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
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May 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
857…Maria
Hmmmm….
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/about/about.asp
May 26th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’m leaving for a while.
bringing my shoes to be repared.
see you later
May 26th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
chenier
PLEASE learn that YOUR having dismissed something doesn’t mean everyone has and YOU pronouncing on something doesn’t mean it’s been “debated at length”!!!! Dear me!
Have a nice afternoon.
Nice enough weather for gardening! Sadly
May 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
850 Saloman ES
Good afternoon. hope your”e enjoying better weather than we are in the U.K.
Can you clarify something regarding the proposed recon. Is it that the Witnesses whoHAVE to go, but the arguidos can refuse , or the other way around.?
May 26th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
855…Maria
I have read of plenty of very dubious accounts by miscreants regarding
their initial excuses/alibis/etc.
Quite hilarious…if you, for a moment, forget the seriousness of the cases
involved.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Salomon
“There is therefore a close proximity and synergy in the work of the PJ and the judiciary.”
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Precisely. Some people might think there should be separation.
It is even the judge who decides what evidence will be allowed in the file used in a trial. (And yes, I know there are checks and balances.)
The jolly old UK does have certain advantages, IMHO!!!
May 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
851…val
well…you could start it off by saying….a certain martian…etc…
I doubt if any Libel Suits would be forthcoming from the Red Planet.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
839 Matt
Oh, I know!
But if you life depended on it……??!! If you were planning a major crime cover-up…….??!!
Do you believe that they panicked so much that they did make up the break-in story?
It’s a possibility.
But I mean, they disposed of M’s body so well that no trace has yet been found but forgot that the police might just look for forensic evidence on the window sill in the search for the “abductor”?? (But maybe they’ve never read an Agatha Christie! Maybe they’ve made up their medical qualifications? Maybe they’ve seen a Poirot episode? Never heard of Sherlock Holmes? Maybe they are just hopelessly stupid!)
Of course, I do agree that panic can make one make mistakes. But if they were in such a state of panic as to commit such a basic daft mistake, wouldn’t their friends have noticed signs of that panic?
And to add to that daft mistake, they then also have JT say she saw the man carrying the child….at a time when GM had only just come out of the apartment? I mean, surely GM would have said either,
if it was true
“Can’t have been anything to do with M. I’d only just come out. Must have been a father carrying his child home.”
OR
if it was a lie
“Don’t use that lie, Jane. Nobody will buy it.”
OR even,
“You’d better find a way to add a few minutes on to the story. Nobody will believe you. Especially as JW will say he didn’t see you!”
The very weaknesses of the story are bizarre……………. unless it’s true.
I still keep an open mind!
May 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
845 Matt,
the PJ have always been a very good police.
I know a story of three young ladies, found murdered through the years,I think on a beach(at least one) and it took time for the PJ to discover it.
By eliminating possibilities, the PJ finally got to the address of an ex-PJ, whom they not had suspected at all for a long time.The man knew how to hide things.
Portugal was in shock.
In A Estrela de Madeleine, a fiction based in facts, the writer insinuates British political pressure on Portugal although the PJ continued and continues the investigation.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
850…Salomon ES
Many thanks, Salomon.
Very informative….and helpful.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Maravilha 843
Garth is very good at reading… but not very good at understanding.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
842 Matt
Thanks Matt, yes he does look at Gerry in disbelief. A couple of days ago I checked in here and the whole thread seemed to be about knickers, so I beat a hasty retreat and
browsed on 3″s. Someone had started a thread on the number of people who have been
involved in the McCann case in one way or another. It will probably be the size of a
toilet roll by now if it is still going!!!!!!!
By the way, I found out some more info on our Friend (you know the one !) to to with
the Fund, but I can”t repeat it here because it is libellous if untrue,pity.
M and A
If it has a reliable source ie a respected newspaper tv channel, but if you are doubting its veracity, it can only be rumour. Actually libel can also mean true but damaging to a persons reputation.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Matt - there are currently approx. 1500 investigators in the Portuguese Policia Judiciaria. All of them need to have a 5-year degree (licenciatura) in Law.
There are also operatives (lower ranking officials that assist in the investigations who are not necessarily law graduates - but have an enforcement background). The third group is composed of magistrates ie judges that are part of the investigations.
The Policia Judiciaria is not like the PSP (public security police) or GNR (like the gendarmerie responsible for rural areas).
The Policia Judiciaria is the only police force that is not under the umbrella of the Ministry of Interior… it is under the umbrella of the Ministry of Justice. As you probably will have learnt because of the Madeleine case, criminal investigations in Portugal are always conducted by a detective (investigator) and overseen by a magistrate. There is therefore a close proximity and synergy in the work of the PJ and the judiciary.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
846…coolandcalm
Is there a “Fund” I can contribute to ?
Plus….I have a few spare balloons I can launch….if needed.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
846 - coolandcalm
Bloody Hell - I thought it was only ‘brewer’s droop’ I had to worry about !!!
