Madeleine McCann: Making A Meal In Belgium
POLICE in Belgium have issued a computer image of the man seen with “MADELEINE” McCann close to the Dutch border.
No lazy eye. No cigarette. This face does not look like Robert Murat, the case’s chief suspect. Not even if you draw glasses on it. This man has been seen with a brown-haired British woman. They have both been seen with a child who looks like Madeleine McCann.
“Dramatic breakthrough in search as kidnapped girl is spotted in Belgium,” says the Express on its front page. No circumspection. Just fact.
And, of course, this is no less or more dramatic than those sightings of Madeleine in Morocco and Malta. No less dramatic than when the Dutchman’s picture with an ‘X’ marking the spot where Madeleine’s body could be found. No less dramatic than when Robert Murat was shut in a room at the police station with three of the McCanns’ dining companions.
There is no little drama in the case of Madeleine McCann. But there are no car chases. No flashing lights. No arrests. The drama is all in the telling.
And so to this couple, eating at the De Pauze restaurant. The girl is with them. Police are carrying out DNA tests on the cup used by this “Madeleine”.
A witness is watching all. She’s a child therapist. She says the child is “nervous looking”. She calls the police. When she returns, the group has “fled”.
The couple and the child get into a Volvo with Belgian number plates with the letters VUV. They are seen “speeding off”.
The Express says “several witnesses” in the case remember seeing the little girl. “They said all three were acting suspiciously.” The police are asking questions. Memories are being jogged. Did you see the poor little girl with the swarthy man? It might be Madeleine McCann. Do you remember?
But why Belgium? The Express lists the “legacy of abuse” in Belgium. It mentions Marc Dutroux, convicted of child murder and kidnap. The efit doesn’t look much like him. And he’s in jail. The Express talks of Belgium’s “paedophile rings” and a “paedophile village”.
Madeleine has been seen in Belgium before. In June she was with a Belgian couple outside Liege cathedral. But now more was heard of her. Either the people in Belgium are mistaken or not all that observant, given the so many Britons saw Madeleine in Malta.
“MADELEINE ‘SEEN’ IN BELGIUM,” says the Mirror’s front-page headline.
This is big news. And, as the Express says, Gerry and Kate McCann are “being kept informed”. And they are off to visit Huelva in Spain. Not Belgium. Not yet…
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November 12th, 2007 at 6:48 am
[...] in Bosnia, the “very swarthy” people are with Madeleine. Like the man in Belgian, [...]
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 am
[...] blonde hair was cut shorter and she had a big bruise on her forehead and looked very unhappy [like the girl in Belgium]. The woman was about 40 or 50… As soon as she realised I had looked closely into the girl’s [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I just have to - just looked at a article online from the Post Chronicle. Refers to Kate as Jane all the way through it. UH OH. Have we got that wrong too?????
October 25th, 2007 at 9:14 am
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Mary Joe - You really are a sick cow. I checked out your site and it’s not Brian’s prediction’s. It’s your own spammy site, with links which you make money from. You really are the lowest of the low.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
I honestly think that I saw Madeleine McCann about 3 weeks ago in the center of brussels with a tall man, but i never thought it could have been her! It might of been her..
August 6th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
i hope maddie was in tha cafe becz thun thu will hve sum leads at thu min thu have nothing i hope thu prson tha sed shu seen her wasnt liein becz everyone will be lukin fo her in thu wrong places and it is nowin thu ppl hu take kids is seen in public i hope maddie is well and safe
August 6th, 2007 at 7:53 am
[...] is sat at a table. She’s the “child therapist” who saw Madeleine McCann dining in a Belgian restaurant with two adults. Ms Sampermans is “100 per cent sure” she saw Madeleine. But by the time she [...]
August 4th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
The internet could help here, like a wikki, sort of
SEE:
http://mycroftholmes.wordpress.com/
to get an idea of the thinking here. They have got the right idea, i think.
One fact, we do not know today what we might know tomorrow. No one has a monopoly on the truth or what happens next.
Never give up, stranger things have happened.
