(Source: El Mundo 6 Sept 2008, http://www.mccannfiles.com/id165.html )
Interviewer: "... and the parents find her."
Mr Amaral: "The mother. It is the mother who finds ..."
That is one of several examples in Mr Amaral's theory where he makes a categorically incorrect deduction.
Focus – How do you defend the "accidental" death?
G.A. – There is indicia behind the sofa [of the McCanns' living room]. The sofa is under a window that looks onto the street, which is three or four metres high. It is normal behaviour, and justice deals with normal behaviour, that the parents would have moved the sofa away from the window, given the fact that they had small children and alone at home. The window was easy to open and the shutters were not functioning…
Focus – But why "accidental"?
G.A. - I don't say it's accidental. Up to that moment, we could only reach an accidental death, because we had not worked on the rest yet. We had yet to understand what had happened there. Cadaver odour and blood from the child appear next to the sofa. Death has presumably taken place there. There are no doubts that it is a death and that it took place on that spot. We are not going to say that the mother did this or that, that would really be speculating, the only hypothesis is the accidental death. In the continuation of the investigations is where we could go further or not.
Gonçalo Amaral interview, 13 August 2008
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