MADELEINE MCCANN – A «SKY NEWS» VOLTA A ANALISAR, DESENVOLVIDAMENTE, ESTE MISTERIOSO CASO

Esta criança marroquina, cujos pais mostram o seu registo de nascimento foi mais uma falsa Madeleine, que confundiu muita gente.




A menina marroquina chama-se Bouchra, tem quase três anos e é de Zinat, perto de Tetuán (norte), informaram seus pais.





Os ingleses não são grande coisa na descoberta da Verdade.

Invadiram o Iraque atrás das famosíssimas Armas de Destruição Maciça…

Uma Mentira Maciça e Global…

No caso Madeleine McCann desde a primeira hora que defendemos a tese de rapto para adopção ilegal. Infelizmente já não conseguimos sustentar esta, relativamente. Optimista tese.

Teses bem macabras têm sido apresentadas de forma bastante consistente e lógica, embora sem provas conhecidas.

« Madeleine: The Search For The Truth
By Martin Brunt
Sky News crime correspondent
Updated: 19:33, Sunday September 30, 2007
Never mind Burma, never mind the General Election, never mind bluetongue disease. There's only one question on people's lips - did the McCanns do it?
Did Kate McCann, as the Portuguese police believe, kill Madeleine accidentally and get her husband to help her hide and dispose of the body?
I don't know, but after 150 days I'm beginning to get some idea of what's going on in the police investigation.
Portuguese detectives initially rejected most offers of help from the UK. They did engage the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and hunted for a suspect among internet paedophiles.
What they should also have been doing, with as much if not more urgency, was thoroughly investigating the McCanns and the apartment where Madeleine was last seen.
That bit they didn't do properly.
It was only after 100 days or so that the Portuguese authorities finally called the British police and asked for more help and advice.
UK officers were dispatched to collect the fresh forensic samples that were to prompt such a dramatic twist in the story.
When a child goes missing difficult questions have to be asked of the parents.
Most kids are killed by family or someone they know. And Kate and Gerry McCann were the last people to see Madeleine.
Now the couple are suspects, based on DNA evidence from an apartment that had since been re-let and a car - rented 25 days after Madeleine disappeared - that had been used by many people for 10 weeks.
Sources said the DNA from the car was a "complete" match of Madeleine's, leading Portuguese police to conclude that her body must have been in the vehicle.
The family insist the DNA can be explained by innocent transfer from Madeleine's clothes, and nappies used by her sibling twins Sean and Amelie.
Whatever the strength of that evidence, a half-decent defence lawyer would drive a horse and cart though it - with a blindfold on.
British detectives don't always get it right, but they are revered around the world. And they have a golden rule: first, clear the ground under your feet.
One of the UK's leading experts on child abduction was asked to help, late in the day, but refused.
He could see the mess the Portuguese detectives were in and didn't want to risk his reputation. »

(in «Sky News» o.l.)

NOVO LÍDER DA OPOSIÇÃO EM PORTUGAL

Luís Filipe Menezes é o novo líder da oposição, em Portugal, visto que ganhou as eleições internas para dirigir o PPD-PSD, que é o partido da oposição com mais votos.
Já aqui dissemos que o conceito actual de Democracia está viciado com a criminalidade organizada por grande parte da classe política do Ocidente, na Rede Guantánamo e Sucursais, onde se praticam CRIMES de Rapto, Tortura e Assassinato.

Gordon Brown está indignado, porque Robert Mugabe não tem uma rede de Rapto, Tortura e Assassinato tão bem organizada como a Rede de Rapto Tortura e Assassinato
Guantánamo e Sucursais.

Das Sucursais é muito europeísta a Sucursal Polaca de Guantánamoschwitz.

Gordon Brown está mais indignado ainda com Robert Mugabe por este não ter invadido o Iraque atrás das famosíssimas Armas de Destruição Maciça e não ter provocado no Iraque um genocídio de cerca de um milhão de pessoas.

Pior que uma má Democracia é sempre uma Ditadura.

Muito melhor que uma má Democracia é uma boa Democracia.

Ora, em Portugal, como em qualquer outro país, o governo tem que se sentir ameaçado de ser despedido nas próximas eleições. Tem que haver oposição. Ora o PSD não fazia oposição, pelo que a Ala Direita do PS sentia-se imparável, na sua cartilha neoliberal.
Esperemos que a oposição faça o governo da Ala Direita do PS pensar que em Portugal há mais pessoas, para além da alta burguesia.

À ESPERA DOS RESULTADOS DAS ELEIÇÕES DO MAIOR PARTIDO DA OPOSIÇÃO EM PORTUGAL

A CRISE DA DIREITA TRADICIONAL PORTUGUESA E A VIRAGEM À DIREITA DE JOSÉ SÓCRATES


A ala Direita do Partido Socialista, liderada por José Sócrates aderiu à religião neo-liberal.
Como todas as religiões baseia-se em dogmas.
Socialmente o neoliberalismo representa os interesses dos esqueletos da alta burguesia.
Ninguém quer saber dos esqueletos dos oligarcas do século XIX.
Os dogmas do neo-liberalismo consideram os esqueletos da alta burguesia muito bons. E também consideram que se deve infernizar a vida das outras classes sociais, especialmente das classes assalariadas. – insegurança, opressão no quotidiano no local de trabalho, ataque violentíssimo à inteligência ética e à inteligência ética-crítica.
E já esquecia, além dos esqueletos da alta burguesia serem muito bons, há que considerar a classe política um conjunto de salvadores da pátria…
A luta pelo poder dentro do PSD mostrou uma classe política de muito poucos escrúpulos que deu uma imagem muito negativa dessa classe política.
A crise dentro do PSD é derivada, essencialmente, pelo facto de a Ala Direita do PS ter ultrapassado pela Direita o próprio PSD, isto é, o PSD, em alguns aspectos é mais à Esquerda do que a ala Direita do PS.
Ganhe quen ganhar as eleições directas internas do PSD, o problema deste partido é o facto de ter havido uma grande viragem à Direita do PS, que agora ocupa parte do espaço ideológico da Direita.
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MADELEINE MCCANN - O EQUÍVOCO DA FOTO MARROQUINA

AFINAL A FOTO MARROQUINA NÃO É DE MADELEINE




Já se comprovou que a foto marroquina nada tem a ver com Madeleine McCann.

O jornal inglês «The Sun» mantém grade interesse por este tema.

Continuam de pé as hipóteses mais macabras.



« Cops probe McCanns car journey




By ONLINE REPORTER
September 27, 2007

COMMENT ON THIS STORY


PORTUGUESE police are reportedly investigating a trip Kate and Gerry McCann made to Spain in August.

Detectives still believe the McCanns covered up Maddie's death by hiding her body then moving it to a new location some weeks later.
The couple travelled to the Spanish city of Huelva, just across the border with Portugal, on August 3 as part of their campaign to keep their missing daughter in the news.

But August 3 was a public holiday in Spain and cops are suspicious of Kate and Gerry's movements on this day as they had no official meetings.

The development came as the McCanns remain 'philosophical' despite the disappointment that a girl spotted in Morocco was not their daughter.

Kate McCann’s aunt, Janet Kennedy, said it is not the first time their hopes had been dashed.
She said: “Inevitably it is a disappointment. I think they are very philosophical about it because it’s happened so many times.
“Just suppose Madeleine is in Morocco, what does that mean? You just have to keep on. We are still keeping on with the campaign."
Mrs Kennedy spoke as she joined charity volunteers to package up more than 2,000 cuddly toys and dolls that have been left in the family’s home village of Rothley, Leics, since the four-year-old went missing in Portugal.
Kate and Gerry McCann kept all the messages but the toys were washed by villagers and will be shipped to children in Belarus.
Two orphanages in Zhodina and Bobrusk will receive the shipment after it leaves the UK next week.
Each toy was individually tied with green and yellow ribbons - the symbol of hope in Portugal - and carried a tag with a small picture of Madeleine.
Mrs Kennedy added: “The family are translating this into thinking where our loss in a sense can actually make good some other children’s lives because they wouldn’t normally be having a toy of their own.
“It’s trying to make something positive out of a situation that’s difficult for us.”
Yesterday, a tearful Kate McCann learnt a little girl spotted on a snap taken in Morocco was NOT her lost daughter Madeleine.
The child, a Maddie lookalike, was revealed as local farmer’s daughter Bouchra Benaissa, three.
A source close to the McCanns said: “A glimmer of hope has been snuffed out.”


The little girl thought to have been Madeleine McCann was traced and shown to the world yesterday — shattering the hopes of the lost tot’s parents.
The Sun discovered Moroccan farmer’s daughter Bouchra Benaissa, three, was the blonde child looking remarkably like Maddie in a tourist’s photo.
The snap, taken by a Spanish holidaymaker, triggered a massive search in the remote region where it was taken in northern Morocco.
But yesterday Bouchra’s olive farmer dad Ahmed, 39, cradled her and said: “I am very sorry the little English girl is still missing and hope she is found safe and sound.
“I see why people thought my Bouchra looks like her. But this is my daughter, my lovely daughter.”
His wife Hamida, wearing the same colourful hat she had on in the photo, revealed the family knew nothing of the Maddie mystery until news teams descended yesterday on their village, Zinat. She said: “We are amazed.”

Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry were said to be “devastated” it was not their daughter, who vanished from the family’s holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3.
A source close to the couple, of Rothley, Leics, said: “They’re back to square one and the heartache goes on.”
The McCanns’ official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “It’s very disappointing, a terrible blow. It is obviously an emotional rollercoaster.”
Bouchra and her sisters Aziza, 16, Souhaila, 12, and Mariam, 11, live with their parents in a rundown smallholding on a hillside.
They have no TV and cows roam in downstairs rooms. The snap was taken on August 31 as the family helped a relative carry luggage to a bus stop.
The tripper who took it, Clara Torres, yesterday apologised to the McCanns for sparking the false alarm.
She said in Madrid: “I hope they will realise I was acting in good faith. My intention was not to raise false hopes.”

