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Offline Jean-Pierre

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #165 on: February 03, 2014, 01:41:04 PM »
Mr Amaral had an exemplary record and much success as a police officer especially against drug distributors so it was unfortunate that his minions let him down.  One mistake doesn't make him a criminal as some like to suggest.

How exactly does that work, Angelo?  He has in fact been found guilty of a criminal offence by a Portuguese court.




Offline Angelo222

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #166 on: February 03, 2014, 01:46:36 PM »
An Accolade -Gonçalo Amaral     

ASFIC - PJ   Professional Association of Employees of the Judicial Police Criminal Investigation

Thursday, July 3, 2008
 CONVERSATION BETWEEN POLICE ...
 When, in late 1983 (now gone about 25 years) I and some colleagues, completed the training course at the School, were put on the Core Stage running in then SCITE / CICD, installed at the bottom of Rua Conde Redondo , there we find a group of police investigators whose characteristics, individual and group, and how you work, took us (at least to most of us) want there to be definitively placed.

 In fact, motivation and dedication to service, enthusiasm and joy with which played its role, competence and professionalism they showed were for us graduates in the School of Clay, assured that the profession so that we started was translated a full activity of achievement and a magnificent career and a bright future.

 Most of these colleagues were roughly our age, a little older than us, immediately preceding, and thus with the recently completed their training course.

 Among them was Goncalo Amaral.  Perhaps more hair and now possibly a little lighter.  The rest was equal.  Already when surprised in their delivery to the profession, competence, who demonstrated the confidence with which he worked, the courage with which ran throughout and faced all kinds of situations and opponents.  Likewise, it was evident the willingness with which he faced setbacks and adversities of function as well as the tolerance that viewed the play, sometimes irreverent one or another colleague (and I say so, that conscience accuses me of having been not infrequently).

 Later Goncalo would work in Faro and Ponta Delgada.  Always with the personal and professional capacity availability to it characteristics.  And in all the many valences that are now of the work of a researcher of the Judicial Police.  Investigating homicides or collecting information about organized criminal networks.  Analyzing documentation relating to complex financial transactions or capturing dangerous individuals.  No escape difficulties or fading to setbacks.  Giving face and going to struggle.  Always.

 Again in Lisbon and combating drug trafficking, was named Goncalo also as agent to lead a brigade of Research in DCITE Who was at that time in that department, remember that the results achieved by this brigade, under the charismatic leadership of Gonçalo Amaral as soon exceeded the average statistics.  The figures obtained for himself and his men, either as individuals detained, either as a narcotic product or property and assets seized or even convictions achieved in Court marked an era in DCITE and constituted an example.

 I know.  I remember it well.  Was there.
 Build up the leadership of the Brigade with the proviso college student.  And its characteristic shape of head, always direct and frontal, in a permanent leadership style and fully assumed, always present and always available, not impossible that, in the shortest amount of time allowed, graduating in law.  Despite their previous training is Engineering.

 We again find ourselves in the course of promoting the Subinspector.  Again Goncalo has demonstrated its remarkable ability to work because they did this course, intensive and demanding, accumulated with the leadership of the Brigade of Research.  Pat was also and once again, its significant ability to study, having completed the course in first place among 99 colleagues.
 Would come later and logical and natural sequence of his career and his life journey competing at the Coordinator of Criminal Investigation, and as expected, was promoted to that functional category shortly after.

 After ...
 Well, about a year ago, we all watched, stunned, to a kind of spectacle hitherto unheard of among us.  How Faith in automobiles in the past, certain media (mainly English, but unfortunately not only this) "melted" in the public square a man of Portuguese Judicial Police.  Table Top Career Criminal Investigation.  Our colleague and friend of many of us.  Murder of a character as any other staff of this House had been the victim until then.  And why?
 Because, as was always his prerogative, Dr. Gonçalo Amaral, Coordinator of Criminal Investigation of the Judicial Police, was the struggle, strove assumed faced courageously and decisively, the difficulties and setbacks of a case of highly complex service and contours still, and perhaps forever undefined.

