Madeleine McCann: Portugal Police Search And Eilis O’Hanlon Empathises
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SUNDAY PEOPLE: “Police hunt for Maddie ‘is still on’”
Portugal’s top cop has vowed to search “to the ends of the Earth” for Maddie McCann even though prosecutors have shelved the case. Almeida Rodrigues, head of the Judicial Police, said his detectives will chase up all leads until the 15-month mystery is solved.
No end in sight.
He said: “A case only stops being investigated if there is a successful criminal trial.”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Only McCanns know full pain of never-ending story - If you find the ambiguity hard to live with, imagine the trauma the McCanns have to endure, writes Eilis O’Hanlon”
Let’s empathise. Says O’Hanlon:
It’s difficult to know where the story can go from here.
But you’ve got a column to fill. Dig deep.
But it still feels as if an ending of sorts has been reached. The disappearance of Madeleine has become a part of history. That’s probably a shocking indictment of the shortness of our collective memory — but, reprehensible or not, it’s true.
It’s living history. Read about it today’s Irish Indy.
The internet obsessives will keep the flame burning a little longer, having determined long ago not to let a little thing like the facts stop them witch-hunting Kate and Gerry; but even they will give up eventually.
Read O’Hanlon’s column online.
And that’s why there’s still such an unwillingness among many to accept that the McCanns’ names really have been conclusively cleared. Take the Portuguese statement at face value, rather than deciphering it for clues that Madeleine’s parents really were guilty of her murder and are only being exonerated because they have powerful friends who put pressure on the authorities in Praia da Luz, and what it means is that there still isn’t closure and there’s precious little prospect of there ever being so. It means living with ambiguity.
Well, no. The McCanns are no longer suspects because there is no evidence to say otherwise. But hasn’t it all ended, O’Hanlon?
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July 28th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Jo re Willo–other things on McCaccaroonie’s list:
1. Baking cake with a file in it
2. Washing Cuddle Cat for the 450,000th time
July 28th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Having the last cough, Willo?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Cough!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I wonder if clarrie is going to fart over the blog being hacked
How did the cow live the first day without Madeleine?
Calling the media,appointment at hair dresser,washing the flat,jogging,dumping the twins at the creche,having more wine with “hairy”,writting stupid incriminating things in her diary….what else?all normal activities,really..err…you knô, a grieving parent
July 28th, 2008 at 8:21 am
new thread
July 28th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Jo
Wont be back till later on, want to be first in the pool before everyone else pisses in it
Then a riverside picnic brunch , will check in when the sun gets too hot though!
BBL ;-D
July 28th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Tomorrow: How Kate McCann lived the first day without Maddie
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Well that should be interesting!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Brandon
jeje…site being hacked?
Que bueno……
All the pros are going to be delighted today……be careful with dragons breath around here.Lots of bad moods and diversion
Unless,something exceptional there wont be any further news today.We might hear of the mccfools last tantrum because they dont have the files but thats about it
I hope the lawyers are furiously translating Amarals book.May be gandolf could give them a hand?
July 28th, 2008 at 8:15 am
‘The tensions between the McCanns and Justine were never evident. But the fact that she abandoned the couple’s defense immediately after they were made arguidos and returned to England, remains unexplained.
Now, it becomes clear that the tension came from before. Justine and Gerry had already discussed the honoraries. The advisor wanted to receive overtime and demanded a payment that was above was had initially been agreed.
On the 28th of July, the tension between the family and the spokeswoman was obvious. Kate wrote in her notes that she [Justine] did not have good “interpersonal aptitudes” and that she could even be very “unpleasant”. Kate remembered that there had been an argument between Justine and a relative and that Gerry had tried to calm them down. “It all ended well”, Kate McCann concluded, but still seriously doubted the advisor’s character.’
jo morais
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I hope she sells her story now
July 28th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Jo
Yes I hope Garth likes that !!!
We have been saying it for months
July 28th, 2008 at 8:07 am
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/NewsLists28july08-00-29.JPG
The mc cann finding madeleine website was hacked
July 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Brandon
I read it in spanish and could not be asked to translate
I do like this bit
“The intelligent abductor had entered through the door and then became stupid and left with the child through a half opened window, which had forced him to pass by the beds of the other sleeping children – that continued to sleep through the chaos of the search”
July 28th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Hi Brandon
Oh….yes,the tide is turning and upsetting our gandolf
July 28th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Correio da Manhã 27.07.08
Moita Flores
The truth of the lie
“Wasn’t there an incapable director around, one of those who climb at the cost of servilism?”
The book that had been promised by Gonçalo Amaral was sold out within hours. Those who have read it, or who are going to read it, will understand that there were all sorts of reasons not to accept the information that was circulated by the English televisions, that Maddie had been abducted, as the only one. If we go through the book in parallel with the PJ’s final report, we definitely realize that it was materially impossible for her to be abducted.
The intelligent abductor had entered through the door and then became stupid and left with the child through a half opened window, which had forced him to pass by the beds of the other sleeping children – that continued to sleep through the chaos of the search. As a matter of fact, if he left onto the street at the time when the witnesses say it happened, and taking into account the depositions that they gave concerning the checks on the children, he had to pass between the father, friends who chatted, who came and went. The book confirms a lot of what we have written here, along so many pages. The technical procedures do not differ from case to case.
They follow protocols that are informal, but so routinely that it is not necessary to be there in order to understand what is happening. Gonçalo Amaral’s team fulfilled them all, except one. He is generous when he assumes that mistakes, which was not his. Or at least, it was not only his. Gonçalo admits that he erred when, during a first phase, he handled the couple with extra caution. It is a mistake and a big one. But was it him who decided it to be that way? Wasn’t there an incapable director around, one of those who climb at the cost of servilism, giving that type of order? The fearsome are afraid of power first, and only then of death.