And yesterday two more women came forward with possible sightings in the North African country, taking the total to SIX.
Fatima Marzouki, 35, of Birmingham, said she saw a girl like Maddie in Agadir amid rumours she was being held in a caravan there by an Irish traveller named John.
Her friend Helen McPherson, 60, thinks she saw Maddie being pushed in a buggy in Marrakech.
Bosses of the Find Madeleine Fund yesterday confirmed they will spend another £80,000 on billboards, some of which will be put up in Morocco.
The fund has raised £1,036,104 — and £300,000 has been spent so far.
The McCanns will also hire private investigators to look for Maddie in countries where there have been sightings, such as Belgium and Morocco.
However they will not hire private detectives in Portugal, as it is against the law to use them there while a criminal inquiry is still ongoing. »


(In «The Sun»)





A TESE MAIS DIVULGADA EM PORTUGAL É ALTAMENTE MACABRA, MAS NÃO ESTÁ COMPROVADA.
Esta tese macabra parte do princípio de que Madeleine foi morta e de que os seus pais estão envolvidos, na morte da criança em si, e na ocultação do, eventual, cadáver.





« Suspeitas: Autoridades foram a Espanha tentar perceber o que fizeram os McCann a 3 de Agosto
PJ investiga viagem a Huelva

A Polícia Judiciária está a investigar uma viagem do casal McCann a Huelva, Espanha, realizada no passado dia 3 de Agosto, onde foi usado o Renault Scénic que continha vestígios que se presume serem de Maddie. Estas diligências enquadram-se na teoria, agora mais seguida pelos investigadores, que aponta para a morte da criança e a transladação do cadáver naquele carro. A PJ já recolheu, inclusivamente, imagens de videovigilância em “locais sem sentido” por onde a Renault Scénic terá andado.

A adensar as suspeitas estão alguns pormenores da viagem. Designadamente o facto de durante quase três meses Kate e Gerry terem tido uma intensa agenda mediática, que dispensava a presença da imprensa por toda a Europa. Foi assim até 2 de Agosto, altura em que o pai de Maddie se justificou com problemas intestinais e cancelou todo o programa, que incluía encontros com algumas associações em Huelva.

Gerry faltou nesse dia, mas a PJ soube mais tarde que a deslocação da Praia da Luz àquela cidade espanhola ficou para o dia seguinte, desta vez com o casal e um pequeno grupo de jornalistas. Terá sido a primeira vez em três meses, desde que a filha desapareceu na noite de 3 de Maio.

O mais ‘estranho’ é o facto de nesse dia ser feriado em Huelva. E os McCann não agendaram qualquer encontro, estava tudo fechado – e havia uma grande agitação no centro da cidade. Numa altura em que os inspectores tentam reconstituir milhares de quilómetros ‘injustificados’ da Renault Scénic durante este tempo, o CM sabe que já houve inclusive uma reunião dos responsáveis da investigação com a polícia espanhola.

Depois de terem sido detectados vestígios que podem levar à presença do corpo no carro, a PJ, além de não encontrar justificação para o exagero de quilómetros feitos, já tem na sua posse várias imagens da passagem da carrinha por Espanha, a 3 de Agosto. Carrinha essa que poderá conter a chave do crime. »


(In «Correio da Manhã»)

MADELEINE MCCANN - ESTÁ NESTAS FOTOS DE MARROCOS?

« 'Madeleine Photo' Under Investigation
Updated: 07:31, Wednesday September 26, 2007
Interpol are said to be examining a photo taken in Morocco that could show Madeleine McCann.
It features a light-skinned, blonde-haired child who looks similar to Madeleine being carried on an elderly Moroccan woman's back in a sling.
The image was taken by a Spanish tourist Clara Torres in Zinat in northern Morroco on August 31.
Ms Torres told Spanish radio station Cadena Cope she had been regularly taking snaps from the window of her tour bus when she saw the blonde child among a group of people.
Her immediate thoughts were of the missing girl, but she said she forgot about the picture until nearly a month later, when she heard other tourists had reported possible sightings of Madeleine in Morocco.
She downloaded the picture onto her computer and discovered a "chilling likeness" to the missing girl.
Ms Torres, from Albacete, then gave the picture to Spanish police who are understood to have passed it on to Interpol.
Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann are believed to have seen the photo after a copy was given to their lawyers.
Speaking on Sky News, the couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the McCanns are waiting for the results of analysis on the picture before getting their hopes up.
"We do not comment on any individual sightings however in this case the picture was passed to the relevant authorities as soon as it was received and Gerry and Kate are obviously keen for it to be analysed as quickly as possible," he said.
It is the fourth reported sighting of Madeleine in Morocco since she went missing from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May.
The McCanns have always believed Morocco to be one of the most likely places that Madeleine could have been taken to.
The couple travelled to the north African country in June to as part of a campaign to raise awareness about their daughter's disappearance. »

(In «Sky News» o. l.)






A nossa opinião é de que após muita observação as fotos parecem de Madeleine McCann.

Mas também parecem de outra criança, parecida com ela.

«O PSD NÃO É UM PARTIDO DE MALFEITORES» - MACÁRIO CORREIA

A CRISE DA DIREITA PORTUGUESA


Ficámos a saber que, segundo Macário Correia, o PSD não é um Partido de Malfeitores.

MADELEINE MCCANN ESTÁ VIVA NESTA RECENTE FOTO?

ESTA FOTO FOI TIRADA EM MARROCOS. QUEM É?

Há quem diga que é Madeleine McCann. Seria bom que fosse.

GUERRA? MAIS UMA GUERRA?

Continua a falar-se da provável próxima Guerra entre Bush e o Irão.
O presidente da República do Irão, Ahmadinejad,

falou, em Nova Iorque, da tão anunciada guerra do governo de George W Bush contra o Irão, apoiada por Israel.
O Estado de Israel é o país do Médio- Oriente a quem membros da NATO ajudaram a fabricar bombas atómicas, nomeadamente os Estados Unidos e a Inglaterra.






« Ahmadinejad calm over prospect of US attack


Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger in New York
Monday September 24, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today appeared to be unworried about the prospect of a US or Israeli air strike on his country, dismissing talk of war as a propaganda tool.
Facing widespread protests on the first day of a visit to New York for a United Nations general assembly meeting, he told journalists any country wanting to go to war against Iran would need a good legal reason to do so and such an excuse did not exist.

Iran had not broken any international agreements by developing nuclear power, he said.
He added that the US should have learned the lesson of past mistakes, referring to the invasion of Iraq. He dismissed the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who had raised the prospect of war, as immature.
Protesters gathered at all the locations Mr Ahmadinejad visited yesterday. The Daily News declared "the Evil has Landed", and the New York Post called him the "Madman Iran Prez" and told him to "Go to Hell" if he went anywhere near ground zero, as he had planned.
The centrepiece of his day was a speech at New York's Columbia university. Earlier, he was asked by journalists about the threat of war at the National Press Centre in Washington, in a video-conference call from New York.
He said: "Talk of war is basically a propaganda tool. People who talk about it have to bring a legal reason. Officials who talk about it should be pressured about what to say and what not to say. They should not endanger world security."
US and European diplomats have been privately warning over the last month that the prospect of an air strike against Iran next year has grown.
The US has said it will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
Standing outside the UN, Mr Ahmadinejad, in his address to journalists, opened with a 20-minute, at times rambling, statement about God, human development and corruption. But he put into the mix a warning to the US that it could not prevent "the pursuit of science"- Iran's nuclear research - adding: "No one has the right to take this away."
He denied that Iran abused human rights, saying: "People in Iran are very joyous, happy people. They're very free in expressing what they think."
To sceptical laughter from the assembled journalists, he described Iranian women as "the freest in the world".
Asked about US claims at the weekend that Iran is smuggling surface-to-air missiles into Iraq for use against American forces, Mr Ahmadinejad denied it, adding that even if it were true, a few weapons would not make much difference to the US, which was already defeated in Iraq.
"We think the military should seek an answer to its defeat in Iraq elsewhere," he said.
On Broadway, outside Columbia University, clusters of demonstrators and counter-demonstrators vied to win the attention of the press.
"A man like this who's creating tension and creating ill-will, why should be given a forum at one of the oldest universities in America?" asked Albert Marshak, a 78-year-old New Yorker. "Let him go and speak in the streets, or in Madison Square Garden, not here."
A New York fireman said: "He shouldn't be here. He's a terrorist supporter. He's a maniac." Asked if he believed that Mr Ahmadinejad had any responsiblity for the September 11 attacks, the fireman replied: "Anything's possible."
There were as many antiwar protesters as anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrators. A communist group had unfurled a big orange banner claiming: "Ahmadinejad is bad. Bush is worse. Humanity needs another way. No war on Iran."
"This is a very dangerous situation," said Joan Hirsch, the group's spokeswoman. "People have a responsibility to speak out on the crimes committed in our names." »


(In «The Guardian»)

TEMPO DE GUERRAS

Actualmente as guerras estão na moda.
As agências funerárias a agradecem.
Os Estados Unidos ao aceitarem ter a sede da ONU, em Nova Iorque, aceitaram a obrigação de receber os seus inimigos. Dantes o inimigo principal era a União Soviética. Neste momento parece ser o Irão.
Neste contexto, o presidente da república do Irão vai a Nova Iorque, para falar na ONU.
Bom seria que a diplomacia triunfasse e não hovesse mais uma guerra de civilizações entre Bush e o Irão.

FIDEL CASTRO ESTÁ VIVO, DEPOIS DE 640 ATENTADOS PARA O MATAR

Fidel Castro sobreviveu a 640 atentados, o que deve ser o record mundial.
A Administração Bush deu a entender que Fidel Castro tinha morrido de morte natural.
Mas está vivo.


A seguir, o ponto de vista de um inimigo de Fidel Castro:

« Los 640 Atentados contra Fidel Castro

Por JESUS HERNANDEZ CUELLAR

Durante décadas, Cuba y el mundo han escuchado la historia de los 640 atentados contra el dictador cubano Fidel Castro. Ahora, el general retirado Fabián Escalante, ex jefe de la contrainteligencia militar cubana, ha lanzado un libro sobre lo que llama el magnicidio de estado, con el título de "Fidel, Kennedy y Chávez, una historia inconclusa de asesinato político".

"Los mismos que asesinaron a (John F.) Kennedy (presidente de Estados Unidos, en 1963) han querido asesinar a Fidel Castro y quieren asesinar a Hugo Chávez", afirmó Escalante. "¿De quién estoy hablando? De los servicios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos, de la mafia cubano-estadounidense, los mismos personajes", declaró.