 Perhaps for the first time in the history of the Judicial Police, a researcher is exposed in the public square and private life probed.  Just to be investigating a case suspicious.  To be working.  Perhaps the Portuguese State, the Government, our Judicial Police, should have mechanisms to protect their representatives in situations like this.  To protect them in the exercise of their profession for the benefit of the Public Service.  Perhaps we all, professional colleagues, we should have taken in, and living up to the famous, traditional and much-vaunted "Spirit Body" saying peculiar to our "house", we should be in, somehow manifested in support of Dr . Gonçalo Amaral.

 None of that happened.  Gonçalo stood alone.
 If this strategy to catch tomorrow, against powerful and well-connected defendants may be other researchers to suffer this ordeal skin.  Could be any of us.  And it can, somehow, be the end of the criminal investigation.  At least the way we envision and develop.

 Let this case serve on discussion.  And sample.  And allow us to create ways to avoid a repeat.  The ASFICPJ itself should perhaps consider, serious, conscientious and thoroughly, and serene and constructive way, this whole situation.  It is also their duty.

 Gonçalo friend, I sincerely regret your departure Judicial Police, which seems too early because I admit I could give more to the cause of Society, Justice and Public Service.  Our "Home", moreover, does not have many features, quality and quantity, to afford to the non-viability or worse, leaving the waste.

 It remains for me, given the reality of the facts, thank you for your friendship and wish you all the best and every success in the new stage of your life I decided to start.

 Lisbon, 03 July 2008

 John Fernandes Figueira
 Associate ASFIC / PJ paragraph.  711


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« Last Edit: February 03, 2014, 01:51:38 PM by Angelo222 »
De troothe has the annoying habit of coming to the surface just when you least expect it!!

Je ne regrette rien!!

Offline Mr Gray

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #167 on: February 03, 2014, 01:57:40 PM »
Mr Amaral had an exemplary record and much success as a police officer especially against drug distributors so it was unfortunate that his minions let him down.  One mistake doesn't make him a criminal as some like to suggest.

he is a criminal as he has been convicted of a criminal offence...howver much you and others try to spin it its true

Offline Jean-Pierre

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #168 on: February 03, 2014, 01:58:12 PM »
'When Gonçalo went out of the PJ door there was no one saying goodbye to him'
 
By Nigel Moore
05 December 2008
 
The 30th of June 2008 marked Gonçalo Amaral's last day of service for the PJ. It was a day that passed like many before, in a proud 27-year career, with the apprehension of two and a half tons of hashish and the detention of six traffickers.
 
After handing in his duty pistol, his badge, his card and his service mobile phone it was time to close the door on a job which he had served proudly and to which he had dedicated his life.
 
For Gonçalo Amaral, it had been more than just a 'job'.
 
"He would have rather preferred being a cop until he died," says Sofia Leal, Gonçalo Amaral's wife, talking exclusively to 'mccannfiles.com'. "He loves me very much and he loves the girls, but he really lived for his job."
 
What should have been a momentous and joyous day, looking forward to the new chapter and new challenges of retirement - armed with the well wishes and plaudits of his colleagues - instead became tinged with sadness and profound disappointment.
 
"When Gonçalo went out of the PJ door there was no one saying goodbye to him. No director. No one. After a life dedicated to the PJ, it was what most got him down," says Sofia.
 
The nature of the departure, and premature retirement, made it difficult to get an aim for his life until he got busy with the presentations of his book, 'Maddie: A Verdade da Mentira'.
 
"Gonçalo had a bad time with his retirement, but it was the anonymous bloggers and common citizens that he met everyday in the street that were his support.
 
"Although we've tried to give him strength and hope, we were supposed to, weren't we? It was the people that he never knew before, and most of them he will never meet, that were the true providers of hope for Gonçalo Amaral."
 
