Madeline McCann: The Conclusion And St Valentine’s Day Posters
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY RECORD: “Maddie Poster Blitz”
“Nearly 18,000 are being sent out across Spain. They will show Madeleine with either Mari Luz Cortes, five, or Yeremi Vargas, seven. They carry the headline No Nos Olvideis, Spanish for ‘Don’t forget us’
“Mari went missing in Huelva, 120 miles from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, on January 13. Madeleine vanished from Praia da Luz on last May 3 .Yeremi disappeared on Gran Canaria in March 2007”
None of the other missing children’s parents have been named as suspects in their disappearance
Says Clarence Mitchell: “”We know the Portuguese police looking for Madeleine have examined both cases and our investigators have also looked at them and continue to keep an open mind”
DAILY MIRROR: “McCann case ‘is near end’”
Madeleine McCann has been found?
Portugal’s justice minister Alberto Costa says: “We are at a stage now where we are approaching the conclusion of the process”
DAILY EXPRESS: “POLICE READY TO ABANDON THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE”
In “a flimsy attempt to defend the bungled police investigation” Alberto Costa “ claimed that 80 per cent of similar cases in Britain went unsolved”
Is this right? The WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER does not bother to investigate the claim
The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “If the Portuguese police are going to shelve the case without resolution then at the very least they must open the police files so that Metodo 3 (the private detective agency working for the McCanns) can continue to investigate all the leads. They could still have vital information which could solve this case”
THE GUARDIAN: “McCann inquiry drawing to a close, says minister”
Nine months after Madeleine McCann went missing while on holiday with her parents in Praia da Luz, the investigation into her disappearance is drawing to a close, the Portuguese justice minister said yesterday. “We are at a stage now where we are approaching the conclusion of the process,” Alberto Costa told a parliamentary committee hearing, though he could provide no details of the police investigation. Madeleine disappeared from her family’s holiday apartment in the Algarve on May 3, days before her fourth birthday. The McCanns returned to Britain in September.
THE TIMES: “Madeleine McCann investigation ‘nearing conclusion’”
Says Mr Costa: “People are talking of an ultimate failure, they are suggesting failure … I would say that that is premature”
Says Clarence Mitchell:
“There can be no conclusion to the investigation without Madeleine being found. If, however, the justice minister is referring to the aspects of the inquiry concerning Kate and Gerry being concluded, then they must be eliminated from the investigation forthwith as there is no evidence to implicate them in any way in the disappearance of their daughter. We also note that the minister implicitly criticised those in Portugal who were responsible for the many false and hugely damaging leaks to the press that have emanated from the country in recent weeks”
Francisco Pagarete, lawyer for Robert Murat, said: “If the minister is beginning to say that the inquiry will not be dragged out much longer, then he is effectively saying there will not be a trial.”
SKY NEWS: “Valentine’s Day Hunt For Madeleine” Valentine’s Day…
“The ‘Don’t You Forget’ Valentine’s Day campaign will send out images of the three missing youngsters to businesses and public sites across Spain and its islands”
HERALD SUN (Aus): Search for Maddie winding down”
Alipio Ribeiro, national director of the Policia Judiciaria (PJ), is likely to release the Mccanns from this status as early as today
NEW YORK TIMES: “The investigation into Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared last May, just before her fourth birthday, from a hotel room in the southern Algarve region, is “approaching the conclusion,” said Portugal’s justice minister, Alberto Costa. He said it was “premature” to say whether the investigation would find out what happened to the girl”
Madeleine McCann: The sensation and speculation of a missing child
February 14th, 2008 at 8:12 am
FIRST!!!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I had posted this on last night’s thread -
Good morning all. The Daily Record has a story today about ‘nearly 18000′ posters combining Madeleine’s picture with either Mari Luz or Yeremi to be sent out across Spain.
Strange number - how do they decide to print ‘nearly 18000′ posters?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Where is everyone today?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Hi Mariab,
I’m in Spain, so far I have seen no evidence of their past poster campaigns.
I’ll let you know if I see todays poster anywhere.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Hi mk, the poster pictured in the Daily Record is the one shown above and it has a website for Mari Luz - http://www.mariluzcortes.es
Where are all the usual posters this morning? Breakfast in bed for Valentines Day?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Hi everyone!
Not a lot to be said really. It makes me mad how they want to mix the parents of Yeremi and Mariluz into their sordid little schemes. They’re playing with the desperation of these families to justify themselves.