En cualquier parte del mundo, un niño de cuarto grado de enseñanza primaria ya sabe dividir. La operación matemática es simple. Fidel Castro ha estado en el poder durante 47 años. Si un niño de cuarto grado divide 640 atentados por 47 años, el resultado es 13.6 atentados por año. Como un niño de cuarto grado ya sabe que un año tiene 12 meses, la cuenta arroja que Fidel Castro ha sido objeto de más de un atentado por mes, todos los meses, durante casi medio siglo.

¿Resistiría Superman ese ritmo de atentados durante tanto tiempo?

Peor aún. Se dice que en realidad los atentados ocurrieron mayormente durante los primeros años del régimen de Castro. Digamos que durante los primeros 20 años que van de 1959 a 1979. El mismo niño toma la calculadora, hace la operación y el resultado es de 32 atentados por año, lo que es igual a casi tres atentados mensuales.

Nada, hombre, no hay por qué asombrarse. Se trata de matemáticas comunistas, similares a las que aparecen diariamente en la portada del periódico oficial Granma respecto a la producción de toneladas de papas, boniatos y carne, que ningún cubano ve ni come.

Efectivamente, Fidel Castro ha sido objeto de atentados, algunos de ellos ordenados en la década de los años 60 por la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA), según documentos públicos del propio gobierno de Estados Unidos. Estos últimos no pasan de media docena. Los otros, organizados por grupos anticastristas dentro y fuera de Cuba, son más difíciles de documentar.

Estas cifras del castrismo son también similares a las que se utilizaron en 1959 sobre los asesinatos políticos de la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, para justificar las ejecuciones revolucionarias de los primeros tiempos. En aquella época se creó el mito de que Batista había asesinado a 20 mil cubanos. Batista huyó de Cuba cuando le faltaban dos meses y 10 días para cumplir siete años en el poder. Si el mismo niño toma la calculadora y divide 20 mil por siete -los dos meses y 10 días van de propina -, el resultado es de dos mil 857 muertos por año, es decir, casi ocho muertos por día, unos 235 muertos por mes. Nadie que haya vivido en su sano juicio durante la dictadura de Batista, recuerda esa cantidad de muertos.

Una relación de aquella época, efectuada por el coronel Ramón Barquín, militar opositor a Batista, refleja un total de 2,495 muertes, 968 de personeros de la dictadura batistiana, y 1,527 de opositores revolucionarios, durante todo el régimen de Batista.

O tal vez esos números de atentados y muertos se deban a que estamos hablando de las matemáticas del "país más culto del mundo", que desafortunadamente resultan incomprensibles para el común de los mortales que vivimos atrofiados por las estadísticas del Banco Mundial y del Fondo Monetario Internacional. »




« 'Here I am.' Castro's TV rebuff to US death rumours


Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Saturday September 22, 2007
The Guardian
Fidel Castro gave his first television interview for three months yesterday, dispelling speculation that he was close to death or even that he had died.
He looked alert, referring to the price of oil and the value of the dollar, and quoting Thursday's closing prices. "Here I am," he said. "Nobody knows when he is going to die."
The interview dashed hopes in the United States that the death of the 81-year-old Cuban leader could open the way for a new relationship with the island state. The US has had sanctions in place against Cuba for more than four decades.
The hour-long interview, broadcast on state television, was at times rambling, and at first President Castro needed some prompting. But he appeared stronger and more comfortable as he went on. He has not been seen in public since July 31 last year. He had undergone intestinal surgery and ceded power to his brother Raul, 75, while he recuperated. There had been speculation that he suffered a relapse, particularly when he failed to appear in public on his birthday in August. The regular flow of official pictures with visiting world leaders had dried up.
But journalists based in Cuba said President Castro looked much the same last night as he had when he last appeared on television, in June. He wore a tracksuit with "F Castro" in small block letters.
The interview was greeted with enthusiasm by ordinary Cubans. Orlando Herrera, watching at Havana station said: "People were saying Fidel was dying, and there he is, looking well. Now the United States knows he is better." Heriberto Rodriguez told Reuters: "Fidel looks thin, but he is speaking fluently. That's a sign he is recovering well. He is strong. He held up a very heavy book."
The speculation has been partly fuelled by the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez, who speaks often to Mr Castro and at times offers a more gloomy prognosis than any coming from official channels in Cuba. Before the interview yesterday, Mr Chávez said Mr Castro had almost died and had had several blood transfusions. But he did not specify when. "Fidel is well, clearly he has not finished his recovery. He has a little problem there, but he can live like this another 100 years," Mr Chávez told reporters during a visit to Brazil.
"What problem does he have? Well, one operation, two operations, three operations, 81 years old, he almost died. They transfused nearly all Fidel's blood, he is still alive because he's Fidel. They gave him I don't know how many transfusions."
Mr Chávez last spoke to him two to three weeks ago.
The Cuban foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, said Mr Castro had been busy studying, reading and writing. »

(In «The Guardian»)

MOURINHO DEIXOU O FUTEBOL INGLÊS DEPOIS DE TER SIDO BEM SUCEDIDO

O desporto, enquanto cultura de massas é essencial para algumas alegrias do quotidiano, de muitos assalariados mal pagos e endividados. O treinador português José Mourinho tornou o futebol inglês mais competitivo.



« He raised standards to breathless altitude


Kevin McCarra
Friday September 21, 2007
The Guardian


Roman Abramovich wanted to see the back of Jose Mourinho but there are others who must be even more delighted to be rid of him. Since August 2004 his Chelsea side have been distressing rivals. Sport is supposed to be competitive and English football should respect him for raising standards to a breathless altitude.
The peak came in his very first attempt when Chelsea's total of 95 points for season 2004-05 set a record for the Premier League. Eight years before, Manchester United had been champions by scraping together 20 points fewer. If that modest haul reflected a more competitive environment it was also one in which leading sides neglected to use their advantages to the full. Mourinho put a stop to all that.

Statistics are arid, but the spiky passion of the Portuguese enthralled a public that could not bring itself to ignore his words even when it purported to be tired of him. While the skewwhiff English of a clever man speaking a foreign language was ear-catching in itself, he had much of substance to say. Over his first two Premier League-winning campaigns he gave Chelsea a cold-eyed ambition and discipline never before witnessed in the history of the club.
His approach was evident from the start, when the programme opened with the visit of Manchester United on Sunday August 15 2004. There was programmed monotony and a hawkish exploitation of weakness. Roy Keane disliked playing centre-half and his failings there were exposed as the movement of Didier Drogba and Eidur Gudjohnsen led to the Icelander scoring the single goal of the day.

Mourinho inherited good players and his own transfer record was uneven. It could be claimed that Petr Cech, John Terry, Frank Lampard and Drogba were the men who mattered most for him, with all but the latter already on the books when he first hit London. Preparing and motivating footballers is what Mourinho does best. Manchester United have scraped one win in 10 attempts against Chelsea since the summer of 2004.

Arsenal did worse still, never beating Mourinho's team over the same period. Liverpool alone vexed Chelsea, particularly by eliminating them twice in the Champions League semi-finals, and it is noticeable that Rafael Benítez's management style most resembled that of Mourinho. The Portuguese is the more disturbing character and all his traits, for good and ill, were shown in the notorious games with Barcelona early in 2005.

His football, with its efficiency and unholy arts, was displayed in the second leg at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea had gone down 2-1 in the Camp Nou, but preyed on the modern Barcelona's faults as no team has before or since. With pinpoint counter-attacks, Mourinho's side strode to a 3-0 lead inside 20 minutes, yet it took a late header to thwart the visitors' recovery for a 4-2 win. In the dressing room Ricardo Carvalho then pointed to the television screen, pleased by his tug on the Barcelona goalkeeper Víctor Valdés before the Chelsea captain found the net. Such sneakiness is nothing new, but sharp wits and sharp practices are seldom so apparent as they have been under Mourinho.

It was the first leg of the tie with Barcelona that included a pair of yellow cards for Drogba shown by Anders Frisk. Mourinho related the dismissal to the influence of his opposite number at half-time. "When I saw [Frank] Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it," said the Chelsea manager. He had seen no such thing, as he later admitted, and had been relaying reports from his backroom staff. Frisk would eventually report that he broke off the conversation when the Dutchman began discussing the match.

The Swedish official retired after being the subject of death threats. Mourinho does not do regret and Chelsea stayed in denial regarding their unnecessary, if not squalid, part in the affair. A touchline ban was imposed on the manager for the quarter-final matches against Bayern Munich. There were tales that Mourinho, nowhere to be seen at the Stamford Bridge leg, had been smuggled into the dressing room inside a laundry basket and even claims that communication equipment had been hidden inside the woolly hat of his assistant Rui Faria.

Underlying everything was Mourinho's desire not to be bested and it blinded him from acknowledging how the episode had degenerated. So far as football results were concerned, overcoming Barcelona was as good as it got.

Despite the affluence, there was a damagingly old-fashioned tone to the club. The sums of money have been multiplied beyond comprehension, but Abramovich could have passed for the sort of local businessman who would once buy a provincial club and then dabble in football matters. No one accepted that Mourinho had been hankering after the £30m signing of Andriy Shevchenko.

The line-up has not been so well integrated since that signing. Nothing has worked well in a wider context either and criticisms of the ambulance service after Cech's fractured skull at the Madejski Stadium were notoriously ill-advised. Chelsea's structure, becoming more complex as Avram Grant followed Frank Arnesen on to the staff, seemed to blur the sharp focus Mourinho had initially achieved.

Signings met with disapproval as, for instance, when Mikel John Obi was slow to look worth the compensation paid to Manchester United. Deterioration was measured by pettiness, with Mourinho denied the centre-half he needed in the January transfer window last season.

His efforts to be cooperative in the summer, as Chelsea cut back their spending, were a little sad, as if he were dimninishing himself. Maybe he could not live with the scorn that the Chelsea owner exuded after bad results against Aston Villa and, this week, Rosenborg.

Abramovich seeks exuberant football for the good of his soul and, perhaps, the worth of Chelsea as a global brand. Both men had surely had enough. Mourinho, with his intellect and ambition, may be able to remake himself and temper the mechanistic nature of his football. The Russian has the means to regroup. Despite much success over three years, though, each has in the end introduced the other to failure. »

(In «The Guardian»)

AS NOVAS DITADURAS DO SÉCULO XXI

OS OLIGARCAS DO SÉCULO XXI, SÃO UNS ESQUELETOS, TEMPORIAMENTE MÓVEIS, QUE ENQUANTO ESTÃO MÓVEIS PRATICAM A SUA BARBÁRIE E DIVULGAM A SUA HIPOCRISIA.