A case that was communicated by the English government, with the mediation of ambassadors, has forcefully to have a weak director in the middle, who mediated between the servilism before those who give the orders, and the despotism towards those who obey him. I foresee that in defending his honour, by exposing the truth that many wish was a lie, Gonçalo Amaral has not said everything. Even by assuming the mistake, he gave his body to the bullets, in order to defend his institution. I may be wrong, but one that knows the routines of investigation also presumes to know the mechanisms of subordination.
A final word for Mr Mitchell: the best that he found to say was that the book is a pretext to make money at the little girl’s expense. Coming from him of all people, his life has been nothing else, recently. People who cannot distinguish between a pound and the right to defend one’s honour. They sell themselves for any price. In Mr Mitchell’s case, for a good price, it is said.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Sympathy for McCanns must be tempered
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How kind Colette Douglas Home is to Gerry and Kate McCann (Comment, July 22). She uses many column inches pouring scorn on the Portuguese police (perhaps justifiably, I don’t know), showering Gerry and Kate with sympathy (I, too, feel for them), but only makes passing reference to the action that, had it not happened, would have prevented this heartbreaking event from occurring in the first place.
This is clearly their “decision to leave her sleeping while they met friends for dinner”. Before we set them on a pedestal, let us not forget that they also left two younger children in the room and also clearly took a conscious decision not to use the Mark Warner child-minding services, or to take the children with them that night. I believe, in good faith, that they are guilty of nothing more than what, in other circumstances, might be considered neglect of their children but my grief for them is tempered by their actions. Sadly, none of this will bring Madeleine back.
Allistair Matheson, Selkirk.
In her column, Colette Douglas Home has much to say about policing in Portugal and, in particular, the handling of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. The reality is that no-one yet knows what happened to Madeleine.
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Colette’s opinion - that Gerry McCann is handsome and Kate McCann beautiful - is irrelevant. The eye of the beholder?
Colette states: “And they will always carry the burden of their decision to leave her sleeping while they met friends for dinner.” What kind of parents, in a foreign land, needlessly leave their child, not yet four years old, asleep without a child-minder and out of sound or sight, while they indulge themselves with their friends?
The McCanns deserve all the anguish they brought upon themselves through poor judgment, and not endless public sympathy. Madeleine is the victim. I hope and pray that she is unharmed and is being looked after in loving care, however wrongfully.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2409129.0.Sympathy_for_McCanns_must_be_tempered.php
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Tides are turning !
July 28th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Good morning to you to,gandolf!
Are you angry or something? isnt it a bit early for emotional upsets?
July 28th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Update for windylickers Portugals AG has stated there is no evidence of any crime against any of the former arguidos, if you have difficulty understanding this…..refer to jo!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Kate’s Maddie diaries leaked
…..and Amarals book Part II
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1477927.ece
July 28th, 2008 at 7:23 am
The dogs carry on barking and barking…..
July 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Good morning
…..and the saga continues……
28 July 2008 - 00h30
Kate’s notes: Mother of Madeleine did not like to be interrogated.
Kate irritated with the PJ in the first day
Kate McCann did not like the Policia Judiciária. In her first day without Maddie, a few hours after having seen her daughter for the last time in the apartment that they all shared in the Ocean Club, the mother of the child did not hide her discomfort in front of the investigators.
Read all the details in exclusive in Monday’s edition of Correio da Manhã
http://www.correiomanha.pt
July 28th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Triple jings!!!!! http://tinyurl.com/6jf7vs
July 28th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Good evening everyone.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Elena Says:
July 27th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Cheryl,
Just read your post. What can I say? You are a truly remarkable woman and I feel so shallow …….
Maria writes, Cheryl posts and Elona bigs them up. Turn about.
Yet only one set of fingerprints on the keyboard.!!!
Call M3.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Amen, Elena, we sure enough have differing views
July 28th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I certainly do Annie. One thing I don’t agree with is the belief that we are mortal enemies, pros and antis. At the end of the day we all care about children, ours others and Maddie. We just have different views on the events.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Night Annie.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Well, I will depart in peace, I have a game to play in half an hour - and I need to get myself geared up - I will no doubt chuck it all in on a pair of kings only to find that some assole on the other side of the table has a pair of Aces, but hey - its the name of the game. See you all tomorrow, unless I am drowning my sorrows !!
Night everyone.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Elena - be my guest - I will lend anything to anyone (except my kids) they are mine and mine alone - even though they are 6 feet tall and have little ones of their own - as far as my kids are concerned - I take no chances!! But then, I know that because you are on this site, you feel exactly the same.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Good - now then imagine it ? (god i am beginning to sound like Sophia Golden girls) Just imagine, as I said a little earlier, that the cop book does not contain actual proof, but does contain enough for him to be taken to court for libel. When he is up in the dock defending himself, he comes out with an astounding revelation which proves beyond doubt what happened to Madeleine, and the libel court gives him his opportunity to legally give his evidence and substantiate his accusations or statements which he made in the book. Now I really am starting to sound as demented as Sophia!!
July 28th, 2008 at 1:46 am
annie1 Said:
July 28th, 2008 at 1:37 am
“Hey you lot - chill out… if you want everything you say to be reported on, repeated and eventually thrashed out as a point of law, then stand for Parliament”
LOL. I like that. Mind if I borrow it from time to time?
July 28th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I am chilling out . . . . . z z z