Madeleine McCann: Fnideq Arabs, Naoual Malhi And The Eternal Blonde
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADDIE ‘I know where to find her’”
“As the McCanns mark six months without Madeleine, the Mail visits the remote Moroccan village that may hold the key”
Know: “A grim, soulless place where a dusty sea-wind whistles constantly through the narrow streets and the darkened bazaars seeth [sic] with intrigue, the Moroccan town of Fnideq is Africa’s last settlement”
Is Madeleine here, in this outpost of Hell?
“Tragically, the sight of a cute-looking child clinging forlornly to some strange adult hand is no great rarity here”
Like in the Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent, on a Saturday afternoon? Or still worse?
“Last month, however, by grace of her blonde hair, apple cheeks and a milky complexion, one little girl looked so strikingly different as she was swept along Fnideq’s teeming streets in the clutches of a middle-aged Arab woman that someone finally took notice”
Oh for the grace of being blonde among so much seething darkness….
The woman? Why, it’s 24-year-old Moroccan Naoual Malhi. She’s pictured wearing an animal-print raincoat. She stares into the camera. Look into her eyes. She saw Madeleine. And now she is in the papers. And that reward remains on offer…
A man has also seen Madeleine, a blonde child with milky whiteness and apple cheeks. “Listening to the man, Naoual’s pulse quickened. Everything seemed to tally”
Madeleine: DNA ‘does prove her body was in McCanns’ hire car’ (Link)
DAILY MIRROR front page: “SHE’S ALIVE. GIVE HER BACK”
“Maddy mum on 6-month anniversary”
A new photograph of Madeleine has been released (see picture)
Says Kate McCann: “Madeleine is a beautiful little person and the best place for her to be is with her family”
Page 5: “Please keep looking, please keep praying”
6 MONTHS OF PAIN: McCANNS IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Not her own words in an exclusive interview, rather a selection of quotes from Gerry and Kate McCann dating back to May 3, when Madeleine went missing
And a new quote from Kate McCann:
“Six months is such a long time for a little girl to be separated from her family. We believe that our Madeleine is out there somewhere and retain hope that we can be reunited. Madeleine is a beautiful little person who deserves a loving and happy life. To ensure this there is no doubt that the best place for her to be is with her family.
“We know that somebody somewhere can make this happen.That somebody has the ability and power to bring back us back so much joy as well as bring peace to themselves. If you have any information relating to Madeleine’s disappearance or whereabouts please pass it on to 00 34 902 300 213″
Or call the press
THE SUN front page: “MY BABY – Kate please after new DNA blow”
“MADDIE MISSING SIX MONTHS”
“The anguished couple were last night rocked by leaked DNA results from a UK forensics lab, which were said to show: Four-year-old Madeleine’s body WAS in a car they hired 25 days after she vanished in Portugal
“Bodily fluids from the Renault Scenic appeared to have come from the youngster’s CORPSE
“BLOOD found in the family’s rented Algarve holiday apartment was also hers”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “This is yet another unsourced, unsubstantiated report and we simply won’t comment on it. Suffice to say that Kate and Gerry have absolutely nothing to hide”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: ‘SHE WAS KILLED IN FLAT – Parents’ new DNA shocker”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - PRIVATE DETECTIVES REVEAL: “WE’RE CLOSING IN ON MOROCCAN HIDEAWAY”
Here’s hoping the kidnappers don’t read the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER” and move locations
Moroccan Majid Jazoili says:
“Two people I know saw a picture I carry with me of Madeleine McCann. They told me they had seen her with a family who live in a tiny village in the Rif Mountains. There are three women with daughters who each have a family of their own. There is also a grandfather who lives with them in the same house and lots of children. I don’t know what the blonde girl is doing with them. I called the number I had seen on the poster”
It’s a big reward. Expect more sightings…
THE TIMES: “Friends fear for Kate McCann’s fragile health
“Tonight the couple will come under the most intense public scrutiny since they arrived back in Britain when they attend a special service at the Church of St Mary and St John in Rothley, Leicestershire. They are expected to arrive just before 9.30pm, about the time they say their daughter was taken from their bed at the Ocean Club complex a few days before her fourth birthday”
A minute’s silence?
