The problem which I think stems from the base nature of the hero of the hour for some Amaral, is the inherent nastiness which was in vogue for a time of making comparison with the Phillpots et al.
Interestingly it is said that Ian Brady enjoyed using that sort of criticism. Pathetic to have the imprimatur of a creature such as that.
hero of the hour for some Amaral,Look, these are your words ...no one else's certainly not mine for some reason GA is a thorn in your side.
The damage was done by the mccs.
What do you think GA would have done to try and solve the case if he had been given the chance. you dont know o you.
The case was to high profile for anything untoward to happen to them.
They were never going to end up in an episode of Banged up abroad.
Well, approximately one year ago, we all watched, stupefied, a sort of spectacle that had until then been unheard of, among us. Like in the witch hunts of the past, a certain media (mainly English, but unfortunately not only that) destroyed a Man from the Portuguese Polícia Judiciária in public. A high-ranking Criminal Investigation career official. A colleague and a friend to so many of us. A character assassination like no other employee of this House had ever been a victim of, before. And why?
Because, as had always been his hallmark, Dr. Gonçalo Amaral, a Polícia Judiciária Criminal Investigation Coordinator, went to fight, committed himself, faced, bravely and decidedly, the difficulties and the setbacks of a service case that is extremely complex and whose outlines are still undefined, and may remain so forever.
Maybe for the first time in the Polícia Judiciária's History, an investigator is exposed in public and his private life is rummaged. Merely because he was investigating a certain suspicious case. Because he was working. Maybe the Portuguese State, the Public Administration, our Polícia Judiciária, should have mechanisms in place to protect its representatives in situations like this one. In order to safeguard them as they carry out their professional activity for the benefit of Public Service. Maybe all of us, colleagues in profession, should have stood up, and honouring the so famous, so traditional and so bandied about "Esprit de Corps" that they say is characteristic of our "House", should have somehow manifested our support of Dr. Gonçalo Amaral.
