MADELEINE MCCANN NÃO APARECE E O TEMPO VAI PASSANDO

Um pouco de atenção pode resolver muita coisa.



Um olhar pelos jornais britânicos leva-nos a pensar, que os pais de Madeleine McCann estão convencidos de que ela se encontra viva e, e de relativamente boa saúde, algures na Europa.
«The Guardian» e de «The Independent», de hoje, salientam a viagem pela Europa dos pais de Madeleine.
«The Sun» dá relevo ao britânico Robert Murat, como suspeito de envolvimento no rapto.




« Parents of Madeleine to visit Pope in bid to spread hunt across Europe


• Couple to visit Spain, Germany and Holland
• Witness who saw man 'wracked with guilt'

Giles Tremlett and Brendan de Beer in Praia da Luz
Monday May 28, 2007
The Guardian
The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann are expected to travel to the Vatican later this week for a meeting with the Pope as they started a campaign to spread the hunt for their daughter around Europe.
Arrangements were being made for a meeting on Wednesday after indications from the Vatican that Pope Benedict XVI was keen to meet the couple, who have drawn strength from their Roman Catholic faith since her disappearance on May 3.
"We are currently exploring the possibility of a visit by Gerry and Kate McCann to meet the Pope in Rome in the near future," family spokesman Clarence Mitchell confirmed yesterday.
A meeting with the Pope would be "profoundly important" to the couple and would help strengthen the faith to which they have publicly turned in recent weeks, sources close to the family said.
The visit was a further sign of the increasing reach of the Madeleine case, which has already seen telephone conversations between Gordon Brown and the parents as they remain at the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal where Madeleine vanished.
Grassroot Roman Catholic groups have already involved themselves in spreading the Madeleine campaign around Europe and the couple made a high profile visit to Portugal's holiest shrine, at Fatima, last week.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster, has been instrumental in organising the visit.
The couple plan to travel to Spain, Germany and Holland after their Vatican visit. They have been offered the use of a private jet by a British entrepreneur and have raised a fighting fund of more than £320,000 as they drop their professional commitments as doctors to concentrate on the campaign.
They are keen to avoid being turned into celebrities, despite offers reportedly arriving from prominent television chat shows in the US.
The family's first campaign victory, apart from keeping Madeleine's name and picture in the news, was to force Portuguese police to finally release a description of a man believed to have carried a child away from the apartments where Madeleine vanished.
That description, issued late on Friday, has already generated more than 100 reported sightings of the 35-40-year-old Caucasian man of medium height with shortish hair that is long on the collar, police sources told Portugal's Lusa news agency.
The woman who saw the man is a friend of the McCann family and dined with them that night.
She was reported yesterday to be wracked with guilt that she did nothing to stop the man.
Although Portuguese police officially said the suspect was "possibly carrying a child, or an object that could have been taken as a child" other police sources claimed yesterday that he had been carrying a small blonde girl wearing "distinguishable" pyjamas and wrapped in a blanket.
"She thought it was odd, but thought it was the man's own child," a police source told the Press Association. "He was walking urgently, neither running or walking."
The witness joined the McCanns at a tapas bar a few dozen yards from their holiday apartment at about 9.30pm on May 3.
When Mrs McCann went back into the apartment half an hour later to check on the children, Madeleine had vanished.
The friend "instantly" realised what she had seen and gave a statement and description to Portuguese police.
Despite concerns that they had just "filed away" the descriptions, local people in Praia da Luz said police were asking them about someone fitting that description within a couple of days of the disappearance.
"The view of the family is that this was Madeleine being taken,"
the source said. »

(In «The Guardian»)


« McCanns to meet Pope on Europe trip
By Terri Judd
Published: 28 May 2007
The parents of Madeleine McCann are hoping to meet the Pope this week to raise the plight of their missing daughter, their spokesman said.
Kate and Gerry McCann, both practising Catholics, are likely to attend a general audience in Rome on Wednesday as part of a series of visits across Europe.
More than three weeks after their four-year-old daughter was taken from her bed in the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Algarve, while they ate a tapas meal nearby, her parents attended church yesterday.
Mr and Mrs McCann are planning a number of trips across Europe, including visits to Madrid, Seville, Berlin and Amsterdam to keep the case in the public eye with Spanish, German and Dutch tourists who holiday in the Algarve.
Meanwhile, the police's principal witness - the woman who believes she saw Madeleine being carried off in the arms of a man walking urgently away - said she was racked with guilt that she had done nothing to stop him. It was not until later that she realised the significance of what she saw. »

(In «The Independent»)





« Maddie suspect had kid porn

By NICK PARKER
May 28, 2007

MADELEINE McCann suspect Robert Murat viewed child pornography on his computer, it was revealed yesterday.
Briton Murat, 33, visited a string of depraved websites.
He lives yards from the Portuguese holiday flat where Maddie, four, was snatched.
A police source said: “Examination of Mr Murat’s computer has confirmed an unhealthy appetite for deeply disturbing material.
“There is no direct link between what was found and Madeleine.
“But officers are describing it as a ‘relevant sexual history’.”
Murat’s ex-boss Paul Titcombe, 49, called him “a huge porn fan, addicted to women.”
Garage owner Paul, of Norwich, said Murat once terrified a female colleague at the Bernard Matthews factory by stalking her.
He added: “She said he was obsessive and she felt very uncomfortable around him indeed. She hated his pestering. In fact many women loathed Rob.” »

(In «The Sun»)