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DAILY MAIL: “Couple saw bundle taken out to sea near where Madeleine disappeared but police ignored them”
A bundle?
A British couple saw a package being bundled onto a jetski on a beach just six miles from where Madeleine McCann went missing. The tourists had been for a morning swim just nine hours after the little girl disappeared when they spotted the jetski.
A man in a dark wetsuit was riding it, with a 2ft- to 3ft-long black package on the front. He took it to a small “official-looking” grey boat moored just off the coast at Salema.
Man with bag spotted… Read all about it!
The McCanns’s spokesman said they were concerned the Portuguese police had not followed up such a “potentially significant lead”. Really.
GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “Maddie Jetski Snatch Riddle”
A riddle? A man with a bag on a jet ski? A riddle? Or a man with a bag on a jetski?
CHILD snatchers may have smuggled Madeleine McCann out of Portugal on a jetski within 10 hours of her kidnap. Two new witnesses have emerged saying they saw a man carrying a large bundle on a beach near Praia da Luz the morning after Madeleine vanished.
They said the man sped off on a jetski with the 3ft-long load on his lap and met a small boat offshore.
A boat. Offshore. On the sea. Not on the land…
One witness, a 58-year-old British woman, says: “The man was acting very strange, he was dressed in black and left on a black jetski with a bundle on his lap. The bundle was definitely big enough to hold Madeleine. It could have been her.”
McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “If these people had a sighting which is potentially significant, then clearly our investigators will require this information as a priority.”
THE SUN: “MADDY OFF ‘ON JET SKI’”
Say the Policia Judiciaria: “The Policia Judiciaria have carried out all the pertinent and sensible operation”
ARAB NEWS (Saudi Arabia): “Israel’s Moral Compass Is Flawed”
A propagandist called Linda Heard manages to aliken the disappearance of a missing child with terrorists firing rockets upon Israel and that country’s response:
Ponder on the morality of the media-inspired public response to Madeleine McCann as opposed to Gaza’s maimed and orphaned babies. According to the British newspaper Independent, there were 465 stories about her in the British press, the family received 1.1m pounds in public donations, while a host of celebrities — including Simon Cowell, Sir Richard Branson and J.K. Rowling — offered rewards totaling 2.6m pounds.
To the best of our knowledge, Kate and Gerry McCann have not vowed to push an entire nation of people’s into the sea, fired rockets upon them and used children as a human shield…
Madeleine McCann: The media frenzy so far
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March 5th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Do you mean GENOCIDE in Palestine?????
March 4th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Karen…
I’ve just read through the previous discussion in which you discussed some of your past. Stuff happens. Sometimes other people don’t like it. I have done things when I was younger and foolisher (still considering myself fairly young and foolish!) that I would not do again. Also if any child of mine tried them I’d (erm) “kill” them. Translation - I’d be very concerned for their well-being.
You seem a very intelligent young lady who can judge for herself.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
378 lilith
Theyv”e all disappeared from here, I was just checking. The new thread is Our
survey Says”
March 4th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
THE POUNDHUNGRY ONES AT IT AGAIN
Sucking up to smalltime children organisations to improve their image.
They are bloody USERS given the fact their million making Madeleine LIMITED COMPANY is not a charity!
Maddie’s parents seek charity’s help
By Ian Mason
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Missing: Madeleine McCann went missing in Portugal last May
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have visited Richmond to find out more about the work of a charity that helps locate missing people.
Kate and Gerry McCann, whose four-year-old daughter was kidnapped from Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 last year, met representatives from East Sheen-based charity Missing People and Missing Children Europe.
Ross Miller, of Missing People, said the McCanns wanted to find out more about the charity’s role within Missing Children Europe, the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, and to hear about its work first hand.
He said: “Kate and Gerry were very interested to learn more about our new research programme.
“This aims to fill gaps in the information currently available about the numbers of people going missing, why they go missing, their experiences while away and the impact on those left behind.”
On the same day, 302 days after Madeleine’s abduction, Gerry wrote on his blog praising the work of the charity.
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He said: “Missing People were responsible for displaying Madeleine’s image on Marble Arch, along with two other missing children last summer.
“It was heartening to hear today that one of those children was recovered as a direct result and the other has also been successfully returned to his family.”
The Richmond Guardian also received reports that the couple visited the Depot restaurant, in Tideway Yard, Mortlake High Street, and were being filmed.
However, staff at the restaurant remained tight-lipped about the couple’s visit and refused to comment about the filming.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
374
Maria
Most people did not forget the leaks the Let Them Eat Cake Ones were unable to stop or spin away.
Like the lying, the conflicting timelines, the blood the spinal fluids, the corpse fluids, the scent of death, the list goes on and on.
Only 30 percent of the public think they are innocent, probably lost interest in the case after the up yours senor article.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
319
Good stuff, xclamation!
March 4th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
323
Jolie
I remember the Deathscenting Ones trying to hire a PR firm in Portugal but were turned down everywhere.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
323 Jolie
Hi. Feeling OK?
You said
“If there is a shift in public perception, it could be because no further formal action has taken place yet against the McCanns, undermining confidence in the PJ’s case against them.”