Personally, I think Madeleine and Yeremi are dead. Not sure about Mariluz. It’s very difficult to know what might go on inside a gypsy community (which doesn’t mean I think the parents are in any way involved). By the way, I see they’ve chosen the least gypsy-looking photo of Mariluz for the poster!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:35 am
4 mk
Ditto. Once saw a poster in the British consulate when I went to renew my passport. That’s all.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:36 am
4 mk
Me too. I live close to the Costa de Sol, so I shall keep a look out and let you know.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:36 am
But if they are printing “nearly 18000″ perhaps I shall only ‘nearly’ see one.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Probably talking to myself but I just had the following thought: people often say that Madeleine sometimes doesn’t look like the same child in the different photos. Am I wrong in thinking that, basically, it’s the coloboma photo (the one on the current poster) that is different from all the rest?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:42 am
10 Chloe
This point has been discussed a few times before.
This picture looks to me like a much younger Madeleine - hard to match it to the tennis court photo and be sure.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:42 am
9 PeterMac
Perhaps they mean they’re nearly going to print 18000 posters. You know, that wonderful use of “casi” in Spanish: “casi me voy” (”I’m almost going”), “casi le llamo por teléfono” (”I’ll almost phone him). Along the same lines, “casi imprimimos los carteles” (”We´ll almost print the posters”").
February 14th, 2008 at 8:45 am
10 Chloe
Another point about this is that if it is a picture of a much younger Madeleine and she has changed a lot as children do, why not use a more recent photo in the posters? The police always ask for a recent photo - at least in the programmes I watch!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:46 am
11 Mariab
I realise it’s been discussed ad infinitum. But the point I wanted to make is that maybe it’s just this one specific photo that doesn’t fit in with the rest. To me, it’s the only one where she doesn’t appear to have bags under here eyes. But maybe it’s an age thing, as you say.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:46 am
13 Mariab
I suppose their answer would be that it’s the only one that clearly shows the coloboma.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:49 am
10 Chloe
I know exactly what you mean!
But I still wonder why feature an out of date picture on the poster - would that not make it harder for searchers? It is so very different to the other pictures we have seen.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Perhaps K and G should help put up a few posters as they are obviously keen to find their daughter.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:56 am
There are posters every where you look around the glenfield hospital - perhaps they think she might be hiding there!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:58 am
i have a sneaking suspicion that if one travelled to rothley - there might be few there as well.. !
February 14th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I think it is good that they are showing others on the posters as well.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:59 am
16 Mariab
Oh yes. I entirely agree. I tend to think they didn’t intend her to be recognised - or knew she was dead. But that doesn’t explain why they used an old photo or why they wanted to draw attention to the coloboma when they had been recommended not to do so. Don’t know.
Someone the other suggested that Madeleine was a chimera. Seems a funny way to deal with the problem though. I find the idea that the Tapas were testing some kind of new drug on their children and there was some kind of accident to be very plausible. It would explain how the body disappeared and why there is the wall of silence.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
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dcb
They really are something else!
February 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Don’t you think people band-wagon jump with posters etc? Had to take my dauhgter to A&E and lo and behold! A poster of madeleine in one of the cubilces for heavens sake! Fashionable I guess.
The only thing one is likely to find nestling in my local hospital is mrsa! No missing children thats for sure.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am
20 dcb
That depends how you look at it.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I look at it positively - if it helps to find any missing child.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:07 am
coolandcalm - thats medics for you - stick together like glue.. IMO and alegedly of course
February 14th, 2008 at 9:09 am
25 dcb
Don’t know how many missing children have been found from posters. Always lots of sightings but little more. A few years ago (not many) a child went missing in Spain. He was “seen” all over the place. People had even talked to him! But, sadly, he appeared about a year later drowned in a kind of pool (think it was a kind of cesspool) near his home. The pool was on private property and the police had been unable to search it at the time of his disappearance because they did not have a court order allowing them to do so.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I tend to look at this latest move quite positively. Even if Madeleine is no longer around (as I sadly don’t believe that she is), at least there are two other children who are getting much needed exposure (who come from parents who don’t have the funds to do vigorous campaigns to find their children). I’m just wondering who’s being paid to put all these posters up ….. ?
February 14th, 2008 at 9:13 am
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Chloe Spain Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 9:09 am
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Maybe so - but I’m not going to knock it.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:18 am
SORRY! Hello everyone