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» )