A appreciate your addition of the video clip here, red.
Yes, there are a lot of apparent contradictions with regard to how and why the children were left, and the explanations given for those things by the McCanns.
I don't want to go round and round the garden again with this discussion, but it does pertain to the thread relation to one of the things that has come up regularly on this forum, namely the thought that the McCanns and other holiday makers were lulled into a false sense of safety and security because they were on holiday at a resort.
As a (relatively new and inexperienced ) parent, and also as someone who has lived in other countries for periods of time (two continental European countries for periods of four and five years respectively, and six years spent in the Middle East) as well as having visited different places as a tourist, I often think about what it would have felt like to be in that particular resort as a parent, with all the similarities and differences it contained compared to being at home in Britain.
I ask myself if I would ever consider leaving my children in this way if I had never heard of Madeleine's situation; if I could be lulled into a false sense of security as apparently were the McCanns, and in all honesty I imagine that I probably could be. On holiday, a person is much more relaxed about most things and takes liberties he would not take at home. On the other hand it can be daunting being in a new place, though this was a resort, and many of the things one normally has to work out in a foreign country would be taken care of in that setting. Would one be thinking about crime, be it burglary or anything else? Probably not. Especially if everything had been done by Mark Warner to create the impression that everything in the garden was rosy.