Depois, um dia, perdem a mobilidade e são colocados debaixo da terra, como já foram os oligarcas do século XIX.




AS CENSURAS PRIVADAS NO SÉCULO XXI


UM OLIGARCA É UM ANIMAL DE 4 PATAS COMO TANTOS OUTROS



Vem isto a propósito de um texto de Vítor Dias, no blog marxista «O Tempo das Cerejas», sobre as Censuras Privadas.

Vítor Dias carrega o fardo de os regimes inspirados em Marx e Lenine terem dado origem a Ditaduras, sem liberdade de expressão.


No entanto, a Censura Inquisitorial é um elemento fulcral do conceito actual de Democracia.

Na União Europeia, os sistemas de ensino, em quase todos os países, nomeadamente nos mais desenvolvidos, têm por objectivo destruir a inteligência humana, tal como ela era concebida pelos iluministas do século XVIII, isto é, com uma componente ÉTICA.

Em primeiro lugar, os sistemas de ensino da União Europeia visam destruir o sentido ético e ético-crítico da inteligência dos professores e das professoras, e depois de toda a população, quando estuda, isto é, dos alunos. Pretendem formar robots-humanos.

Tudo isto irá levar ao suicídio ético da União Europeia, em menos de um século.

Vejamos os casos dos CRIMES MONSTRUOSOS DOS POLÍTICOS NA REDE GUANTÁNAMO E SUCURSAIS – CRIMES PIORES QUE OS DA INQUISIÇÃO, PORQUE A INQUISIÇÃO TINHA REGISTOS DOS SUPLICIADOS.

A CLASSE POLÍTICA DA UNIÃO EUROPEIA E DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ENVOLVIDADE NOS RAPTOS TORTURAS E ASSASSINATOS DA REDE GUANTÁNAMO E SUCURSAIS É CRUDELÍSSIMA, NÃO TEM SENTIMENTOS HUMANOS,

E NÃO PERMITE REGISTOS DOS SEUS MONSTRUOSOS E IMPUNES CRIMES CONTRA A HUMANIDADE.





A seguir o tal texto de Vítor Dias:

« Fox TV censura discurso de

Sally Field contra a guerra


Segundo notícia colhida por indicação amiga aqui no Brisbane Times, a cadeia Fox TV, de Robert Murdoch, cortou parte do discurso da actriz Sally Field durante a cerimónia de atribuição dos Emmy's Awards, realizada na passada segunda-feira. Sally Field, que ganhou o Emmy de melhor actriz dramática pelo seu desempenho em Brothers and Sisters, incluiu no seu emocionado discurso de aceitação um expressivo reconhecimento e agradecimento às mães dos militares norte-americanos, sublinhando que «seguramente este prémio pertence a todas as mães do mundo» dirigindo-se especialmente àquelas que «se mantêm com o coração aberto e esperam. Esperam que os seus filhos regressem a casa vindos do perigo, do caminho dos ferimentos e da guerra. Eu tenho orgulho em ser uma dessas mulheres». Muito aplaudida, Sally Field prosseguiu salientando que « se as mães mandassem no mundo, não haveria...» mas foi aqui que a Fox fez o corte de som e desviou a imagem para fora do palco, silenciando a sua afirmação de que «Deus condena as guerras em primeiro lugar». O discurso da corajosa Sally Field pode ser visto no «post» abaixo bem como o corte que ocorre a 15 segundos do fim da gravação. »

(In blog «O Tempo das Cerejas»)


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MADELEINE MCCANN - CONTINUA O INTERESSE DA «SKY NEWS» POR ESTE PROBLEMA DE UM DESAPARECIMENTO MISTERIOSO

Está ainda longe de uma compreensão completa este delicadíssimo caso.
Certo e bem certo é que uma criança de 4 anos desapareceu no Sul de Portugal, e esse desaparecimento gerou uma atenção global para o caso, muito longe, ainda, de estar resolvido.
É um caso de polícia, é também um caso diplomático, que envolveu, directamente o gabinete do primeiro-ministro trabalhista britânico, Gordon Brown, na defesa do casal McCann, MAS na prespectiva da desaparecida Madeleine é um caso humano de vida ou de morte.



Quem quiser ver um vídeo da «Sky News», sobre este caso, clicar nas letras a seguir:

No Plans To Question McCanns Again - Prosecutors |Sky News|MADELEINE







O vídeo é acompanhado de um texto da «Sky News» (o.l.), que, eventualmente, poderá ir sendo actualizado, pela «Sky News» (o.l.), depois da hora e do dia da publicação deste post.

MADELEINE MCCAN - A «SKY NEWS» DÁ RELEVO AO CASO EM VÍDEO

Este complicadíssimo problema está agora centrado na validade das provas apresentadas contra Gerry e Kate McCann.

Este caso tornou-se global, nomeadamente porque a «Sky News» é uma estação de televisão
que pode ser vista, praticamente, em todo o planeta Terra.
O interesse por este caso prossegue.
Há ainda muitos mistérios por esclarecer.

MAIS UMA GUERRA, AGORA CONTRA O IRÃO?

TEMPOS SANGUINÁRIOS


O ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros da França, Bernard Kouchner, disse que poderia haver uma Guerra contra o Irão.
Sarkozy quer ser o Bush da França? Bernard Kouchner disse o que Sarkozy pensa e o que George W Bush pensa.
Para os políticos necrófagos a vida humana não vale nada. O maior defeito do conceito actual de Democracia é a impunidade de que goza a classe política que ocupa o poder.
É uma fatalidade do nosso tempo.
Matar, esfolar – a nova moda.
Este colapso da Ética é um sinal dos tempos.
Um milhão de mortos que a invasão do Iraque provocou ‘é muito pouco’ , mais uma Guerra…
Tudo indica que vai haver um ataque em larga escala contra o Irão.
E depois?

MADELEINE MCCANN – DÚVIDAS SOBRE A CONDIÇÃO HUMANA NA ERA DAS GLOBALIZAÇÕES

CONTINUA NAS PRIMEIRAS PÁGINAS E CONTINUA UM GRANDE MISTÉRIO




O regresso a Nietzsche parece inevitável para tentar compreender o que já foi divulgado sobre o Caso Madeleine McCann. Ora, o que está em causa é a vida ou a morte muito antes do tempo de uma criança de 4 anos, saudável. Não propriamente o regresso à faceta de Nietzsche que sustentou o nacional-socialismo, mas ao Nietzsche que pretende explicar as profundezas realistas da condição humana, nomeadamente em «Para Além do Bem e do Mal».



Este caso questiona a essência da Condição Humana. Tudo tem sido posto em causa desde os pais de Madeleine, mais ainda a mãe do que o pai, até à honorabilidade da Justiça em Portugal, isto é, até ao conceito Estado de Direito, que tem por obrigação descobrir a verdade, seja uma verdade cor-de-rosa seja uma verdade cruel.





E agora um olhar pelos jornais ingleses:





« McCanns: Maddie case is flawed

By ONLINE REPORTER
September 17, 2007

KATE and Gerry McCann are hoping they can prove the police case against them is flawed after the removal of a cloak of secrecy shrouding the Madeleine investigation.
And fresh reports today suggest Kate will be questioned by British police on behalf of Portuguese officers.
The judge in the case, Pedro Daniel dos Anjos Frias, rejected prosecutors’ request to have the McCanns brought back to Portugal for further questioning, according to the Correio da Manha.
So British cops are believed to be the ones who will quiz Maddie's mum despite the McCann’s lawyers issued a statement saying they had received no request for new questioning “to date”.
Meanwhile the official police spokesman in the Madeleine McCann inquiry has reportedly resigned.
Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa is said to have quit in disgust at the way the missing girl's parents have been treated.
Tycoon Sir Richard Branson said today he would be donating £100,000 to the McCanns’ legal costs because he “trusted them implicitly” and wanted to ensure they had a fair trial if they were brought before a Portuguese court.
Sir Richard, who has spoken to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann on several occasions, said: “I wouldn’t have got involved if I didn’t feel good about them.
“I trust them implicitly and I can’t think of anyone I know who’s had a worse time.”
Explaining his decision, the entrepreneur and social campaigner, said: “I think they need proper representation and support.
“I want to make sure they have the chance for their side of the story to be fairly told if they ever go to court, particularly in Portugal where they’ve already been tried by innuendo in the media.
It has also been reported that the couple have been reassured they would not loose the twin following a visit from social workers last week.
A spokesman for the family said: "The family pro-actively went to social services to make sure they were being seen as responsible parents. Social services have contacted the family since then and said it went very well."
Asked whether the children are now safe from being taken away, she said simply: "It is no longer a threat."
The pair — both declared official suspects by cops probing their daughter’s disappearance in May — are banned by the Portugal's rules from talking in public about the case.
Now Pedro Daniel dos Anjos Frias has taken the highly unusual step of applying for strict “secret justice” laws to be lifted.
The move comes amid a more general overhaul of Portugal’s legal system due today.
And it could allow the McCanns to speak and access thousands of papers they would not have otherwise seen, likely to include blood and DNA results.
Sources close to the couple believe the move will expose police evidence — including sniffer dog and DNA discoveries — as nonsense.
One said yesterday: “Any so-called evidence the police think they have against Kate and Gerry can be utterly explained.
“There are wholly innocent reasons for everything that the police may have found which gives them cause for suspicion.
“Kate and Gerry have absolutely nothing to hide. The more transparent and public the case, the better for all concerned.”
Meanwhile McCann sources revealed the only evidence put to the 39-year-old doctors in two days of questioning in Portimao related to British sniffer dogs.
Kate was asked why a trained Springer Spaniel picked up the “scent of death” in the couple’s hire car and Praia da Luz holiday apartment, from which little Maddie disappeared days before her fourth birthday.
Kate’s legal team concluded the scent may have come from her contact with corpses while working as a GP. The McCanns aim to cite an ongoing US murder case to defeat the “ Cadaver Dog” findings.
A judge in the Wisconsin trial of accused wife killer Eugene Zapata ruled such evidence inadmissible, calling it as reliable as “the flip of a coin”. Checks on three dogs found they were wrong up to 78 per cent of the time. The McCann source said: “Dog evidence clearly could not be relied upon in that case and may well be equally unreliable in Portugal.”