Spot on. I’m sure that explains the shift in Portuguese opinion, if there has been one. (These polls are not always the most accurate measures of opinion.)
I honestly have yet to meet anyone anywhere (other than on the net) who thinks the McCanns killed Madeleine, or even covered up her accidental death for some unknown reason.
I wonder why?
Maybe it was the suggestion that they’d moved the body 25 days later in a hire car and buried it somewhere on the way to Spain that made people think the stories of the parents’ involvement were virtually incredible. (I know that’s by no means the only scenario but I just think it made people even more sceptical than usual about the papers.) And the stories about the priest’s possible involvement, confessions, burials in the churchyard etc. seemed impossibly lurid and far-fetched and were denied by him anyway. Then there were the suggestions of child-substitution……one of the other kids played Madeleine on the 3rd and nobody noticed…….Mmmm!!! No journos unearthed anything unsavoury in the McCanns’ background either. (It won’t have been for want of trying!) They seemed an ordinary, hardworking, well-liked, well-respected couple with loving, supportive families and lots of supportive friends and colleagues who believed totally in their innocence. The twins seem very happy, well-cared-for little souls, despite their parents’ incomprehensible decision to leave them asleep out of ear shot while they ate by the pool.
Nearly everyone believes the police did make big errors in the early part of the investigation and that also influenced public opinion because a lot of people thought the police were looking for a scapegoat because of their own mistakes. (I never subscribed to that view but I’ve heard it countless times.) The charges against Amaral didn’t help either and they could also have influenced opinion in Portugal as well as here. And Ribeiro has said the police were “hasty” in making the McCanns arguidos.
A lot of people (not on Anorak, I know!) thought, and still think, that Kate, in particular, is grief-stricken and looks it. There has also never been such a determined campaign to find out what happened to a missing child.
All reasons which could explain public opinion in favour of the McCanns.
Of course some crimes do seem impossible…….. until you actually see how they were done!. I’m only saying that I think most people here, rightly or wrongly, rejected the idea of their actual guilt from the very beginning.
Of course, we still have the interviews to come. Let’s not forget that. Surely they will be significant, maybe decisive. It’s a big mistake to take the apparent silence of the Portuguese police as meaning that they have nothing more to say or do. It’s their investigation. I’m sure they are pursuing it. Quietly. We’ll hear the results in time.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Fair - I’m moving to new thread
March 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
348 val
I’ll be popping in and out throughout the day.
I did find an article that relayed the information about the McC’s paying for PR work to influence Portuguese public opinion. — See my post 329.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Julie
I think we can safely say, that me and the FBI would not be compatible.
I went to confession once and left the door open, the priest said ’should you not close the door?’, I said, ‘nah, it’s all right’.
I could turn that true story into a dirty joke, but I think I’m in trouble enough really.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Fair - I commented on your first paragraph but I really don’t want to get involved in what you think about other posters on here. I hope you appreciate that.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Well I too am toddling off to the new thread . c ya there
March 4th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Mods and Admin
Did my post get pulled then???
All the numbers seemed to change, like something went missing.
I am sorry…
M and A ,, no some spam stuff got through
March 4th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Karen, heaven help us if you ever have to go with for the FBI or something … guaranteed state secrets will be public broadcast material
March 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
New thread and an interesting article.
And back on topic.
Thanks, Xklamation.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
357 dcb
yes
March 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Fair
I know.
But I really shouldn’t have said it. Some things need to be secret.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Gandy interrupted my grand entrance with that last dance from Dirty Dancing … wow am I gonna dream sweat dreams tonight …. Thanks Gandy (once again)
Hello everyone !!
March 4th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Karen
I was refering to dcb’s obvious (I thought) feelings towards certain other types. Nothing to do with you & yours. Just to do with his reactions.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Fair - my post numbers are out as I have a comment in moderation: was Fair Says:
March 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm. for me?
March 4th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
new thread http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/181543.html
March 4th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Gandolf
Now, if I thought you looked like that, I never would have disagreed with you in the first place.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
351
When was I talking about shannon….???
Completely different!
Please reread…?
March 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Fair
He really isn’t.
But I really shouldn’t have mentioned it. Me being stupid, again.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Fair
+++
I think most people have very strong feelings about that type of person. However i am not quick to judge people based on a few newspaper comments.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Karen
Wasn’t talking about your ex!
March 4th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Karen, with my rock star image and your misfortune, surely we can get it on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJMKnE3EjsM&feature=related
March 4th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
And I thought the Zeitgeist day was bad.
Hello, Pervert Assumption day.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
323 Jolie
Don”t remember a request for a PR firm in Portugal. I don”t think the antipathy
the Portugese have for the McCanns is about their guilt or innocence. It is more
to do with the unprecedented publicity and “take over” by the McCann PR team
at PDL, plus of course they feeling that the Portugese had been duped when the McCanns were made arguidos.
I was in the middle of this when waylaid by Market Research woman knocking on my
door, so don”t know if you are still around.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Gandolf
I blame you for all of my misfortunes.