Absolutely and when requested to return to take part in a reconstruction so that people could be ruled out of the investigation they ultimately refused to cooperate. Madeleine would be so grateful to them all.
Don't you think it would have advanced the investigation in a more meaningful direction if the Policia Judiciaria had under their new coordinator also taken a new course of action in preference to harking back to the mistakes of the previous investigation.
What information could they possibly have gained from bringing the McCann friends back to what by that time was an extremely suspicious and hostile environment in which apparently innocence is no guarantee of impunity?
Why not diversify from those who were already thoroughly investigated, phone records and all?
Why not reconstruct those who had always been within their jurisdiction, who briefly attracted the interest of the first investigation but who were let off the hook by the preferred direction decided by the investigators.
A proper look at the phone records should have tipped them the wink that there were many other avenues still open for scrutiny and it shouldn't really have been too difficult for a modern police force to have found them.
After all Scotland Yard found plenty of investigative opportunities years after the event, including one which a member of this forum discovered from the limited information available to him in the internet files.
Was this part and parcel of the preference for a foreign perpetrator as it all seems to be unravelling as far as racist attitudes of the Portuguese police are presently being addressed.
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