May 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
841 Agenda Wide
It”s a good job your”e going, see you later.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I think the males on here should all toddle over to the Nigerian Missing Penis thread for a cautionary tale about voodoo.
Duncan… me and my ju-ju sticks are ready and waiting for Eurovision 2009.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
843…Maravilha
I fear the good Dr’s common sense led them to underestimate the
capabilities, and Professionalism, of the PJ.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
834
Marie Nicholas Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Chenier
“And yes, after all we are only talking about the disappearance of a three year old child; it’s not as if it’s anything important, is it?”
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Who could remind “the tapas friends” of what it is all about, when they eventually decide if they will help with the re-construction?
The child’s parents?
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If the child’s parents were prepared to honour their word we could have a little more confidence in their willingness to try to persuade their friends to return to Portugual.
Since, however, they appear not to have a sense of personal honour it would seem unwise to rely on it…
May 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
838(?)
Matt. you can also see that PJs don’t only speak Spanish and French but also English.
They are learning all the time, everything they can learn.
The McCanns are doctors and depending on police who speak English.
They don’t even speak French or Spanish.
Garth, how many languages do you speak or at least read?
May 26th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
840…val
David Hughes was the portly chap behind Dr G P….the one who looked
as if he had just realised he had backed a loser.
He was a sort of assistant to Justine McGuinness….both knew each other
from Liberal Party associations.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
819 Val
CNN ‘Waiting to interview the McCanns these days is to bear witness to a well-drilled media circus: a luxury suite in a London hotel; trays of croissants, pastries and jugs of coffee; a revolving cast of journalists asking variations of the same questions.
“The doctors will see you now,” the same assistant quips as three more reporters shuffle through. ‘
Doctor doctor I think I’m obese
Obese silent and support the arguidos
(groan I know, off now )
May 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Just out of interest, does anyone know who David Hughes is? He was the man who
was with Gerry when he came out of the Police Station after the interview.
There”s a photo of him with his hand on Gerry”s arm, as if to steady him, because
Gerry looks shellshocked IMO
May 26th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
836…Maria
“”Even insurance companies recognise it”"
Still doesn’t stop a multitude of False Claims though.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
835…Maravilha
Thank you for the confirmation, Maravilha.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
831 Marie Nicholas
Well thanks, nice to know SOMEONE appreciates my effort !!! It”s good to get an
impartial view, since the British Media are reluctant to say anything derogatory.
When you think about it , the Mcann”s interview with CNN had nothing to do with
finding Madeleine……what are the chances of her being in the U.S.A.? I think we have
reached saturation point now and CM should keep a low profile.
No chance of a return to Portugal by the look of it, guess “the Pact” is holding up.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
803 Marie N
I suspect you’ve given a pretty accurate account of what’s going on!
Just my opinion.
I agree, of course, that the abduction story is difficult to accept. But I have always wondered why the Mcs did not make up a stronger story? I mean, to concoct the old faked break-in is the most pathetic attempt at fooling the police. I simply don’t believe they would have thought it would work. Oldest trick in the book! Even insurance companies recognise it! That’s why I have always wondered if the windows and shutters were indeed open, but for reasons we cannot be sure of.
The other big question is why the friends all support them?
One would not support even close friends who had killed their daughter, even accidentally, and disposed of her body. Nobody would risk everything to do that, even supposing these people to be sufficiently immoral to wish to do so in the first place. (The fact that one is careless or irresponsible in childcare arrangements does not mean one would support such a crime, I’m sure you’ll agree.)
I do not believe it would have been easy for the Mcs to fool these friends who know them well. IMO, if the Mcs had just killed M, or just dumped her body somewhere, it would have been difficult for them to appear calm and cheerful at the tapas bar as though nothing untoward had happened. All the evidence from family and friends is that they loved M, despite the lack of babysitting arrangements.) Presumably they even had time to shower and change, as usual. If they hadn’t, one of their friends would also have remembered that later, I assume? (Well….the women would!)
Do we assume then, that the friends were directly involved? Did they all conspire to kill M and/or dispose of her body? Were they all involved in medical experiments, another theory put forward on Anorak (along with the child-substitution one and lots of others) or something even worse?
If they were all involved, I’m amazed that the PJ lack the evidence to make them arguidos, even under the new stricter law. I’m also amazed that they didn’t come up with a better story. I do wonder, if they are lying, why they didn’t lie more convincingly?
I still keep an open mind.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
783 Matt,
now I understand. I have family in Portugal and they have told me that people of the PJ are very high educated.
The ex PJ Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, writer of A Estrela de Madeleine,for example, is graduated in Law and Psychology.
Many PJ have a very good high education.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Chenier
“And yes, after all we are only talking about the disappearance of a three year old child; it’s not as if it’s anything important, is it?”
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Who could remind “the tapas friends” of what it is all about, when they eventually decide if they will help with the re-construction?
The child’s parents?
May 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
830…Maravilha
Ah….which is why I asked if you were Portuguese.
Didn’t know you were from Brazil though.
Was wondering…if you had been Portuguese…if you could have
enlightened me/us about those matters….is all.
Thank you in any case.