McCann insiders also said yesterday that neither Kate nor Gerry, who also have two-year-old twins, were asked about alleged discoveries of Madeleine’s hair and DNA traces during police questioning.
But the DNA evidence is useless in any case — according to new leaks from Portuguese police.
Experts confided it was impossible to match the samples to vanished Maddie as the hair roots were missing. Sources also revealed hair strands were found in the rear seats of the hired Renault Scenic — not the boot as leaked by cops.
They are also not 100 per cent matched to Madeleine’s hair and could have come from the McCanns’ twins Sean and Amelie.
Experts at the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham found the samples so poor they could not test for a DNA match to anyone.
A source said: “They were only asked to try to determine sex and age. It was simply not possible to determine whether the hairs belonged to Madeleine.”
Police were reportedly working on the theory that the tot was killed — possibly by an accidental sedatives overdose — and her body hidden then moved by car.
Judge Pedro Anjos Frias has now formally requested permission to speak about the case from the country’s Superior Magistrates Council. But the move is seen as a last-gasp bid by cops to restore credibility of their case.
Portugal’s legal system is in the process of a more general overhaul, lifting the veil on documents now available only to cops.
The McCanns, who last week returned home to Rothley, Leics, have insisted they are entirely innocent over Maddie’s disappearance — and have said they believe she is still alive.
New guidelines may also stop Portuguese police tapping the telephones of the couple and their confidants. Gerry reportedly told friends: “The police are listening to every word we say.”
Portuguese police want to stage a reconstruction of the day Maddie vanished and were last night considering a search for her body near a Catholic shrine.
Amid wild speculation, sources said officers think her deeply religious parents may have buried her at Fatima, central Portugal.
In addition to his donation, Sir Richard Branson urged pals to chip in to top up the McCanns’ legal fighting fund to £1million. A spokesman said: “He wants to give them a chance of a fair hearing.”
The couple plan to spend £80,000 from the Find Madeleine fund on a press, posters and TV campaign appealing for more information on her whereabouts.
Waiters at the restaurant where Kate and Gerry were eating the night Maddie disappeared called Gerry “the perfect dad”.
One said: “He was always giving her hugs. Gerry spent 80 per cent of his time with her while the mum tried to feed the twins.”
He said he saw Gerry hours later after Maddie vanished. He added: “He was desperate. He was crying and screaming out her name over and over again.” »


(In «The Sun»)








« Kate McCann: My struggle to control 'very difficult' Madeleine
Last updated at 19:06pm on 17th September 2007
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Kate McCann has revealed that she struggled to control Madeleine McCann after the birth of her and Gerry's twins, it was revealed today.
Missing Madeleine would run around 'screaming...shouting for my attention', the mother-of-three said.
In an interview given to a Portuguese magazine before she was named as a suspect in the case of the four-year-old's disappearance, Kate also said the first six months of Madeleine's life were "very difficult" and that the girl had suffered from colic.

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The revelations come as police said they were trawling through Kate's medical records amid suspicions in Portugal that she may have had a history of depression.
The detailed analysis of her medical notes could provide them with significant evidence against the GP, who is a suspect in the case of Madeleine's disappearance.
Speaking about Madeleine's upbringing, Kate, a 39-year-old GP, told Portugal's Flash! magazine: "She cried practically for 18 hours a day. I had to permanently carry her around."

Kate McCann with twins Sean and Amelie
This period explained "the strong bond between mother and daughter", she said.
Although the arrival of the twins Sean and Amelie shook up Madeleine's life, she accepted them very well, said Kate.
"She managed to deal perfectly with this new reality, although she herself at the time was still a baby.
"The worst thing is that she started to demand lots of attention, especially when I was breast-feeding them.

Madeleine McCann: Would run around screaming and demanding attention after her twin brother and sister were born
"She would run up and down screaming in the background, shouting for my attention."
Mrs McCann also insisted that she and her husband were "truly responsible parents" and had committed no crime.
Speaking of the night Madeleine disappeared, she said: "I was sure immediately that she didn't walk out of that room. I never doubted that she had been taken by someone.
"I went through a phase of guilt for not knowing what happened to her. I blamed myself for thinking that the place was safe.
"But the certainty that we are truly responsible parents has helped me carry on.
"I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."
Asked about whether she and her husband were responsible for their daughter's disappearance, she said: "It cannot be considered a crime. Someone committed one, but not us."
Portuguese newspapers continued to report today that Mrs McCann will be re-interviewed in the UK this week by British police on behalf of the Algarve authorities.
But a spokeswoman for the McCanns said the couple had to date received no request for new interrogation.
The judge in the case, Pedro Daniel dos Anjos Frias, rejected prosecutors' request to have the McCanns brought back to Portugal for further questioning, the Correio da Manha said.
He insisted that the fresh interviews should be carried out by British police in the UK, according to the paper.
The re-interviewing will only take place when further DNA testing in Birmingham is completed, either tomorrow or Wednesday.
A letter of appeal will be sent to Britain, setting out all the questions Portuguese detectives want to ask the couple, along with the evidence supporting their hypothesis, the Correio da Manha reported.
A source told the paper there was only a "very low" probability that Portuguese officers would be allowed to sit in on the interviews.
A McCann family spokeswoman said today: "We have been in touch with the lawyers to try and get a steer on what is in the Portuguese papers.
"They assure us we have had no request to date for any further questioning, either from the Portuguese police or in the UK."
She could not say whether the McCanns' legal team was expecting the couple to be re-interviewed.
Since Kate and Gerry McCann were named as official suspects last week, there have been suggestions in Portugal that Madeleine was given drugs on the night of her disappearance.
The accusations have been strenuously denied by the couple but have not been ruled out by police. Although the order to seize medical files came from the Portuguese authorities, the background searches are being carried out by Leicestershire police.
A copy of Mrs McCann's diary has also been seized by police, who are now waiting for permission from the judge to seize and dismantle the McCanns' hire car so they can search for "traces of skin".
It has been reported that DNA evidence with a match to Madeleine was found in the Renault Scenic 25 days after their daughter vanished.
Yesterday it emerged the McCanns are trying to knock down potential evidence retrieved after two British sniffer dogs, capable of detecting blood and human remains, were used in the investigation in August.
One of the dogs picked up a "scent of deathî on items ranging from Mrs McCann's clothes to Madeleine's favourite soft toy Cuddle Cat.
Leaked reports from the investigation have suggested that Madeleine's parents could have accidentally killed her and then disposed of her body using the car. Although they do not know the full details of the Portuguese prosecutors' case against them, the McCanns are concerned that it may rest on the dog's reaction.
The couple's legal team has now consulted the lawyers of an American man accused of murdering his estranged wife in a case where "cadaver dog" evidence was central. They want to highlight the judge's dismissal of such evidence in the high-profile Eugene Zapata murder trial in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mr Zapata's estranged wife, flight instructor Jeanette Zapata, was 37 when she vanished in October 1976 after seeing her three children off to school.
Her body has never been found. Detectives suspected Mr Zapata of involvement in her disappearance but did not charge him because of a lack of evidence.
Police decided to conduct new searches using cadaver dogs and Mr Zapata, 68, was charged with firstdegree murder last year after the dogs indicated that they had scented human remains in an underfloor crawl space at the former family home and other properties linked to him.
But the judge ruled that the dogs' ability to detect remains was too unreliable, noting that no remains had actually been found. »

(In «Daily Mail»)

MADELEINE MCCANN – PONTOS DE VISTA CONTRÁRIOS OU A VIDA E A MORTE

Este caso tem uma importância muito para além do caso em si.

Permite uma profunda reflexão sobre a Condição Humana na União Europeia em 2007.

APRESENTAMOS AS POSIÇÕES BRITÂNICAS EM «THE OBSERVER» E A POSIÇÃO DE GERRY MCCANN.

A seguir uma reflexão sobre este caso em «The Observer»:


« The McCann case is no place for anonymity


Peter Preston
Sunday September 16, 2007
The Observer
What do we think of Portuguese plods, then? Asked and answered, on page six of the Daily Mail. They've 'launched an astonishing smear campaign against Kate McCann' apparently. They say she's 'hysterical and visibly out of control'. They're 'trying to convince the public prosecutor they have a strong enough case' to bring murder charges, so they peddle ever more 'lurid' allegations. They obviously can't be trusted. And yet - page one of the selfsame Mail edition last week - their 'sensational new forensic claims' turn into another walloping lead story: Maddie - 'DNA in hire car is hers'.
Welcome to the wilderness world of unusually unreliable sources, where you warn your readers what a load of old Iberian rubbish these anonymous police briefers are recycling for their own purposes, and simultaneously clear your front page for another truckload of the same garbage. Confused? Of course. And not by accident, either.
Forget about specks of blood in the boot; they've turned to body fluids or strands of hair. Bring on Mrs McCann's secret diaries and Mr McCann's mobile phone. Recover hundreds of missing emails. Find traces of blood somewhere else... perhaps. Scan the Lisbon tabloids for a line or two more. And some French evening paper's got a sleeping tablet theory... Seldom have so many mystic spouters unleashed such a river of blood-curdling headlines. Even the guys with their notebooks open, commuting from Portimao to Rothley, can't keep up. But remember that weighty banner across the top of the Telegraph: 'Police "confident" about charging parents soon'. You can be equally confident of some fresh amazement tomorrow.
It isn't enough, though, to tut-tut and moralise about 'innocent until proven guilty' (as too many higher-minded critics of press and BBC alike have done). These are very deep waters.
For one thing, the Maddie chat, on the train, in the bar, round the water cooler, has been all-engulfing (at least until Steve McLaren picked a winning team and Northern Rock cracked). For another, the Portuguese briefing effort, theoretically banned under local law, has often seemed more riposte than attack. Turn to page one of the Daily Mirror after the two doctors had flown back to Britain and, marked 'exclusive', read how 'Kate sobbed in despair as she sat alone in her daughter's pink-painted bedroom'. Reach for the Sun - another exclusive - and find Gerry McCann telling 'a pal' that 'we're being set up and I've had enough.' Briefer meet briefer. There's two-way traffic up Privacy Street.
Since the early days when they had British Embassy press help, the McCanns have called up two of their own professional public relations advisers-cum-spokesmen, including Justine McGuinness (who moves on this weekend because of 'pressure of work'). They can also turn to an array of 'family and friends', as well as Phil Hall, former News of the World editor and rival to Max Clifford. Through the early months of their search for Madeleine, moreover, they virtually owned the details of what may or may not have happened to their daughter, because the police stayed silent. Perception and perceived fact were both framed on their terms. There were two leaked accounts of Mrs McCann's 11-hour interrogation. There were, and clearly are still, 'exclusives' available to known, trusted correspondents who followed the circus. Thus was a PR battle joined.
None of which, of course, speaks to the guilt or innocence of anyone involved. The McCanns went into public relations because they said they wanted to sustain a memorable campaign in search of Madeleine. The Portuguese authorities weren't up to such speed to begin with. Rules have bent under pressure as they've gone along. But one old problem is manifest.
Take a huge story with huge issues attached: a handsome, middle-class British couple, a wide-eyed child, a controversial decision to leave her sleeping a few yards away while mum, dad and friends eat out. Take a throng of Fleet Street's and TV's finest, cooling their heels. Much interest, not many news breaks. Take a funny, 'foreign' legal system, without UK contempt of court laws. Take a police force that only chats off the record to Portuguese reporters. Then take a chance...
Would there have been the same debate and the same loyalties if Phil Hall or a 'pal on the payroll' or Mrs McCann herself had been identified as the briefer-in-chief? Would a named Portuguese cop have done better on camera? In any case, anonymity was, and remains, the mortal foe of credibility.
It wasn't necessary to keep who said what under wraps. It was an affront to understanding, a pact of silence slackly and sloppily entered into, and now laced with secondhand testimony lifted from Portuguese papers. Anything goes, it seems, as long as you pour your own scorn on it on page six.
Some subjects are too serious and too painful for the usual back-scratching and back-biting. Some subjects need the basic discipline of telling us who said what - so that we have a chance of working out for ourselves why they said it. »

