http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/1476891-otmicari-menjali-tablice-ovako-su-planirali-da-pobegnu-srpskoj-policiji
Here is the link to the article saying they stopped at a petrol station and changed the number plates. Then after that they changed their direction towards Zagreb.. this means towards European Union.
So basically they used Romanian plates when kidnapping the child. That means they planned it all..
Thinking about this case I cannot stop thinking about the moments when Madeleine disappeared.
There were no witnesses, although the potentially there could have been witnesses who were not aware they were witnesses. There were no car chases and no border control checks.
And look how here they nearly got away with the child.. even though the police knew where they were and were chasing them..
What kind of motivation would lead someone to get away with a child? I don't think the motivation has been established yet in Madeleine's case..but by watching cases like this unfold you get closer to the state of mind of these people.
If the police hadn't acted immediately and perhaps if they hadn't stopped to change number plates - if one changed the front and one the back plate it wouldn't have taken too long - they might have got away with it.
I will be surprised if the car can be traced to them and there would probably not have been clear CCTV images of them, so once across the border they might never have been found.
They probably hadn't taken the immediate deployment of a helicopter into account which I think would have been able to monitor the vehicle from the air. The police had the advantage of knowing the child had been taken in a car and had a description of the vehicle and I saw in one of the links you posted that they were traffic cops.
They were determined to abduct either that or any other child.
The presence of the child's mother was no deterrent, in the event she was injured but I think these people ran the risk of killing her had she been dragged while trying to stop the car.
In comparison with Madeleine's case I think this abduction illustrates that if Madeleine had been targeted she would have been taken on the 3rd/4th May whatever the circumstances and whether or not her parents were in the apartment at the time. The absence of her parents only lessened the risk.
Normal people would never in 100 years be able to work out what motivates people like that.
