Judite de Sousa interviews Goncalo Amaral
JS: In your opinion what causes Scotland Yard to, suddenly, ask the Judiciary Police to re-open the process and to categorically state that there are 195 new opportunities to investigate?
GA: Well, we have to understand the timing, understand the moment...
Yesterday was the 25 of April
It's important because it's the day freedom and democracy is celebrated in Portugal, and a foreign power, or someone from a foreign power is telling us:
"It's like this, reopen it!".
It's important.
We are a few days away of the sad anniversary of the child's disappearance, a tragic moment...
We are one year after that team started their investigation, where they've spent millions of pounds; they have been questioned back in England about that.
To say that they have 195 opportunities of investigation - I have to ask, why is that?
Why do they still have 195, why don't they have only 5?
Probably the beginning of the end for Amaral's thesis. He certainly doesn't appear to have been too keen on the new investigation being started by Scotland Yard; nor was he averse to adding a little pinch of xenophobia to the mix.