(In «The Observer»/«The Guardian»)




A SEGUIR O PONTO DE VISTA DE GERRY MCCANN EXPRESSO NO SEU SITE:


« Latest Update
The advice of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is that high visibility of a missing child through posters, car stickers etc increases the chances of finding that child. The friends and family of Kate and Gerry urge everyone to please keep looking for Madeleine. Our greatest fear has always been that Madeleine would somehow be forgotten about and that our efforts to bring her back safely would run out of support. We know in our hearts that Madeleine is still out there, alive, confused and aching to be returned to her family where she belongs. Whatever happens, please don't forget that. Don't forget about Madeleine. http://www.youtube.com/user/DontYouForgetAboutMe »


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Day 136 - 16/09/2007

Sorry for not updating the blog for such a long time but obviously we have been incredibly busy during this last tumultuous week. The entries will probably be every few days or if there is a major development in the future.

Thank you for all the cards, letters, flowers, gifts and messages of support. It means so much to us to know that so many people have not been deceived by rumour, innuendo and wild speculation. Most importantly the search for Madeleine carries on and our family have not given up hope of finding her.

Live in Rothley is still a long way off normal with the large media presence but it is beginning to settle down somewhat. We all managed to go to mass today and it was comforting to pray for Madeleine with friends and family in our local church. »

GUANTÁNAMOSCHWITZ OU O AMOR À MENTIRA E À SELVAJARIA

O Campo de Concentração e Tortura da União Europeia, conhecido por Guantánamoschwitz, na Polónia, é a prova, evidente, de que na União Europeia, parte da classe política é constituída por criminosos e criminosas, face às leis que essas mesmas pessoas aprovaram !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A HIPOCRISIA NÃO TEM LIMITES, NENHUNS!!!

MADELEINE MCCANN – NOTÍCIAS SINISTRAS VINDAS DA INGLATERRA

Este caso continua a interessar as pessoas que ligam para este site, pensamos que, essencialmente, devido ao mistério e ao «suspense» a ele associados.


Corre na Inglaterra a ideia de que Madeleine McCann foi morta, e que o seu corpo foi lançado ao mar.
Este aspecto é divulgado, nomeadamente, pelo jornal «The Sun»:


« Cops: Maddie 'dumped in sea'

From NICK PARKER
in Praia da Luz
September 15, 2007

MADELEINE McCann’s body was dumped at sea and no trace will ever be found, Portuguese cops feared last night.
They now think she may have been put into a weighted sack and hurled from a British-owned yacht.
The case against Maddie’s parents was crumbling after the theory emerged — for prosecutors have confided that without a body there will not be enough evidence to charge them.
The twist came as increasingly desperate cops, under growing pressure to unravel the 134-day mystery, made plans to re-question holiday pals of parents Kate and Gerry McCann.

The sea theory is one of the few police have left after four months of exhaustive land searches turned up nothing. Ocean specialists gauged where a body dumped off a beach would have been washed back ashore by tides.
A body weighed down with stones and dumped in deep water from a boat several miles out, however, would simply disappear.

Most of the yachts in Lagos Marina, one of the most exclusive on the Algarve, are British-owned.
Meanwhile a friend of the McCanns told how the couple feel Portuguese cops are “playing a game with them”. She said: “They are very frustrated — they really do not know what is going on.
“Gerry and Kate feel police in Portugal have forgotten about their daughter. The investigation has become political and they feel the police are playing a game with them. They just want them to concentrate on finding Maddie.” »

(In «The Sun»)

MADELEINE MCCANN – MISTÉRIO, DÚVIDAS E RECUOS

As pessoas que andam pela Internet continuam a interessar-se por este complicadíssimo caso, nomeadamente as que ligam para este site.

Já dissemos que há várias globalizações ao mesmo tempo.

Este caso também se globalizou.

Houve um recuo no filme «Gone Baby Gone», dirigido por Ben Affleck, sobre o rapto de uma criança, que seria para apresentar neste mês de Setembro, em Londres, com muita publicidade.

Agora uma questão fundamental está na validação das eventuais provas, apresentadas contra os pais de Madeleine McCann.





A seguir está a posição dos jornais ingleses «The Sun» e «The Guardian»:



« McCanns: There is no proof

By ONLINE REPORTERS
September 14, 2007

GERRY McCann hit back yesterday at “ludicrous accusations” over daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.
Devastated Gerry, who flew back from Portugal with wife Kate and their twins last weekend, said there was NO evidence against the couple.
Today dectectives said they have “nothing concrete” to implicate the McCanns in Madeleine’s disappearance and may be depending on them making a confession, a Portuguese newspaper reported.
A “high-ranking” Policia Judiciaria officer, who was not named, told 24 Horas: “We have nothing concrete.
“There are a lot of indications, but without more elements it’s impossible to determine what happened in those four vital hours in the case (between 6pm and 10pm on the night Madeleine vanished).
“Even if the blood and traces gathered in the car or in the apartment were confirmed to correspond 100 per cent to the little girl’s DNA, that wouldn’t prove anything.
“Those elements could only confirm - and that doesn’t even happen - that the little girl was in the apartment (which is obvious) and in the car.
“In either of the cases nothing would prove homicide, just that the body of the little girl had been transferred in the vehicle.
“We don’t know if Madeleine is dead, and if she is, how it all happened.
“Was she strangled? Could she have been beaten? They are questions only the parents could clarify in an eventual confession.”
Other Portuguese newspapers claimed police are investigating whether the McCanns had any “accomplices” in allegedly disposing of Madeleine’s body and concocting a false story.
Detectives have admitted that the young girl’s body may “no longer exist”, according to the Diario de Noticias.
Gerry spoke out after the McCanns were hit by a new avalanche of allegations including:
REPORTS in Portuguese newspapers that Madeleine is dead and her body has been dumped at sea in a bag weighed down by stones.
CLAIMS by a French investigative journalist that large quantities of adult sedatives were found in Madeleine’s hair recovered from the boot of their hire car;
LEAKS from Kate’s diary which portrayed her as struggling to deal with domestic life and a hyperactive Madeleine;
ALLEGATIONS the McCanns are about to be ordered back to Portugal to face new questions into what happened to the four-year-old last May.
Gerry told a pal: “There are large craters in every one of these theories, in these just ludicrous accusations.
“As far as Kate and I are concerned there is no evidence to suggest that Madeleine is dead.
“We are 100 per cent together on this, not one grain of suspicion about each other.”
One “credible” theory of investigators are looking into is that Maddie's body was thrown out to sea in a bag weighted with stones, from a yacht belonging to an English sailor, the paper claimed, without specifying its source.
The boat is based at the marina in the town of Lagos, just a short drive from Praia da Luz, it reported.
Its owner was already under investigation based on searches on computers seized from Robert Murat, the first arguido in the case, the paper said.
Mr Murat has consistently protested his innocence, and believes he will be formally cleared shortly.
Yesterday it was claimed that Kate’s diaries show a mother under pressure, battling to cope.
Detectives in Portugal asked a judge to use emergency powers to seize a series of notebooks GP Kate has been using to write her innermost thoughts.
The cops have been poring over the pages in the hope of gaining an insight into her state of mind in the days and weeks before Madeleine vanished.

Extracts have been deliberately leaked to journalists, possibly in an attempt to discredit Kate, 39, who denies having anything to do with her daughter’s disappearance.
Newspaper Correio da Manha described the diaries as crucial, saying that although they do not reveal a confession, they paint a picture of a woman struggling.
The paper reported: “The importance of the diary is considered high. In it, Kate frequently complains that her children are “hysterical” and says Madeleine’s hyperactivity consumes her strength.
“She wrote that Gerry does not help with family chores or with the responsibility of dealing with younger ones.”
Another paper reported that Kate also wrote of her problems disciplining them.
But a close friend of Kate’s said: “She is a gentle mother who loves her children very much.
“Neither she or Gerry would do anything to harm Madeleine or any of her children.
“Any mother with three young children will recognise that it’s a full-time job and not always easy.”
Madeleine’s aunt Philomena McCann added: “The strictest I’ve ever seen Kate and Gerry with Madeleine is sending her to sit on the naughty step.”
These latest revelations come as it emerged police are seeking approval from the district attorney’s office to re-interview Kate.
They want answers to more than 40 questions she failed to answer during 13 hours of questioning last week after which she was named as an arguido, the Portuguese term for a suspect.
Those questions Kate either could not answer or refused included, “How did Madeleine’s blood get in the boot of car?” and “Have you ever slapped Madeleine?”
It has also been reported that British police may question the friends who were holidaying with the McCanns in Praia da Luz.