“They will hear special prayers being said for Madeleine and other missing children between 9.30pm and 9.45pm. By 10pm, the time Mrs McCann reported Madeleine missing, the couple are expected to be back home”
And Kate? Says a source: “Some days are absolutely fine, but on others there is a lot of crying. It is not just the loss of her daughter, it is everything that has happened since”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Detectives probe Madeleine McCann sighting”
Naoual Malhi, a Spanish woman of Moroccan origin, is in a taxi
And a new picture of Madeleine: “Wearing a pink and white striped T-shirt, her blonde hair is blowing across her face as she gives a cheeky grin to the camera”
Madeleine McCann is blonde. And missing
THE GUARDIAN: “Madeleine plea marks six months”
Francisco Marco, of detective firm Metodo 3, says: “We have a six-month agreement with the McCanns. We have already spent a month and a half working. I will find her before that period is up”
ARAB NEWS:
“A study in its own right, the coverage of the McCann case says much about the hysterical, media-fixated country Britain has become. The couple’s professional status and telegenic qualities practically guaranteed that they would become objects of keen media interest. It was, though, remarkable with what zeal the McCanns positively embraced their sudden celebrity and poured their energies into keeping themselves and their story in the headlines”
More to follow…
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:35 am
1st?
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:35 am
1st
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
Nearly,hey honey is your name Elm.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
110 earlier thread - Jolie says (November 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 am): “According to Portugese television Gerry McCann made 14 text messages shortly before 10pm on May 3rd”.
REPLY: Whilst chatting to the aerobics teacher/quizmistress, catching up with Matthew Oldfield coming back from his ‘checking visit ‘ to the kids at 9.30pm, answering quiz questions, eating some tapas and havinga drink, and giving instructions to Kate to go back and check on the kids again.
If we can believe the McCanns and the rest of the ‘Tapas 9′, that is
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:48 am
Moin!
It’s weekend and Gerry has suggested that no further developements are expected until Madeleine will be found. Maybe this finally gives us the time for some sideline discussion. I suggest to discuss today about whether 3 little children should be left alone during their parents’ dinner, taking into consideration that this might make the parents guilty of neglect or not.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:49 am
Kate McCann: “If you have any information relating to Madeleine’s disappearance or whereabouts please pass it on to 00 34 902 300 213″
REPLY: Which will make us - oops, I mean the Find Madeleine Trust Fund - a lot more money than if you ‘phone the police, my PR team or my Solicitor
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 am
110 earlier thread - Jolie says
“According to Portugese television Gerry McCann made 14 text messages shortly before 10pm on May 3rd”.
No it weren’t 14 text messages, but 14 bottles of wine.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:52 am
Nothing has changed 6 month later. I don’t think she is still alive. I do hope of course for the sake of this little girl she is. She is the victim of neclect. Dead or a live. If alive, she’ll be psychology so scarred and will never be the happy girl she used to be. She would be haunted by newspaper journalists for the rest of her life. Whatever the outcome will be it is a very sad story in which Madeleine plays the main role of a big Drama. I don’t feel their will be a happy end to this. Living happily ever after? I don’t think so.
Will read your comments with great interest.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:55 am
Columbo Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
Nearly,hey honey is your name Elm.
Do you mean me The Dutchbird? If so, no it is Hedy
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 am
7 ferdinand
“No it weren’t 14 text messages, but 14 bottles of wine.”
So gerrykins is now a wine reviewer - sending in his copy via text message
hic…
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:57 am
5 Ferdinand wrote: ” I suggest to discuss today about whether 3 little children should be left alone during their parents’ dinner, taking into consideration that this might make the parents guilty of neglect or not”.
REPLY: Ferdinand, about three or four weeks ago, I mentioned here that a group of us plan to issue a private summons against both McCanns for neglect of a child - under Children and Young Persons Act 1933. A poster here called Andy, who I don’t think has contributed to Anorak for the past 3 weeks or so, gave us all a list of decided cases on child neglect (i.e. case precedents) which showed that leaving three young children on their own all evening - as the McCanns did - is prima facie likely to constitute the offence of child neglect. If we receive confirmation from Leicestershire Police and Social Services that no prosecution of the McCanns is planned in relation to their child neglect, we intend to proceed shortly with an application to Leicestershire Magistrates Court
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
Why are they saying on Sky News website that a new picture has been released?
Hasnt this been in the public domain before? My Wife said she has seen it before.
