Very true. If Madeleine had turned up alive they would have looked extremely foolish and even more hateful than they looked already so of course they needed her to be dead.
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'they' you refer to, I have always maintained I don't know what happened to MBM as I wasn't there- but that goes both ways.
The Tapas group didn't want people to think she was dead as this would hinder the 'fund raising efforts' And claiming she was abducted by paedophiles. it is astonishing to suggest that ordinary people going about their business would know where to search for paedo gangs! Also, would a paedo gang set her free?, or wander about with her in public after a world wide media splash across front pages?
It just happens that many people believed her to be dead due to what I have typed above and not because they are nasty or full of hatred of the parents, but because they have a realistic expectation of MBM being murdered by a paedo gang IF she was abducted by one.
None of what the parents claim makes any sense what so ever.