Bad feelings, redundancies and defaced posters.

[sadie]

Graffiti 1 - the defaced advertising board to the east of Luz in April 2009.
Graffiti 2 - STOP mccann circus, in July 2014
Graffiti 3 - The parents killed Madeleine, stupid English police, in June 2014.

Thanks for this Sadie.  I now realise I need to swap 2 and 3 to fit the timing.

Thanks SIL

I have never seen Graffiti 3.  Didn't know that had happened.  What a dreadful and libellous thing to put up!

[Carana]

Thanks SIL

I have never seen Graffiti 3.  Didn't know that had happened.  What a dreadful and libellous thing to put up!

Yes, I saw the full graffiti.

The UK press cropped it to only show the "stupid police" bit.



One of Amaral's fan club had objected to "censorship" at the time and posted a photo of the full spray-painted message.


ETA. Found it:

[mercury]

Thanks SIL

I have never seen Graffiti 3.  Didn't know that had happened.  What a dreadful and libellous thing to put up!

Id imagine the graffiti writers didnt give a rats arse about being taken to court lolol

This is what can happen when you court the whole worlds media
Mccanns reaped the whirlwind, they should take the rough with the smooth and not complain

[sadie]

Id imagine the graffiti writers didnt give a rats arse about being taken to court lolol

This is what can happen when you court the whole worlds media
Mccanns reaped the whirlwind, they should take the rough with the smooth and not complain

I doubt they would be, but if they were I doubt that in Portuguese Courts anything would happen to them.  Seems anyone can say what they like in PT, true or untrue, and get away with it.

[mercury]

I doubt they would be, but if they were I doubt that in Portuguese Courts anything would happen to them.  Seems anyone can say what they like in PT, true or untrue, and get away with it.

Dont be so silly

[sadie]

Dont be so silly

Not so much of the abuse if you dont mind.

PT seems to have very loose libel Laws.  Surely you have noticed how Amaral has got away with it ?

[John]

Here is the site of the defaced poster in August 2009 when the Google van passed by.  In truth, so sad, the posters have disappeared just like Madeleine.



https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=37.098832,-8.714025&spn=0.006692,0.033023&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=37.098834,-8.718115&panoid=5qFCS8E_S7YcPynzgWojtA&cbp=11,193.33,,0,7.74

Just a reminder...all that was left in 2009 of the Madeleine billboard and poster asking for help.



This defaced billboard appealing for information about missing Madeleine McCann was on the main road into Praia da Luz, from where the little British girl vanished aged three on May 3, 2007.
 
One day after it was put up sick vandals ignored the Maddie poster's heartbreaking "Help me!" plea — and instead maliciously obscured the campaign's hotline number.

[mercury]

Not so much of the abuse if you dont mind.

PT seems to have very loose libel Laws.  Surely you have noticed how Amaral has got away with it ?

If calling your comments silly is abusive you will surely be flagellating yourself by now sadie for some of the awful stuff you direct personally on so many posters, lol

[mercury]

Just a reminder...all that was left in 2009 of the Madeleine billboard and poster asking for help.



This defaced billboard appealing for information about missing Madeleine McCann was on the main road into Praia da Luz, from where the little British girl vanished aged three on May 3, 2007.
 
One day after it was put up sick vandals ignored the Maddie poster's heartbreaking "Help me!" plea — and instead maliciously obscured the campaign's hotline number.

No one knows who did it and why

[John]

No one knows who did it and why

I assume the Portuguese police never prosecuted anyone for doing it.  Just image it was your child who had disappeared and then this vandalism to add insult to injury...appallingly bad taste whoever was responsible.

[G-Unit]

I assume the Portuguese police never prosecuted anyone for doing it.  Just image it was your child who had disappeared and then this vandalism to add insult to injury...appallingly bad taste whoever was responsible.

It would indeed add insult to injury if the parents were universally acknowledged as completely innocent, but they aren't. Hence the vandalism. It doesn't make the vandalism right, but it makes it understandable.

[jassi]

I assume the Portuguese police never prosecuted anyone for doing it. Just image it was your child who had disappeared and then this vandalism to add insult to injury...appallingly bad taste whoever was responsible.

What would you suggest the appropriate  charge might be ?
Was this a private advert board set up on behalf of the McCanns or a police advert?
It's easy to get emotive, but was a criminal act involved?
Do police usually get involved in defacement of hoardings etc ?

[Benice]

It would indeed add insult to injury if the parents were universally acknowledged as completely innocent, but they aren't. Hence the vandalism. It doesn't make the vandalism right, but it makes it understandable.

I find it inexplicable that anyone would even attempt to justify the cruel actions of someone who, having appointed themselves judge and jury in a missing child case, then arrogantly decided that she should receive no help from the public and did their best to make sure she didn't get any.

[stephen25000]

I find it inexplicable that anyone would even attempt to justify the cruel actions of someone who, having appointed themselves judge and jury in a missing child case, then arrogantly decided that she should receive no help from the public and did their best to make sure she didn't get any.

Madeleine has been searched for to no avail.

I'm afraid the mantra that '......she should receive no help from the public....' didn't and doesn't wash.

DOES IT.

[stephen25000]

Here's a thought.

If a Portuguese child had gone missing in the UK on holiday, would :

1. The case still be in the news ?

2. Would posters still be up after nearly 10 years ?

3. Have posters on billboards never , ever been vandalized before ?

4. It isn't Madeleine, the people who did the vandalizing are angry with, it's her PARENTS.