Did Gonçalo Amaral breach Portuguese secrecy laws?

[Carana]

Did he make it all up, or did he use the information from the investigation?  That is the crux of the matter.  Amaral cannot have it both ways.

Personally, I think he did a bit of both.  And there is not much doubt that some of his information came from after he was sacked.  But using any information from The Investigation was a Breach of The Secrecy Laws.

In one of his numerous interviews, he said that he wrote it all "from memory". Does that change anything?


Speaking to me during the court lunch-break on Thursday, however, Amaral remained defiantly on the offensive. With a female supporter acting as interpreter, he said he wrote his 200-page book in just two months, fuelled by endless cigarettes at his home on the Algarve.

He didn't work from police documents or diaries, but purely from memory, he told me, tapping his head for emphasis. And he used a personal computer kept disconnected from the internet for 'security' reasons.

From:
She's terrifyingly thin, he's boiling with rage: So why HAVE the McCanns put themselves on trial? Daily Mail

By DAVID JONES
Last updated at 8:16 PM on 15th January 2010


http://www.mccannfiles.com/id299.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243596/Shes-terrifyingly-hes-boiling-rage-So-HAVE-McCanns-trial.html

[Eleanor]

Memory of The Investigation.  Same difference in my book.  He obviously got the information from somewhere.  Information that only the investigation was party to.  Unless he made it all up.

[DCI]

In one of his numerous interviews, he said that he wrote it all "from memory". Does that change anything?


Speaking to me during the court lunch-break on Thursday, however, Amaral remained defiantly on the offensive. With a female supporter acting as interpreter, he said he wrote his 200-page book in just two months, fuelled by endless cigarettes at his home on the Algarve.

He didn't work from police documents or diaries, but purely from memory, he told me, tapping his head for emphasis. And he used a personal computer kept disconnected from the internet for 'security' reasons.

From:
She's terrifyingly thin, he's boiling with rage: So why HAVE the McCanns put themselves on trial? Daily Mail

By DAVID JONES
Last updated at 8:16 PM on 15th January 2010


http://www.mccannfiles.com/id299.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243596/Shes-terrifyingly-hes-boiling-rage-So-HAVE-McCanns-trial.html

No it changes nothing. How can you print file photos from memory?

[ferryman]

Memory of The Investigation.  Same difference in my book.  He obviously got the information from somewhere.  Information that only the investigation was party to.  Unless he made it all up.

Not quite all of it.  But quite a lot ...

[Carana]

No it changes nothing. How can you print file photos from memory?

Good point, I'd forgotten about that little detail. 

[Eleanor]

Good point, I'd forgotten about that little detail.

Oh My.  I wonder how he got those on his computer?  That is such colossal cheek.  He used File Photos in his Book?

[faithlilly]

Exactly,  he shouldn't have used the investigation files.

First report from CM newspaper

"Damages were proven directly originated by the book," said the agency "Lusa" source close to the process, confirming that Judge Melo and Emilia Castro found as a fact that the work "has from the process information", which is a violation of the secrecy of justice.

And Tanner shouldn't have spoken about the contents of her statement when appearing on Panorama while the investigation was still under judicial secrecy, but they did and it doesn't look like there will be any sanction for either breach but hey, if it brings you comfort......!!!!

[DCI]

Oh My.  I wonder how he got those on his computer?  That is such colossal cheek.  He used File Photos in his Book?

Yep as shown here, Eleanor.

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/AMARALS_BOOK.htm

[faithlilly]

In one of his numerous interviews, he said that he wrote it all "from memory". Does that change anything?


Speaking to me during the court lunch-break on Thursday, however, Amaral remained defiantly on the offensive. With a female supporter acting as interpreter, he said he wrote his 200-page book in just two months, fuelled by endless cigarettes at his home on the Algarve.

He didn't work from police documents or diaries, but purely from memory, he told me, tapping his head for emphasis. And he used a personal computer kept disconnected from the internet for 'security' reasons.

From:
She's terrifyingly thin, he's boiling with rage: So why HAVE the McCanns put themselves on trial? Daily Mail

By DAVID JONES
Last updated at 8:16 PM on 15th January 2010


http://www.mccannfiles.com/id299.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243596/Shes-terrifyingly-hes-boiling-rage-So-HAVE-McCanns-trial.html

Nope. Amaral could have written from memory what is in the files.

[faithlilly]

No it changes nothing. How can you print file photos from memory?

Were they file photos or drawings of file photographs ? As far as I am aware there is not one original photograph.

[faithlilly]

Yep as shown here, Eleanor.

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/AMARALS_BOOK.htm

As I thought.

[Montclair]

Memory of The Investigation.  Same difference in my book.  He obviously got the information from somewhere.  Information that only the investigation was party to.  Unless he made it all up.

Gonçalo Amaral was the co-ordinator of the investigator until October 2007. He would have had first hand knowledge of the case since all the documents went through his office.

[Eleanor]

Yep as shown here, Eleanor.

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/AMARALS_BOOK.htm

I am gobsmacked, yet again.  He actually made money from Judicial Documents.  Talk about brass neck.  That is theft.

[Eleanor]

Gonçalo Amaral was the co-ordinator of the investigator until October 2007. He would have had first hand knowledge of the case since all the documents went through his office.

So when did he help himself to Official File Photos?  The copies of which are in his book.

[faithlilly]

I am gobsmacked, yet again.  He actually made money from Judicial Documents.  Talk about brass neck.  That is theft.

No Eleanor, those are drawings. Retrieving something from one's memory and replicating it in a drawing is not, as far as I am aware, theft. Of course you may know otherwise ?