Madeleine McCann: Scare Stories, Kate McCann’s Job And No Mari Luz
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “FIVE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPS LINK TO MADELEINE CASE”
“Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are now investigating a spate of attempted child abductions across Portugal.
“At least five kidnap attempts have been reported in the past month, leading officers from the Madeleine team to examine the details for possible connections.”
What of the headline “link” to Madeleine McCann – well, the alleged attempted kidnappings all occurred in Portugal
But “Last week Justice Minister Alberto Costa revealed that the head detective, Paulo Rebelo, was coming to the end of his case”, says the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It’s alarming to hear that this sort of thing can happen, particularly in a country that is so aware of the potential for abduction”
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy: 5 scares in Portugal”
Police searching for Madeleine McCann are also investigating five attempted child abductions in northern Portugal. They began when a nine-year-old girl was bundled into a car as she got off her school bus. Two more children were attacked last month and last Thursday two men tried to lure a girl of nine into a car. Last Saturday, another child escaped abduction. One police source said: “It is causing a lot of alarm.”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine McCann’s disappearance is ‘linked to a string of child abductions’”
Police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have been alerted over a spate of attempted child abductions in northern Portugal, it has been revealed. At least four children have been targeted in the last month in the region of Coimbra, where a nine-year-old girl escaped from an abductor in December.
It’s five children. The Express and Mirror both say its five
KATE McCANN: “Meanwhile, it is understood Kate McCann is quitting her job as a locum GP to devote her life to children’s charities. Mrs McCann has not returned to work since Madeleine’s disappearance in May and has reportedly told friends she feels she has a lot to offer charity organisations.
THE SCOTSMAN: “Torment of Madeleine’s family ‘is like being crucified’”
Kate McCann’s mother Susan Healey says: “It is almost like being crucified day to day. I read the most stupid things about Kate not crying enough or whatever”
Adding: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them. If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to Madeleine, we have to find out. There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance”
Gerry McCann is a “surgeon”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Missing Amy’s parents offer cash reward”
The parents of missing Irish expat Amy Fitzpatrick have offered a cash reward for information on her whereabouts. Franco Rey, spokesman for Amy’s Stepfather David Mahon and Amy’s mum Audrey, said: “A substantial reward is on offer to anyone who can provide reliable information on Amy’s whereabouts. Any information received will be treated within the strictest confidence.”
And:
Dubliner Mr Mahon (36) has also travelled to Tangiers in northern Morocco to investigate the possibility the teenager was snatched and taken to Africa.
Rewards have also been offered for missing Briton Madeleine McCann and missing Spanish girl Mari Luz Cortes. The family of five-year-old Mari Luz, snatched from her home in Huelva in south-west Spain on January 13, is offering €300,000 for information on her whereabouts. Rewards totalling £2.6m were offered within 10 days of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on May 3 last year from the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz.
TYPICALLY SPANISH: “parents of missing Mari Luz are against her image being used in a Madeleine McCann poster campaign”
Mari Luz’s father, Juan José Cortés, said after a meeting with Manuel Chaves, President of the Junta de Andalucía, this weekend, that, while he is not against collaborating in the search for Madeleine and ‘even helping to draw up a poster of all the missing youngsters,’ the lines of investigation into the disappearance of the two young girls are distinct, and are being carried out in two separate countries. EFE [Spanish news agency] said he is considering taking legal action for using his daughter’s image for the campaign.
Madeleine McCann: No news is news
February 18th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Good morning!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:02 am
morning SteveT
February 18th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Morning mk.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Crucifiction……..now thats a thought!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:11 am
if you two start exchanging little love letters all day; I’m going off sick.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am
AGW - No love letters, I promise! It also makes me feel sick sometimes.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am
I love you
February 18th, 2008 at 8:15 am
LOL!
Anyone got the kettle on?
February 18th, 2008 at 8:16 am
What happened yesterday anorak?
No Maddie page?
Are you under pressure from Clarence to keep quiet? (joke)
February 18th, 2008 at 8:22 am
So, Mari Luz’s father is considering taking legal action against the McCann’s for using his daughter’s image in their campaign… yet another person that the McCann’s have alienated. More PR failure from Clarrie.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Am I being sent to spam?
February 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am
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Stan Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 8:22 am e
So, Mari Luz’s father is considering taking legal action against the McCann’s for using his daughter’s image in their campaign… yet another person that the McCann’s have alienated. More PR failure from Clarrie.
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And, it was one of our intrepid Anorakians who first alerted him to the situation by telephone and then reported back here - a story followed up by 24Horas.
