Are you and I on the same page here? Either Amaral investigated this and was then prevented. Or there never was anything in the first place to do with The McCanns.
How could any of this involve a Cover Up by England? For why, for God's sake? One small girl and a couple of provincial doctors.
Look to Portugal, say I. There was something very peculiar going on there. Whoever they were they picked on a bad one on that last occasion.
In my opinion it starts and finishes in Portugal.
SnipPaulo Rebelo, based in Lisbon, takes immediate command of the inquiry, following the dismissal on October 2 of Goncalo Amaral, formerly the chief investigator, and the request by his deputy, Tavares de Almeida, to take a leave of absence.
Yesterday it emerged Mr Almeida is among three officers being investigated over allegations of torture in a seven-year old case. Mr Amaral is also under investigation, accused of concealing evidence relating to an alleged beating of the mother of another disappeared child.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/oct/09/ukcrime.madeleinemccannI think that must signify a singularly different type of individual assigned to head up an investigation into a missing child than would normally be expected and as far as Madeleine's investigation goes has no British parallel ... and that is without adding Cristovao to the mix.