Why the obsession with going over the first four months of a botched police investigation in a pejorative way aimed solely at decrying the parents of a missing child.
The first hours and days were the crucial time in which to have any chance of finding out what happened to Madeleine when everything was fresh in witnesses' minds.
In my opinion the incompetence married to the ineptitude of the investigators over the first four months set the seal on any chance Madeleine had either of being recovered shortly after she disappeared or finding what had become of her.
The police tactic of tainting those first four vital months of the investigation with defamatory leaks to the press designed to decry eye witness statements and to assassinate the character of the victim's parents later the accused, could never have helped to solve whatever or whoever happened to Madeleine.
It was only a barrier to solving the case particularly as the golden hours crucial in a missing child case were squandered as a result.
Amaral's sacking came too late in the day to undo that level of harm.
Why eulogise the botched ideas which led to the four months of a botched investigation in a niche podcast for the few believers in the excellence of the first four months of the police investigation?
It flies in the face of the fact that Amaral ... the coordinator ... was sacked from it ignominiously.
It was the Portuguese authorities who did that ... so they must have had good reason.