There was an automatic right that Madeleine McCann, a missing little three year old child, should have been looked for by the forces of law and order.
That right was abrogated by the forces of law and order under the leadership of a man who believed her dead.
Who did everything in his power to ensure that his 'gut reaction' opinion held sway.
Who did everything in his power to ensure that his opinion had precedence over the search for a live child ... for the very simple reason that he had decided she was dead and had died in the holiday aparment on the night of her disappearance.
That there was not a shred of evidence which supported that concerned him not at all.
With nothing to support his opinion Amaral diverted the resources which should have been rightly employed totally on the behalf of the missing child. A tack was taken away from looking for evidence about what had happened to the missing child (what need that as he has so righteously assured all who will listen when he already knew what had happened and that she was dead) again without a shred of supporting evidence.
Madeleine McCann was singularly betrayed by the investigating authorities coordinated by Amaral. Who has spent nearly ten years successfully diverting focus from the incompetence of the investigation led by him.
Pity he hadn't been as good at his day job as he has been at deflecting and celebrating his disastrous deficiencies, which has surely been a master class in its execution.
To the extent that we on a JUSTICE forum are querying why there are those who abhor the injustices which have been perpetrated over a ten year period on a little girl who if she has survived will now be a young person, and her family who have done all possible to find her.
It's amazing how some still believe that Amaral was able to take charge of the Madeleine investigation and decide on it's direction. Not only did he have to answer to his bosses Encarnacao and Neves, they all had to follow the directions of the public prosecutors, who are the people who actually institute and conduct criminal investigations in Portugal.
I can only assume that it's done so as to suggest that only one maverick policeman suspected the McCanns. In reality his colleagues, the public prosecutor(s) and his PJ bosses were all of the same mind as he was. Neves was adamant also that even though the investigation began to focus mainly on the parents, the other lines of inquiry kept on being investigated.