Why didn't Amaral when informed that Madeleine hadn't been found, knowing the window was open in her bedroom, immediately have road blocks, police at air ports, ferries. He's the one who didn't bother, do the police in Portugal just forget a child is missing after the initial search?
People criticise the McCann's yet they were left alone after the Police left, see you tomorrow they said. How about getting on to the person in charge, saying, we haven't found the child, the window was open in her bedroom the parents think she could have been abducted, shall we put road blocks out, man the airports etc.? No, lets go to bed and think about things tomorrow.
Unless I've missed it, we don't know when Amaral knew the window was open.
By the time the PJ arrived at 5A, a car could have been in Spain or in Lisbon. A boat could have set sail from Lagos, Portimão, or several other Algarve ports.
If this was a planned abduction, the abductor was long gone.
If it was a botched robbery plus abduction, by the time the PJ arrived, it was too late to seal Luz. In fact by the time the first phone call was made to the GNR it was too late to seal Luz. Should you wish to contend this, I'll be happy to demonstrate why it is nigh-well impossible to seal Luz with less than hundreds of officers.
To criticise the PJ on this, you need to come up with a UK equivalent where it has happened, preferably but not necessarily around 2007.
The nearest I am aware of was the fairly recent case where a young child was reported missing from his home in Edinburgh. The UK police sealed off nothing. And I don't think the presence or absence of an open window comes into it.
Kate says in her book she went out searching at first light. I have never been interested in this aspect, but 4am does not strike me as the right time for first light.
She says no-one else was searching. Again without digging into this, I thought a number of GNR officers were.
While the MW search was called off around 4pm, it is a tad rich to say the staff etc had searched until then, whilst the T9 did very little, and then moan about the lack of bodies at first light. The McCanns went to bed whilst GNR and MW searched.