Disappeared and Abducted Children and Young Adults > Madeleine McCann (3) disappeared from her parent's holiday apartment at Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Portugal on 3 May 2007. No trace of her has ever been found.
Perceptions of Madeleine's Abduction
Brietta:
Madeleine's case began when Kate found her missing from her bed.
Should have been easy enough for the police to set the ball rolling on their procedures for missing children. That is, if they actually had any for reference.
The failed investigation had one extraordinary outcome which influenced how Madeleine's case was perceived over the years and is summed up as follows.
What is striking about the McCann saga is the vitriol and vehemence with which each side condemns the other.
Neither side ‘knows’ anything, and yet they are prepared to fight to the death, and certainly into the libel courts to prove that their belief represents the ‘truth’.
None has gained as much currency as the views of the policeman who was in charge of the initial investigation.
Gonçalo Amaral.
His working hypothesis became that ‘the child was dead’, and the parents were to blame.
He viewed the parents as arguidos, the Portuguese equivalent of ‘persons of interest’, not charged, but under suspicion.
It was a reasonable hypothesis, there were many unexplained details, but hypothesis is all it was, and the Attorney-General of Portugal refused to go to trial on that basis.
After six months, Amaral was removed from the case.
There were other cases proceeding against him and the men under him, and it wasn’t a happy situation to have the man in charge of the investigation under suspicion himself – particularly not when the other cases also involved his suspicion of a Mother whose child had never been found.
Amaral went onto write a book about his first six months in charge of the investigation, and unfortunately chose to call it ‘Maddie, The Truth of the Lie’.
He explained in detail his theory of why he thought ‘it was the parent’s what did it’.
That book has divided the watching armchair detectives as never before.
Amaral has now pointed out that ‘the book deals with six months of the investigation and the conclusions at the time so the investigation needed to continue.
The truth is only known when an investigation is finished’. Amaral’s own words, taken from a helpful translation of his recent Panorama interview.
Yet that book has been treated as though it is ‘the truth’ written on tablets of stone, by people around the world who have made it their business to harry the McCann’s mercilessly quite content to risk prison sentences to make their opinions, their beliefs, accepted by the ‘non-believers’. Anna Raccoon May 3, 2012
Brietta:
The investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is still ongoing and was a very active one from 2017 when a name which had been given to the German police in 2013 was raised by another informant.
This time there was no elimination from enquiries and although not publicised until Amaral took to the airwaves to do just that in 2019, it did not hit the public domain until 2000.
The interesting thing about that breach of confidence is that it was instigated by the same cop whose book and opinions had negatively coloured the investigation since 2007.
Eleanor:
I don't understand how Amaral has got away with this for so long. Why does Portugal do nothing to stop him spreading disinformation?
But for some bright spark finding that video we might all still think that Brueckner had dreadlocks at the time. Although no doubt some still do.
Is this not Criminal and Interfering With The Course of Justice?
G-Unit:
Everybody has something to say, but very few say anything worth hearing. I don't know who this Anna Raccoon is, what her background is, or why her opinions are worth quoting.
Eleanor:
--- Quote from: G-Unit on May 23, 2022, 01:56:58 PM ---Everybody has something to say, but very few say anything worth hearing. I don't know who this Anna Raccoon is, what her background is, or why her opinions are worth quoting.
--- End quote ---
Which just proves how very little you know.
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