We appear to have come full circle to Morocco again!

[Lace]

Anyone remember this -

Then, police again focused on Morocco in June, after GCHQ in Cheltenham picked up phone intercept messages in Arabic referring to "the little blonde girl", a German man, and a ferry from Tarifa in Spain.

[Mr Gray]

Anyone remember this -

Then, police again focused on Morocco in June, after GCHQ in Cheltenham picked up phone intercept messages in Arabic referring to "the little blonde girl", a German man, and a ferry from Tarifa in Spain.

Very interesting... I Wonder if they have the phone number

[misty]

I don't know if this has any connection to CB's activities but...


https://www.portugalresident.com/leader-of-trafficking-group-with-over-1000-victims-lived-in-portugal/
Leader of trafficking group with over 1000 victims “lived in Portugal”
By Natasha Donn -12th June 2020
 
Spanish police have dismantled an international people-trafficking gang that will have moved around 1000 victims through Europe, the majority women and children. Twelve people have been arrested, including the network’s leader – described as a citizen of central Africa who lived ‘between Portugal and Germany’.

According to a statement put out today by the Spanish Guardia Civil (equivalent to Portugal’s GNR), most of the people arrested are of Moroccan and Sub-Saharan origin.

During the operation, searches were conducted throughout Spain, as well as three in Portugal and two in Germany. One person was also arrested in Holland.

The investigation began over two years ago after Spanish police ‘detected’ that a large number of immigrants were being transferred to France under duress. The victims were, in the main, African migrants “among whom it was common to find minors and pregnant women recruited from their home countries to work in an irregular, precarious way in Spain”.

These victims were later transported to France, Belgium and Germany for payments of between €500 and €750, say reports.

Also apprehended in the police swoop was a 500 kilo stash of marijuana and €500,000 in cash.

[Wonderfulspam]

I don't know if this has any connection to CB's activities but...


https://www.portugalresident.com/leader-of-trafficking-group-with-over-1000-victims-lived-in-portugal/
Leader of trafficking group with over 1000 victims “lived in Portugal”
By Natasha Donn -12th June 2020
 
Spanish police have dismantled an international people-trafficking gang that will have moved around 1000 victims through Europe, the majority women and children. Twelve people have been arrested, including the network’s leader – described as a citizen of central Africa who lived ‘between Portugal and Germany’.

According to a statement put out today by the Spanish Guardia Civil (equivalent to Portugal’s GNR), most of the people arrested are of Moroccan and Sub-Saharan origin.

During the operation, searches were conducted throughout Spain, as well as three in Portugal and two in Germany. One person was also arrested in Holland.

The investigation began over two years ago after Spanish police ‘detected’ that a large number of immigrants were being transferred to France under duress. The victims were, in the main, African migrants “among whom it was common to find minors and pregnant women recruited from their home countries to work in an irregular, precarious way in Spain”.

These victims were later transported to France, Belgium and Germany for payments of between €500 and €750, say reports.

Also apprehended in the police swoop was a 500 kilo stash of marijuana and €500,000 in cash.

The victims were, in the main, African migrants “among whom it was common to find minors and pregnant women recruited from their home countries to work in an irregular, precarious way in Spain”.


It's possible Maddie was trafficked along with these Africans, what with her having pasty white skin & being British she definitely wouldn't have stood out like a sore thumb.

[Brietta]

The victims were, in the main, African migrants “among whom it was common to find minors and pregnant women recruited from their home countries to work in an irregular, precarious way in Spain”.


It's possible Maddie was trafficked along with these Africans, what with her having pasty white skin & being British she definitely wouldn't have stood out like a sore thumb.

I don't think the point is the ethnicity of the trafficked victims or the direction in which they were taken.  I think it is the fact there is a trafficking network firmly in place closely allied to the drug trade.
Looks like Sadie is due an apology for at least two or more of the points her research into Madeleine's disappearance brought to her attention.

