The clincher (of the relevance of the thread):
Despite all of this, it was not possible to obtain any piece of evidence that would allow for a medium man, under the light of the criteria of logics, of normality and of the general rules of experience, to formulate any lucid, sensate, serious and honest conclusion about the circumstances under which the child was removed from the apartment (whether dead or alive, whether killed in a neglectful homicide or an intended homicide, whether the victim of a targeted abduction or an opportunistic abduction), nor even to produce a consistent prognosis about her destiny and inclusively - the most dramatic - to establish whether she is still alive or if she is dead, as seems more likely.
That, maybe, clarifies the the prosecutors' uncertainty about the nature of the crimes committed, beyond (for certain!)
abduction.
As to who is protecting Madeleine's kidnappers, I wish I knew, and if I did, I would not be revealing it on this board.
I would be revealing it the authorities who need to know.
I would
like to think the same is true of everyone who posts here.