brothers are either lawyers or Plod in the know and have seen the files, friends on site Ha Ha
May 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I omitted nothing, perhaps you do not like the direct quotes from the Portuguese attorney-general.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
199 -Rasputin
‘Eight days after Kate and Gerry McCann were declared “arguidos” in their daughter’s disappearance, a penal code was brought in which demands credible evidence before someone can be made a formal suspect.
Yesterday, the McCanns’ lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, suggested police had deliberately acted to avoid the new legal requirements - and friends of the couple accused officers of a smear campaign.
Fernando Pinto Monteiro, Portugal’s attorney-general, also admitted that he did not know whether the couple would have been made suspects in light of the code, which came in on September 15.
“The law did not demand justified suspicions at the time in which they were made arguidos,” he said.
Mr de Abreu said: “After September 15, a new procedural penal code was introduced making it necessary for there to be evidence against the citizen to make him an arguido.
“Before September 15, it wasn’t necessary. You could be made an arguido without any suspicions or evidence against you.
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Above post bears a remarkable resemblance to to that posted on Feb 28, 10.09pm by SpongeBob
‘Eight days after Kate and Gerry McCann were declared “arguidos” in their daughter’s disappearance, a penal code was brought in which demands credible evidence before someone can be made a formal suspect.
Yesterday, the McCanns’ lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, suggested police had deliberately acted to avoid the new legal requirements - and friends of the couple accused officers of a smear campaign.
Fernando Pinto Monteiro, Portugal’s attorney-general, also admitted that he did not know whether the couple would have been made suspects in light of the code, which came in on September 15.
“The law did not demand justified suspicions at the time in which they were made arguidos,” he said.
Mr de Abreu said: “After September 15, a new procedural penal code was introduced making it necessary for there to be evidence against the citizen to make him an arguido.
“Before September 15, it wasn’t necessary. You could be made an arguido without any suspicions or evidence against you.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
199
Rasputin Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
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Once again you omit the word ‘maybe’.
As in:
‘”Maybe that’s why the inquiry happened then, why they were made arguidos eight days before the new laws came in.”
Of course, it may not be…
May 25th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Meanwhile, it has also been claimed police in Portugal rushed to make Madeleine McCann’s parents official suspects to beat a change in the law.
Eight days after Kate and Gerry McCann were declared “arguidos” in their daughter’s disappearance, a penal code was brought in which demands credible evidence before someone can be made a formal suspect.
Yesterday, the McCanns’ lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, suggested police had deliberately acted to avoid the new legal requirements - and friends of the couple accused officers of a smear campaign.
Fernando Pinto Monteiro, Portugal’s attorney-general, also admitted that he did not know whether the couple would have been made suspects in light of the code, which came in on September 15.
“The law did not demand justified suspicions at the time in which they were made arguidos,” he said.
Mr de Abreu said: “After September 15, a new procedural penal code was introduced making it necessary for there to be evidence against the citizen to make him an arguido.
“Before September 15, it wasn’t necessary. You could be made an arguido without any suspicions or evidence against you.
http://tinyurl.com/4q2ba3
May 25th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
196
bountyhunter Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
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Hi, bountyhunter; I hope you are feeling a great deal better.
Not quite resurrected but almost there…
May 25th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
What has a leg got to do with the EHCR.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Chenier
well done, Razzy is indeed the resurected Gandi…………………………………….
May 25th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Rasputin,
you have been poisoned and half drowned, there is only the shooting to go…mymoney is on the Tsarina
May 25th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
192
Rasputin Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Fortunately Chenier you have only proved your ignorance, I highlighted the relevant part of the text for clarity, if you are unable to understand it, you should read something lighter.
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Ah yes, I wondered when you’d be back.
How’s the leg?
May 25th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Maria you are indeed correct, the Portuguese rushed to make the parents arguidos, as there were new laws coming into force , which would have prevented them from imposing this status. That in itself raises serious questions.
M and A
Could we have proof positive that it would have, the optional words were may have at the time. Why should it raise serious questions? Oh but of course what has become of Madeleine isn’t a serious question….maybe some see it as rhetorical?
May 25th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Fortunately Chenier you have only proved your ignorance, I highlighted the relevant part of the text for clarity, if you are unable to understand it, you should read something lighter.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
189 Rasputin
I certainly don’t know much about Portuguese or international law. As you say, Caplan certainly will!
However, I believe that there are a number of Portuguese lawyers who have been working for change in Portuguese law, in the interest of further democratisation and human rights. The secrecy laws have already been relaxed a little and there is a requirement now for evidence (or more evidence/evidence of a different kind?) before someone can be declared an arguido. I don’t pretend to know the details.
It was suggested that it might not have been possible to declare the Mcs arguidos under the new law because it requires evidence which was not there in their case. I don’t know if that is correct, of course. The changes in the law came in a few days after they were declared arguidos.
If you know the details, Rasputin, I’d be glad to hear them. (A bit cheeky! I know I could trudge through pages of the stuff myself, although even then it’s difficult to get a really accurate picture.)
No worries if you don’t happen to know.
Thank you.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
189
Rasputin Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
ARTICLE 26
The Commission may only deal with the matter after all domestic remedies have been exhausted, according to the generally recognized rules of international law, and within a period of six months from the date on which the final decision was taken.
Thank you for your kind words Chenier, it is a matter of legal opinion as to whither arguido status is legal under European Law, I am sure Mr Caplan certainly knows the answer to his and his clients satisfaction, tosh ?
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You claimed that it was possible to go straight to the ECHR without exhausting the judicial process; you were wrong, and I proved you were wrong by quoting from the ECHR’s own website which says categorically the opposite. I’ll just repeat the relevant piece again, just so there is no doubt:
‘You must have used all the remedies in the State concerned that might have been able to redress the situation you are complaining about (usually, this will mean an application to the appropriate court, followed by an appeal, where applicable, and even a further appeal to a higher court such as the supreme court or constitutional court, if there is one).
It is not enough merely to make use of these remedies. In so doing, you must also have actually raised your complaints (that is, the substance of the Convention violations you are alleging).
You have only six months from the date of the final decision at domestic level (generally speaking, the judgment of the highest court) to lodge an application. After that period your application cannot be accepted by the Court.’
I also asked you to explain why you believe that arguido status is illegal under the Conventions; claiming that Mr Caplan is a clever lawyer doesn’t constitute an explanation.
If Mr Caplan knows as little about the ECHR as you do then his clients are in deep trouble…