Luz knows there's no evidence of cleaning up. There's only, and it's a fact, the disturbing disturbance or rather alteration of the crime scene.
What alteration of the crime scene are you thinking about, Anne?
Hi Carana !
When he arrived at the bedroom he first noticed that the door was completely open, the window was also open on one side, the external blinds almost fully raised, the curtains drawn back, MADELEINE'S bed was empty but the twins continued sleeping in their cribs. He clarifies that according to what KATE told him, that was the scene that she found when she entered the apartment.
----- Then he closed the external blinds, made his way to the outside and tried to open them, which he managed to do, much to his surprise given that he thought that that was only possible from the inside.
10th May 2007
Ok, thanks, Anne.
I can see why those who think the McCanns staged an abduction might find that suspicious.
On the other hand, people were running around trying to work out what had happened, whether she could be hiding somewhere, moving furniture, whether someone had broken in...
With hindsight, it would be easy to think that no one should have touched anything. But even the GNR did, to double-check that she really wasn't there before calling the PJ.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but it rarely takes the context and panic of the moment into consideration.
Carana, I wouldn't say they "staged" the abduction. Had they, Mr McCann hadn't closed the window and the shutters.
For me, it would have been more than enough to see window and shutters open to convince me my child had been abducted. Why losing time looking in improbable places like a cupboard or under a bed ? I would certainly have rushed outside screaming my child's name like a poor human beast (as it happened to me once in a supermarket... no shame...).
I might have an overwhelming reptilian brain, because I wouldn't have experienced whether you could open the shutters from outside or not (the problem being mainly to avoid their noisy falling down after being released).
Your mindset again. When my youngest was seven we were on a camping holiday on the Med and both boys were playing in the tent (a permanent tent from a Camping company). My older child came out while I was cooking and went off to the camp shop with my wife. Ten or fifteen minutes later I called out to the youngest and he did not respond. My first reaction was to search the tent in their bedroom and in ours and in the day area- no sign. Then I went and checked the toilets and shopwer area and looked along paths looking away from the tent. At no tiume did I think that shouting or reporting it would do any good. When I was about to get in the car and drive round the camp sight he appeared from way under our bed in the tent- he had fallen asleep.
People need to realise that people react in many ways when confronted with potential danger, some panic, some remain calm, some cry and shout, some search sensibly, some try to make sense of what happened and some people just panic. There is a wide variety of human response.
People with a hating mindset will obviously think the worst- as six years experience of this case shows!
