Thanks.....as VS pointed out this is their lawyer claiming they re innocent...which is quite normal...not that they were declared innocent...gunit has failed to provide a cite and has been shown to be wrong.
What gunit may be referring to is the claim that the archiving despatch was evidence of innocence...which of course it is...evidence but not proof
The McCann's lawyer argued that the archiving was a legal decision comparable to an acquittal as in the case of Allen v United Kingdom. They said;
As far as the appellants are aware of, the archiving at stake was carried out, in the course of the investigation, because sufficient proof had been gathered that the then arguidos did not commit any facts of a criminal relevance...the filing order uttered according to article 277-1 of the CPP, after the deadline of article 278 (10) of the same legal compendium, is res judicata
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Annulment_request.htmNo proof of the McCanns innocence was gathered, and an archiving dispatch is not a decision equal to an acquittal. An archiving isn't a trial, so it isn't res judicata, which means 'a matter already judged'.