The case will be shelved shortly as it was before.
Missing children cases are never 'archived' and closed down in any civilised country ... every so often a closed case review results in a renewed effort to find out what may have happened to the individual concerned.
I've always been perplexed that Madeleine's case was archived and the assurance given that it would be reopened if new information came to light.
What chance of that if Ricardo Paiva ... the man left in charge of the case was assiduously filing information about Madeleine as 'not relevant to the inquiry'.
I thought that disgraceful.
After reading the court judgement in Amaral's libel trial ... I now realise I may have been viewing the archiving of Madeleine's case from entirely the wrong perspective.
Undoubtedly the ruling confirms it was the criminal case against Robert Murat and Madeleine' parents which was archived.
Was Paiva actually acting within his remit when failing to file active information concerning a missing child ... photos ~ sightings ~ information about Madeleine from other policing authorities ... because it actually was not relevant to the inquiry.
Was the only interest in a criminal conviction ... and not the child whose fate was concluded by the operational theory decided on the fourth of May.
If so, that must have been a decision and a direction dictated by someone influential in the State ... it could very well explain the orchestration and the closing of the ranks against Madeleine's parents.
They have kept her case alive despite the State closing it down.
It would explain a lot.