A fine example of the people taking control of the news.
People Power and Anorakians - a new combination in the media!
Others trail in their wake.
Administrator:See: Move Over Darling
February 18th, 2008 at 8:39 am
MODS AND ADMIN
SteveT
There’s nothing of yours in spam or moderation - are you having a problem?
February 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am
So Kate has decided to give up her £110,000 a year job to do charity work!?!
Whatever next, but i have said to my family that if she were my doctor, i would have to change on principle. (i know she is only a locum) but i am sure there are many other parents feel the same way. Was she pushed or did she jump?
February 18th, 2008 at 8:45 am
me thinks everyone has lost the plot and gone completely off the rails
Administrator: Could it be over exposure? A trick of the light? Or, perhaps, getting a little light in on the subject? You tell us.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:55 am
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Dee Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am e
So Kate has decided to give up her £110,000 a year job to do charity work!?!
Whatever next, but i have said to my family that if she were my doctor, i would have to change on principle. (i know she is only a locum) but i am sure there are many other parents feel the same way. Was she pushed or did she jump?
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Charity work can be exceedingly well paid! Look in the jobs vacant section in the Guardian. It is a long way from the notion of doing something for nothing these days!.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:59 am
If the McCs and their pink one are allowed to get away with this scam much longer, I shall believe the Zeitgeist predictions are established.
Is this affair a trial run to see just how gulible the public are, and for how long they can manipulate the whole saga?
February 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Carmen, very true, i think it would have to be worth it, they seem to have a lifestyle that needs to be maintained.
But do you think it would be one of her own charities, she would need to set up?
I’m not sure how many other charities would need the kind of publicity this couple are bringing with them right now! (imo)
February 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am
this subject is now like a dark red t shirt that has been washed and washed and washed, spun, spun spun and hung out to dry in the bright sunlight, it is now looking rather pale pink. we now need to add some solid factual colour back into this story, and less of the cheap washing powder.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I must see this Zeitgeist, i keep hearing so much about it
February 18th, 2008 at 9:02 am
14 Dee
Lol. Yeah, like she ever struck anyone as a charitable kind of person. Who told her to do this and why?
Doesn’t it bother anyone that today’s headlines seem to back up the ‘one government theory’ (which is, that the authorities are using this case to create a climate of fear to introduce even more security measures under the guis of protecting you). The papers are fear mongering which is nothing new, but what is new is my interpretation of the reasons why they are doing this. I thought naively that it was only for the money, i should have realised that the sick megalomaniacs who run this planet have all the money they need but as yet not all the power.
My challenge today for my fellow posters is to prove this theory wrong and shut me up.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:03 am
It’s a good question May.
Have you considered writing a piece about the Zeitgeist phenomena and putting it in the Forum section to see what reaction there is?
There are probably quite a few people around who would welcome an explanation as to what the Zeitgeist is.
You can get to the forum section by clicking on the black tab at the top of the page and then starting your own thread. If it is popular then it may well be picked up by Opinions.
Get writing!
February 18th, 2008 at 9:08 am
20 Dee
Go and do it now then, believe me, you don’t want to be the last to know. Then we can talk about it later if you want.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:11 am
coincidence, coincidence, coincidence…. It’s true what R.A Wilson said, repeating it does make me feel safer.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am
MOAH,
I’ll have to have a look tonight, i have a job interview this morning, then have to go to work afterwards.
Bye for now.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:17 am
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Carmen
I thought I had sent a couple of posts that didnt get through, but I think the problem is this end! Thanks.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:19 am
A simple spin - instead of k. not ever being able to work as a doctor someone invented this about charity! It is not worth us considering it,
it has no relevance to any truth or news, shall we leave it?
February 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
27 Dr. Watson
G is allowed to be a doctor again, why not K?. Are you sure your not underestimating your enemy, it is a common mistake.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I think Zeitgeist is a fine example of a cut and pasted internet search.
Bit of a poor mans Michael Moore really.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Kate’s mother - “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that”
Kates mother is the only one of the McCann ‘team’ to admit this! Its a pity the parents themselves don’t.
Lets have them admitting they made a mistake and not using mealy mouthed defensive statements - the intent of which is to avoid formal charges.
Dont they see that all this talk of abduction is fuelling paranoia?
If Kate McCann is to enter into the world of charity (unpaid one would hope) then perhaps she should consider fighting for the preotection of children at the root cause - the behaviur of parents and in particular not leaving children to fend for themselves whilst the parents go drinking.