Gonçalo Amaral accuses PJ of dropping investigation into Maddie caseSep 20, 2022 - 15:38 • José Pedro Frazão
Speaking to the Renaissance, the former PJ inspector welcomed the defeat of the McCann couple at the European Court of Human Rights.
Gonçalo Amaral welcomes the defeat of Maddie McCann's parents in European fora and accuses the Judicial Police (PJ) of dropping the investigation.
Speaking to the Renaissance, the former inspector even says that the current director PJ, Luís Neves, has some responsibility, not least because he was part of the investigation at the time of the disappearance of the British girl.
The former judicial criminal investigation coordinator believes that the Maddie case should be reviewed by Portuguese investigators.
"Where is [the case] blocked?
In the Judicial Police.
The Judicial Police should have had the initiative to review the investigation in a serious way.
In particular, the current director of the PJ, Dr. Luís Neves, was in the investigation, he knows how we reached those conclusions. Those conclusions were not only me who took them or came to them alone, neither my colleague chief inspector Tavares de Almeida, nor Dr. Guilhermino da Encarnação, now deceased, who was the director of Faro, also with Dr. Luís Neves", says Gonçalo Amaral.
"And it is Dr. Luís Neves who, when he was debuted in my trial of compensation, tells me that the process... should have already arranged a scapegoat to end the process", he said.
Asked if the current director of the PJ is being manipulated, Gonçalo Amaral does not believe in this possibility.
"I know him very well. I know he doesn't let himself be manipulated, but deep down he shouldn't be connecting too much of the situation and about to delegate it to other people," he argues.
Gonçalo Amaral in statements to the Renaissance after the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Portuguese justice in the case Maddie McCann.
The case was brought by the parents of the British child who disappeared in 2007 from a house in Praia da Luz, in the municipality of Lagos.
Speaking to the Renaissance, the former PJ inspector welcomed the defeat of the McCann couple at the European Court of Human Rights.
"What is at stake here is a victory of the Portuguese justice against those who do not want the discovery of the truth, nor the realization of justice," says Gonçalo Amaral.
https://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/pais/2022/09/20/goncalo-amaral-acusa-pj-de-deixar-cair-investigacao-ao-caso-maddie/300435/I think Amaral may be breaking quite dangerous ground here with his attack on the Policia Judiciaria and interestingly associates Neves with "scapegoat".
This really is a guy with a serious agenda.
