What you and others are doing is trying to force modern police investigations into a TV like narrative. Old fashioned methods like Amaral's involve being suspect based- choosing a likely candidate and gathering evidence to prove your guesswork. Modern methods involve considering many lines of enquiry and testing all of them against reality. It is not surprising that various possibilities conflict.
You will note that older methods are much more likely to end up with false convictions or failed prosecutions, because becoming telescopes on one set of facts may blond you to the truth.
Very well put, Aiofe.
The old EMU type, bury-your-head-in-the-sand thing, goes perfectly with a Fascist State. This includes if you dont want to believe the facts, then ignore them .... examples of this are seen every day on here. Where one settles before the facts are established, far too early, on the main suspect and only works to condemn that man. Amaral did just that
Modern Democratic Methods should look at every angle and keep all options open, ever ready to adjust , change thoughts, as new evidence / facts emerge. And only when a complete picture emerges, via unbiased means ..... act.
The first is a closed minded, bullying approach = Fascist
The second is an open minded fair approach = Democratic
Portugal has to decide whether despite it calling itself a Democracy, it truly wants to be that .... or whether it is content to remain a Fascist Police State.