Police also want to re-examine the McCanns’ hired Renault Scenic again. It is currently in a “safe place”, say family friends, while the couple decide whether to get their own specialists to examine it.
Forensic experts are said to have found a mass of DNA evidence in the car including hair, blood and body fluids all matching Madeleine’s. It was reported yesterday in one paper: “Police want more detailed searches than the ones already carried out. Probably the car’s interior will be dismantled.”
Toxicology reports on what is said to be Maddie’s hair found in the car boot have reportedly shown up large quantities of sedatives.
The claims by a French journalist support detectives’ theory that she died accidentally from an overdose. The McCanns have always denied using anything stronger than liquid paracetamol Calpol on their children.
Reporter Guilhem Battut said tests proved “the little girl had ingested medicines, without doubt sleeping pills, in large quantities.”
In a report in the daily France Soir he also claimed the amount was more than enough to kill a young child.
DNA tests are said to be being conducted by scientists at the Forensic Science Services on blood found in an Ocean Club apartment close to 5a, where the McCanns were staying on May 3. It is not clear whether it is a sample taken from the apartment where the McCanns moved to after their daughter vanished, from the apartment where one of their friends were staying, or the flat of a stranger.
The apparent emergence of a second sample may or may not be significant. It could be as innocent as someone squashing a mosquito and there has been no indication whether it was Madeleine’s blood.
Meanwhile in French magazine Paris Match yesterday, the couple told how they had expected to be put under scrutiny by the police.
Speaking before they were made arguidos, Gerry said: “We were witnesses, and we knew we were going to be looked at through the magnifying glass.”
• FILM chiefs last night cancelled the release of Gone Baby Gone, the story of the hunt for a missing four-year-old girl, because it is too similar to the Maddie case. The movie, directed by Ben Affleck, had been due for a gala screening in London next month. »

( In «The Sun»)








« McCanns in talks with leading PR adviser


• Change of strategy after spokeswoman resigns
• Couple consult former News of the World editor

Esther Addley and Giles Tremlett, and Brendan de Beer in Praia da Luz
Friday September 14, 2007
The Guardian
The parents of Madeleine McCann are considering hiring a top PR adviser to manage their media campaign, signalling a change in strategy a week after being declared official suspects in their daughter's disappearance.
Kate and Gerry McCann have been in discussions with Phil Hall, the former tabloid editor turned media consultant, following the resignation of their media spokeswoman, Justine McGuinness, the Guardian has learned.
Mr Hall, former editor of the News of the World, is among a number of high-profile PR figures consulted by the McCanns with a view to managing the global interest in their case.
Mr Hall confirmed yesterday that he had been in discussions with the couple. "I have spoken to them a number of times and offered advice and [help] assessing the situation and what they are doing going forward and whether they need someone full-time or part-time," he told mediaguardian.co.uk.
Meanwhile, social workers visited the McCanns at home yesterday after the couple invited them for talks about two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie in the light of their being named as suspects in Madeleine's disappearance.
It is standard practice for a mother or father named as a suspect overseas to have their case considered by British authorities. In these cases social services can, in theory, take children into care or place them on the "in need" or "at risk" registers.
Mr and Mrs McCann have been pursuing an energetic media campaign to maintain the high profile of the search for their daughter since her disappearance on May 3, during which they have contacted senior Fleet Street and PR figures for advice.
Ms McGuinness, a public affairs consultant and former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, has been acting as their official spokesperson since July. Her resignation is not related to recent developments in the case, the Guardian understands.
The move follows a similar shift in the couple's legal strategy, after they were named as suspects last Friday. They have contracted a highly respected team of British lawyers to work alongside their Portuguese representation, who have advised them that they must not discuss any details related to the investigation. Mr and Mrs McCann, who have since returned to the UK, vehemently deny involvement in their daughter's disappearance and presumed death.
It is not clear how the couple plan to pay for the services of PR advisers. On Wednesday the couple said the Find Madeleine campaign fund, which has raised more than £1m in public donations, would not be used to meet their legal expenses.
In a separate development, investigators on the Algarve have asked the magistrate presiding over the case if they can put further questions to Mrs McCann after studying her diary, it was reported yesterday. According to the newspaper Publico, the authorities photocopied pages of Mrs McCann's diary two months ago.
The diary pages read by police included private comments about the "unruliness" of her children's behaviour, according to the newspaper. »

( In «The Guardian» )

GUANTÁNAMOSCHWITZ

Há muito tempo que dizíamos que existia mesmo dentro da União Europeia um Campo de Concentração e Tortura, incluindo Tortura até à Morte na Polónia e começámos a chamar-lhe Guantánamoschwitz.
Não sabíamos onde era, mas agora sabemos.
Fica no Nordeste da Polónia e é a maior vergonha do Parlamento Europeu.

Diz-se que a Tortura em Guantánamoschwitz

foi ainda mais brutal que a de Abu Ghraib,

porque os alegados suspeitos de alegação de serem presumivelmente suspeitos de serem suspeitos de conhecerem algum presumível candidato a suspeito de ataque aos Estados Unidos eram considerados bons para experiências científicas.
Ideologicamente GUANTÁNAMOSCHWITZ representa a aliança entre os neoliberais europeus e os neoconservadores norte-americanos.
A União Europeia exporta Direitos Humanos mas não os utiliza no mercado interno.

MADELEINE MCCANN – O TEMA CENTRAL SOBRE ESTE CASO É A MORTE

MORRER QUASE SEM TER VIVIDO


Na Inglaterra é já um tema central a Morte de Madeleine McCann. Tudo indica que morreu mesmo.
Agora há muitas dúvidas, cada vez há mais dúvidas. Quem a matou? Porquê?
Ganha relevo a ideia de que Madeleine morreu, acidentalmente, devido a uma dose excessiva de medicamentos indutores de sono, administrados pela mãe Kate McCann, agora a ‘má da fita’.
Agora o tema fulcral é COMO MORREU MADELEINE MCCANN.
As hipóteses agora são sobre os acontecimentos que provocaram a sua morte.
Mas onde está o, eventual cadáver?
As pessoas que andam pela Internet, agora continuam a interessar-se pelos miatérios, associados a este caso.
Na Inglaterra é já uma questão chave a discussão sobre a MORTE de Madeleine.
Está tudo muito macabro, cada vez mais macabro.




« Madeleine 'killed by sleeping tablets'
Last updated at 22:52pm on 13th September 2007
Madeleine McCann died from an overdose of sleeping pills, it was claimed yesterday.
French investigative reporter Guilhem Battut said a report outlining how the four-year-old met her death was already with Portuguese prosecutors.
The newspaper France Soir said it contains scientific analysis of the bodily fluids found in the boot of the car hired by Kate and Gerry McCann which "prove that the little girl had ingested medicines, without doubt sleeping pills, in large quantities".
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France Soir has reported that Madeleine died of an overdose of sleeping pills
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• Scoial services visit Kate McCann to disccuss welfare of the twins
• McCanns facing fresh slurs from Portuguese press over Kate's diaries
British forensic experts expressed severe doubts about the claim. They said the fluid was only a partial match to Madeleine's DNA and the sample was not strong enough to determine the presence of drugs. Even so, the report will come as a grave blow to the McCanns.
It supports theories published in Portugal that Mrs McCann was involved in Madeleine's death and her husband helped her dispose of their daughter's body.
The couple's supporters have dismissed these as "rumour-mongering" fuelled by sources in the floundering police investigation.
But this is harder to apply to France Soir and Battut's frontpage story.
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A source at the newspaper said 'We are not simply repeating rumours carried in other papers.
"This is not a theory, but a fact contained in hard evidence in the hands of the Portuguese authorities.
"It's all very well putting theories and opinions forward, but in the end this case will be decided on evidence. As journalists, we have been trying to establish what evidence is available."
Although Battut would not reveal his sources, his newspaper claimed he had "senior Portuguese contacts".
Battut is an experienced investigative journalist who has worked on a number of major inquiries, including the death of Prince Diana.
Alan Baker, of the independent forensic science organisation Bericon, confirmed it would be possible to test decomposing bodily fluids - including urine or vomit - for the presence of drugs but said it would be "very difficult" to quantify the amount.
"These samples are likely to be far from ideal," he said. "If it is just a smear or dried deposit, you could detect the drug but not how much."
Sources said strands of hair were still being analysed for drugs.
The French accusation came as a mystery benefactor - understood to be a wealthy British businessman - agreed to meet the McCanns' legal costs.
British experts also attacked the forensic evidence trumpeted by Portuguese police as proof of the McCanns' involvement. They said it was so 'flawed and unreliable' it could never be relied on in a fair trial.
In Portugal, police were reported to be drawing up a list of 40 questions they want to put to Mrs McCann.
She could be called back to be reinterviewed, or the questions could be put by detectives in this country.
The McCanns were visited by social workers at their family home in Rothley, Leicestershire yesterday.
Two officials from Leicestershire Social Services spent an hour interviewing them as their two-year- old twins Sean and Amelie played in the garden.
The visit - said to have been at the McCanns' invitation - followed a meeting of Leicestershire's child protection team and police earlier this week to discuss whether it was safe to leave the twins with their parents, who are suspects in a missing child inquiry and may face charges over her disappearance.
The couple, who were described as 'horrified' at the prospect of their children being taken away, quickly arranged for social workers to call and see how they are caring for the twins.
Social services is obliged to investigate any case where parents are suspected by police of harming their children and it is understood the McCanns were questioned about leaving the children alone in their holiday apartment while they went out for dinner.
A spokesman for the McCanns said last night: "The meeting was absolutely fine.
"It was very much at Gerry and Kate's instigation that they meet with social services so early on after returning to Leicestershire."
• Portuguese envoy's fears
Portugal's ambassador to the UK said last night he hoped relations between the countries would not be damaged by the Madeleine investigation.
Antonio Carlos was speaking at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, where a session of questions on his country's current presidency of the EU was interrupted by queries about the McCann case.
Asked whether he thought relations would be harmed, Mr Carlos said: "I hope not - our two countries are the oldest alliance. We are doing our utmost to solve the problem together with the support of the British police." »

(In «Daily Mail»)





