If Maddie may still be alive...what did the dog's alert to.

[ferryman]

I thought the official supporters view was that Amaral suspected them from day one, to the exclusion of all else.

OK, apart from Murat.

OK, and Malinka.

OK, and everyone else the PJ chased.

Is it now proposed that the PJ was tardy in suspecting the McCanns, or is Aug/Sep about right?  Or were they hasty?

That is the official Amaral view, as expressed in, I believe, the El Mundo interview.

[stephen25000]

It never occurred to the PJ to suspect Kate and Gerry until around August/September 2007.

Have you forgotten that in the UK the parents would be under investigation from the start.

UK police also told the PJ to investigate the McCann's.

Third, what did the local Police see when they encountered the McCann's ?

[Alice Purjorick]

I thought the official supporters view was that Amaral suspected them from day one, to the exclusion of all else.

OK, apart from Murat.

OK, and Malinka.

OK, and everyone else the PJ chased.

Is it now proposed that the PJ was tardy in suspecting the McCanns, or is Aug/Sep about right?  Or were they hasty?

Like a lot of other things around here it is sponsored by the Estoril Elastic Company SA...... it stretches and bends to be what you want it to be.

[Brietta]

How does this materially affect the content of the post to which it purports to be a response?

In my opinion your post, like this one to which I am now replying, sought to deflect from Sargento's statement. 
I have not seen what he said about "placebos" and "controls" discussed in any detail anywhere else.
Indeed I have not seen it discussed at all.

[Robittybob1]

Blunder upon blunder.

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More recently, it's Eddie who helps to find a body buried under a flagstone at the former orphanage, Haut-de-la-Garenne, in Jersey, setting for a terrible case of paedophilia and child murder.  Goncalo Amaral
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Great store was set upon Eddie's 'alerts' in Praia da Luz, to the extent that they were used justify making Madeleine McCann's parents arguidos in her disappearance.
A total misunderstanding of how the dogs are actually used.

The case coordinator at the time seems extraordinarily anxious to perpetuate that misunderstanding by writing a follow up of his interpretation of Eddie's 'alerts' in Haute de la Garenne in Jersey.

Now Paulo Sargento has put it on record that "controls and placebos" such as might be used in a training exercise were used while Eddie was working in the field in Praia da Luz.

Neither Harrison or Grime made mention of that in their reports ... so as far as they are concerned, that scenario just did not happen.

Who was responsible for interfering with the dogs' inspection by doing as Sargento asserts and introducing "controls and placebos" to the crime scene they were working?

Could the controls and placebos have been behind Grime's and Harrison's back, so that even they didn't know about these controls and placebos.  That would be the ultimate use of "controls and placebos", to use them blind so the dog handler and search coordinator is not aware of what is real or unreal too.