I'm of the same, Im just waiting on the following from the PJ legal summary to be answered.
Despite all of this, it was not possible to obtain any piece of evidence that would allow for a medium man, under the light of the criteria of logics, of normality and of the general rules of experience, to formulate any lucid, sensate, serious and honest conclusion about the circumstances under which the child was removed from the apartment (whether dead or alive, whether killed in a neglectful homicide or an intended homicide, whether the victim of a targeted abduction or an opportunistic abduction), nor even to produce a consistent prognosis about her destiny and inclusively - the most dramatic - to establish whether she is still alive or if she is dead, as seems more likely.
Despite all of this, it was not possible to obtain any piece of evidence that would allow for a medium man, under the light of the criteria of logics, of normality and of the general rules of experience, to formulate any lucid, sensate, serious and honest conclusion about the circumstances under which the child was removed from the apartment (whether dead or alive, whether killed in a neglectful homicide or an intended homicide, whether the victim of a targeted abduction or an opportunistic abduction), nor even to produce a consistent prognosis about her destiny and inclusively - the most dramatic - to establish whether she is still alive or if she is dead, as seems more likely.I don't think you are "getting it" with that excerpt from the Portuguese archiving of the case in 2008 which in effect wrote Madeleine off.
It illustrates a complete and utter FAILURE on the part of the Portuguese police.
Much as the German investigations into crimes committed by an ex pat in Portugal has indicated the system failures of Portuguese justice system to an astonished world
My opinion is that the questions you find so important are all in the process of being answered as the German investigation into the crimes of Brueckner are about to reach the courts.
Pity it took till 2022 for that to happen. And extraordinary that we are watching German justice in operation - not Portuguese!