All happening now ......good news as solid concrete evidence must have been found of something to reopen it as the AG said back in 2008
My daily recording of ITV lunchtime news came in handy....transcript.......
From ITV news
In the last half hour the Portuguese inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann has been reopened. The country's attorney general has given permission to restart the original investigation five years after it was closed.
He says there are new leads in the case and it us just ten days since british detectives launched a new appeal for information. Our new Europian Affairs correspondence Emma Murphy is in Lisbon this afternoon. So Emma, what can you tell us?
Emma Murphy:
Well i can tell you this is a very significant moment in the inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann. For an investigation to be reopened here in Portugal there has be a substantial level of new evidence and its clesr that the Attorney General feels that the review thats been going on since last year here in Portugal has actually generated that information and thats why they have decided to reopen this case that has been closed for many years.
This is also completely separate to the investigation that has been going on by the British police so its quite significant that we now have two investigations both finding new things that need to be looked at.
The Home Secretary Teresa May today welcomed the reopenong of the case.
Teresa May:
I welcome the developments that have taken place and the work that the metropolitan police are doing with the portuguese police on this case and I hope what we are going to see is a resolution of this case for thee sake of Maddie's parents and family.
ITV reporter:
So emma what happens now then?
Emma Murphy:
Well now the work really gets underway, we understand already that police officers from this Portuguese review are on the Algarve starting to work out a plan of action, who they wish to speak to, what questions they want to put to them and amongst that group we think there are a number of men who were thoughht to be in the area at the time who have been on various sex offenders registers both in this country and abroad. Now whats important about this is it seems to suggest they are moving towards the thought that Madeleine may have been taken by a foreign group of paedophiles.
The investigation team who have working on this are all specialists in child abduction, now child abduction was not something the Portuguese were absolutely sure had taken place in the early days of this investigation so its quite telling they have shifted their focus in that way and of course this will all be complimented by the work of the British authorities. They will be doing their investigation and that will be a lot easier now because this investigation in Portugal is open they have access to those who they believe may be suspects and the interview process will be so much easier.
PS Cariad MO saw diddly squat so his evidence is null there
