MADELEINE MCCANN EM MARROCOS?

O jornal britânico «The Times», de hoje, insiste na possível presença de Madeleine McCann em Marrocos.
Faz também grandes críticas à Polícia Judiciária, a propósito do caso Leonor Cipriano e da sua filha Joana, assunto muito divulgado há tempos atrás em Portugal.




« Madeleine’s parents take back seat after campaign moves to Morocco

David Brown in Rabat
The parents of Madeleine McCann will take a lower profile in the campaign to find their daughter after admitting that they were no closer to discovering who abducted her from their holiday apartment in the Algarve.
Kate and Gerry McCann will take a back seat in the campaign because they need time to grieve for their four-year-old daughter, who disappeared 40 days ago.
The couple’s decision comes as it was confirmed that the detective co-ordinating the investigation into Madeleine’s abduction has been charged with covering up allegations of police brutality in a similar case four years ago.
Gonçalo Amaral is still serving as the head of the PolÍcia Judiciária in Portimão despite being charged on Saturday with failing to report claims that three officers “tortured” the mother of a missing girl during an interrogation.

Leonor Cipriano has alleged that she was beaten into confessing to the murder of her daughter, Joana, 9, who disappeared from a village only seven miles from Praia da Luz in September 2003.
Mrs McCann looked more relaxed yesterday than at any time since her daughter’s abduction as she visited a primary school during a visit to Morocco to publicise the search for Madeleine.
Despite more than five weeks of campaigning, Mr McCann admitted that they were no closer to discovering “who has taken her, what their motive was and where they have gone”.“The search is not over until Madeleine is found,” he said.
“The campaign, particularly behind the scenes, will very much go on to ensure Madeleine’s disappearance remains relatively high profile, because we think that helps. But Kate and my role in the campaign will probably not be as public as it has been in the past three weeks.”
The McCanns have completed dozens of media interviews and visited Rome, Madrid, Berlin and Amsterdam to raise awareness of Madeleine’s disappearance. Their website, www.findmadeleine.com, has had more than 170 million hits.
The success of the campaign was demonstrated yesterday when more than 100 children gathered round the couple outside a children’s internet centre in Rabat, Morocco. The children, holding posters of Madeleine above their heads, danced and chanted her name for almost an hour as the couple visited a child welfare organisation.
Mrs McCann described the scene as the “best welcome we could have had to Morocco. It is very emotional, very lovely.” Mr McCann, 39, said that the children could be invaluable in finding their daughter: “Children are more likely to notice a child who is out of place or who they do not recognise.”
Khalid Cherkaoui Semmouni, the President of the Moroccan Centre for Human Rights, said that it was possible that Madeleine had been smuggled into the country.“There is abuse by Moroccan fathers, and in the tourist areas there are many foreigners who come to abuse children,” he said. »
(In «The Times»)