Unpublished photos show Maddie's father searching the beach and rocks of Praia da LuzGerry walked the rocks and sand with a friend. He never clarified what he was doing.
Tânia Laranjo
June 28, 2020 at 1:30 am
A set of unpublished images, released this Sunday by the CM , show Gerry, the father of Madeleine McCann - the English girl who was then three years old disappeared in the Algarve on May 3, 2007 -, and a friend, in the middle of Praia da Luz, few days after the alert, in what seems like private searches in the sand and rocks. It is another element to cast doubt, at a time when the German police insist that Christian Brueckner, who lived in the Algarve at that time, kidnapped and killed the child.
It is not known who the man is. Only that they left without being seen from the Ocean Club village, where the girl disappeared and where hundreds of journalists and police were concentrated. They used a rear access, reserved for employees. They went to the beach, about 500 meters from where Maddie was left to sleep with her two 18-month-old brothers.
Gerry and his friend talked on the wall and went down to the rocks, where they were looking for something. At that time, the only thesis was still that of abduction. It was advanced by the parents and fed by the English police. There were searches in several places and suspects were being sought. Gerry's behaviour was never explained. Only on that beach he met at least two more Englishmen.
José Manuel Anes, a criminalist and university professor, said this Saturday at CMTV that the McCann couple tried to hire him as an expert, at a time when Kate and Gerry were defendants. He did not answer them.
The former Judiciary Police (PJ) coordinator who investigated Maddie's disappearance, Gonçalo Amaral, revealed yesterday on CMTV that the PJ initially admitted the possibility of kidnapping the child after a request by the British ambassador. “Parents should have been treated as suspects from the start. But there were other pressures. It is not for nothing that the British ambassador of the time came to the place.
The director of the Faro PJ announced that it was a kidnapping after speaking with the ambassador ”, revealed the former inspector, who considers that the German prosecutor who announced that Christian Brueckner is the main suspect in Maddie's kidnapping and death“ has not yet read the process".
According to Gonçalo Amaral, the house where Maddie disappeared "had no signs of burglary" and "the only fingerprints found on the window were the mother's."
In the opinion of the former coordinator of the PJ, the German police "dropped the rabbit and now everything is after him", referring to Christian Brueckner.
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