Back in the day investigators made an effort to check out known paedophiles in Luz.
That is procedure in ALL missing children cases worldwide.
Madeleine's case was not solved. It was shelved in 2008. And so it would have remained without without her parent's unrelenting efforts on her behalf which resulted in Scotland Yard opening Madeleine's case in 2013 and the Portuguese reopening her case shortly thereafter.
Both police forces concentrated their efforts on locals all of whom were associated with the holiday apartments of the Ocean Club where the McCann family stayed in 2007.
Like the previous three persons of interest, these arguidos were subject to intensive police scrutiny which resulted in their exoneration from any association with Madeleine's disappearance.
In fact to express the opinion that they have is slander if you say it is and libel if you put it in print.
The investigation into Madelene's disappearance continues until the present day. There is another arguido or prime suspect, in the frame.
This time one who ticks all the boxes absent from the 2007 and the 2013 investigation; not only resident in Luz but a convicted sex offender. One who fits the police profile of the type of individual they were looking for in 2007 and all the years since then.
Yeah - my opinion is that the authorities have learned loads in the intervening years. Only the conspiracy theorists remain stuck in their own wee bubble. Such it always was and as long as there is notoriety and/or money to be made from the McCann family tragedy so it always will be. The benighted will always be there insisting on displaying their ignorance to all comers.
When one wastes a couple of seconds of life in giving them a passing thought their predicament would be truly tragic were they not so retrograde and nasty. Living in the past - and not one's own past, but someone else's must be a bit soul destroying; but having made it one's 'specialist subject' while proving incapable of actually learning something is tremendously sad.
But the irrefutable evidence that some individuals have bookmarked their psyche around a few months in 2007 with guru one even launching diplomas in the hatred has to be marked as extraordinary behaviour. But it takes all sorts.