August 4th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
But Sofi, the woman said she looked at internet pictures of Madeleine after she thought she saw her, and said it was definately the same girl she saw at the cafe.. But really, we don’t know who’s right and who’s wrong, so you can’t be saying “Of course it wasn’t Madeleine!” If we think it was Madeleine and it turns out it wasn’t, we’ll be prooven wrong, if you say OF COURSE it wasn’t her and it turns out it was, then you’ll be prooven wrong. We just have to wait for the DNA resaults.
August 4th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
In The Netherlands and Belgium there is very little media coverage of Maddie so to me its very doubtful that this therapist knew her face enough to be 100%. Plus they were not in the cafe so long so how did she evaluate her enough to know things were not normal?
If you had kidnapped Maddie do you really think anyone would take her to a cafe on the border where they MAY be controls? I dont think so
If I was in a foreign cafe faced with a foreign menu maybe I would feel uncomfortable and maybe the child was just wary to? ESPECIALLY when people are staring at you
I do not think its her at all, its not unusual to see english mums and children with foreign partners you know
August 4th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Firstly Marian that child you was on about was not plastered all over the world for people to remember, so sure what risk is there in letting the child out if you make it normal then the child believes that he or she was meant to stay with the abductors.
But I really think that Maddie is not the child that was seen having a meal because of the media input it would be too great a risk.
Not being Negative but I tend to agree with edge a bit I don’t think Maddie is coming back and it is really heart breaking.
I would love to be proved wrong on this it would be great, I hope i am.
August 4th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Edge, did your parents forget to put the child-lock on the PC?
Your silly posts aren’t big or clever and no-one is taking any notice of you!
August 4th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
for gods sake you dimwits it is obviousely not Maddie. The whole world nows what she looks like. Dont you fink someone else in the cafe wood of notised.How about the blooie watress didne she rcckognize her. Get real yuor rite offf track.probly anothher stunmt by the pairents to keep her in the pubic eye
August 4th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
[...] “The world’s greatest newspaper.” Truth upon truth. The Express says the spotter is a child therapist. Her age is not given. But the inclusion of her career in dispatches – the Express never tires of [...]
August 4th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Linda, I would have to agree with you 100%
August 4th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Tonight I’ve just seen the woman interviewed on television who said she is 100% sure it was Madeleine. And yet she doesn’t want anybody to know her name or what she looks like. If you’re 100% sure it’s Maddy then what does it matter if you show your face on an interview. UNLESS of course you think that if it’s not Maddy then you’ll feel guilty that you caused all this drama. But hang on a minute, she keeps saying that she IS 100% sure. Personally I think she’s really NOT that sure otherwise any normal person would have detained those people or at least approached the child, not just sat at a distance and recorded how they were acting on a piece of paper, which was shown on the TV interview.
The media just love to sensationalise all of this. I read how the couple “fled” the scene with the child and “sped off in their car”. Yeah right…..in other words the people probably just took the child by the hand and left the cafe through the front door, got into the car and drove off normally……no screeching of tyres or wheelies down the road I bet.
August 4th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I hope and pray it was a true sighting and the DNA proves it was Maddie. However if that be so, did the police take the couples cups/glasses away for testing too? It would be the sensible thing to do, but the papers didn’t say.
August 4th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Recently there was a child found in a central city in the USA. He had been living with his abductor for 4 years. He had a cellphone, went to school, had a bicycle which he rode in the streets, his abductor was a shift worker.
This child was never hidden.
August 4th, 2007 at 9:20 am
I say be bold, walk right up to the little girl, neal down eye level and ask the child if her if her name is Madeleine McCann? If she says no, then I think I would still report to the police because something didn’t feel right about the situation….. maybe the little girl was in a odd situation, maybe not Madeleines odd situation, but certainly the child needed attention drawn to her. If it was madeleine I would lock those two people in the freezer and not let them out until the poice arrived….. Why IN THE HELL DID THAT LADY LET THAT LITTLE GIRL WALK AWAY!!!!!!!!!???
