Did the burglaries at Ocean Club have some relevance to Madeleine?

[Carana]

Burglary 2006 (disturbed by child) = Only one thief seen.
Burglary apartment 5L (successful) = No indication of any more than one thief.
Burglary apartment in block 2 (successful) = No indication of any more than one thief.
Burglary apartment 5G (disturbed by resident) = Only one thief seen.
There is no evidence of any gang of 3 burglars in any of these PDL burglaries.
Lone burglars yes, gangs of 3 no.

I suppose it's possible for one person to make off with a plasma TV, credit cards and a mobile phone, but it might have been a bit awkward, depending on the size.

Maria Da Graca Guerreiro Alao Goncalves (OC book-keeper):

She says that as far as she can remember, during the years that she has worked at the resort, she knows of some thefts from inside the apartments and most recently on 16th April 2007 there was a theft from an apartment in Block 5 L, from where a plasma display screen, credit cards and a mobile phone belonging to the respective guests were taken.

[jassi]

I suppose it's possible for one person to make off with a plasma TV, credit cards and a mobile phone, but it might have been a bit awkward, depending on the size.

Maria Da Graca Guerreiro Alao Goncalves (OC book-keeper):

She says that as far as she can remember, during the years that she has worked at the resort, she knows of some thefts from inside the apartments and most recently on 16th April 2007 there was a theft from an apartment in Block 5 L, from where a plasma display screen, credit cards and a mobile phone belonging to the respective guests were taken.

I wonder if she meant a TV or rather something more like a portable computer, as it is unlikely that a guest would have their own TV with them on holiday.

[Wonderfulspam]

I wonder if she meant a TV or rather something more like a portable computer, as it is unlikely that a guest would have their own TV with them on holiday.

Yep she didn't say 50" plasma did she.
I could easily carry a smaller tv under one arm with phones & credit cards in my pockets.

[Sherlock Holmes]

Yep she didn't say 50" plasma did she.
I could easily carry a smaller tv under one arm with phones & credit cards in my pockets.

Sounds like the voice of experience...

[Sherlock Holmes]

If Madeleine was abducted by burglars then why was nothing other than Madeleine taken? This has no logic at all. A thief may not have made off with the intended booty but would certainly have taken items easy to carry....and by that I do not mean a small child. It's just nonsense!

Interesting point, buzz. But do we know that there were small and portable items of value in 5A to take?

Perhaps the McCanns had their money / cards etc, with them. Jewelry - most people don't take their expensive jewelry on holiday, or if they do they have it in a safe.

Perhaps someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of the files (Redblossom?) can remember if there is any reference to the McCanns' belongings in the apartment..?

[pegasus]

Who knows? Would depend on who that person was and what they were doing at the time.

Hypothesis is about 3 May apartment 5A.
Shutter noise made during attempted entry by petty thief disturbs sleeping occupant.
Resulting sound/motion of awakened occupant disturbs thief.
Thief immediately flees empty handed (does NOT take anyone).
But what does the awakened occupant do?
.... relaxedly go back to sleep?
.... run into lounge?
.... try to find adults?
.... hide?

[Carana]

I wonder if she meant a TV or rather something more like a portable computer, as it is unlikely that a guest would have their own TV with them on holiday.

Good point, something doesn't seem quite right. The original says "um plasma", though, which would seem to mean a TV plasma screen. If that is what it is, I would have thought that it would belong to the apartment owners.

[VIXTE]

Hypothesis is about 3 May apartment 5A.
Shutter noise made during attempted entry by petty thief disturbs sleeping occupant.
Resulting sound/motion of awakened occupant disturbs thief.
Thief immediately flees empty handed (does NOT take anyone).
But what does the awakened occupant do?
.... relaxedly go back to sleep?
.... run into lounge?
.... try to find adults?
.... hide?

Very interesting!

If ,for example, going out,..occupant would need to open the curtain, open the patio doors, close the curtain, close the patio doors, open the garden doors, close the garden doors.

Thank you so much pegasus!!!!!

Such a moment!

I just thought this:
A burglar, carrying Madeleine could not get all of the above either!!!!

Makes you think:
1. Madeline did not open the window
2. Madeleine did not open the patio curtain etc etc..
3. Thief did not go with Madeleine through the patio curtain etc..

What is left is : the front doors and the key!

The intruder, whoever it was, might have had the key!

Or

He passed Madeleine through the window.. and he left tidily through the patio doors, opening the curtains, closing, opening the patio, closing, opening the garden..

OMG, was she passed through the window???

[jassi]

Or was she taken out through the patio door by someone with plenty of time to go back and shut curtains etc ?

[Wonderfulspam]

Or was she taken out through the patio door by someone with plenty of time to go back and shut curtains etc ?

Yes it could possibly be that there was never any intruder at all & the abduction is a complete fabrication.
That's possible.

[pegasus]

Thief took no-one, never got as far as climbing in, unknowingly provided the trigger which would indirectly result in accident ?

[VIXTE]

Or was she taken out through the patio door by someone with plenty of time to go back and shut curtains etc ?

....if they already left the window open why then carefully close the curtains, patio doors, garden doors behind and waste time plus possibly get caught while wasting time?

[VIXTE]

Thief took no-one, never got as far as climbing in, unknowingly provided the trigger which would indirectly result in accident.

I don't think this is logical. How would the thief who never entered know someone was in?

If Madeleine then climbed the window, if she left the property this way -  there would be signs of her doing so.. there were no signs!
If Madeleine found her bad fate inside the property while on her own - there would be signs.. there were no signs!

[jassi]

....if they already left the window open why then carefully close the curtains, patio doors, garden doors behind and waste time plus possibly get caught while wasting time?

Maybe because it wasn't a burglar in the first place?

[VIXTE]

Maybe because it wasn't a burglar in the first place?

So, how do you think Madeleine got out and when?