Sofia was able to confirm that editions of 'Maddie: The Truth of the Lie' were now assured in France, Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. There is no concrete news of a UK release date yet, although negotiations are progressing well.
 
Finally, Sofia revealed that some weeks ago she wrote a letter "to a friend of mine that lives in the UK," and had "until now, got no answer". She wonders "if everything is ok?"
 
"She lives in Rothley."

Offline John

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #169 on: February 03, 2014, 02:04:01 PM »
He certainly knew how to get confessions beaten out of witnesses.  And how to run a publicity campaign against parents.
And if you think that The Cipriano Verdict was safe after what you went through then you have lost your way.

For heavens sake Eleanor, Leonor confessed before the investigating magistrate before her new lawyer persuaded her to fight the case.  Not a finger had been laid on her as up until that moment she had been allowed home.  You really must try and understand the facts.

The only reason Leonor confessed was because just for a moment, she regretted what she had done.
« Last Edit: February 03, 2014, 02:05:42 PM by John »
A malicious prosecution for a crime which never existed. An exposé of egregious malfeasance by public officials.
Indeed, the truth never changes with the passage of time.

Offline Jean-Pierre

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #170 on: February 03, 2014, 02:04:45 PM »
All very sad.

To get back to the original question, whilst he was a serving police officer, and fulfilling his role, he was protected from any legal action.  He enjoyed legal  privilege.

Having resigned, and having taken the unusual step of writing a book accusing the McCanns of various criminal acts, without due process, he no longer has that protection.  He has thus rendered himself "fair game".

Offline John

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #171 on: February 03, 2014, 02:10:02 PM »
All very sad.

To get back to the original question, whilst he was a serving police officer, and fulfilling his role, he was protected from any legal action.  He enjoyed legal  privilege.

Having resigned, and having taken the unusual step of writing a book accusing the McCanns of various criminal acts, without due process, he no longer has that protection.  He has thus rendered himself "fair game".

Absolutely Jean-Pierre, he had no choice but to take the route he did so as to blow the whole sodden mess apart.

A malicious prosecution for a crime which never existed. An exposé of egregious malfeasance by public officials.
Indeed, the truth never changes with the passage of time.

Offline Carana

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #172 on: February 03, 2014, 05:31:28 PM »
According to many sources including the Press.

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I wonder if that story is entirely accurate.

From Police chief is now free 24horas
 
Gonçalo Amaral retired since midnight, to "savour freedom of expression"
 
Tuesday 01 July 2008
Thanks to 'astro' for translation

Just enigmatic enough, Gonçalo Amaral, aged 49, had his last day at the PJ yesterday, "a perfectly normal day". He arrived early, finished the operation into the process that lead, over the weekend, to the apprehension of two and a half tons of hashish and the detention of six traffickers, and dispatched a few more cases. Before lunch, which lasted from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m., the controversial coordinator of criminal investigation delivered his duty pistol, his badge and his card at the Faro Directory. At the end of the day, around 5.30 p.m., he delivered his service mobile phone.

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id139.html

That was published on 1 July. If the haul had taken place the previous weekend, that would have been 28/29 June. If it had been the weekend following his departure, then he had no reason to be there and had already handed in his weapon, badge and phone.

After such a magnificent scoop, it seems a bit odd that no one said goodbye to him (according to his ex-wife).








Offline Benice

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #173 on: February 03, 2014, 05:47:49 PM »
Apparently Amaral single handedly worked out that drugs and contraband were being run into small coves.  Like wot they had been doing in Cornwall for more than 500 years.

