The shutter happens to be important.
The state of the shutter (open) increases the probability that 'the McCanns dun it' and decreases the probability that someone external was involved, obviously IMO. Personally, I would love to see the result of a lie-detector test, by Kate, on the state of the shutter. Clearly not admissible in court. Shutter up? Complex scene not suggesting abduction. Shutter down? Simple scene, weighted heavily in favour of abduction.
I disagree.
In the unlikely event the Drs McCann "dunnit" I would expect them to have come up with a more convincing scenario than the actual crime scene was.
They did not know the the shutters could be raised from outside.
Hence the wrecking of the carefully staged scene ... by lowering them??? Had they staged it, they would have at the least made sure the shutter really had been 'jemmied' and Madeleine's bed disturbed.
They are not stupid.
However, there remains the small problem of hiding the remains of a nearly four year old child. The difficulty of which you have already rehearsed.
We now know there was a lot going on in the area as regards home invasions the importance of which seemed only to have become a concern with the advent of Scotland Yard's arrival on the scene.
Madeleine resort man 'suspicion' Daily Mirror
By Martin Fricker
5/03/2010DOSSIER
Portuguese police ignored warnings from UK cops about a suspicious British worker at the resort where Madeleine McCann disappeared.
They urged them to investigate him after a tourist, who stayed at a sister complex with her girl, nine, in 2006, accused him of inappropriate sexual innuendoes.
The holiday worker, who cannot be named, also met Kate and Gerry McCann on their stay at the Praia da Luz resort. The woman from Leicestershire came forward in 2008 and said he entered her villa uninvited while she slept with her girl, claiming the air conditioning needed repairing.
Police sent a report to Portuguese cops but they had already shelved the case. A 2,000-page dossier obtained by the Mirror also revealed a Norwegian man reported seeing Madeleine with a man in a restaurant in St Valentin, Austria, in 2007. He said the girl, about four, pleaded "help me!" walking by their table.
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Dossier.htmThere are too many loose ends emanating from the original investigation to place any faith at all in the case coordinator's vain attempt to save face by his subtle and not so subtle accusations to shift blame onto two of the victims of the case.
Some of which may very well have been the need to close the case expeditiously before anyone connected the case of a missing girl from Figueira with the case of a missing girl in Luz.