Oops, seems MWT and Tubbs had heard something after all
Coming British causes bad feeling in the Judicial Police Jornal de Notícias (paper edition)
Courtesy of
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id232.htmlComing British causes bad feeling in the Judicial Police Jornal de Notícias (paper edition)
Attorney General's Office has given the OK to Scotland Yard to investigate
Marisa Rodrigues
Published 01 August 2013
IT IS CAUSING BAD FEELING within the Judicial Police (PJ) - the coming to Portugal of British detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, in 2007, from the Algarve. The Attorney General's Office (PGR) has accepted the request for assistance, but the timetable for the Scotland Yard officers has not yet been scheduled. For now, the investigation continues to be archived, since 2008, because "there are no grounds to reopen it," said the PGR, to JN yesterday.
Once on Portuguese territory, the British police cannot carry out the measures they deem necessary. They are only allowed to observe what the Portuguese police do, at their request. And it is precisely this question that is leaving investigators angry. "They want to hear people who have already been heard at the inquiry stage and repeat other steps which were taken by us and were inconclusive. They are passing us a certificate of incompetence," complained an inspector who participated in the investigation, to JN. Another policeman recalls the "barriers" that were placed when the PJ requested assistance in the initial investigation. "The letter of request to conduct investigations in England had to be changed several times by imposition of the British authorities. We collaborate, but the opposite is not always there," he says. The public prosecutor will now have to assign the execution of the inquiries to a criminal police body. Most likely it's the PJ but, from what JN has found, nothing has yet been reported to the National Office [of the PJ].
PORTUGUESE PAY
38 "persons of interest"
Have been identified by Scotland Yard after reviewing the Portuguese case files, by more than 30 specialized English policemen at a cost of more than five million euros.
Expensive investigation
All inquiries requested by the British authorities to the national authorities will be paid for with Portuguese taxpayers' money. The Maddie case is the most expensive ever in Portugal.
"Base in Portugal"
According to the British press, the letter with the formal request for cooperation was signed by the Home Secretary, Theresa May, who spoke of "setting up a base" in Portugal.
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This just smacks of no real new evidence found and just going over old ground
Amazing
And it is understandable that that some might think well, the Uk authorities obstructed the investigation in 2007 in various ways, now they want assistance? From the people they fobbed off?
Makes some of what JB said here seem spot on
http://aninspectorcallsyou.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/two-way-communication.htmllets hope they do work together to put an end to this farce once and for all