The McCanns have every right to claim they are innocent...that's not the title of the thread...they have never claimed to have been declared innocent...that's quite different
This is what they're relying on;
Article 277 - Archiving of the investigation
1 -
The Public Ministry shall, by dispatch, close the investigation, as soon as it has gathered sufficient evidence that the crime was not confirmed,
that the arguido did not practice it in any way or that the procedure is legally inadmissible
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Annulment_request.htmAnyone reading the archiving dispatch can see that no such evidence was quoted. In fact it said at one point;
We believe that the main damage was caused to the McCann arguidos, who lost the possibility to prove what they have protested since they were constituted arguidos: their innocence towards the fateful event;
https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/LEGAL_SUMMARY.htmThat clearly contradicts the claim in the annulment request.