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A YEAR after the abduction and murder of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, we must take pause to observe this sad anniversary in all sympathy for her bereaved family — as indeed for that of Sharlinie Nashar, lost in similar circumstances eight months ago and not yet found.
Other children go missing.
The contrasting fates of the children in these two cases raised the most awful conundrum: would it be kinder for such families to know their child is dead, to retrieve her remains for a proper burial in a consecrated grave where they might mourn and pray for her, or to never know what became of her, the better for hope to remain? Such unthinkable dilemmas are universal; the cases of Briton Madeleine McCann last year, American Jon- Benet Ramsey in 1996, and even the Azaria Chamberlain “dingo” case in Australia 28 years ago, all strike to the same depth of anguish.
Ramsey was fond dead 8 months after she went missing. Chamberlain’s body was never found.
The press sees Madeleine McCann buying party goods in Amsterdam…
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August 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Châtelaine
lol been through this so many times my head is fried
August 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Brandon
on the book that was scribbled the timeline it says Russell checked at 9.30…f*** me i have got plastic soldiers marching up and down the desk…i am getting some strange looks
August 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm
clouseau Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
my mate Tanner sees Bundleman approx 9.15………….yet Matt checks at 9.30 everthing is normal…am i missing something here….
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It seems that in later statements it was said that he didn’t actually SEE Madeleine from where he was standing, only the twins …
We have been fed all of these contradictory statements for more than a year and will never get used to it …
Also in the supposedly on May 3 handwritten timeline Matt O checks the WINDOWS of 3 apartments [doesn't go in] and such not at 9:30, yet at 9:00 pm
August 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I checked on Enfants Kidnappés. They say “leurs deux fils” in French, which means their two sons. But maybe they meant “their two children”.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
# clouseau Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
my mate Tanner sees Bundleman approx 9.15………….yet Matt checks at 9.30 everthing is normal…am i missing something here….
yes the second version
August 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
chaterlaine
my mouth is seconded only by my foot,
August 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
my mate Tanner sees Bundleman approx 9.15………….yet Matt checks at 9.30 everthing is normal…am i missing something here….
August 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Liza,
I still don’t understand the need for a PR, and I wish I knew exactly on what fund his salary is paid. What he is doing for them must be worth a lot, if that’s how they chose to spend the money (unless he is paid by someone else, but who, and for what reason exactly?). Who can afford a PR like that, I wonder, if not a state, or a big firm? Incredible!
August 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Brandon Flours says “whos got 2 sons ?????”
This is probably something which got lost in translation. I believe Portuguese is like Spanish - if there is a boy and a girl, in Spanish they are referred to as if they were both boys: “niños” or “hijos”. If Gerry McCann said “children”, the translator probably used the same term. Only if he had said “daughters” would the female version have been used.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
****
“Si non e vero, e ben trovato”
[if it isn’t true, it well made up”
August 21st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
The people who favour the abduction scenario are asking us to believe that intelligent doctors left the apartment unlocked.
Unlocked ? with all their valuables in, not to mention the valuables belonging to the apartments owner !
So their supporters think they are THAT stupid ?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Châtelaine,
I do miss Salomon S too.
When I think of it, he more or less foresaw what the outcome of the investigation would be like by the end of July.
At the time, I thought the files being made public would help the media and public opinion to understand the difficulties of the case, see that the truth about it was far from obvious, and ask the right quetions, as has been done on Anorak since the bginning. I hadn’t foreseen the new wave of bad faith against the PJ in the British media.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Marie Nicholas - I quite agree with you. Their behaviour does seem to imply that they felt the need to cover up something - not necessarily having directly harmed their daughter etc or else the very best course to follow would have been to fully collaborate with the police (especially since they had such powerful people/authorities backing them)
liza
August 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
We haven’t seen SALOMON for a long time. Wonder if he’s too busy making an English translation …
August 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Spam,
This is from the site “Enfants Kidnappés”, which I think originates form Belgium, and has topics about kidnapped or disappeared children. Apparently, they find something to say about the MCcase. Last week, they couldn’t understand why the MCs and their PR allowed the press to pretend the new sightings were interesting for them (I am not sure, but the MC even said something like it gave them hope), when they and their lawyers knew, from the files, that some of those signtings had been explored and ruled out some time ago, by the PJ.