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:04 am
CASES OF CHILD NEGLECT
Here are some of the cases on child neglect which Andy researched a while ago and posted here:
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In R v Jasmin, L (2004) 1CR, App.R (s) 3, the Appellants had left their child aged 16 months old alone in the home for periods of up to 3 hours, whilst they went off to work. This happened on approximately three separate occasions. The Appellants were both found guilty of offences relating to neglect contrary to S1(1) Childrens’ and Young Persons Act 1933 and were sentenced to concurrent terms of 2 years imprisonment.
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4 months ago
Lord Justice Law in summing up stated that: “… there was no evidence of any physical harm resulting from this neglect [but] “that both parents had difficulty in accepting the idea that their child was in any danger”…
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In M v Normand (1995) SLT 1284, HCt Judiciary [ a Scottish case which may have persuasive authority ],the Appellant had parked his car leaving his son aged 18 months old strapped in a child’s car seat in the rear of the car whilst he and his wife went to do some Xmas shopping. A traffic warden was on duty when he saw the Appellants’ car with the chid in the car seat. The child was sitting quietly, appeared to be awake, not distressed and adequately clothed. The police were called and remained next to the car until the parents returned some 55 minutes later. The Appellant was found guilty of a contravention of s12 Childrens & Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937in that he did “wilfully neglect and abandon him in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering and injury to health”.
It was submitted that “where a child of this age was left on its own for a substantial period, VERY LITTLE MORE WAS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THAT THE OFFENCE HAD BEEN COMMITTED… and that “the child might have become distressed simply by reason of it being left alone in that period of time, and this was a circumstance which could cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health…”
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International law states that “The exercise of parental responsibility is governed by the law of the State of the child’s habitual residence. If the child’s habitual residence changes, it is governed by the law of the State of the new habitual residence.” So it would appear the UK law is applicable.
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Back in September, Gerry McCann issued this statement:
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“There is a very upsetting story on the front page of a British National Newspaper today. The headline suggests that Kate and I face prosecution for neglecting our children by dining 50 yards away and checking on them regularly.
“We know that there has been criticism in some quarters of our actions but at the time, we felt our actions were responsible. We were essentially performing our own baby listening service although we have talked of the guilt we felt at now being there at the moment Madeleine was taken.
“***We have been advised that legally our behaviour was well within the bounds of responsible parenting and subsequently been assured that no action will be taken***. These types of criticism, particularly at this stage, as well as being hurtful are extremely unhelpful in the search for Madeleine. From the moment we discovered Madeleine missing Kate and I have done everything in our power to try and help get her back.
“Our opinion now is completely clouded by what has happened to us and of course has sent shock waves through thousands of families. The real issue is that we should not have a constant fear of abduction of our children from their bedrooms, gardens or streets for that matter.
“What Kate and I did was at worst naïve and no one should forget that the real criminal is the predator who has taken a completely innocent child in such a premeditated fashion. It is this act that has wreaked havoc on our family and affected millions of other people”.
UNQUOTE
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:05 am
The privately hired detectives will continue to earn their keep for the next six months by constantly providing ’sightings’ of Madeleine supposedly being transferred by taxi to some remote Moroccan mountain. Perhaps they can keep this thought alive until the time for the McCanns to be regarded as ‘arguidos’ has expired. Clarence will hope it keeps the focus off evidence from cadaver dogs and the DNA and provide sufficient doubt to cloud the issue. With Gerry back at work, life resumes as normal and interested parties will be bored into a state of lethargy…
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:06 am
Why would the McC’s not get procecuted for neglect and other parents are? Because they have money??????
Why not release all available photo’s of M?
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:07 am
Kate McCann said, “Madeleine is a beautiful little person who deserves a loving and happy life. To ensure this there is no doubt that the best place for her to be is with her family.”
Does anyone else find, “….there is no doubt that the best place for her to be is with her family.” A very odd statement?
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
8 Dutchbird
Im not sure she was that happy before, we dont know. This family dont seem to have the number of pictures most people nowadays have of their children, especially at the end of a six day holiday. Some of the pictures they use are of her when she was even younger, kids change so much in short time periods.
Maybe they didnt see much of her? Perhaps it should be creches and nannies who would have mor pictures and more collective knowledge of this child?