And he was so good at his job - he was then overlooked for promotion:-   

Quote from Sofia's letter to Kate

My husband applied to the category of Superior Coordinator, and in between drug apprehensions, sequestrations and homicides, he somehow managed to produce a thesis about drug trafficking by sea, which he defended in Lisbon, in front of a Jury that congratulated him. Full of hope, Gonçalo Amaral returns to the Algarve and awaits the result.     To his surprise, he was passed over by other colleagues, because he had not been able to score points in the "professional formation" parameter.    That's right, Mrs Kate, my husband spent his life working, involved in complex investigations, he was the man who apprehended the highest volumes of drugs in Portugal, but given the fact that he had no time to go to Lisbon to parade himself up and down the corridors of the PJ's Institute, he was not promoted.
 End quote

What any of that has got to do with Kate is anyone's guess.

Pure speculation on my part  - but I've always had a sneaky feeling that she got a lot of help with that letter - especially with that bit above.   





The notion that innocence prevails over guilt – when there is no evidence to the contrary – is what separates civilization from barbarism.    Unfortunately, there are remains of barbarism among us.    Until very recently, it headed the PJ in Portimão. I hope he was the last one.
                                               Henrique Monteiro, chief editor, Expresso, Portugal

Offline pegasus

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #174 on: February 04, 2014, 01:42:35 AM »
It is only thanks to excellent sources KM and CM and a regional newspaper that we know that mr + mrs blair + brown + a milliband all phoned at various times. But can anyone remember the source that claimed one of them phoned someone early Oct 2007 to check that Mr Amaral had been got rid of? (I lost the link). Also anyone know date of a meeting between UK/PT leaders re treaty around that time ?

Offline John

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #175 on: February 05, 2014, 09:38:41 AM »
The Cipriano related posts are being moved to a new thread.  Please only post here comments related to the thread theme...was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book.
A malicious prosecution for a crime which never existed. An exposé of egregious malfeasance by public officials.
Indeed, the truth never changes with the passage of time.

Offline pegasus

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #176 on: February 06, 2014, 01:04:26 AM »
And he was so good at his job - he was then overlooked for promotion:-   

Quote from Sofia's letter to Kate

My husband applied to the category of Superior Coordinator, and in between drug apprehensions, sequestrations and homicides, he somehow managed to produce a thesis about drug trafficking by sea, which he defended in Lisbon, in front of a Jury that congratulated him. Full of hope, Gonçalo Amaral returns to the Algarve and awaits the result.     To his surprise, he was passed over by other colleagues, because he had not been able to score points in the "professional formation" parameter.    That's right, Mrs Kate, my husband spent his life working, involved in complex investigations, he was the man who apprehended the highest volumes of drugs in Portugal, but given the fact that he had no time to go to Lisbon to parade himself up and down the corridors of the PJ's Institute, he was not promoted.
 End quote

What any of that has got to do with Kate is anyone's guess.

Pure speculation on my part  - but I've always had a sneaky feeling that she got a lot of help with that letter - especially with that bit above.   
So not getting a promotion is used to attack Mr Amaral?
By the same reasoning if hypothetically Mr Amaral previously advised PT government on radiation in medical devices but doesn't any more would that imply he was anything less than a brilliant worker? No certainly not.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2014, 01:06:26 AM by pegasus »

Offline pegasus

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #177 on: February 07, 2014, 01:42:37 PM »
Anyone know of a concerted personal attack against Mr Amaral being fed to the UK press before the article dated approx 15 Sept 2007 (see link above). Was that the first?

Offline Mr Gray

Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #178 on: February 07, 2014, 08:22:30 PM »
Absolutely Jean-Pierre, he had no choice but to take the route he did so as to blow the whole sodden mess apart.

Do you think he has been successful in blowing the whole sodden mess apart...the only thing he seems to have blown apart is himself....and his marriage...and his finances

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Re: Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?
« Reply #179 on: February 07, 2014, 08:24:27 PM »
Do you think he has been successful in blowing the whole sodden mess apart...the only thing he seems to have blown apart is himself....and his marriage...and his finances

Let's see the result of the trial in Portugal, followed by the appeals......