It's Portugal...a Haven for paedophiles, I seen to remember was, a, term used
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-488654/Why-Portugal-haven-paedophiles--disturbing-backcloth-Madeleine-case.html
It is crucial for two reasons; first because it proves what international crime agencies have long suspected: that Portugal has become a magnet for predatory paedophiles from around the world, using the country's lax laws and preying on the high numbers of poor, abandoned children.
Why do you keep saying Portugal? Madeleine disappeared in a wealthy community IN THE ALGARVE. I have now lived here for 7 years, and never once have I seen a destitute, abandoned child.
I know where the nearest orphanage is, and it is not 'bulging' with children in need. I don't know if they were poor or abandoned. The news report was about a fairly expensive make-over to the orphanage, perhaps about 18 months ago. One of the contributors was a couple who's son had been killed in a motorbike smash on the EN125, not far from Luz.
One of the questions one has to answer is the Madeleine case is excruciatingly simple. Why Madeleine? If the Algarve was allegedly stuffed with homeless children and paedophiles, why risk abducting Madeleine? It makes no sense. Why not take an easier target?