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
11 Tony Bennett Says:
“REPLY: Ferdinand, about three or four weeks ago, I mentioned here that a group of us plan to issue a private summons against both McCanns for neglect of a child - under Children and Young Persons Act 1933.”
Interesting legal system you have, hard to understand for a European from the continent. I understand that you can issue a private summons while not having any personally interest in the case (i. e. you are not a victim of the McCanns)?
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Lovely stuff…
“THE TIMES: “Friends fear for Kate McCann’s fragile health”
We are about to see katiepoo’s well-rehearsed, staged “collapse” soon…
ripping fun I say
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
16 Thea. Everything she says is, might just be her language skills are meagre.
Might be that she just never bonded with this little girl.
It might be that its difficult to discuss her - as s he knows everyhting she says is based on a lie, even if its not a lie in itself.
It may be the restrictions put on her by lawyers (though she always sounded odd even before they were openly suspected).
It may be many things!
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
18 Ferdinand.
Do you approve or not of this possibility?
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
18 ferdinand
if you see someone breaking the law in the UK you can make a citizen’s arrest. If you see someone abusing children you have the choice to watch or do something about it…
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
MADELEINE NOT FOUND. KATE AND GERRY ARE LOST.
“Says Clarence Mitchell: “This is yet another unsourced, unsubstantiated report and we simply won’t comment on it. Suffice to say that Kate and Gerry have absolutely nothing to hide”.”
They are always hiding their own sources:
“And Kate? Says a source: “Some days are absolutely fine, but on others there is a lot of crying. It is not just the loss of her daughter, it is everything that has happened since”.”
Oh, yeah. My source tells me that mostly Kate is worried about what is going to happen henceforth.
Interesting that her new quote says that 6 months is a long time for Madeleine to be separated from her family. Her old quote, which I criticized in here, was that 6 months is a long time for HER to be without Madeleine. They also provided a new photograph! I think Stevo and others were correct: TEAM MCCANN reads this and other forums carefully and attempts to improve their story. I was glad to help them out, but they should know I do not work for free. I will be sending them my bill… naturally whatever I am paid will be forwarded to the ANORAK FUND TO HAVE THE MCCANNS FOUND.
FOUND GUILTY, that is…
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:20 am
16 thea
yep it’s odd - but these “people” are seriously odd
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:26 am
13 tony b…
interesting to note that your post’s last 5 paragraphs contain phrases that look remarkable similar to phrases trotted out repeatedly by two or there “posters” to this forum. No prizes for identifying then, of course
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:26 am
Good Morning Porkers, Creationists, Rascists, Consultant Cardiologists and Russian Mafiosa xxxxx.
Lovely day for a church service, don’t you think?
Nothing to hide?……. That be except the answers to questions the PJ asked your clients then Clarence?
Clarence end this disgraceful farce now and persuade your clients to answer all of the PJs questions. If they did that I might even go out to Morocco and search for child abductors myself, no charge.
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 am
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Ian Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
8 Dutchbird
Im not sure she was that happy before, we dont know.
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I never actually considered that. Good point.
Indeed do I have thousand of photographs of my 4 year old since birth. It is so easy with digi cams. Your post made me think again…
In their case understandable though. They were too busy playing tennis, jogging, taking kids to and from nurseries. Eating tapas without them, sending loads of text messages and so on. So it is understandable isn´t it=
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:32 am
21 Ian Says:
“18 Ferdinand.
Do you approve or not of this possibility?”
It’s a strange thought that any stranger can sue me for an alleged offense that did not cause any harm, financially or physically or whatever, to him. To make it clear, he can of course make a report to the police or the prosecutor, that’s something different. Then it’s up to the prosecutor to file a charge or not.
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:32 am
27 will
“Lovely day for a church service, don’t you think?”
Nice one, will.
Of course there will be a mini address to the world as well - that little prat can’t help himself. Wonderful stuff. I bet he doesn’t answer any questions - he will be on a tight leash not to lose his temper again
Do we get to see McConnleCat today - fresh from the tumble drier?
Will bagabones give us a “tear”?
Just off to ladbrokes to lay me bets…
Ripping fun and alleluyah I say…
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
Good point Ian. I had type a longer reply but lost it.Good point Ian. I had type a longer reply but lost it. I have problems with this anti spam word. Do you all have the same or is me only.