August 4th, 2007 at 7:53 am
sarah i agree with you if i called madeleine and she turned around i would not think ok thats her im walking away now NO id go over ask her again look for the leaking iris and if it was her id scream and shout til the cows came home and again if it was my child and there had been a sighting in belgium well two actually id be there like a shot looking myself no matter how many faulse sightings people tell me about id go there just incase. i really want madeleine to be found safe and well but the longer this goes on the more concerned i am that this is never going to be solved i hope this isnot the case and i vowed id never say that but its now becoming really hard to stay so positive the dna tests should be fast tracked and results should be given today so if it is her they can start searching the ares NOW not next week.
August 4th, 2007 at 3:53 am
why be so negative? it could have been madeleine, maybe not but there is a chance. the woman who saw the couple and the little girl works with children and said they all acted strange.. and that she is 100% sure that it was madeleine! i admit that if i would see a girl that looks like madeleine i’d walk up to her and ask if her name is madeleine, look into her eyes and see if she has a lazy eye or whatever it’s called. and if that couple has madeleine and they see that this is all over the news, of course they’ll run. but they have taken a DNA test and if it matches madeleines DNA, everyone will be on the lookout for a ugly dutch guy, english-speaking woman and a little girl in belgium or holland. and they know what kind of car they are driving and a part of the number plate. but, if the DNA does not match madeleines then this will all be forgotten, but i think it’s likely that this was madeleine with that couple, since some people also saw a girl that looks like madeleine with a couple in belgium in june and when they called her name she turned around and looked at them. i think the people didn’t do anything more when she looked at them, i don’t know why.. but i don’t understand why madeleines parents are traveling to spain? why don’t they go to belgium and holland? if my daughter was kidnapped and she had been seen in belgium twice, i wouldn’t go to spain and hang up posters, i’d take the first plane to belgium and look for her myself.
well nothing more we can do until next week when the DNA resaults come!
August 4th, 2007 at 12:30 am
what a load of bollocks as if the person who took maddie would parade her in public. Get real she aint going to be found!!!
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
I agree that the Family that were spotted having a meal is very doubtful to be the person that has Maddie.
If someone had taken her because they wanted a child she would have been found, a neighbour would have seen her or the post man ect.
I have a 4 yr old and no matter what you do you cannot watch them and keep them quiet all of the time someone would notice a 4 yr old after this length of time.
I just hope Maddie is alive and not being harmed but I don’t think that this sighting is Maddie either.
I may sound like one of the nasty people here it just seems like a coincidence that this is her 100 day missing or near to it and there is another sighting happens.
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
i assume that the “express” is suffering falling sales printing this rubbish!
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I think its disgusting the waysomeone could steal a child from their parents like that. If she’s alive- thank the lord. I don’t think this is her - who’d b stupid enough to take her out in Public? Well, maybe the ughly troll guyabove would
Long Live MADELINE MCCANN
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
in both papers that i have read this story, the waitress said that the child ‘expert’ asked her if she thought the child was maddie after they left. but it did not highlight this fact, both papers included the waitress as a further witness. loks like front page news made out of nothing.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Ben Needham was spotted pretty much everywhere for years but nothing ever came of it.
I too cannot see that any child adbuctors would take a walking talking four year old out in public.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I think you could be right there Garth.
Everyone is hyper - vigilant at the moment, wanting this wee girl to be found. I think I would have said in a loud voice though “Is that Madeleine McCann”? If not as someone said previously I would have grovellingly apologised.
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
If there’s a glimmer of a story to tell about Madeleine then the papers are going to jump on it. It may be true that some person or persons did see a child resembling Madeleine, and being it made front page reading I hope the papers update us tomorrow and don’t just leave us in open air. Don’t get me wrong, I think the papers and one in particular keeps the story in the public eye which is good for the McCanns and all of us keen for an outcome. However, in reality I don’t hold much hope of the little girl being found. But one things for sure, Robert Murat is still the chief suspect and only time will tell if he becomes the accused.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Didn’t the McCann’s live in Holland for a while?