"The British officers questioned them on suspicion of being part of a burglary gang that panicked after killing Madeleine during a bungled break-in. They all protested their innocence and were released without charge."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/16/madeleine-mccann-latest-are-police-any-closer-to-knowing-the-tru/
GA: "What is very serious, alarming even, is their attempt to stage a new thesis – a theory if you prefer – that involves someone, a burglar (who breaks into the apartment) intent on stealing, is frightened by a three-year old child, kills her and then takes the body with him – a rather far-fetching scenario (to say the least).
I remember a colleague, a British colleague who also happened to be from Scotland Yard, proposing exactly the same thesis (by the way, he was the only one from Scotland Yard around at the time).
We analysed this hypothesis at the time; discussed it and eventually dismissed it as implausible.
They talk about drug traffickers, dealers who suddenly (presumably), had the imaginative idea to burglar a house for keeps. The fallacy is, there is no way to prove that apartment was burgled; there are no signs of a forced entry. Nothing was stolen from there."
(MP): There are those bank statements…
(GA): Which bank statements? The ones they found on that path? Rubbish? We are talking here of garbage they have been collecting, none of which is associated with…
The bank statements are not from the McCanns’; they were not removed from their apartment. Nothing was removed from that apartment. Nothing was stolen. The only “thing” that was removed from there – and I say “thing” in brackets for it was not a “thing”, it was a person – the only “thing” missing from there, was Madeleine McCann!
Not a television set, not a camera, not a thing! There were no traces of a break-in either! Therefore there was no burglary. Not theft took place in there.
Now we are asked to assume that these burglars were extremely intelligent and decided to take a dead child with them (dead because they killed her or because she died of fright). That they might have thought: “Let’s take the child away with us, because the consequences of an homicide are much worst than those a theft”.
And to make it all more plausible, they are supposed to have simulated a kidnapping – which is where that story of the window found open with the slats of the blind jimmied and the curtains blown by a draft, comes in as if to suggest the child was taken through it, and so on.
Fine thinking! The problem is, there are no signs of a theft (or a break-into the apartment for that matter)…
It seems these burglars must have been very intelligent indeed! Unfortunately, soon afterwards, they run out of common sense and leave the body not far from the crime scene. That was not so clever, was it? It was as if, suddenly, their intelligence had gone.
Another thing that does not seem to match reality is this – they were supposed to be three of them and have arrived at the apartment by feet and yet, if you recall, only one of them was seen carrying the child towards those fields (the British police are searching).
But fair enough! It could have happened as they imagine it did. There were several mobile phone pings in that area (whatever that means) the problem is, I don’t see anything, garbage or otherwise, capable of giving any substance to Scotland Yard’s new thesis.
https://zizipresscuts.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/dr-goncalo-amaral-on-scotland-yards-staging-in-praia-da-luz/
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(GA) It’s easy. They appear as a result of checking the records of mobile phones numbers used in that area around the time of the crime – that very same night say, and then finding out who owns them and who has a criminal record.
But, to assume these traffickers were also thieves – that is quite a leap of faith! To presume traffickers go around burgling houses,
reveals a complete lack of understanding of drug trafficking in Algarve, what it entails, and the people behind it.Translators note: Dr. Goncalo Amaral ought to know for he was once head of a police squad involved in the fight against drug-trafficking. But fair enough, they could have been talking about dealers who sell a few drugs and then go around stealing to support their own addiction.
https://zizipresscuts.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/dr-goncalo-amaral-on-scotland-yards-staging-in-praia-da-luz/**snip
Ricardo Macedo and Dias Santos, respectively Chief Inspector in assets and now retired engineer, two historical paintings of combating drug trafficking of the Judicial Police, were this morning held a mega-operation's own PJ under suspicion of corruption and money laundering, the receipt of major trafficking networks gloves, to provide inside information and create diversions, within the PJ, which allowed the entry of large amounts of cocaine in Portugal in recent years, thus escaping the police control. There are connections, found the CM, one of the major drug cartels in South America.
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The investigation, according to PJ, will continue with a view to collect more evidence. The latest scandal to hit the PJ department responsible for combating drug trafficking occurred in 2007: the coordinator Ana Paula Matos was investigated and arrested later by embezzling 94,000 euros seizures of the drug dealers. Eventually sentenced to seven years and is held in Brazil awaiting extradition.
http://.....2.forumotion.co.uk/t5212-pj-inspectors-arrested-over-drug-trafficking
Portuguese Judges, Prosecutors and the Policia Judiciaria have been working on many cases of historic corruption, money laundering and those responsible for facilitating major drug dealings in the Algarve.
For Mr Amaral to declare that the reopened Scotland Yard investigation "reveals a complete lack of understanding of drug trafficking in Algarve, what it entails, and the people behind it" when one realises what was going on under his nose when and on his watch
"he was once head of a police squad involved in the fight against drug-trafficking"Recent events have proved him as inept at that job as he was in his role as coordinator of the investigation into the case of a missing child ... where again he seems to have failed to pick up on what was going on right under his nose.
For Mr Amaral to make an appearance on television to criticise SY resuming the search for Madeleine in the disparaging manner he did reflects badly on him, not SY ... they are after all doing the job he failed to do.
One awaits with interest his next lengthy interview and his pronouncements about Scotland Yard's latest statement saying Madeleine could still be found alive.
Although I'm not too sure there will be another interview with him by any serious TV channel.
As time passes and it has become more and more evident that a lot more could and should have been done nearly nine years ago to find Madeleine alive until there was definitive proof of death, not a theory ~ no-one is going to be very interested in what he has to say.
That Scotland Yard have had to justify continuing to work on a missing child case when there are still investigative opportunities to be pursued is absolutely shameful.