Instead of talking about the files, “Enfants Kidnappés” decided to give the interesting pages, translated into French, so that we can make up our own mind. They say, if you want to understand the reports, you have to remember that at the beginning, the PJ didn’t question the MC’s story. Though Amaral says they had doubts from the start, seems to me they led the investigation without heeding those doubts, until maybe it was too late to get some evidence which would have been useful. They must have been impressed by the political and media pressure.
It is true, if we remember the huge wave of sympathy that the MCs got then from the whole world, the PJ would have been seen as nazis if they had been a bit more investigative on the MCs themselves. I guess their authorities didn’t help them that way.
If the MCs had nothing to do with the disappearance of their daughter as they claim, I think it would have been better for them and the tapas group in the long term to be thoroughly investigated.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Chateleine, would you mind making that the next to last one’?
A big hurray and a big hug to you, JM!
ciao
PS that makes two days in a row with nice things happening, wasn’t it yesterday that Mr WTF got a lovely job? Let’s see what happens tomorrow!
August 21st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Just_Me, let me be the last one to congratulate you on your son’s excellent school results!
August 21st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Brandon
Drat! I liked that explanation.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It’s not clear how MO left the apartment. If he went out through the patio doors, he would have to have left his own patio doors open to get into his apartment via the back.
If he left by the front door, then how did he not notice that the shutters were up and the window open as he passed it both going to and coming back from his apartment?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
sam Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
i think the patio doors is the shorter distance.
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Definitely, Sam. Also, the front door is right next to the children’s bedroom, so the risk of waking them was much higher…
August 21st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
When I translated “open”, I should have written “unlocked” (”a glass door that was always left unlocked”).
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Thank you, Marie. But that still means they could enter in the back [as Matt O did] without a key. So why bother to walk around the block and use the front door. And they’ve really said that they did NOT use the front door, because of the sound of the key … And, indeed, why lock the front door, yet leave the back door unlocked? Just teeny-weeny contradictions amongst many, many more …
August 21st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
‘I can’t understand how the PJ didn’t find it strange that they used their keys while a door remained unlocked. Can anyone tell me, which was of easier access from the restaurant, the side unlocked entrance with window panes, or the main locked door?’
i think the patio doors is the shorter distance.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
sorry marie, not translating, i meant publishing.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I can’t understand how the PJ didn’t find it strange that they used their keys while a door remained unlocked. Can anyone tell me, which was of easier access from the restaurant, the side unlocked entrance with window panes, or the main locked door?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
thnaks marie, interesting, is this from the site which is translating the contents of the cds ?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
When I translated “open”, I should have written “unlocked” (”a glass door that was always left unlocked”).
August 21st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Thanks Marie nicholas for the translation
x
August 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
GF: also “At 9. 30, a friend, MATT (member of the group) went to his own appartement where his children were. He entered G’s apartment, using a glass door which was always left open, on the side of the house.”
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Why walk around the block to use the front door when the back door [patio doors] was open? Furthermore, I have distinctly read long time ago that they did NOT use the front door as they were afraid that the sound of turning the key would wake–up the children…
August 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
does david payne already have a son ?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Grand Finale,
That is one of the first instances of wht I call “one thing and its contrary co-existing” in the story : the appartent is locked, and it is n’t. What is the use of locking one door if you let the other unlocked?
Another contradiction, but probably irrelevant. Gerry says the bar where they had breakfast was only a few meters away. Then he says that because it was at some distance, they’d rather buy their own food from the supermarket and have breakfast at the appartment. Which I can understand. but what a funny reason!