[Holly Goodhead]

I don't think the point is the ethnicity of the trafficked victims or the direction in which they were taken.  I think it is the fact there is a trafficking network firmly in place closely allied to the drug trade.
Looks like Sadie is due an apology for at least two or more of the points her research into Madeleine's disappearance brought to her attention.

Since the history of mass tourism from UK to Europe afaik MM is the British 'disappeared' child.  No one before, during or since.

Families regularly jet off to locations that present a far greater risk of child abduction than Portugal/PDL eg South America/Mexico and yet afaik there are no known cases of British children disappearing in these places?

I don't know of another case anywhere in the world where a child has 'disappeared' on a family holiday?

What features of this case make it unprecedented?  Context is very important imo.

If MM disappeared at the hands of organised criminals why only her? 

[jassi]

Since the history of mass tourism from UK to Europe afaik MM is the British 'disappeared' child.  No one before, during or since.

Families regularly jet off to locations that present a far greater risk of child abduction than Portugal/PDL eg South America/Mexico and yet afaik there are no known cases of British children disappearing in these places?

I don't know of another case anywhere in the world where a child has 'disappeared' on a family holiday?

What features of this case make it unprecedented?  Context is very important imo.

If MM disappeared at the hands of organised criminals why only her?

Perhaps because other children were better looked after.

[Mr Gray]

Since the history of mass tourism from UK to Europe afaik MM is the British 'disappeared' child.  No one before, during or since.

Families regularly jet off to locations that present a far greater risk of child abduction than Portugal/PDL eg South America/Mexico and yet afaik there are no known cases of British children disappearing in these places?

I don't know of another case anywhere in the world where a child has 'disappeared' on a family holiday?

What features of this case make it unprecedented?  Context is very important imo.

If MM disappeared at the hands of organised criminals why only her?

other children have been abducted. It may well be just group of circumstances coming together...may have been a burglary turned abduction...we know now that a person fitting that bill was in the area that night. or it may have been planned....again the right person in the right place. What you cannot reasonably do is say its impossible.

[Holly Goodhead]

other children have been abducted. It may well be just group of circumstances coming together...may have been a burglary turned abduction...we know now that a person fitting that bill was in the area that night. or it may have been planned....again the right person in the right place. What you cannot reasonably do is say its impossible.

Who are the other children you refer to who disappeared whilst on family hols?  Feel free to go global it doesn't have to be just UK. 

[Mr Gray]

Who are the other children you refer to who disappeared whilst on family hols?  Feel free to go global it doesn't have to be just UK.

i never mnetione dfamily hols...I dont see why its relevant. children are abducted...its rare but it happens and its exactly what i think is the most likely in this instance.

[Holly Goodhead]

i never mnetione dfamily hols...I dont see why its relevant. children are abducted...its rare but it happens and its exactly what i think is the most likely in this instance.

My posts were in regard to family hols. 

I don't think you can compare children abducted on family hols with children abducted from their permanent abode.

Do you know of any children anywhere in the world abducted on a family hol? 

[Mr Gray]

My posts were in regard to family hols. 

I don't think you can compare children abducted on family hols with children abducted from their permanent abode.

Do you know of any children anywhere in the world abducted on a family hol?

Why is that significant...i dont see it is

[kizzy]

i never mnetione dfamily hols...I dont see why its relevant. children are abducted...its rare but it happens and its exactly what i think is the most likely in this instance.

Even though it sounds as it is unique. not rare

[kizzy]

Why is that significant...i dont see it is

Well, I don't know why you don't see it - imo it would mean Maddie would b the first one abducted.

But there again we don't know she was abducted or any evidence she was abducted,

[Venturi Swirl]

My posts were in regard to family hols. 

I don't think you can compare children abducted on family hols with children abducted from their permanent abode.

Do you know of any children anywhere in the world abducted on a family hol?

Do you think it’s harder or easier to abduct a child from a holiday apartment than from their home?