Jane said she left the tapas bar at 9.10pm (Rachael also said that was the time) so she would have sighted the man at 9.12pm. On the tapas timeline it was 9.20pm. Someone wanted to bring the timeline forward for Kate's check at 10pm because of the Smithman sighting. This was pre-planned but by no abductor or paedo gang.
With all due respect Pathfinder, those are your thoughts only, and they should be stated as such. They are not fact
The shutters were raised from the inside of the apartment not the outside. An abductor wouldn't waste time or touch those noisy shutters if he had a key to the door.
I think you are probably right about the window and shutter being raised from inside However, we dont KNOW that . Heribert Janosch proved that in certain circumstances they could have been raiseed from the outside and the window opened also from outside, if it was only closed and not lockeed.
Reasons for the window open and shutters raised have been gone over time and again ... and there are at least 7 possible reasons
Just to list a few
1) As an escape route in emergency
2) To take the investigators eye off the door as the entrance point. Why? Because this pointed to someone with access to OC keys being involved
3) To give the false impression for the Golden period that Madeleine had climbed out of the window and wandered off.. The first few hours are the Golden ones
4) To pass drugs and give instructions
5) To give moral support to the lifter.
6) For the lifter to watch for anyone coming from the car park direction
The sound of shutters would be a common sound in OC and like a car passing by, would be unlikely to be noticed by neighbours. Seems it wasn't noticed by anyone, so why all the fuss about it? It cant have been that obtrusive, can it?