O CASO MADELEINE VISTO DO BRASIL, PELO JORNAL «FOLHA DE S. PAULO»






« 13/09/2007 - 11h50
Mãe de Madeleine chama filhos de "histéricos" em diário, diz jornal


Kate McCann, mãe de Madeleine McCann, 4, menina britânica desaparecida em 3 de maio na praia da Luz, em Portugal, chama os filhos de "histéricos" e diz que Maddie é uma criança "cujo excesso de energia consome suas forças" em um diário pessoal que a Polícia Judiciária pretende apreender, diz a edição desta quinta-feira do jornal português "Correio da Manhã".
No diário, Kate ainda se queixa do marido, Gerry, dizendo que ele não a ajudaria em tarefas domésticas, e que caberiam apenas a ela os cuidados com os filhos mais novos, os gêmeos Sean e Amelie, de 2 anos. Ainda segundo o jornal português, Kate não confessa nenhum crime, mas dá detalhes sobre as horas anteriores ao desaparecimento de Maddie.
A polícia planeja confiscar o diário de Kate, além de um laptop da família como parte das investigações. De acordo com o "Correio da Manhã", o diário não foi apreendido por se tratar de "correspondência privada" mas foi analisado por investigadores policiais.
Por não ser considerado prova, investigadores pediram ao Ministério Público sua apreensão formal. A idéia do diário teria surgido da irmã de Kate, Philomena McCann, que disse que esta seria uma forma de mostrar a Madeleine "o quanto seus pais a queriam, e o esforço que fizeram para achá-la".
"Pedi a Kate que escrevesse um diário pois, a princípio, a polícia portuguesa estava fazendo muito pouco", declarou Philomena ao jornal inglês "The Sun".
A irmã de Kate criticou a polícia portuguesa por confiscar agora o diário e o laptop da família.
"'É algo muito dolorido para eles. "É uma forma de meter um punhal onde mais dói", disse ela.
Os detetives também podem confiscar papéis dos McCann, que podem servir nas investigações.
Nesta quarta-feira, o jornal português "Diário de Notícias" informou que o Ministério Público português também irá confiscar vários brinquedos de Madeleine.
DNA
O geneticista britânico, Alec Jeffreys, criador do sistema de impressões digitais de DNA, ofereceu ajuda a Kate e Gerry McCann, e disse que aceitaria servir como testemunha no caso. O especialista disse que a coincidência de amostras de DNA, por si só, não podem estabelecer a culpabilidade dos McCann, e esclareceu que as características genéticas de Madeleine estariam em ao menos um membro da família.
A imprensa portuguesa e inglesa indicou que os detetives do caso acharam evidências de DNA que correspondiam em 100% com as de Madeleine em um veículo que os pais da garota haviam alugado. No entanto, essa versão foi posteriormente desmentida pela polícia.
Gerry e Kate, que são médicos, foram declarados suspeitos pelo desaparecimento de sua filha, e consideram a possibilidade de realizar exames de DNA independentes no veículo que alugaram em praia da Luz.
Eles negam categoricamente qualquer participação no desaparecimento de sua filha, que tinha três anos quando foi vista pela última vez. Os McCann estavam passando férias em Praia da Luz, na região do Algarve, quando Madeleine desapareceu do quarto de hotel em que dormia, no complexo turístico Ocean Club.
No momento do desaparecimento, os pais jantavam com um grupo de amigos em um restaurante localizado a cerca de 50 metros do apartamento em que estava a garota.
Neste final de semana, os McCann voltaram para sua casa na cidade de Rothley, região central da Inglaterra, e esperam agora a decisão do juiz de instrução criminal encarregado do caso, que poderá apresentar uma acusação formal.
O casal contratou advogados no Reino Unido e em Portugal logo após terem sido declarados suspeitos formais do caso, na semana passada. »

(In «Folha de S. Paulo»)

MADELEINE MCCANN – HOJE DIA 13 É DIA DE AZAR PARA OS MCCANN

O TERRÍVEL DIA 13

Segundo a «Sky News» a polícia britânica pode ir esta tarde ou já ter ido a casa dos McCann apreender objectos pessoais da família McCann, nomeadamente brinquedos.
Está ainda um tremendo mistério, mas a virar para hipóteses altamente macabras.
Coisas terríveis no interior de uma família inglesa, da classe média?
Era bom que as hipóteses macabras não se confirmassem. Mas os elementos divulgados apontam, muito provavelmente, para ocorrências sinistras.

Continuamos sem perceber esta fotografia:





« British Police To Seize McCann Evidence
Thursday September 13, 2007
British police are being asked to seize crucial items of evidence from Kate and Gerry McCann's family home, Sky News has learned.
It is thought they may take Madeleine's favourite toy, Cuddle Cat, which has become an iconic image of the case.
A judge in Portugal has signed a warrant which will instruct British officers to go to the couple's four-bedroom house in Rothley, Leicestershire.
Officers may go to the house this afternoon. The two 39-year-old doctors are spending the day there with their twins.
Their spokeswoman Justine McGuinness explained why the McCanns have remained silent over the past days - in stark contrast to their earlier publicity campaign.
She said: "Kate and Gerry can't talk to people at the moment because of their status, and they are trying to observe Portuguese law."
Police want to examine Mr McCann's laptop computer for clues.
They also reportedly want Madeleine's toys for forensic analysis, including Cuddle Cat, a pink animal Mrs McCann has been seen clutching almost continuously since the young girl went missing.
Mr McCann's sister, Philomena McCann, said the possibility that police might seize the toy was a "disgrace".
Family spokesman David Hughes could not confirm the report, but said he believed Cuddle Cat had already undergone forensic testing.
Mr McCann took the laptop with him when the family flew home from Portugal on Sunday, and has used it to write his regular blog on the Find Madeleine website.
But Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt said detectives will be more interested in his private email correspondence.
It is understood detectives already have Mrs McCann's private diary.
Brunt said they will examine the diary to probe her "state of mind" in the weeks following Madeleine's disappearance in the Algarve on May 3.
Detectives have passed their 4,000-page dossier of evidence against the couple to Algarve-based public prosecutor Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses.
He immediately ordered that the 10 files should go before a judge.
Meanwhile, the McCanns have announced they will not use money raised for the fund to find Madeleine to pay for their legal defence.
They are facing the prospect of being charged over their daughter's disappearance after police named them as "arguidos", or formal suspects, during questioning last Friday. »

(In «Sky News o.l.)

MADELEINE MCCANN – ACENTUA-SE A IDEIA DE QUE ESTÁ MORTA

Tempos conturbados estes em que a condição humana provoca perplexidades.
Basta consultar o arquivo deste blog para se verificar, que desde o princípio acreditámos na hipótese de rapto para adopção ilegal. Bem gostaríamos de continuar a poder acreditar, só que já não conseguimos.



Agora está em causa o diário de Kate McCann. O jornal inglês «The Guardian», um jornal de referência da Esquerda europeia e mundial dá bastante importância às palavras escritas por Kate McCann:


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« Madeleine prosecutors seek diaries and toys, reports say


David Batty, James Sturcke and agencies
Wednesday September 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Public prosecutors today moved to formally seize diaries and correspondence belonging to the parents of Madeleine McCann, according to a Portuguese newspaper.
The news came as authorities continued to assess whether there is sufficient evidence to charge the couple.
Jornal de Noticias reported that the documents were already in the hands of the authorities, but the judge must ensure that the investigation "respects the rights, freedoms and guarantees" of Kate and Gerry McCann, who were officially made suspects in their daughter's disappearance last week.
The judge must weigh up whether releasing the documents to public prosecutors would amount to "abusive interference" in the McCanns' lives, the report said.
The newspaper did not specify to whom the diaries belong, but Mrs McCann has been seen writing in a diary since four-year-old Madeleine disappeared on May 3, while her husband has maintained a blog.
Another paper reported that Portuguese police intend to seize some of Madeleine's toys for analysis. Diario de Noticias said they included Cuddle Cat, the stuffed toy Mrs McCann has carried frequently in public since her daughter went missing.
The Portuguese prime minister, Jose Socrates, has praised investigators amid criticism in the British media of the police handling of the case.
Mr Socrates said he had "total confidence in the work carried out by the Portuguese police".
Madeleine vanished from a holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, more than four months ago.
"The police has given the best it has to finding out what happened to the little girl," Mr Socrates told the Spanish newspaper El País, adding that it was the duty of politicians not to stir up melodrama.
Portuguese police have faced criticism for their seemingly slow reaction to Madeleine's disappearance, their alleged poor handling of the apartment as a crime scene and the decision to allow the McCanns to continue using a hire car that is apparently central to the case.
A spokesman for the McCanns today said it was likely that they would arrange their own forensic tests on the car, which they hired 25 days after their daughter went missing.
There has been an intense focus on what police found in the hire car. Detectives have denied reports that forensic tests on a sample taken from the vehicle, a silver Renault Scenic, revealed a "100% match" with Madeleine's DNA.
Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa, who is in charge of the investigation, said: "That's not true. Even specialists have said there is no 100% in anything."
However, senior sources linked to the investigation told Portuguese journalists that they discovered "bodily fluids" - not blood - in the car's boot that provided an 88% match to Madeleine's genetic profile.
There have also been reports that a substantial amount of Madeleine's hair was found in the boot, but neither report has been confirmed by the authorities.
Widespread speculation has centred on the contents of the lengthy dossier of evidence the Policia Judiciaria, Portugal's CID, formally passed to the prosecutor yesterday.
Detectives appear to be working on the theory that Mrs McCann killed her daughter by accident and covered up the death by claiming she was abducted.
Portuguese newspapers have suggested she could face charges of homicide by negligence and concealing Madeleine's corpse.
What they consider Gerry McCann's alleged role to have been is not clear, but sources said police believed he might have been an accessory.
The McCanns were declared "arguidos", or formal suspects, during police questioning in Portimao on Friday.
Under Portuguese law, they are required to give police their address and notify officers if they are away from home for more than five days. With permission, they returned home to Rothley, Leicestershire, with their two-year-old twins, Sean and Amelie, on Sunday.
The McCanns announced today that they would not use money from the Find Madeleine fund to pay for their legal defence. Earlier this week, the directors of the fund said they were aware donors may have given money thinking only of the search for Madeleine.
The couple appointed lawyers in both Portugal and Britain after being named as formal suspects. »

(In «The Guardian»)